What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?

[Telemark]

I’m gonna block the outside path of this food plot/lane… so the deer walk within 30 yds of my blind in the background. I have to add a bit more to the north side .

This is a pic from the blind. Someday I hope the stop for the fruit
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Do you have any beech trees on your property?

 

[bwoods11]

Do you have any beech trees on your property?

No I don’t … I’ve never planted any .

 

[Telemark]

No I don’t … I’ve never planted any .

You should buy one and plant it right where you want the deer to stop. It's the preferred tree for scrapes where I hunt. Protect the trunk, and make a little scrape under a branch about chest high. You can use severed deer feet to rub in the dirt.

Smear some preorbital gland scent on the branch. You can extract it with a toothpick from a dead deer.

The deer should continue to use it every year once it's started. If you sit that stand during rut, drip a little fresh estrus in the dirt, and hang an estrus wick in the tree. I like Black Widow scents.

It attracts a lot more young deer than big bruises, but they all come check it out eventually, so make sure you have a good camera on it.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

Which chipper did you get? Does it have hydraulic feed? We got one with hydraulic feed a few years ago. It works ok on my little tractor but I wouldn’t mind more power.

I bought this one

3 Point Wood Chipper & Mulcher | Titan Attachments

The Wood Chipper Attachments are available in two models that accept chunks of trees in diameters of 4" or 6".

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[Westwind]

Planted the last of 180 miscanthus rhizomes today. Done with that for now, we were going to dig our clusters and propagate from that but my wonderful wife thought I was too busy for that and told me to just order. (Used Maple Farms. Awesome service.) . We are maybe going to work on that again after we are caught up a little more. I really dont mind digging the clusters and we had good luck with that even in the heat of summer.. She cut some small trees that popped up in a windbreak line of blue spruce and treated them with Tordon. Sombody here recommended a squeeze ketchup or mustard type bottle for that. I filled one I saved from bbq sauce and filled it for her and she liked that a lot better than the Tordon bottle, so whoever that was, thank you! I have the grapple off my tractor and have the bucket with Pirahna tooth blade on it so I went to town on the scrub brush on the edges of the timber around the house and tractor mowed some woody stuff in the field I’m planting switch in. Got a lot done today.

 

[Westwind]

Speaking of my wife, she checks in in the Arconic Eagle Cam in Bettendorf Iowa constantly. Good current view of the chicks being fed.

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