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.

Eagle Cam - Arconic - Arconic Portal

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[Tangler]

Planted 75 northern white cedar (Thuja Occidentalis), 10 red osier dogwood and 10 silky dogwood. Deer probably going to eat most of them but that’s ok. Planted in wet area near brook in NH

 

[Bill]

 

[Brian662]

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How do those cedars come out after a burn like that?

 

[Bill]

How do those cedars come out after a burn like that?

If they're alone they get smoked. A whole clump of them lives.

 

[Turkey Creek]

We burned a few acres of fescue yesterday it has a good number of locust and hedge seedling as well as wild blackberry. Should hopefully top kill the seedlings and hurt the fescue a bit. It was a smoky fire and even with a 15 mph wind it was slow going. Good training fire as it is pretty hard for a fire to get away from you in those kind of vegetative conditions.

Drilled 6 acres of NWSG in another pasture.

 

[PatinPA]

Ran up over the weekend to do a little work. The tree that fell on my one ladder stand finally broke up enough I could safely cut it down. There are no other good trees to put a stand in. It came down rather easily with a pole saw. Planted the beautyberry bushes I bought off of marketplace. Sprayed some really old Cleth on my clover that was getting overrun with grass. Finally looks like I'm going to get a good fruit crop, although we had a frost warning last night with a low of 27. The golden hornet was absolutely loaded.

 

[PatinPA]

Ran up over the weekend to do a little work. The tree that fell on my one ladder stand finally broke up enough I could safely cut it down. There are no other good trees to put a stand in. It came down rather easily with a pole saw. Planted the beautyberry bushes I bought off of marketplace. Sprayed some really old Cleth on my clover that was getting overrun with grass. Finally looks like I'm going to get a good fruit crop, although we had a frost warning last night with a low of 27. The golden hornet was absolutely loaded.

Oh my one tree had a nest of tent caterpillars so I sprayed them with a bunch of spectracide. They ate that tree down to nothing last year. I'm surprised it made it. Caught them just coming out of the nest this year.

 

[Maddog66]

I’m getting in shape for planting trees by picking rock in my new food plot. Just glorious weather….but I had a single mosquito do a fly by yesterday. Not good!!

 

[FeelsLikeFar]

I spent "three days" working up on my little micro plot and around camp in general. It's amazing how long it took to accomplish so little. It's also amazing how poor my health is and general condition. Jeeze... work for an hour and need to take a two plus hour break. The heat didn't help either, not used to it, I was soaked with sweat and dehydrated.

Part of the problem is there's so much to do, I get side tracked. And WHAT I'm doing is weather dependent. I expected rain on Friday and planned accordingly. When it DIDN'T, I switched to spraying brush honeysuckle and blowing leafs around one corner of the plot. Then pulling down cameras I intended to move and charge them. In the end I only moved half as many as I wanted.

The rest of the day and Saturday was spent moving branches. Cutting up downed trees and cutting a few small ones. I probably did about 1/3 what I had hoped to. Two days to do 1/3 of a job I thought would take one day at most. Ugh. Saturday afternoon I knew I was beat, so I broadcast the seed I brought, put the last two cameras back up. "I'm done up here. I'll spend the last day cleaning up trees around the old house site." Ha!

Sunday morning greeted me with 30 degrees and this. So much for hot and sweaty! (I didn't really have the clothes for this weather) Very little got accomplished, Sunday was a wasted day.

 

[FeelsLikeFar]

It would seem it's cheaper to BUY an acre of land, than it is to have someone cut down the saplings and brush on it.

Also found out this week I'm not wrong at all. I can "afford" one days work. Not two.
So I need to prioritize what I want to do with that day. None with be food plot related.
Just cleaning up the old house site and not losing what's left of the yard. :(

 

[fingers]

Planted a shrub line of alternating yellow twig and red osier dogwood