1. A bridge. A creek runs diagonally through my property NE to SW basically cutting it in half. My home and barn are on the west side and east side access is a pain. I have to drive about a mile on a paved road and then 1/4 mile through a neighbor and two gates to get to the east side. Luckily, with 320 acres and living 350 miles from the farm I have more to do than I can even come close to accomplishing on the place and the last four years, other than basic road maintenance and food plots, I have simply focused most of my habitat work and hunting on the west side. I am a fifth generation owner of the place and none of my predecessors have ever successfully bridged the creek, and they all tried.While dredging for Indian artifacts in the creek a few years ago we found either Great-Great or Great Grandpas attempt.Rough cut planks hand augered with peg fasteners. It can be done but its gonna be money money money, I figure $10,000 bare minimum.
2. Topography. 80% of my property is very flat and poorly drained although I do have a large hill in the SE portions of the place with the highest elevation in the county. My south neighbors place is very hilly with a lot of ridges and drains and although his property is smaller than mine it seems twice the size. The turkeys definitely prefer his terrain and during rut the bucks seem to prefer it based on rubs/scrapes and such. No fix for this unless the 40 acres to my east ever comes up for sale.
3.A lake- Preferably big enough to have deep areas for fishing and designed so I could manipulate depth for a duck hole.Another problem that can be easily solved, just money money money.
1. A bridge. A creek runs diagonally through my property NE to SW basically cutting it in half. My home and barn are on the west side and east side access is a pain. I have to drive about a mile on a paved road and then 1/4 mile through a neighbor and two gates to get to the east side. Luckily, with 320 acres and living 350 miles from the farm I have more to do than I can even come close to accomplishing on the place and the last four years, other than basic road maintenance and food plots, I have simply focused most of my habitat work and hunting on the west side. I am a fifth generation owner of the place and none of my predecessors have ever successfully bridged the creek, and they all tried.While dredging for Indian artifacts in the creek a few years ago we found either Great-Great or Great Grandpas attempt.Rough cut planks hand augered with peg fasteners. It can be done but its gonna be money money money, I figure $10,000 bare minimum.
I'd like to add more land if it were feasible. We own just under 400 acres. When I consider neighboring properties that don't allow hunting (our sanctuary) and those where we have some influence and which have some harvest restraint, it totals about 800 acres. This is really on the ratty edge for having the scale necessary to achieve measureable results in herd quality (as measured by body weight and antler size).
Given the number of LLC members, we need a way to better control hunting pressure. So far, we have not come up with anything folks can agree on.
We have lots of creeks which is really great, but I would love to add a large pond or small lake.
Thanks,
jack
Where are you Jack, I would be happy to come down and try to broker a deal with the LLC members regarding an agreement :)
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