Where Do You Spend Most of Your Time On Your Property?

[West_Fork]

I need to do more of this

I am kicking myself currently for doing this previously, when I was young, and strong, and had time.
Floor joists I stuck to the ground 25ish years ago.


I spend most of my time at camp living as I see fit, and I don't give two shits what the rest of the world is doing.

 

[SwampCat]

I am kicking myself currently for doing this previously, when I was young, and strong, and had time.
Floor joists I stuck to the ground 25ish years ago.
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I spend most of my time at camp living as I see fit, and I don't give two shits what the rest of the world is doing.

Saw on the news where they asked supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson what keeps her awake at night and she said “the state of democracy in the US”. My wife asked me what keeps me awake at night and I said “worrying about the coons eating the peaches”. Our thought process on two different levels

 

[Belo]

Dog roads and keeping roads passable never ends. The amount of branches falling is unbelievable. Thank God once I get the branches picked up I can mow 95 percent. I agree with SD keeping roads cleared to reduce ticks is paramount

Everytime I think about making a new path or utv trail/cutover etc I remind myself the additional work to clear fallen ash, vines, branches leaning over and the endless upon endless super briars that grow at least a foot a day that will be needed to maintain it haha

 

[Belo]

Saw on the news where they asked supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson what keeps her awake at night and she said “the state of democracy in the US”. My wife asked me what keeps me awake at night and I said “worrying about the coons eating the peaches”. Our thought process on two different levels

2 years ago we had a late frost and I lost the majority of my peaches on almost 200 trees. One tree though was thriving but about 3 days away from ready to be picked. I rolled up one day excited to fill some baskets and those f'n coons stripped it clean.

 

[b116757]

Fencing
Pasture managment either spaying or cutting of junk trees/brush
Orchard/fruit tree maintenance
Grafting and graft maintenance
Oak tree maintenance
Out building maintenance
Canopy release of preferred trees
Little dab of food plots I only usually try and fool with one small food plot and I prefer durano white clover for it anymore to minimize my involvement with it.

I’d say these are my big hitters on time spent working

 

[SwampCat]

2 years ago we had a late frost and I lost the majority of my peaches on almost 200 trees. One tree though was thriving but about 3 days away from ready to be picked. I rolled up one day excited to fill some baskets and those f'n coons stripped it clean.

How do you know when peaches are ripe - three days after the coons eat them

 

[matinc]

Racoons eating peaches is like a deer eating pears. Here a pile there a pile everywhere a pile lollll

 

[Belo]

Racoons eating peaches is like a deer eating pears. Here a pile there a pile everywhere a pile lollll

It's the only fruit the deer don't seem to go after, but man do they love to rub a nice peach tree.

 

[Telemark]

On the lake and on the beach*.

I have enough maintenance work with my place and the family place that I can't really dedicate much time to habitat work without ruining my vacation. My family comes first.

I have a niece (11yo) and a nephew (9yo) whom I love spending time with, so I need to be available when they want to hang out with me. My nephew has really taken to fishing, so that eats up a big portion of my time, and I'm thrilled about it. My niece loves waterskiing and tubing, so I need to be available for that when it's on.

I also have parents who are darn near 80, so they need help with things. And there's the uncle with COPD who needs help with things. And I have a grandmother (105yo) who needs constant help and attention. Etc. Etc. Etc.

I quit worrying about my hunting goals a couple years ago. I still have goals, but my timeline has been stretched. If I get one or two wall-worthy trophies in my life I'll die happy. Heck, I've had a good life, so I'll die happy no matter what.

*our "beach" is a sloped concrete spot on the rocky shores of a lake with boulders for shoreline

 

[hunts_with_stick]

Where do you spend most of your working time on your property? I have a bunch of food plots, some native field plant acreage, four ponds/sloughs, quite a few mileage of trail systems, a lot of woods, three tractors and a lot of other equipment - but I spend most of my working time with my fifty or so fruit trees.

Where do you spend most of your working time on your place?

Wow, miles of trails? That’s fantastic! I like to run, would be nice to have my own trails!,

 

[Angus 1895]

Lately it’s been tending the neighbors pairs on our grass.

 

[matinc]

Belo please correct me if I misread your note but I'm here to tell you that a deer would eat soft pears over anything in michigan. They eat pears and they shit pears and a pile of pears just evaporates.

 

[SwampCat]

Belo please correct me if I misread your note but I'm here to tell you that a deer would eat soft pears over anything in michigan. They eat pears and they shit pears and a pile of pears just evaporates.

My deer dont eat green pears or green apples - yet. Never had enough for them to really eat before

 

[Belo]

Belo please correct me if I misread your note but I'm here to tell you that a deer would eat soft pears over anything in michigan. They eat pears and they shit pears and a pile of pears just evaporates.

I may have misquoted too. I think deer like pears over anything for sure. I was referring to peaches. Deer generally don't eat them on my place, but they do like to kill a tree by rubbing it.

 

[matinc]

I remember planting 2 peach trees and they were healthy and doing well and next tome back a buck destroyed them. Ughh