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

[SwampCat]

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?

 

[Mortenson]

Plots. When the kids get a couple years older we'll work on invasives again.

 

[SD51555]

1. Native landscape management. Subtract the unproductive, promote the good. Let the sawdust fly and use the brush to protect what you want protected.

2. Trail maintenance.

3. Gardening

4. Cutting grass

5. Campfire cooking

6. Making firewood

7. Food plots


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[homerj]

1. Drinking beer while looking at shit I should do
1.a - see 1

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Roads
Roads
Roads

Food plots

 

[RGrizzzz]

1. Drinking beer while looking at shit I should do
1.a - see 1

I need to do more of this

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I need to do more of this

100%. I feel guilty if I actually just enjoy being there

 

[Turkish]

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?

In the timber. Cutting down junk trees, making sunlight. Sweetgum, hornbeam, and elm.

And I’ve started a tradition of putting one silver bullet in the cooler. I pop it open on the tailgate before I leave. If I’m in a hurry I may finish on the first couple miles of the return trip.

 

[Swampwalker]

I spend the most time doing TSI/firewood cutting.
I cut about 10 cords of firewood each year and since running out of dead ash about 6 years ago I’ve been concentrating on TSI when cutting my firewood.

 

[bigboreblr]

ON hunting lease from logging company, so much timber stuff is a no go. Maintaining foodplot where I can put them, trail maintenance, shooting range, and a fair hare of late night fire watch on the bonfire.

Make a little spot you can enjoy if you dont have one. Deer shouldnt scare you of your property.......

 

[SwampCat]

ON hunting lease from logging company, so much timber stuff is a no go. Maintaining foodplot where I can put them, trail maintenance, shooting range, and a fair hare of late night fire watch on the bonfire.

Make a little spot you can enjoy if you dont have one. Deer shouldnt scare you of your property.......

If I was scared of disturbing the deer - I wouldnt own property

 

[Native Hunter]

Adding new miscellaneous features that I probably don't even need - but everybody has to be somewhere and doing something.

 

[H20fwler]

In the orchards
Checking bee hives
Mowing trails
Messing around with ponds
In fall, in a stand

 

[Catscratch]

Fixing fence.
Fish habitat.
Wondering around looking at what's going on in nature.

 

[Jordan Selsor]

Orchard / pond
I try to take and orchard walk daily. It's good for my soul
My kids wear our pond out fishing and kayaking

 

[BenA]

This year and last, I'm in my timber trying to provide better food and cover and steering movements to my plots and by my stands. Gone are the days when I used to plant over 20 food plots each spring and then again for the fall. I enjoyed it, but it was a huge time suck.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Hunting

Recreating

A couple of different TSI projects:
Clearing a south facing hillside to restore Oak Savanna (fire wood)
Dropping trees in a wanted bedding location to get sunlight to the ground and thicken up cover (fire wood)

Mowing firebreaks/ATV trails

Conducting prescribed burns

Food Plots

Shed Hunting

Spraying Invasives

Tree pruning (walnuts and apples)

Tree/shrub planting

 

[jsasker007]

Mostly taking my 2 dogs for a walk to get some exercise every day. Walking the food plots and trails always looking for the next project. Last 2 or 3 years I've been battling the beavers that keep trying to claim the back 40 and keep trying to block off my drainage ditch. Will be putting a few hundred more little pine/spruce trees in blocks of 50 per area trying to stage them close to where they will be transplanted with my excavator when they are big enough. I think I probably need the walking more than my dogs do for some fresh air and quiet time. Therapeutic walking the property when weather permits.

 

[Natty Bumppo]

I can relate to just about everything each of you has already said....

I use my property extensively year round. Cross skiing, snow mobiling, snowshoeing, some TSI, and firewood in the winter. Spring turns to maple syrup season, trail running, mtn. biking, spring clean up of downed trees, turkey season, and extensive post-season scouting. The summer brings with it food plots, bucking up felled trees for firewood, long walks with the dogs, constructing new trails, as well as mtn. biking and running. And the fall....pretty much sole use...hunting. I finish up firewood early but then I have a family rule that by about late Sept. no more running, biking, dog walking, etc. on the land. I have the same rule for the 4 week turkey season.

Living at nature's pace on my land is something I hold dear. Counting time not by the calendar or the clock, but by the temperature, sun angle, and photoperiod and like Catscratch said...wandering around looking at what's going on in nature.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

At my house it’s fruit tree planting maintenance and food plot checking. We love to take the kids and walk “up top” to the 3 acre field where most of the action happens. I’ve got my almost 3 year old “checking” the newly planted fruit trees for leaves/buds now. Also starting working on clearing some trials for walking on and clearing invasives (I am in the I hate brush honeysuckle club).
At the farm, it’s a lot of food plot work and trail clearing. Gets a little rougher every year with all the ash trees starting to fall.
At my in laws it’s food plot work and trail cam checking. Try to keep an eye on what their rental farmer is putting in and adjusting accordingly. Love to take the little guy fishing in their pond too.