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

Seems like walking up and down the damn hill.
 
I "used to" spend allot of time on timber clearing and stump grinding. That is pretty much over for me after logging and getting the plots and my trails refined a bit. I mow a few trails twice each year.....and a few others every other year. I mow my cabin / pole barn area 3 x or so each year.

Since buying my drill and going no till.....I have cut my plot work time bigly. Normally spray some weeds here and there.....drill seeds in fall. This year I need to prep and drill switchgrass in spring and get some Norway spruce planted. Been staying out of my plots more. I still enjoy working with machinery and just being on the land. There is always some maintainance or stand work to be done.
 
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

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Same
 
I spend most of my time going back to the barn to get something I forgot that I knew I needed but didn't bring along.
yeah, well I make sure I'm on the back side of the property before I remember what I forgot

bill
 
To be honest last week I drove north 2.5 hours for the weekend and I didn't bother driving another 15 minutes to visit my property. Kinda burned out on it.
 
To be honest last week I drove north 2.5 hours for the weekend and I didn't bother driving another 15 minutes to visit my property. Kinda burned out on it.
Sometimes a break is well deserved. News flash for those early on. You will never possibly finish. Someone else will have to carry on. And if a real non hunting farmer guy buys your land he will bulldoze all your work.

But you did your part.

Hope that’s not to depressing. But it is what it is. Life is a dance.
 
Sometimes a break is well deserved. News flash for those early on. You will never possibly finish. Someone else will have to carry on. And if a real non hunting farmer guy buys your land he will bulldoze all your work.

But you did your part.

Hope that’s not to depressing. But it is what it is. Life is a dance.
Doug Duren said, "It's not ours, it's just our turn." That's all we can control.
 
This summer I’m making one of my plots about 2x larger than it is now. So between removing stumps, burning brush, picking rock, and getting something growing before fall I think I’ll spend quite a bit of time there.

But when I just want to hear the quiet of my woods I have a spot where I have a little bench seat and a chair that overlook a particularly nice area. It’s far enough from any roads that I can’t hear anything but the wind.

Sometimes I just go out there and sit, sometimes I take a little nap, or light a fire or eat my lunch. All seasons.

Not a single person on earth other than me knows where it is. I like it that way.
 
Thanks to Helene it’s been maintaining roads for us. Probably halfway done at this point.

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Then probably 50/50 plots and burning

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I like to spend time in my orchards and orchard plots. It is pretty cool to see the apple trees I planted producing bumper crops (and also great shot opportunities at deer).
 
20% prairies/prairie walks
40% food plots/plantings (including orchards, shrubs, etc)
20% invasives
20% scouting/looking around

100% of the time I'm thinking about hunting and strategy.
 
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