Well its about time that I start a 2018 thread as it seems its all I've been thinking about the last few days. This will be a continuation of my 2017 thread located here https://www.missouriwhitetails.com/threads/dwgh-farm-projects-thread-2017.211739/#post-3268399 .
A few projects that I am going to tackle as soon as bow season is over is MDC TSI on 7 acres and likely do a couple small henge cut areas, though I am not sure exactly where I will do them yet, still working on a strategic plan for that.
One BIG project will be trying to get a permanent visual barrier from the road. I am going do a combination of Miscanthus Gigantus, hinger cutting trees parallel with the road, and transplanting a BUNCH of cedars. I have about 1000' of road frontage along my CRP field, so that will be fun. Let the games begin 1/16/2018!
I was trying to game plan a new set last night and a nice pinoak gives you the nod peeking over the great front cover of a red cedar. It couldn't have been more obvious. Anxious to be at full draw in this tree overlooking RWWP soybeans. There will be blood out of this set.
Here's a couple pix of the second set that I hung last night. I hate hanging locusts, but this one didn't have any thorns and was what looked like the X. The trails pretty much told me where this stand should be. Just on the other side of the big food plot from the other stand on the connecting saddle.
I got a healthy 4.5 hours of chainsaw time in today wasting honey locust and hedge trees. It's literally a war out there. I've seen some big thorns before but there were some monsters on these trees. Every time I dropped a big one I thought how bad it would suck for that thing to fall on you face. If I can get another 4-5 hours tomorrow I'll get that area finished up. There are several nice young walnuts in that area that should benefit in addition to initiating new growth.
Spent another 4 hours on chainsaw today. Think I won. Created a tornado zone out of honey locust, black locust, and Osage Orange. The only other trees in this strip were a lot of young walnut and a few pin-oaks and elm. I hinge cut the elm, girdles/cut and treated the locusts and OO, while leaving the walnut and pinoak.
It's a nasty mess, though that was the intention, to create a tornado zone/buffer (eventually regen growth) between the food plot and the gravel road. Thankfully it doesn't get much traffic and I have a huge brush pile that blocks a large % of the plot as well. This is also where I planted many of the transplanted cedar and mescanthus.
I broke a thorn off in the meaty part of my knee just above my knee cap. After digging around in my flesh with my havalon and tweezers for half an hour I had to call it quits. Hopefully it will work itself out someday.
Big Pete and I logged another 2 days on the saws wrecking cedars on the lease.
Pretty sure we're done cutting for the year. No idea how many acres or cedars we laid down, but it's a LOT. The amount of security/bedding cover created is going to be extremely beneficial. Hopefully next winter we can move on to hickory but then again there's still a million cedars that can go.
There's some MFR needing sprayed/resprayed that we will get to after turk'n and then it's on to food plot season and some more stand work
3/19 I dumped out 1.25"
Saturday .6"
I'll probably roll out and check gauge later this afternoon or after work. I'm sure its right in line with what you have BP
I'm talking about anticipation for a beautiful full pond to walking up to see weeds that were submerged last week and seeing way to much dirt, pit of my stomach literally dropped. Like when you hear the buck you were after got killed by gun hunters on the next farm over.
the exact spot where the dirt man was supposed to have patched it. I was concerned when I noticed it didn't look like he was V-ing it out like I thought he should have been. He just kinda dumped dirt in there and drove over it apparently. This was happening at the same time that I had them clear out a food plot for me. I think I was distracted by how nice the food plot was looking and not paying attention to how he was patching the damn.
I'm so freaking mad.
dang! you got 2 more inches than we did and your just up the road. Thats a crying shame about that pond dam I'd be fuming as well..my biggest concern is whether my Clover is washed away or drowned.. seems pretty non-consequential after seeing what your going through
Is the crew/guy that put in your pond local ?? I learned the hard way a few years back that I should have gotten references and went and looked at his work and talked to his past customers. The two guys that I use now, come out and take samples and other tests of the area prior to any work . Cost a little extra but this guy hasn't had a dam fail or pond go dry. If the tests don't come back in favor of digging a hole he won't dig period.
CRE10 has a good point. That's a lot of rain in a short time span. The fact that you were aware of this "trouble" spot and pointed it out to them would make me a tad upset as well... good luck going forward !
The guy has not been in dozer business for a long time, though he is a customer of ours (bank) and it is always a good move to reciprocate business when we can. I took chance and paid for it. I text him pix and he just said that he couldn't believe it. Then I told him I was worried when I saw that his guy running the dozer didn't "v" in the patch and asked what his policy was on fixing that was he just didn't text me back. I figured I needed at least a day to cool off before I gave him a call. Hopefully he makes it right and gets it straightened out thought I fear it won't be dry enough until July.
Thanks for the reminder, I just got off the phone with him. He blamed me for not wanting to take the time to (do it right). I was relying on his expertise (where I have none) to do what needed to be done to get it to hold water.
I also voiced my displeasure (should have initially) when I got the bill from him that the time it took (10 minutes out of every hour) for his 40 year old machine to cool off because it was overheating, and then the 3 hours myself and my buddy spent getting the track back on his machine....
He said that he would come out and take a look at it and we would work together to make it right. Which I am sure will involve me shelling out more money in some form.
Long story short, I think that I am going to get the screws put to me.
Spent some time after work calibrating new sprayer setup. This sprayer calibration application is handy.
Here's the variables I used, let me know if anyone notices something I may have messed up or overlooked.
6 ounces per 15 seconds*4*7 nozzles=168 oz / 1.3125 Gpm
45 gallon tank
5 Mph
140" boom
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