[Wings Fan 19]

I wish I'd be better about before and after pics. We've made a couple of huge strides in our TSI this year after spending 3 years just cutting cedar. We cherry picked the best south & southwest slopes for bedding areas. It's nice to move onto hard/whitewood species and cover some acres. Spending weekends cutting in a dense cedar thicket is just not all that much fun, necessary evil but just not much fun.

 

[Wibb]

I wish I'd be better about before and after pics. We've made a couple of huge strides in our TSI this year after spending 3 years just cutting cedar. We cherry picked the best south & southwest slopes for bedding areas. It's nice to move onto hard/whitewood species and cover some acres. Spending weekends cutting in a dense cedar thicket is just not all that much fun, necessary evil but just not much fun.

So what do you look for/focus on on these south facing slopes.

 

[Wings Fan 19]

So what do you look for/focus on on these south facing slopes.

Deer beds. If they're already using it as a bedding area, enhancing the ground/security cover by dropping trees. Also opening the canopy up will allow the understory to flourish and it will get better and better adding browse. Also releasing oaks/mast producing trees will be very beneficial.
Not every southerly slope is a being area so it's better to find existing ones and work with what's there IMO.

 

[henry]

I wish I'd be better about before and after pics.

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I need to get dwgh next year to do pics of this. We got to run the first burn thru it last April.

 

[henry]

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[letemgrow]

Concordia oak I released today. You can see where those other trees were crowding it and limbs were not growing on that side.

 

[letemgrow]

This elm was crowding 2 walnuts on the left and a swamp white oak on the right further back.

 

[henry]

That elm stump will grow you some great browse.

 

[kgdog]

Question...Why hinge cut ,if you paint the stump ? ....

 

[letemgrow]

Question...Why hinge cut ,if you paint the stump ? ....

Just laziness at the end of the day. If it's dead I don't care either way.

 

[hazelvillebucks]

I've got 12 acres left. Then our entire 100 acres of timber will have had TSI done. Hope to get started on it soon.

THEN YOU GET TO START OVER.

 

[letemgrow]

It's great exercise too

 

[bowhunter8]

Max mph 9.4? Runnin n sawin... nice
10mph is a 6 minute mile... ur haulin

 

[letemgrow]

Max mph 9.4? Runnin n sawin... nice
10mph is a 6 minute mile... ur haulin

I'd say that speed was maintained for at least 2.7 seconds for that whole trip.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Rolling down a hill?
(Pics, please).

 

[letemgrow]

Dropped a pile of locusts and elm today releasing mostly walnuts.

2 more walnuts in great shape

Another couple released.

This honey locust was crowding a smaller walnut that got the ax.

 

[letemgrow]

I dropped a pile of locusts and elm in an area I was working yesterday, the sunshine sure warmed up that area and made for a great lunch spot.

Deer will find that same area attractive with the added browse and sunshine in the coming years for late season.

 

[Wibb]

So this is probably a dumb question, but are you all marking these trees during the growing season in some way or another? I can pretty easily tell the bark apart with mature trees, but struggle with young ones.

I get paranoid of cutting down young oaks by mistake. Just curious how others are doing it or if they just know the trees better than I.

 

[letemgrow]

So this is probably a dumb question, but are you all marking these trees during the growing season in some way or another? I can pretty easily tell the bark apart with mature trees, but struggle with young ones.

I get paranoid of cutting down young oaks by mistake. Just curious how others are doing it or if they just know the trees better than I.

I don't mark them during the growing season, but that is a good idea for someone starting out to help identify.

Marking trees during the growing season helps identify them once they drop their leaves and train the eye on what to look for.

 

[KRAZO]

Can’t speak for all but for me, in Camden county, it’s so thick in the timber I’m just looking for the best young stock of white oak in the canopy openings, others get sawed down. Places where the mature trees are thick, as you said it’s not too hard to tell em apart.