E_308
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Agreed. I saw the price had dropped considerably. Thinking about doing some basal work this winter before burning next spring. Sprayed about 12 gallons of pastureguard on sericia last weekend. Never ending.
Stone Branch, build it, they will come.
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Agreed. I saw the price had dropped considerably. Thinking about doing some basal work this winter before burning next spring. Sprayed about 12 gallons of pastureguard on sericia last weekend. Never ending.
Mennoniteman
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That's living off the land in true hillbilly style. Just don't get the wrong shrooms or you will be seeing double.
MarkDarvin
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I had found oysters once so far, and I picked them. Excited, I hit the gas and rode home a few miles. Somewhere along the way, I lost the bucket they were in. Never did find the bucket.
KSQ2
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Sounds like something I’d do.
George
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Im thinking about writing a book on my new foraging carnivore diet. Of course oysters are on the menu.
as are boletus bicolor.
Tylopilus (bitter boletes) are not.
Anyone want to be my next door neighbor?
https://www.landvest.com/property/461837752/ky/
scroll down to brochure and open to see details and map.
Looking at the pretty pictures of my hood you can see why/how I can get along with my neighbors so well, there aren't any.
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as are boletus bicolor.
Tylopilus (bitter boletes) are not.
Anyone want to be my next door neighbor?
https://www.landvest.com/property/461837752/ky/
scroll down to brochure and open to see details and map.
Looking at the pretty pictures of my hood you can see why/how I can get along with my neighbors so well, there aren't any.
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Native Hunter
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If I had an extra $20,000,000 just laying around the house, I would buy that and we could be neighbors. We could set around the campfire roasting marshmallows and sing Woody Guthrie songs!!!
George
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And subsurface rights aren't included but we could get together any how to roast mushrooms and sing jimi hendrix songs.
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George
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A big ugly red maple for a test case.
My first chickens in the woods for my foraging carnivore diet. I have gotten reintroduced to some resistance training and I eat once a day. I'm cutting some fat so that I will be able to fit in to my tree stands. About another 5 pounds to make light heavy weight.
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George
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I cleaned up a rim trail last week and this week while I was standing around wondering what to do the idea of making a hunting spot came to mind. Looking up at the mess from the rim trail
and from within.
I cleaned up a trail that is 55 yards up to the top
and about an 80 yard look down diagonally.
The remaining mess in the middle, including the standing dead sassafras, got mulched with the saw.
I also cleaned up paths up and down on the other side of the ridge
offering about a 75 yard look up and down from the top of the cut rim trail. I'm about ready to move a stand.
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and from within.
I cleaned up a trail that is 55 yards up to the top
and about an 80 yard look down diagonally.
The remaining mess in the middle, including the standing dead sassafras, got mulched with the saw.
I also cleaned up paths up and down on the other side of the ridge
offering about a 75 yard look up and down from the top of the cut rim trail. I'm about ready to move a stand.
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Paradise725
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The remaining mess in the middle, including the standing dead sassafras, got mulched with the saw.
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When you say mulched with a saw, what’s the motivation for doing that? Does that help with regeneration? I’ve got a few spots I’ve cut a bunch of trees like that and I haven’t noticed a flush of growth like I was expecting. I’m wondering if mulching with a saw would help that situation...
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When you say mulched with a saw, what’s the motivation for doing that? Does that help with regeneration? I’ve got a few spots I’ve cut a bunch of trees like that and I haven’t noticed a flush of growth like I was expecting. I’m wondering if mulching with a saw would help that situation...
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howboutthemdawgs
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When you say mulched with a saw, what’s the motivation for doing that? Does that help with regeneration? I’ve got a few spots I’ve cut a bunch of trees like that and I haven’t noticed a flush of growth like I was expecting. I’m wondering if mulching with a saw would help that situation...
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I feel like the areas where I have laid down a lot of trees creates a tangled, impenetrable mess. I have gone back in and “mulched” those area with a saw. Not gonna speak for him but that has been my intent with mulching.
George
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When you say mulched with a saw, what’s the motivation for doing that? Does that help with regeneration? I’ve got a few spots I’ve cut a bunch of trees like that and I haven’t noticed a flush of growth like I was expecting. I’m wondering if mulching with a saw would help that situation...
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I feel like the areas where I have laid down a lot of trees creates a tangled, impenetrable mess. I have gone back in and “mulched” those area with a saw. Not gonna speak for him but that has been my intent with mulching.[/QUOTE]
Right on
A lot of my ground is shaded under a canopy of red maple. This particular area is also loaded with little oaks that have been looking for the sun. I really like a cleaner more open environment for deer. I have found in the past that areas that I find more aesthetically pleasing to me, deer also find attractive. In Iowa I often would spend more time in a given area that I was working cleaning everything up and burning the debris. In Kentucky I'm often just trying to cover the most ground possible making the sun shine and leaving a big mess in my wake. It is also harder to burn stuff here than it was in Iowa. By going back and mulching I'm just trying to get everything cut up in to smaller pieces so that it has more contact with the ground so that it will rot and not block deer. So it stands to reason that allowing the sun to shine and returning all the debris back to the soil would eventually help regeneration. In ten years from now this particular area will be a young oak forest.
I think regeneration has more to do with what is in the soil as opposed to what is on top of it. Some tops laying around can actually help protect young beneficial plants.
Ya those chickens aren't as tasty as some of the other shrooms but they are twice the protein. It is quite amassing when one starts to look into the nutritional benefits of shrooms they are a tremendous source of macros, micros, and minerals. These were my latest culinary find, lactarius indigo.
I had an interesting evening last evening, I had a four wheel gang take over my hill above me. After listening to the mayhem for a good long while I decided to ride on up to have a look and drove into them coming down. Several vehicles acted as if they were going to go through me on a narrow two track on the side of a cliff. They all jumped out and I then found myself surrounded by a gang of belligerent drunken hillbillies who were going to do or go where ever they wanted. At one point I casual mentioned that this was my property and that they were trespassing and the situation quickly escalated. Now I'm thinking Jiu-Jitsu and fists or guns, instead I explained the trail the rest of their party took, apologized for being so rude, and wished them a good night. I then had to back down my hill, turn the lights out, lock the door, and go up the hill above my shed in the dark with my sks and a couple more strip clips. It took a good bit of time but the the party eventually went through me on the other path and not through my house location. I talked to my one neighbor and he talked to the neighbor who let them through. There is more talking to be done today. Me and Tank are heading up right now to clean up the garbage. There is something about being violated that just doesn't set well with me. The two nastiest little pricks looked like brothers and I might like to see them again.
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KSQ2
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I feel like the areas where I have laid down a lot of trees creates a tangled, impenetrable mess. I have gone back in and “mulched” those area with a saw. Not gonna speak for him but that has been my intent with mulching.[/QUOTE]
Right on
A lot of my ground is shaded under a canopy of red maple. This particular area is also loaded with little oaks that have been looking for the sun. I really like a cleaner more open environment for deer. I have found in the past that areas that I find more aesthetically pleasing to me, deer also find attractive. In Iowa I often would spend more time in a given area that I was working cleaning everything up and burning the debris. In Kentucky I'm often just trying to cover the most ground possible making the sun shine and leaving a big mess in my wake. It is also harder to burn stuff here than it was in Iowa. By going back and mulching I'm just trying to get everything cut up in to smaller pieces so that it has more contact with the ground so that it will rot and not block deer. So it stands to reason that allowing the sun to shine and returning all the debris back to the soil would eventually help regeneration. In ten years from now this particular area will be a young oak forest.
I think regeneration has more to do with what is in the soil as opposed to what is on top of it. Some tops laying around can actually help protect young beneficial plants.
Ya those chickens aren't as tasty as some of the other shrooms but they are twice the protein. It is quite amassing when one starts to look into the nutritional benefits of shrooms they are a tremendous source of macros, micros, and minerals. These were my latest culinary find, lactarius indigo.
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I had an interesting evening last evening, I had a four wheel gang take over my hill above me. After listening to the mayhem for a good long while I decided to ride on up to have a look and drove into them coming down. Several vehicles acted as if they were going to go through me on a narrow two track on the side of a cliff. They all jumped out and I then found myself surrounded by a gang of belligerent drunken hillbillies who were going to do or go where ever they wanted. At one point I casual mentioned that this was my property and that they were trespassing and the situation quickly escalated. Now I'm thinking Jiu-Jitsu and fists or guns, instead I explained the trail the rest of their party took, apologized for being so rude, and wished them a good night. I then had to back down my hill, turn the lights out, lock the door, and go up the hill above my shed in the dark with my sks and a couple more strip clips. It took a good bit of time but the the party eventually went through me on the other path and not through my house location. I talked to my one neighbor and he talked to the neighbor who let them through. There is more talking to be done today. Me and Tank are heading up right now to clean up the garbage. There is something about being violated that just doesn't set well with me. The two nastiest little pricks looked like brothers and I might like to see them again.
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Ridiculous! I hope you can settle all of that ASAP.
I recall mentioning fencing in the past when you were getting so many people showing up on your place...believe it or not it makes a big difference and the old saying “good fences make good neighbors” is absolutely true!
Mennoniteman
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(Quote "I’ve got a few spots I’ve cut a bunch of trees like that and I haven’t noticed a flush of growth like I was expecting" unQuote)
The two main reasons that cutting trees with a chainsaw doesn't lead to a flush of new growth; #1, still not enough sunlight hitting the ground, and even more important #2, the ground needs scarifying by some type of machinery that turns up some dirt, similar to a logging operation.
The two main reasons that cutting trees with a chainsaw doesn't lead to a flush of new growth; #1, still not enough sunlight hitting the ground, and even more important #2, the ground needs scarifying by some type of machinery that turns up some dirt, similar to a logging operation.
George
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"Ridiculous! I hope you can settle all of that ASAP."
I picked up a case of beer cans, beer cartons, and some plastic off a 4 wheeler. I found one spot on the hill side where there was a drunken wreck. I did see that the Kentucky law states that trespassers can not sue property owners. My immediate neighbors won't like it but there will probably be a gate going up. The electric company uses this route to access my incoming power line but it is not in the power line right of way so I'll need to open the gate when they need access. I didn't talk to the neighbor who lets the drunks through and if he doesn't think that it is important for him to talk to me than the gate will just go up.
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I picked up a case of beer cans, beer cartons, and some plastic off a 4 wheeler. I found one spot on the hill side where there was a drunken wreck. I did see that the Kentucky law states that trespassers can not sue property owners. My immediate neighbors won't like it but there will probably be a gate going up. The electric company uses this route to access my incoming power line but it is not in the power line right of way so I'll need to open the gate when they need access. I didn't talk to the neighbor who lets the drunks through and if he doesn't think that it is important for him to talk to me than the gate will just go up.
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