Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

George · Jan 21, 2021

My hunting season came to a conclusion on Monday

and habitat season started on Tuesday. I'm starting in about an 1 1/2 to 2 acre area between my emerging food plot and the steep.

I am putting the hack hammer into every stem that is not an oak, dogwood, and or some select red bud, sugar maple, and tulip poplars. I started out with glyphosate but will switch over to tryclopyr after my jug arrives today. As soon as conditions allow I will be flicking the Bic.

Some white oaks remain.

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Mennoniteman · Jan 21, 2021

George said:
My hunting season came to a conclusion on Monday

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and habitat season started on Tuesday. I'm starting in about an 1 1/2 to 2 acre area between my emerging food plot and the steep.

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I am putting the hack hammer into every stem that is not an oak, dogwood, and or some select red bud, sugar maple, and tulip poplars. I started out with glyphosate but will switch over to tryclopyr after my jug arrives today. As soon as conditions allow I will be flicking the Bic.

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Some white oaks remain.

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Aren't you feeding tank?

BenAllgood · Jan 21, 2021

George said:
I am putting the hack hammer into every stem that is not an oak, dogwood, and or some select red bud, sugar maple, and tulip poplars. I started out with glyphosate but will switch over to tryclopyr after my jug arrives today. As soon as conditions allow I will be flicking the Bic.

No issues with sap flow yet?

dogghr · Jan 21, 2021

Preceding and following my little puppy's giardia diagnosis I have been blaming my roiling gut on everything from my Loved Ones spicey cooking to the jalapenos in the deer sausage that my neighbor was kind enough to give me from the palmate buck. And after last night in the outhouse I have thrown in the towel and am now on my own 7 day treatment protocol to clear my belly full of protozoa. It's a good way to lose weight but also a waste of good food and it gets old after a few weeks.

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Just remember George, no matter what you eat, you are just renting it, if you know what I mean!!
And quite posting puppy pics, the little lady is begging for another dog and I think I'm done after all these years of having them.

George · Jan 21, 2021

Mennoniteman said:
Aren't you feeding tank?

He is not a picky eater but particularly likes turnips and radish.

BenAllgood said:
No issues with sap flow yet?

Ya sap is flowing in maples. I'm going to do a little more for now and may have to go back after leaf out. I treated cut maple stumps last year at this time with sap flowing and they died.

"Just remember George, no matter what you eat, you are just renting it, if you know what I mean!!
And quite posting puppy pics, the little lady is begging for another dog and I think I'm done after all these years of having them."

A little Tiny bandog would be perfect.

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George · Jan 22, 2021

BenAllgood said:
No issues with sap flow yet?

Sap is not flowing in the smaller maples, elms, locust, tulips. The bigger maples were dosed with gly and tri, I'm just hoping that the tri and diesel soaks in enough to do the job. My new jug of tri arrived at my neighbors house yesterday.

The remaining area that I'm heading into has a couple of big tulips, one goes, one stays.

A few nice oaks on the edge,

and some junk red maples.

There are a few dead ash that I would like to hasten to the ground, good bye cruel world.

Just across the trail to the north is the area that I plan on making into the west end of my new food plot. If I wasn't so damn stubborn I would call in the bulldozer.

And one for the little lady.

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BenAllgood · Jan 22, 2021

I can't wait to see what those spots look like by the end of summer. Ever had a desire to tap some of the big maples for syrup? Or, how about redbud jelly in the spring?

George · Jan 22, 2021

BenAllgood said:
I can't wait to see what those spots look like by the end of summer. Ever had a desire to tap some of the big maples for syrup? Or, how about redbud jelly in the spring?

Me neither, you got me thinking that I don't need 100 taps maybe just a few. I've said it before, I eat redbud flowers like they were kettle cooked potato chips.

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TheOldOak · Jan 23, 2021

I tried the maple syrup thing last spring. Worked really well, but only produced about three quarts of syrup as it takes about 40 gallons of sap to yield one gallon of syrup. Took 2+ days to boil off the sap, cooking nonstop. I used plastic taps off ebay, ten for about $30 I think, that is all you'll need unless you're planning to go into commercial production. They recommend a 5/16 drill bit to tap the tree, smaller holes won't damage the tree. A big maple can easily handle 2 taps, with taps on the side facing sun. Bigger trees were producing a gallon a day at the peak, so doesn't take too many trees to get to 40 gallons.

Mennoniteman · Jan 23, 2021

George said:
Sap is not flowing in the smaller maples, elms, locust, tulips. The bigger maples were dosed with gly and tri, I'm just hoping that the tri and diesel soaks in enough to do the job. My new jug of tri arrived at my neighbors house yesterday.

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The remaining area that I'm heading into has a couple of big tulips, one goes, one stays.

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A few nice oaks on the edge,

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and some junk red maples.

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There are a few dead ash that I would like to hasten to the ground, good bye cruel world.

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Just across the trail to the north is the area that I plan on making into the west end of my new food plot. If I wasn't so damn stubborn I would call in the bulldozer.

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And one for the little lady.

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Calling in a D5 bulldozer for a day at $850 with a good operator isn't the greatest sin you can commit in the foodplotting world, and can be a smart investment in property improvements...

OkieKubota · Jan 23, 2021

Mennoniteman said:
Calling in a D5 bulldozer for a day at $850 with a good operator isn't the greatest sin you can commit in the foodplotting world, and can be a smart investment in property improvements...

I cleared 2 acres of woods today got 5 more to go on this job, next job is 5 acres, job after that is 10, and so forth...

George · Jan 24, 2021

Mennoniteman said:
Calling in a D5 bulldozer for a day at $850 with a good operator isn't the greatest sin you can commit in the foodplotting world, and can be a smart investment in property improvements...

I could hire the local bulldozer for $60/hr.

It was 3:30pm yesterday by the time that I got the dead wood chopped down

I raked some fire breaks and flicked the Bic.

The fire showed promise but by 4 it was dwindling and self extinguished by 4:30.

With 2, possibly 3 big bucks removed from the ridge top I'm hoping to coax this guy to move in.

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dogghr · Jan 24, 2021

DEA agents will see that small plume and come looking for your still! Lol
Hard to get a burn this time of year especially on the north slopes in these hills. The underlying duff holds too much moisture and unlike the flat lands the winds don’t have as much drying affect.
I would try to to light my place now but I think the present 8” of snow would deter it. I’m headed skiing this wk instead.

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George · Jan 24, 2021

dogghr said:
DEA agents will see that small plume and come looking for your still! Lol
Hard to get a burn this time of year especially on the north slopes in these hills. The underlying duff holds too much moisture and unlike the flat lands the winds don’t have as much drying affect.
I would try to to light my place now but I think the present 8” of snow would deter it. I’m headed skiing this wk instead.

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Crested Butte? have fun. More smoke than fire I texted my neighbor down on the other side where the smoke was flowing. If I had 2 more days of dry sunshine it would burn. I hope to get another chance before the 2/15 start of fireless season.

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George · Jan 24, 2021

TheOldOak said:
I tried the maple syrup thing last spring. Worked really well, but only produced about three quarts of syrup as it takes about 40 gallons of sap to yield one gallon of syrup. Took 2+ days to boil off the sap, cooking nonstop. I used plastic taps off ebay, ten for about $30 I think, that is all you'll need unless you're planning to go into commercial production. They recommend a 5/16 drill bit to tap the tree, smaller holes won't damage the tree. A big maple can easily handle 2 taps, with taps on the side facing sun. Bigger trees were producing a gallon a day at the peak, so doesn't take too many trees to get to 40 gallons.

Thanks OldOak, 2 days i would imagine on a propane burner outside?

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OkieKubota · Jan 24, 2021

Chinese pot growers have Bulldozer work at a premium in Oklahoma...advertising dozers are booked a year out. I am booked out about 6 months but I don’t advertise...3rd best purchase I have ever made. 1st was land, 2nd was fencing the land, 3rd was the dozer...

dogghr · Jan 24, 2021

George said:
Crested Butte? have fun. More smoke than fire I texted my neighbor down on the other side where the smoke was flowing. If I had 2 more days of dry sunshine it would burn. I hope to get another chance before the 2/15 start of fireless season.

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Western trip is early March to Breckinridge. I have ski resort 15 min away I’ll hit this wk on Thurs w snow. But golf Tues as temps hit 55 in the lowlands. Like foodplots, variety is good.

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George · Jan 28, 2021

After a few days of sloppy weather I finished murdering trees in my current work area yesterday.

I'm now squirting 1/2 diesel and half triclopyr and I adjusted my procedure as I got going. I am putting in fewer hacks and applying a couple of squirts to each.

I am then penciling in a ribbon of juice around the tree above the hacks to avoid being washed out. This stuff seems to be much more resilient than water soluble glyphosate. It defiantly sticks to your hands and face better when you try to blow out a clogged nozzle.

I have seen maples gacked during syrup season flow for weeks if not months but the maples that I hacked and treated with chemical a few days ago shut down. Perhaps a good sign that chemical is working.

Tiny is quickly gaining ground on the hills

but slowly gaining on the puppy weight chart. He'll eat all the raw venison put before him but just isn't too crazy about Taste of the Wild High Prairie Puppy.

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George · Jan 30, 2021

I had some sloppy weather for a while but it is beautiful now so I got after the unruly end of my current work area.

I like things neat and my goal is to get dead stuff down where it can feel some fire and or decay faster into the ground. This is an area that I won't need to be in much so I left a good many straight standing dead snags. I'm now ready to finish fire prep and light it up.

I've been accused of trying to murder people with dead trees, and while i am in the older, white male demographic that is more prone to put a gun to their heads, this is not my plan. I already have several big ash and black locust trees on the ground to work on so no hurry on these two. The ash on the right is loaded up with goofy energy and is about ready to shatter, a man would have to have rocks in his head to needlessly take a saw to it. The one on the left is still sturdy and copping a safe lean and could safely be felled but it will remain so for years and isn't going anywhere. When I need to I'll tend to it. I'll tend to the other one after it falls on it's own.

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dogghr · Feb 7, 2021

Running the saw yesterday on some AO and chain popped off twice. Couldn’t fig what the heck till checked close and saw the bar was slightly curved!! Guess when we moved last Nov it somehow got wedged when packing. I was pooped anyhow so didn’t whine too much. Snow came again last night and all this wk so good thing turnip fields are still heavy. Global warming!

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