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  1. Chainsaw

    Bo’s Hideaway

    Welcome to the forum. Am looking to forward following your thread.
  2. Chainsaw

    Recreating a Deer Woods

    Thank you everyone. Life is still great!! Daily deer parade thru apples will kick in a few minutes, a great start to each morning. (hope my words match my thoughts).
  3. Chainsaw

    Recreating a Deer Woods

    Over due to post for the Deer Habitat and Deer Hunter forum threads. But LIFE comes first, even before habitat plans. A ride from Samaritan Hospital via Lewis County Transport to Albany Med proved that. The new focus: a Glioma brain tumor in the parietal region which has affected (hopefully...
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    Upstate Obsession

    Tom, that is a major home run location for sure. It is worthy of saving for the best day of the year for a dawn to dark watch. Spots like that are very exciting.
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    Hickory nuts and deer preference...thoughts?

    Our most deer producing stand ever sits twenty-two feet high in a hickory tree. We have taken well over 75 bow-killed deer from this stand including some of our better bucks. "High on the Hickory" is a morning stand that the deer visit for the hickory nuts after they leave the apple trees and...
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    Will a shaded tree fill out when released?

    After having released over two thousand apple trees I can say that it was well worth the effort. However every apple tree released was different; some responded with great growth within one year while others responded but slowly.
  7. Chainsaw

    Fruit wait finally over

    Those are some hard earned trees. Good luck with them and hope they give you many years of enjoyment. Our planted apple trees were the same way except it may even have been longer to see our first apples. And actually the first planting was a complete bust, we replanted them all after installing...
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    Property Mgt in the Northeast designing a hunting property

    Oddly I didn't notice any beechnuts. It was just a high traffic place. At my property it was an edge among a cutover where all marketable trees were cut but all beech were left and it was near a drainage.. The result was an open understory among blackberries thick enough to make people travel...
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    Property Mgt in the Northeast designing a hunting property

    My camera captures last year confirmed the value of Beech, at least last year. Cameras at apples were the most productive but a single camera was in an area of beech trees and it captured a significant amount of regular daytime mature buck activity. Also check out Rusty's video's of Buck...
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    Upstate Obsession

    Great camera work Elk. The extremes are drastic for sure. One doe has chosen our "lawn" to hide her fawn so we have seen her visiting for a few days-really great. On my way to our cottage yesterday AM saw a doe standing bewildered and concerned looking in a just recently mowed hay field. Three...
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    Clearing land and laying out new food plots. Advice on where to begin

    Welcome to the site Irving. It is a great place to share ideas and learn many great things.
  12. Chainsaw

    2018 NWC loaded

    Early fruit sets wonderful to see. Waiting ten years to see fruit as “in the old days” just wasn’t much fun. Drop Tines here saw a few fruits their first year here as well despite drought like conditions during summer.
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    ANOTHER DRY YEAR?

    It is so dry I watered the grafted apple nursery beds each day before Planting in them. The soil was more like dust.
  14. Chainsaw

    Direct Seed Apple Trees for Deer

    That is depressing George. Of course there are variations in Dolgo seedlings. To start with is the simple size of the seedling; ie did it start out as a 7/16 inch seedling or a 1/8 inch seedling? That alone could make a huge difference. Were they true Dolgo seedlings that is grafted Dolgo...
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    Direct Seed Apple Trees for Deer

    Here apple trees are not free. Fencing @ $8 per tree, screening @ $1.24 and weed mats @ ?$1 makes free not such a big deal. Seeds from Dolgo trees in the average landowner orchard are only 50% Dolgo. The other half is unknown. I would prefer to purchase Dolgo Root stock over harvesting seeds as...
  16. Chainsaw

    Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

    Beech is known as a tough wood to dry and since we have basically our choice of what to use I stay away from beech logs and of course elm as well. The lack of commercial markets for either is kind of a hint that it has problems. The grain on your beech looks so perfect one would think it would...
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    Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

    Good luck with your new camera. It should take some great pics. Beech looks nice and straight, so deceiving. It should have been named twisty, warpy wood.
  18. Chainsaw

    Upstate Obsession

    Turkey activity has been quiet here also. There was a lot of visible activity in early April but mostly quiet since then. Looks like you and your group had a great fishing trip Tom! Love those stream banks with no people. It is such a contrast to what we are used to.
  19. Chainsaw

    Round Up rain test (Unplanned)

    Lynn, The world is large but in some ways small. Two of the guys in our deer hunting co-op are connected with Hill Crest Farms and land from Hill Crest borders us as well.
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    Round Up rain test (Unplanned)

    We went in 50/50 cost share with our logger to bring in gravel and a pipe crossing to a very inland log cut up area. It enabled the logging truck and the log buyers to get in and out without getting stuck AND without tearing up our tractor road. It was money well spent for both him and us. Every...
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