Keystone Krops

could you provide a cut sheet for the platform?


Most of the pieces were precut beforehand. It took two of my children and myself five hours. Things don't go as fast anymore.
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Thats funny. I'm putting up a new stand, maybe it will bear some name of C-19. I'm thinking of doing same with dozer while things are dead in the water.
 
I am getting lots of work right now during this pandemic...people are home so they are looking for dozer operators. My phone woke me this morning with a guy wanting a road cut and gravel spread. It is wet, wet, wet here from an all day rain yesterday and I am hoping it dries some by tomorrow but the clouds and no wind I am seeing aren’t looking like it. I am going to be doing a video of trying to take down 2 gigantic oak trees with a cable...
What is the weather like where you are?
 
I am getting lots of work right now during this pandemic...people are home so they are looking for dozer operators. My phone woke me this morning with a guy wanting a road cut and gravel spread. It is wet, wet, wet here from an all day rain yesterday and I am hoping it dries some by tomorrow but the clouds and no wind I am seeing aren’t looking like it. I am going to be doing a video of trying to take down 2 gigantic oak trees with a cable...
What is the weather like where you are?
The same, wet, wet, wet. We occasionally get a few consecutive days without rain to do a project, then another two rain days.
I watched your video of you taking down the other big oak? tree. Interesting, to say the least.
 
What happens when two guys realize this pine tree town ain't big enough for both of us? Here's a video clip I took this morning of them having it out.
 
The same, wet, wet, wet. We occasionally get a few consecutive days without rain to do a project, then another two rain days.
I watched your video of you taking down the other big oak? tree. Interesting, to say the least.
That was when I first started. I can get them out that size in just a couple minutes now. As soon as it dries a little I have to take a couple down that are about 4 times that size...using a cable...
 
March 13th, newly cleared woods plot planted with oats, white clover, and buckwheat, 7" rows. Today, 25 days later, a deer was grazing it. Looks like slim pickings to me.
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For a wildlife plot "established clover" can somewhat be treated as a base, where other things are grown in it at different periods, all the while keeping the clover alive and producing. If this method were useful in general agriculture I think there would be a lot more information available on what works and what doesn't work, but since it doesn't have much practicality in farming circles there's no testing out there.
Several do's and don'ts; I tried broadcasting and that hasn't worked well for me, if the clover's dormant in hot weather there's barely enough moisture available to start the broadcast seed, and if the clover is growing strong in wetter seasons, the broadcast seed struggles to outgrow the clover because broadcast seed is a little slower to establish, so I'd consider some type of drill as being essential to interseeding into existing clover.
Number two, drilling into a thick stand of clover that's growing well without mowing doesn't work well.
Number three, crops that take a lot of energy to grow, like corn, don't do well no-tilled into clover. I experimented with this and the corn came up well, but was stunted and didn't thrive, and it had no ears beyond a few small nubbins.
Number four, herbicides can be a problem, the best weed control sprays available for clover create a longterm residual carryover that doesn't work well for interseeding brassicas and grains into clover. Especially Imox and Imazethapyr (Raptor and T
hunder) have a residual of up to 18 months on certain small grains and brassicas. So that has to be taken into consideration. Interseeding an allelopathic like rye or oats might reduce that need for herbicides and that's what I'm testing right now.
A list of allelopathic plants that will kill other plants that compete with them;
  • Ailanthus (Tree-Of-Heaven)
  • Aster
  • Barley
  • Bearberry
  • Brassicas (All to varying degrees)
  • Buckwheat
  • Canada Thistle
  • Cedar
  • Corn (specifically corn gluten)
  • Cucumber
  • Dog Fennel
  • Elderberry
  • Eucalyptus
  • English Laurel
  • Ferns
  • Foxtail (Yellow and Giant)
  • Forsythia
  • French-type Marigold
  • Garlic mustard weed
  • Goldenrod
  • Johnsongrass
  • Juniper
  • Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Nutsedge
  • Oats
  • Oregano
  • Rye
  • Rosemary
  • Quackgrass
  • Ragweed
  • Rhododendron
  • Sorghum
  • Sugar Maple
  • Sumac
  • Sunflower
  • Tall Fescue
  • Walnut
  • Wheat
 
congrats on the bird!! Nice mature one. There was a day when Turkey hunting meant as much to me as deer hunting. I still like it -but its taken a back seat to deer hunting at this time in my life. Don't get me wrong, when it goes right - nothing like hot mature birds coming in to a set up! the lulls I don't handle as well as the deer hunting lulls. Maybe its because Im not a morning person at heart - LOL.
 
congrats on the bird!! Nice mature one. There was a day when Turkey hunting meant as much to me as deer hunting. I still like it -but its taken a back seat to deer hunting at this time in my life. Don't get me wrong, when it goes right - nothing like hot mature birds coming in to a set up! the lulls I don't handle as well as the deer hunting lulls. Maybe its because Im not a morning person at heart - LOL.
You don't have to be a morning person to enjoy turkey hunting, 9 to 10 am can be the hottest time of the day. Yesterday morning I was going to get up at 4am to go after the birds, instead I felt lazy and rolled over and went back to sleep and ended up going to the office like a normal day. At 9 am I remembered the gobblers and decided to still go out, lucky I did, for I could hear them gobbling when I got out of my vehicle. I have done this many times, especially towards midseason. And an hour long sit at a good spot with very little intermittent calling is what works the best. You've got to give them time to work to you without calling to much. Calling a lot gets turkeys all riled up, but they probably won't come closer than 100 yards because all that calling makes them suspicious. For this gobbler yesterday I called in a hen and then she did the calling for me. I often use a mouth call, but this time I switched it up and used a Lynch World Champion box call. I only called the hen three times total, each one being a single row of 3 or 4 yelps. Less is more when calling turkeys. I have found that 8 to 9 am and 12 to 3 pm are about the worst times to go turkey hunting as far as calling them in, and I hardly even go out in the afternoon anymore.
 
In six weeks time my Keiffer Pear trees from TyTy Nursery have taken off like a house on fire. In my opinion this is one of the best low maintenance trouble free trees to plant close to a deer hunting stand for an early archery buck attraction and I'm very happy with TyTy and these trees.
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My March 13th oats drilled no-till into an existing ladino clover field, after 2 months they are in some serious competition to see who can stay on top.
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Wow! You’re at flag leaf already. How tall is the clover, and did you plant a specific variety of oats?


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