Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

[George]

Good luck. Big bucks and great pictures

Thanks lak.

I really enjoy your thread George. I don't get to burn where I am. It's neat to see your spots progress through it. You got me thinking to start making some piles and do some winter burning.

Thanks Mark, is it too dry to burn or just plain outlawed?

George...Bet some of your neighbors think you're nuts with the hacking, cutting and fire going on up there. Looking dang good! I took off last week and spent 4 days at the farm prepping for fall. Mowed all interior roads, fields in prep for planting and did one sho nuff deep clean on the cabin. While cleaning, I opened a box and there laid the knife you made years ago. Seems like a lifetime ago when the old forum was running wide open and you were attacking AO and MFR on your Iowa property. Keep swinging brother!

Thanks TC, good to hear from you. I showed some interest to a hillbilly woman down on the black top and she paid me no mind, she calls me the crazy snake man.

I was supposed to be hanging tree stands yesterday but I just walked around in the woods with my hack hammer and squirt bottle. This is the time of year to kill trees. I found this patch of paw paws 200 yards up in my old cabin holler and took out a dozen or so red maples.





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[Triple C]

Thanks TC, good to hear from you. I showed some interest to a hillbilly woman down on the black top and she paid me no mind, she calls me the crazy snake man.

Don't give up on Ms. Hillbilly. Might make a handy companion!

 

[MarkDarvin]

I just don't have the experience to do it, and I don't believe there are any local resources to even help with such a thing. I also don't know enough about burning what I've got, and what that'd do to my herbivoral makeup.

 

[George]

Don't give up on Ms. Hillbilly. Might make a handy companion!

Unless there is something real special going on if I don't get a rise on the first or second cast I just move on to the next hole.

I just don't have the experience to do it, and I don't believe there are any local resources to even help with such a thing. I also don't know enough about burning what I've got, and what that'd do to my herbivoral makeup.

There is a learning curve but you have to start somewhere if at all.

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[MarkDarvin]

Unless there is something real special going on if I don't get a rise on the first or second cast I just move on to the next hole.



There is a learning curve but you have to start somewhere if at all.

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I've got a wild idea to try to tie some ideas together this winter. A side hobby of mine is mushroom hunting. I've been knocking down an acre or two with the chainsaw each winter as a cover, food, and diversity improvement project. I've been toying with seeding these areas with different things to also help out the bugs. This past spring, I spread some white sweet clover into my brush piles.

It was poorly taken from the looks of it, but I found some, and, what I didn't expect, the deer were browsing it. I'd like to make some spots where instead of leaving all the slash lay, I'd pile it up into manageable piles and burn in winter. My hope is that this will create bloom spots for morels, and give me a little more room on the ground for non-deer plants like winter rye (at least after the fall), flax, and yellow sweet clover. I'd love to see a big stand of yellow sweet clover for deer to hide in, and the bees to go bonkers working the blooms.

 

[George]

I've got a wild idea to try to tie some ideas together this winter. A side hobby of mine is mushroom hunting. I've been knocking down an acre or two with the chainsaw each winter as a cover, food, and diversity improvement project. I've been toying with seeding these areas with different things to also help out the bugs. This past spring, I spread some white sweet clover into my brush piles.

It was poorly taken from the looks of it, but I found some, and, what I didn't expect, the deer were browsing it. I'd like to make some spots where instead of leaving all the slash lay, I'd pile it up into manageable piles and burn in winter. My hope is that this will create bloom spots for morels, and give me a little more room on the ground for non-deer plants like winter rye (at least after the fall), flax, and yellow sweet clover. I'd love to see a big stand of yellow sweet clover for deer to hide in, and the bees to go bonkers working the blooms.

Herbs tend to really pop after some fire. The grounds that you are clearing tend to be acidic and low in P and K. I like to follow up areas that I clear and want stuff to grow with pelletized lime and 6-24-24.

The 10 works the night shift protecting his ridge top.





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[George]

On the 9th I finished up hanging my new Flat Gap stand.





Yesterday the 10th I was up in the woods killing red maples. I might should think about trying out my new stand one of these days.









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[Mennoniteman]

On the 9th I finished up hanging my new Flat Gap stand.

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Yesterday the 10th I was up in the woods killing red maples. I might should think about trying out my new stand one of these days.

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It appears like you should be situated and all settled into the flat gap stand before 4pm in the afternoon if you want fresh backstraps.

 

[George]

It appears like you should be situated and all settled into the flat gap stand before 4pm in the afternoon if you want fresh backstraps.

One of these days.

Here is a look at my latest creation. The red x marks a good sized tree stand maple, blue arrow- target buck's regular path up, green arrow- rutting buck flow down.



I hacked and squirt trees in February then lit it up.



As I found out February is not the best time to kill trees, I have done some follow up.



My stand tree is in the center and two days ago I hung the stand.



Looking left towards the blue trail up.



Center looking up towards my food plot attempt on the hill



and right. There is a clump of big white oaks about 25 yards away.




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[George]

Yesterday the chainsaw was busy for 4 hours. I cut most of the smaller killed trees and left some larger dead trees for the birds.





left from stand



center



and right.



It is 40 yards about level from the vitals of a deer on the main ridge path to the stand. This is my new Amphitheater of Hunting stand. My hope is to blow my evening stink above the ditch below me that deer will come out of on a north wind.



Today I clean up sticks.

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[George]

I didn't get my campfire going yesterday till about noon.



I managed to get the blue trail cleaned up.



About a sixty yard view of the new stand from the blue trail.



I was dragging yesterday, had a hungry fire but not enough energy to keep feeding it.



After 3+ hours I put some coal logs on and headed for the beer store.



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[gut_pile]

George, what are you using to get the detailed terrain view?

 

[George]

George, what are you using to get the detailed terrain view?

It is lidar imagery geographic information service provided by individual states. The one I use is UKY.edu

KGS Geologic Map Information Service (uky.edu)

Your state should have it somewhere.

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[gut_pile]

Thanks

 

[George]

My new Amphitheater of hunting stand is ready to go. I'm planning on getting into the stand tomorrow evening.











Meanwhile under my new Flat Gap stand the greens are doing well. Almost 2000 deer pictures down there in the past 6-7 days. Probably 1,000 pictures of bucks sparring. The deer are really enjoying the new opening.









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[Mennoniteman]

My new Amphitheater of hunting stand is ready to go. I'm planning on getting into the stand tomorrow evening.

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Good luck tomorrow evening. We've had warm humid weather and a southeast wind (which is bad for all our stands) for most of the week as this big system moves through. Are they also calling cooler weather in KY tomorrow?

 

[George]

Another paw paw patch yesterday released out from under red maples 3 Augusts ago.







It were some day for shrooms.







Poisonous jack o lanterns.









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[George]

Good luck tomorrow evening. We've had warm humid weather and a southeast wind (which is bad for all our stands) for most of the week as this big system moves through. Are they also calling cooler weather in KY tomorrow?

Thanks Mennoniteman, 53 degrees right now calling for a high of 63. I am hunting the Flat Gap this evening.

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[KSQ2]

Awaiting an update!

 

[George]

Awaiting an update!

I saw a deer which is semi unusual around these parts.







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