Brooks brought his track loader to the farm and spent about 12 hours saturday and sunday opening up an overgrown fire break along our west property line bordered by a cattle farmer. It wasn't much more than a pig trail and pretty much impassable in the Ranger. Grown up with brush and saplings. He came down a few weeks ago and used his brush cutter to open it up. Here's a pic I took before he started Saturday morning following his brush cutting a few weeks ago.
Here's a pic from near the same area Saturday afternoon.
Went from an over grown pig trail to a very nice, open property line road.
He had to move a lot of dirt to level the road and in the process of moving dirt it made for an easy installation of water holes. By Sunday morning, he had 3 new water holes along the fire break. A good rain and these should be full. Great clay base.
Had a dogghr moment Sunday morning while walking the new fire break...a female box turtle digging a hole in the freshly pushed dirt to deposit her eggs.
While Brooks was busy doing his thing on the skid steer, I ran to Walmart and picked up 3 cheap Tasco trail cams for $28.95 a piece. Placed a camera on one of the newly created water holes facing north on the fire break road and then checked it the following morning. Had a nice nanny walk by checking out the new dirt at 7:25, about an hour after work had finished. Prolly hang a stand on this water hole this fall.
And as always...we try and eat good while there. Daughter and one of the grand pups made it down for dinner. Did my usual...thighs on the Traeger, green beans, hominy sautéed in butter, slaw, taters, sliced maters and cornbread. All in all...a great weekend! Thx for following along!
