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    Native American Chestnut Comeback?

    Great write up. I agree. Thanks.
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    Native American Chestnut Comeback?

    Did you take note if they were growing as seedlings or out of an old stump cluster?
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    Meat Pole

    ...TheOldOak for the win !!!
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    Meat Pole

    Thanks for all the ideas and thoughts. SInce I started the thread, I wanted to close the thread. I considered all your solutions. Then I considered hole augers, digging bars, sonotubes, stone hauling, and concrete mixing. At the end of it all, it was... v v v v v v v v v
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    Native American Chestnut Comeback?

    To detail the above, my red oaks produced acorns last year. My whites still have not since the year of the defoliation and I can't yet tell if they will this year or not.
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    Native American Chestnut Comeback?

    Since I started paying attention to them in 2016, the biggest trees on my property (please look back to the first page and posts of this thread) have not produced any nuts. There are no catkins again this year, so unfortunately another year will be passing without nuts. I really don't...
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    Native American Chestnut Comeback?

    They aren't overly rare in the areas around me. They are easiest to spot in January/February, even just driving on the back roads. They hold their dead leaves better and longer than the white oaks. Its not legal, but with all the public woods in PA, you could easily fill up a truck bed of 5...
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    Imox Mix

    Here is a pic of a second plot. There is some grass in the clover, but the Smart Weed is gone now. I really am starting to think that my sprayer wasn't working for the Smart Weed takeover portion of the other plot now. Also, the exclusion cages show about 3X clover growth. So, it is probably...
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    Imox Mix

    I can't get a lime truck in this plot easily. I have 2 more like it that are even less accessible. It would have to weave around the apple and pear trees. I broadcast as much pelletized lime as I can stand to do every year. Last I checked, I had it up to 5.6 - 5.8. I also have great...
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    Imox Mix

    There's the answer I wanted! Actually, I think I only need to do a couple passes over a very limited area at the very top (beyond the ATV) of the pic I posted. As a matter of fact, the Smart Weed takeover area is so isolated, I wonder if my sprayer clogged up there or something. cagantpr...
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    Imox Mix

    I can't say my soil is perfect, but it isn't horrible. Kind of low on PH, which I have been trying to correct for a while. I did the LickCreek rotation for at least 5 seasons (that's why the top end of the field is "new" clover). Unfortunately my deer density is too high. I had success with...
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    Imox Mix

    I checked on progress yesterday and in some of my new clover areas the Smart Weed is making a comeback. I think it has more to do with the clover being sparse than it being new. There was a lot of bare dirt. Does anyone have any advice on a second application of Imox? I sprayed last on June...
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    Meat Pole

    I already have one of those with a vaulted ceiling. I just don't want to gunk up my deck that way. Plus, I am getting older and want to be able to back my truck underneath it.
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    Meat Pole

    I used to live in Kokomo. Definitely better fed there than here.
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    Meat Pole

    Now you have me worried. I was thinking the 6 inch dimension going fore/aft with 4 feet in the ground would be stiff enough. Was also thinking a pair of 5 foot 2x8's double lag bolted to the top of each post would stop a lot of the side to side sway. Am thinking a pair of these for pulleys...
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