Mountain Man
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Just noticed the tractor, was wondering where you found the green paint. real nice paint job.
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Mennoniteman
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Yes, I painted the blue Ford green because we believed that the blue color was spooking our deerJust noticed the tractor, was wondering where you found the green paint. real nice paint job.
ha ha. No, last winter I found a deal on a used Deere that I couldn't resist, and traded my blue tractor, while the New Holland did me really well, I'm not going to miss the transmission with not quite enough gears and needing to come to a complete stop and do a double shift across ranges sometimes. Now the John Deere has power shift and almost too many gears. Some ppl will never be happy. I started doing food plots with an ATV and if that's all I had I could be perfectly happy with that, the plots are just as nice and the 4-wheeler equipment is much easier to work with, but I'd only be doing a few acres. Bigger equipment is not necessarily better plots, but it allows way more volume in plots. I grew up on a farm so running this stuff is easier for me, but I confess that I miss the simpler days of doing 1 acre with an ATV. With bigger equipment once the piece of equipment is greased, tires filled, hitched up, adjusted and set up, filled with product and ready to go, it can cover a lot of acres very quickly, but then the whole process needs reversed to put it away again, it's way more complicated that ATV equipment. I keep adding more plots for friends and myself, and I'm currently managing 14 or 15 plots in several different counties with more than 20 acres total, but one of these years I may dial back a little bit again. Food plots are easy to turn into ESH plots, and if mowed in alternating strips, the deer attraction is almost as good as a cultivated field.
Mountain Man
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I do know that a blue salt block will spook deer.Yes, I painted the blue Ford green because we believed that the blue color was spooking our deer
I started doing food plots with an ATV and if that's all I had I could be perfectly happy with that, the plots are just as nice and the 4-wheeler equipment is much easier to work with, but I'd only be doing a few acres. Bigger equipment is not necessarily better plots, but it allows way more volume in plots. I grew up on a farm so running this stuff is easier for me, but I confess that I miss the simpler days of doing 1 acre with an ATV. With bigger equipment once the piece of equipment is greased, tires filled, hitched up, adjusted and set up, filled with product and ready to go, it can cover a lot of acres very quickly, but then the whole process needs reversed to put it away again, it's way more complicated that ATV equipment. I keep adding more plots for friends and myself, and I'm currently managing 14 or 15 plots in several different counties with more than 20 acres total, but one of these years I may dial back a little bit again. Food plots are easy to turn into ESH plots, and if mowed in alternating strips, the deer attraction is almost as good as a cultivated field.
MarkDarvin
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Did that plot blow up in canada thistle? Is that what i saw in front of the tractor?
Mennoniteman
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No, not that plot, but I do have another plot that did. this plot has a little bit of grass and pigweed. Most of what is seen in the picture besides clover is oats and rye left over from last fall's drought failed grain overseeding. I decided to sacrifice the grain to take care of the weeds, and then plant back with oats in late August.
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