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.
Mennoniteman
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This spring has been bad for wind storms. Among several woods closures a storm toppled a double chestnut oak across our access road.
Flatiron75
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Great firewood - easy to split when green. Son and I just cut a batch of chestnut oak last week.
Mennoniteman
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A rainy night, great time to service equipment, Kodiak 450 front diff in this case. 650 miles and the factory gear oil was a bit cloudy plus the gunk on the magnetic plug.
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Apocynum cannabinum (dogbane, amy root, hemp dogbane, prairie dogbane, Indian hemp, rheumatism root, or wild cotton) looks a lot like milkweed, has milky sap and silky seeds, and here in PA the two grow together in the same habitat. Dogbane has a purple stem and is slightly thinner stem than the adjacent milkweed in the picture. Dogbane is poisonous to cattle and contains toxins that are harmful to monarch caterpillars, which is why they cannot eat it, but monarch butterflies supposedly feed on the nectar. Here I have some pictures of some that I found beside my access road this week that show milkweed and dogbane right beside each other.
MarkDarvin
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I did the front and rear diff fluid on my Outlander last year. I should do the rear again. It was pretty black last year.
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Mennoniteman
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2019 Yamaha Kodiak 450 is my workhorse, it calls for GL4 in the front dif and GL5 in the rear differential, GL5 has a friction modifier. I use GL5 in the front as well, do you see a problem with that?
dogghr
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Unless you racing shouldn’t be a problem. 5 does have sulphur in it which can affect some types of diffs but I doubt your horse would have an issue
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KSQ2
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I hate seeing nice oaks get laid down.
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We're getting a very wet May to make up for last year hardly getting an rain all spring. This moisture has our corn jumping out of the gate.
Mennoniteman
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I thought we had lost the ladino clover to last summers drought in this 1/2 acre shooting plot,. We couldn't mow or spray and it looked like mostly weeds. I hit it with imazethapyr a month ago and the ladino is coming back like a house on fire. Interestingly, the imazethapyr killed almost everything except the fall planted rye and clover. Cereal Rye is one tough plant.
MarkDarvin
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Those plots look outstanding!
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deer patch
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I sprayed some imazethapyr at a rate of 5 ounces per acre today but I didn’t have any AMS to add and I didn’t have time to find any but I did add surfactant on a one acre plot. What kind of kill do you think I will get?
Mennoniteman
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Imazethapyr will work without crop oil, but as to the success of your application, there's a lot of variables in spraying herbicides such as application consistency, temperature, rainfall, product shelf life etc. Storing a jug of chemical in sunlight and varying temperatures can reduce the potency of the mix. And I'm a big believer in AMS, with the right family of chemicals it makes the spray mix hotter. Crop oil is key to cutting through the wax on plant leaves like lamb's quarter. Another really big variable, according to the product label you're supposed to spray weeds when they are less than 3" tall. This all being said, imazethapyr is a very potent product and I'm optimistic that you should see some results.
Selective herbicides like clethodim and imazethapyr work slower than a product like Roundup, in the case of these two, having really good growing conditions is key, in good growing conditions you don't need an outright kill for the spray to work,, the herbicide only needs to stunt the weeds and then the clover outgrows the weeds and chokes them out.
AMS and crop oil is cheaper than herbicide, has a very long shelf life, and is very effective, too often I've been in a similar situation where I needed to spray and was out of crop oil or AMS, now I stock up several years supply of these cheaper products.
Maybe you get AMS in liquid jugs, I'm a tight wad and AMS in bags is much cheaper, but AMS in bags that tear doesn't store well, so I put it in empty drywall buckets with sealed lids, buckets with handles are so much easier to handle.
But ultimately I'd do exactly what you did, if a field needs spraying and I'm there with my sprayer, by all means spray it even if not everything is quite perfect, if we would always wait until we have everything just right we'd never get anything done.
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