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[buckhunter10]

Yea I'm planning on getting out on Sunday too and just check fields haha gotta get out of the house and do something


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Aint that the truth. Deer season is over and I am doing soil tests this weekend and putting out minerals. Also cutting fire wood on the farm for next year. It never really end when your ate up with it! haha!

Well all be chasing gobblers soon to boot!

 

[buckhunter10]

Well today started off as one of those days. The Polaris tire popped off the rim a few weeks back, the one nut was stripped to the bone and it was not coming off. After a bit of time with a grinder, and a new stud replaced, she's ready to go.....once I get the tired reset! Today involved some huffing it boys!

 

[buckhunter10]

If you follow this thread and me over the years. You know that I love to burn fires at night. Well today after fixing the polaris my cousin and I grabbed the saws. We had fell these trees last year due to them being to close to the house. They are now cut and stacked. Just need to run splitter through them. Not bad for an hour, maybe hour and a half.

 

[buckhunter10]

After that I had to get my trees in the ground. I decided to put them on the top of my big feeder plot StoneHendge. These are all pears and deer apples. I am excited for the future!

 

[buckhunter10]

I also checked 6 cameras, put out 7 coon traps, and refreshed some minerals. Not bad for a short day at the farm. Lots of bucks are still holding but I have one 140+ that made it through season, excited to see what the son of a gun blows into. I think he is 3.5 years old.

Here is a tried and true mineral lick station:

 

[buckhunter10]

Well today was a cold, wet day at the farm. However it didn't stop us from getting work done.

1. Collected 4 soil samples, I will send them out to the lab tomorrow
2. checked and moved a few cameras
3. checked all the coon traps - one less coon is on the farm now!

One buck that made it through the season we believe. I saw him late January in daylight right in front of one of my stands. I think he is now shedded out now as I haven't had him on camera since first week of Feb. I am hoping he didnt get killed or die during the last week of bow season.

Any idea what was wrong with his neck? I had him on camera 3 weeks after this was taken and he was eating in a plot. I believe he was plenty healthy to live.

 

[buckhunter10]

Any idea on this deer above?

 

[Triple C]

Bet your glad to have the Polaris up and going again. I'm with you on evening fires. Ain't too many things in life better than sitting around a fire pit on a cool Friday evening with one's beverage of choice following a long work week. My son has a friend that makes fire pits out of propane tanks. Cuts the ends out and welds legs and a rail around the top edge. First year we've used a metal fire pit. The difference in the heat that thing puts out compared to open flame fire is amazing.

 

[buckhunter10]

Bet your glad to have the Polaris up and going again. I'm with you on evening fires. Ain't too many things in life better than sitting around a fire pit on a cool Friday evening with one's beverage of choice following a long work week. My son has a friend that makes fire pits out of propane tanks. Cuts the ends out and welds legs and a rail around the top edge. First year we've used a metal fire pit. The difference in the heat that thing puts out compared to open flame fire is amazing.

That sounds like a cool fire pit idea!

 

[dogghr]

Any idea on this deer above?

Could be thyroid or goiter. Good job on the tree planting. I find pears much easier to maintain but just got to love the apples.

 

[buckhunter10]

Could be thyroid or goiter. Good job on the tree planting. I find pears much easier to maintain but just got to love the apples.

One neighbor told he shoulder shot a buck in October. Any chance?

Update: 6 more apple trees from stark bros on the way!!

My farm will be an orchard one day.

 

[buckhunter10]

well if anyone has idea on deer above please let me know. Looks like the sob has a collar on!

 

[buckhunter10]

Any got the soil tests in, looks like all the lime work last year worked and my soil PH is good. Now what do you all make of this? Anything I can do to help the OM? Chicken litter? (at this point I am limiting tilling but I will not totally cut it out).

 

[buckhunter10]

I also got bored so I decided to try to grow some chestnut trees from seeds I have had in the fridge for too long. I hope they will take, we shall see!

 

[George]

Ya it looks like he maybe wearing a wire around his neck, snare?

G

 

[buckhunter10]

Ya it looks like he maybe wearing a wire around his neck, snare?

G

ya, I have no idea. I have never seen another deer with that type of markings. I wonder if I should report this to the DNR in the case someone is intentionally setting snares for deer.....

I had him on camera a month after this and he was very alive and feeding in a plot so I know he is healthy but it concerns me if someone is setting snares that a nice sized buck could get himself caught up in.

 

[buckhunter10]

Well I found another picture of that buck a month later and it is the opposite side of his neck, this is around Feb 4-7 time frame. I notice that on this side of his neck, he doesn't look hurt, I am thinking he could have got caught or shot? What are your thoughts?

 

[buckhunter10]

Boy do I have the tree bug bad this year!

I am working on picking on some different oak trees to plant around the farm. I don't have a ton of open space so I am planning on hinge cutting a few areas around the edge of the plots. Then putting a oak in a tube near those cuts. One here and one there that way they won't case much shade over the plot, at least in my lifetime!

Thoughts?

 

[buckdeer1]

Sounds like a plan just make sure it can get sunlight.Old saying applies here "Only thing planting a tree in the timber was sweat"
One of my favorites

 

[buckhunter10]

Sounds like a plan just make sure it can get sunlight.Old saying applies here "Only thing planting a tree in the timber was sweat"
One of my favorites

Great point. This is on the corner of a 2 acre field so I believe it would get plenty of sunlight. Espicalky if a hindge feather the edge.