Stone Branch, build it, they will come.
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George
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Uncle Sam wants to pay me to kill tree of heaven momma trees and seedlings, and timber stand improvement
I finished up over the weekend on my ridge northeastern property line.
I started mulching red maples but decided to stop and see if I could get paid to do so.
The area within the first 4 acre burn was still a log pile
The red maple logs are too far gone for fire wood so I'm just dicing most of it down leaving some for some structure.
I want deer to be able to move freely about this area.
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George
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I conducted my burns on the 12th and 13th.
On Thursday the 23rd I was standing on my porch down in the ditch and I smelled a forest fire, which perplexed me. When I was up yesterday, I found what I smelt, 10 days after the fire a big dead hickory burned down.
I am staying the course in my rattlesnake food plot, letting the debris melt down. I'm thinking about spreading some more lime, 6-24-24, and a bag of clover mix.
I finally got a monster 10 trunk red maple sprout mulched to the ground yesterday.
I was figuring on cleaning up and making a real food plot down in the lower rattlesnake food plot. Ain't no way, I'm going to cleanup enough to put up a feeder, a shooting house up on the hill top,
and perhaps a bow stand up in the maple.
Chief Forester Bill and I had our meet up on Wednesday
and this is Bill's plan. 10 year contract, I'll have 1 year to complete TSI on each block but I can do more than one block each year. This plan now goes to the ranking for funding. Bill says funding looks good as Joe's America Rescue Plan is dumping more dollars into the EQIP program.
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On Thursday the 23rd I was standing on my porch down in the ditch and I smelled a forest fire, which perplexed me. When I was up yesterday, I found what I smelt, 10 days after the fire a big dead hickory burned down.
I am staying the course in my rattlesnake food plot, letting the debris melt down. I'm thinking about spreading some more lime, 6-24-24, and a bag of clover mix.
I finally got a monster 10 trunk red maple sprout mulched to the ground yesterday.
I was figuring on cleaning up and making a real food plot down in the lower rattlesnake food plot. Ain't no way, I'm going to cleanup enough to put up a feeder, a shooting house up on the hill top,
and perhaps a bow stand up in the maple.
Chief Forester Bill and I had our meet up on Wednesday
and this is Bill's plan. 10 year contract, I'll have 1 year to complete TSI on each block but I can do more than one block each year. This plan now goes to the ranking for funding. Bill says funding looks good as Joe's America Rescue Plan is dumping more dollars into the EQIP program.
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George
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First shed found on my property, Tank found it, it is goofy jr's.
Tank also found this girl yesterday alive, then she went up the hill and died. I could see through her skin around her mammary glands, she was green inside with bloody juice draining out of her vulva. I believe her fetus died and rotted inside of her.
I started mulching maples yesterday and finished up this morning, before
and after.
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Tank also found this girl yesterday alive, then she went up the hill and died. I could see through her skin around her mammary glands, she was green inside with bloody juice draining out of her vulva. I believe her fetus died and rotted inside of her.
I started mulching maples yesterday and finished up this morning, before
and after.
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George
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George
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6:00 and I started down the west side crack, east wind,
a steep crack,
a hot crack.
Back up top my fire petered out.
Had some fire cross a fire break that I scratched out this morning but choose not to use.
I lit up the upper edge
and went home while my escapee found fuel in the form of mountain laurel and blueberries.
As of 9:00 i still had me a forest fire working up on the hillside.
10:00 it started raining, damn.
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a steep crack,
a hot crack.
Back up top my fire petered out.
Had some fire cross a fire break that I scratched out this morning but choose not to use.
I lit up the upper edge
and went home while my escapee found fuel in the form of mountain laurel and blueberries.
As of 9:00 i still had me a forest fire working up on the hillside.
10:00 it started raining, damn.
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George
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Fire on the mountain/hill.
I lit some head fire going up on the west slope which proved to be too hot in the wind
So I went to the other side of the ridge opposite the wind and lit the whole top up.
I did some stripping on the way back.
My escape was burning off of a raked fire break back down to the bottom of the east slope
These pictures were taken at 8:00pm, it took till 3:45am for the last of the fire to make it down to my building.
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I lit some head fire going up on the west slope which proved to be too hot in the wind
So I went to the other side of the ridge opposite the wind and lit the whole top up.
I did some stripping on the way back.
My escape was burning off of a raked fire break back down to the bottom of the east slope
These pictures were taken at 8:00pm, it took till 3:45am for the last of the fire to make it down to my building.
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howboutthemdawgs
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Those last two pics are awesome! That’s so inspiring that you are able to work around ky ridiculous fire laws. I can’t find any burn days cause the rain won’t stop…and they are “worried” about forest fires.
Triple C
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Ain't nobody got anything on you when it comes to burning. You can light up em with the best! When we started years ago we purposely kept fire out of the hardwoods. Now we let the fires run thru as much of the hardwoods as they will. Generally low intensity fires and most times, won't burn all the way thru a hardwood section as many of mine in drainages.
I would imagine on some of those slopes you would get a reasonably hot burn.
I would imagine on some of those slopes you would get a reasonably hot burn.
George
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Thanks TC. Yep the wrong fire in the wrong place is not good and this is a perfect example. The area wasn't very big but I got impatient and lit some head fire going uphill and the result was 3 scorched oaks, a dumb dumb move. A back burn would have moved thru without any damage. Now I have some test trees to watch. It was just leaf litter that burned around those trees. I spent about 6 hours on those slopes prior removing excessive leaf litter and woody debris from around my oaks.
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George
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I did a couple of hours of prep yesterday. I wanted to burn more but I drew a compromise with the woodcocks. This unit was where I originally started my habitat work by hinging red maples about 1-2 acres in 2019, first fire through the area.
South wind backing down the hill fire. A good bit of multiflora rose and honeysuckle to burn.
I then wrapped around the east end which
set up for some head fire. I went back in a raked out my crop trees better while the fire was working.
The unattended end.
Looked like a good burn.
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South wind backing down the hill fire. A good bit of multiflora rose and honeysuckle to burn.
I then wrapped around the east end which
set up for some head fire. I went back in a raked out my crop trees better while the fire was working.
The unattended end.
Looked like a good burn.
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George
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Yeah probably my neanderthalensis dna.
The rain put out my campfire but I was pretty much done.
It will be a good chicken yard.
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Mennoniteman
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George, I don't want to hurt your feelings, and you know it's going to be something you don't want to hear when a guy issues the apology before he says the zinger, but me being a barn builder, and looking at that old barn, I'm thinking that the Neanderthal in you should be warming your hands over a bigger fire... I do appreciate older historical buildings that showcase the talent of carpenters from bygone days, and the character that they have, but my pet peeve is weak foundations under a barn.
