Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

Heading back up the old logging path from the properties east end .

The line is down in the bottom and runs a pretty straight line up through the middle of the photo.


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There is one more choice ridge top on this north property line that is a partially shared boundary.

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However the only easy access to it from the neighboring property is blocked by the property line.

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Mennoniteman said:
Is there an option like saving yourself some backaches and getting someone in to cut pulpwood and do a timber stand improvement? Or don't you have the right size and type of trees for that? That's a quick way to churn out a lot of acres of habitat and then do the finetuning yourself from there on out. I wish someone had pointed me in this direction before I started hinging on my own, could have reached my goals a lot faster with money in my pocket to boot, and still done hinging afterwards.
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There aren't enough large trees to interest anyone in pulp which leaves 100 acres of 2" average maples. If I buy the property I will have the private lands biologist out for a look. With out the kind of invasive plant load that I dealt with in Iowa, this property just looks like fun to me.

G
 
Naturally I like the last shared ridge you just showed the best. Not sure I've seen that many pole saplings wo any briers before. I know you are dying to play pyro.:)
 
George said:
I already made that video, a sharp chain every day.



scant deer sign, some trails, 3 little rubs spread out, and one old sign post.



Natural Bridge

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G
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Are those cliffs and natural bridge on your place? Looks fun to explore. There was one cliff called pocket wall where the pockets in the rock were everywhere to grab and some were huge. It was next to a natural bridge like in your pict. You could climb into some big pockets and sit and rest and look out.

Another thing I remember from 20 years ago in that area is the strong local soda and missing teeth. I always thought those two must be connected ;)
Maybe they still make it but I never saw it anywhere else.
Ale8 “a late one”
Kind of like ginger ale with 7up and enough sugar and caffeine for a horse. Good stuff
 
dogghr said:
Naturally I like the last shared ridge you just showed the best. Not sure I've seen that many pole saplings wo any briers before. I know you are dying to play pyro.:)
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It is another dozy approached from the top through the maple. We bumped some turkeys scratching in the leaves.

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It looks like another spot to open up a bit and sprinkle some clover seed.

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The ridge top itself is only shared for distance.

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Looking back to the south at the central ridge that we just walked back up.

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Frosted brassica said:
Are those cliffs and natural bridge on your place? Looks fun to explore. There was one cliff called pocket wall where the pockets in the rock were everywhere to grab and some were huge. It was next to a natural bridge like in your pict. You could climb into some big pockets and sit and rest and look out.

Another thing I remember from 20 years ago in that area is the strong local soda and missing teeth. I always thought those two must be connected ;)
Maybe they still make it but I never saw it anywhere else.
Ale8 “a late one”
Kind of like ginger ale with 7up and enough sugar and caffeine for a horse. Good stuff
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Frosted, those pictures are of the Natural Bridge at the Natural Bridge State Resort Park down by Slade that you spoke of.

I probably have drunk 1 soda, a Coke, in the past 10 years. I drank that Coke last summer and my body flushed it out in about an hours time.

G
 
Frosted brassica said:
Another thing I remember from 20 years ago in that area is the strong local soda and missing teeth. I always thought those two must be connected ;)
Maybe they still make it but I never saw it anywhere else.
Ale8 “a late one”
Kind of like ginger ale with 7up and enough sugar and caffeine for a horse. Good stuff
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It’s made in Winchester, KY, which is in the county next door to where I grew up. I’m sure it doesn’t help the teeth situation, but my bet is most of that is due to poor dental hygiene and meth :).
 
G - I’m interested to see how you hunt/manage the shared ridges. I use some for access and hunt others during early bow season. Most of the ones on the farm are mature timber.
 
HB_Hunter said:
It’s made in Winchester, KY, which is in the county next door to where I grew up. I’m sure it doesn’t help the teeth situation, but my bet is most of that is due to poor dental hygiene and meth :).
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We have a place like that near us;it is said the tooth brush was actually invented there. If invented anywhere else it would have been called the teeth brush.
 
Man your post about how you work the timber and land are very popular. Dogghr and the rest of us need a George habitat fix.

Flick your lighter and get the smoke rolling in those KY hills.

Wayne
 
I thought of you earlier today and hoped the sell would go through. Once you close in KY you sure are going to be one busy man.

Congrats!
 
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