Mennoniteman
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Looks like an old time moonshiners paradise.
Stone Branch, build it, they will come.
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George
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Thanks guys. It took all day but the funds finally arrived.
Whippoorwill, I'm not sure if I'm going to get anything done this trip other than close and hike around but I may come back down next week. I might need the help of your buddy with the heavy equipment to put a chain around the tongue of that trailer and help me find the rightful owner, they live behind the church.
Clock wise from the house the five bowls wholly owned
and the ridge tops.
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Whippoorwill, I'm not sure if I'm going to get anything done this trip other than close and hike around but I may come back down next week. I might need the help of your buddy with the heavy equipment to put a chain around the tongue of that trailer and help me find the rightful owner, they live behind the church.
Clock wise from the house the five bowls wholly owned
and the ridge tops.
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George
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No kidding, I know that the last occupant thought that it was a good place to grow some herb.
I was told that the water is the best drinking water in the area.
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Mennoniteman
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Do you have a sketch of the property lines or a plan in place for habitat ideas?
George
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It's slowing sinking in that I get to go camping tomorrow. I won't be trailering the polarious but I will pack the Stihl.
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Native Hunter
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I hope the rain forecast up there is not the same as here tomorrow. It could be a wet camping trip.
George
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It is but clears up for a couple after that. I've got a number of metal roofs on the property that hold water.
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deer patch
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Congrats on finally closing on the new place.
Are you going to YouTube video progress again? I enjoyed them when you did that on the old place.
Are you going to YouTube video progress again? I enjoyed them when you did that on the old place.
Mennoniteman
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Am I seeing a flat spot up top between 1 and 3 for a food plot?
George
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Well I did find my recorder and charger just in case.
I figure that there is about 20 acres up there that could be opened up. My current plan is to make some small food plots of maple sprouts and clover seed.
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weekender21
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I’m looking forward to following along. Your Kentucky hills look very similar to our NC hills. What’s the elevation like on your ridge tops?
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George
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Hey week, the barn yard is around 870 and the high lands are up over 1200.
Yep it's official I closed up Friday afternoon. I had to sign about 15 documents to close Colorado and 2 signatures, the closing statement and deed in Kentucky.
My neighbor Adam heard me drive by but didn't see that it was me so he was about 30 seconds behind me to check it out. We spent a hour chatting.
I camped out Friday night in my beautiful new digs and awoke to a freezing Saturday morning.
Adam told me that the property was logged back in 97. He pointed up to the ridge above the house and told me about the patch of trees somewhere up there that was spared the saw. That was the patch that sold me. The story is that the guy selling the trees made 50g on the sale and said that was enough money so he stopped the cut. There are a couple of other patches that were also spared.
I checked out another logging road up from the house,
up past the hemlock stand
and into another beautiful oak woods in bowl #5 with a good number of white oaks.
I found an evil autumn olive on the way back down
above the barn yard. I'll be back.
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George
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It wasn't till Saturday evening that I drank a little bit of 40% out of one bottle and squirted some 20% out of the Jack bottle
out onto my back yard food plot.
Back to my Friday evening conversation with Adam. We walked over to the house and he asked if I see the worm holes, that's wormy chestnut.
More chestnut logs out in the Tobacco barn.
Some one has recently helped themselves to some of the chestnut board barn siding.
Adam asked me if I noticed the battered bush, I hadn't.
It was rubbed up the last week of gun season after the 200 incher had already been removed from the population.
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out onto my back yard food plot.
Back to my Friday evening conversation with Adam. We walked over to the house and he asked if I see the worm holes, that's wormy chestnut.
More chestnut logs out in the Tobacco barn.
Some one has recently helped themselves to some of the chestnut board barn siding.
Adam asked me if I noticed the battered bush, I hadn't.
It was rubbed up the last week of gun season after the 200 incher had already been removed from the population.
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Chainsaw
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A big congratulations Geo. I'll have a Jagermeister shot tonight to toast the momentous occasion. Love the backyard food plot; It looks like it might be in one of those great top soil spots. I'd wish you luck but really know that you will have it all working in high style in no time with or without luck.
George
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It was chilly around 15 degrees Saturday night so I stayed in town. I stopped by Adam's Sunday morning on the way back in and asked what it would take to get that trailer out. He said we'll jack it off the blocks and try hooking it to his big Ford. In the mean while he had to wait for some people that were coming to buy his son's out grown swing set. Adam had 2 little Stihl chainsaws sitting there that he couldn't get to run and an ash tree on the ground that needed to be turned into fire wood. Having my saw handy I asked if he would mind if I got started on his log, he didn't mind. By the time that we got after the trailer the sun heated the ground into a layer of grease and the truck and trailer ended up in an awkward situation. So down we went to find another good neighbor, Greg with a back hoe. We found Greg sharpening the chain on his Pullon chainsaw and ready to help. After about an hour of finagling we had the trailer out and
pointed down hill. I asked Greg if I could pay him for his help and he said that I don't owe him a thing, if you help someone out they will help you in return.
Adam had to go get his wife in town and asked if he could come back another day with some wheels off of his trailer to finish pulling the trailer down and out to it's rightful owner.
I said sure and asked him if I could go back and finish cutting up his log.
I have never had to cut through much poison ivy but I found out that that stuff dulls a chain faster than cutting hedge and almost as fast as cutting fence or rocks. It took about 4 sharpening's to cut that vine.
So here is the point that I am coming to. After the duds that I had for neighbors in Colorado and after the lunatic psychotics, rightwing zealot gun fighters, liberal elitists, crazy cat men, Amish mafia, thug boys, and down right criminal poachers who were my neighbors in Iowa I believe that I may have found a community of good decent country folks here in Kentucky. Overall I'm elated with my new Kentucky situation.
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pointed down hill. I asked Greg if I could pay him for his help and he said that I don't owe him a thing, if you help someone out they will help you in return.
Adam had to go get his wife in town and asked if he could come back another day with some wheels off of his trailer to finish pulling the trailer down and out to it's rightful owner.
I said sure and asked him if I could go back and finish cutting up his log.
I have never had to cut through much poison ivy but I found out that that stuff dulls a chain faster than cutting hedge and almost as fast as cutting fence or rocks. It took about 4 sharpening's to cut that vine.
So here is the point that I am coming to. After the duds that I had for neighbors in Colorado and after the lunatic psychotics, rightwing zealot gun fighters, liberal elitists, crazy cat men, Amish mafia, thug boys, and down right criminal poachers who were my neighbors in Iowa I believe that I may have found a community of good decent country folks here in Kentucky. Overall I'm elated with my new Kentucky situation.
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