Triple C's Place

The place looks great! It must be an excellent feeling getting things how you want them and maintaining from that point. I’m enjoying just getting started on our newly acquired property but certainly daydream from time to time what it will be like in 8 or 10 years. Keep up the good work!


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Thought a Triple C update was due, as we have been having to catch you on drive bys on other threads! Thistle is my childhood enemy. There was always work to do on the farm, and if there was not work to be done then my Dad would say "Go chop thistles". He had taken a blade section from a hay cutter and welded onto the metal crook of an old hoe. It was perfect for clipping those thistles right at the ground. I have it, but nowadays I just try to dig them up with a quick hit of the tractor FEL.
Love your place and updates as always
lak - I don't recall ever seeing the stuff as a kid. But I do recall the size of the gardens my dad would plant and the hoeing that was required to keep the weeds at bay. Growing up on a poultry farm meant we had an unlimited supply of fresh litter. While that stuff produced great veggies it also produced great weeds. It's a "hard row to hoe" was quite personal growing up.
 
The place looks great! It must be an excellent feeling getting things how you want them and maintaining from that point. I’m enjoying just getting started on our newly acquired property but certainly daydream from time to time what it will be like in 8 or 10 years. Keep up the good work!
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weekender - We are in our 8th year on the farm. The joy is in the journey more so than the destination. There's always something to be done but the early years were special. Creating food plots, wildlife openings, water holes, building the structures, acquiring equipment n implements, installing wood duck boxes and just discovering the property was so fulfilling. Today, I feel like I know every tree on the property.
 
weekender - We are in our 8th year on the farm. The joy is in the journey more so than the destination. There's always something to be done but the early years were special. Creating food plots, wildlife openings, water holes, building the structures, acquiring equipment n implements, installing wood duck boxes and just discovering the property was so fulfilling. Today, I feel like I know every tree on the property.

It all looks awesome TC, and your hard work is very apparent. I like the reference to knowing every tree on the property. That is a man in tune with his land - the way God meant for it to be. Thanks for sharing and keep the great pictures coming.
 
It all looks awesome TC, and your hard work is very apparent. I like the reference to knowing every tree on the property. That is a man in tune with his land - the way God meant for it to be. Thanks for sharing and keep the great pictures coming.
Thx Native! 2011 I had a fear of getting lost in the bottoms. Property seemed so large. Today I think I could be blindfolded and when removed, know where I was on the property. It's been a great journey that, good Lord willing, will continue for a long time.
 
A few pics from this weekends work. Clover, clover, clover. I mowed the clover to a height of about 5 inches and mowed the rest of the fields as low as I could. Largest fields have clover planted around the perimeter.
Easy to spot the ladino and durana clover. With all the rain we've had it's emerald green. Pics of our cabin field.
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Pics from the bean field after mowing.
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Pics from the orchard plot. This is about a 1/2 acre plot with 8 pear trees and 2 apple trees located in a secluded area just north of the swamp. Planted clover last fall and love hunting over this little spot.
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Another secluded spot just north of the bottoms - The horse shoe plot. Planted in clover last fall with wheat as a nurse crop.
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Brooks brought his track loader to the farm and spent about 12 hours saturday and sunday opening up an overgrown fire break along our west property line bordered by a cattle farmer. It wasn't much more than a pig trail and pretty much impassable in the Ranger. Grown up with brush and saplings. He came down a few weeks ago and used his brush cutter to open it up. Here's a pic I took before he started Saturday morning following his brush cutting a few weeks ago.
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Here's a pic from near the same area Saturday afternoon.
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Went from an over grown pig trail to a very nice, open property line road.
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He had to move a lot of dirt to level the road and in the process of moving dirt it made for an easy installation of water holes. By Sunday morning, he had 3 new water holes along the fire break. A good rain and these should be full. Great clay base.
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Had a dogghr moment Sunday morning while walking the new fire break...a female box turtle digging a hole in the freshly pushed dirt to deposit her eggs.
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While Brooks was busy doing his thing on the skid steer, I ran to Walmart and picked up 3 cheap Tasco trail cams for $28.95 a piece. Placed a camera on one of the newly created water holes facing north on the fire break road and then checked it the following morning. Had a nice nanny walk by checking out the new dirt at 7:25, about an hour after work had finished. Prolly hang a stand on this water hole this fall.
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And as always...we try and eat good while there. Daughter and one of the grand pups made it down for dinner. Did my usual...thighs on the Traeger, green beans, hominy sautéed in butter, slaw, taters, sliced maters and cornbread. All in all...a great weekend! Thx for following along!
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Looking good C3. I see some seed going into that new road bed. Folks love the smoked breasts I do on green egg after sitting overnight with Southern Seasoning. I started doing thighs and that was a whole new ball game. My mom always liked the thigh !
 
Looks good AC. I considered mowing my clover last weekend then thought better of it considering the rain is gonna stop pretty soon. I just know it is. If we could get a forecast of prolonged rain again I'd do it.
 
Wow, great work taking place and such good pictures. Your trail cam was sure worth the money.

And, now I'm starving after looking at that food!!!!!!!!
 
Thx for the comments guys! Really appreciate taking the time to follow. It was one of the best weekends at the farm in a long time. Work is insanely busy with more travel than at any time in my career. Working on Diamond status with Delta this year. Don't consider it a badge of honor by any stretch. To much time spent in airports these days. I cherish the weekends at the farm these days.
 
Man, Brooks did a hell of a lot with that machine and one hell of a job. Good stuff. Great pics. I don’t know what looks better, your habitat or your meals!
 
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TripC,
Has your forester recommended any growing season burns on your place to help with hardwood invasion in your pines?

Seems to be a very popular practice these days.
 
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