"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

[OkieKubota]

My worry is livestock wondering out. Downed trees and floods make that difficult.

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My dad being first born had his choice of land from the original farm my grandma and grandpa had. They had a beautiful creek running through some of the land and my dad wanted nothing to do with it because every single flood he was out there fixing the water gap from the time he was small. He chose the land furthest from the creek...

 

[OkieKubota]

Got a call today that my equipment trailer was ready. I dropped it off at the welding shop last Thursday to have the ramps beefed up. When I bought the trailer the ramps were a bit bent and had a single “foot” welded on each to help with the load. Driving my dozer on and off it one time showed me that was not going to work...here are the ramps before...

Here they are after I picked the trailer up today.

And then for the test...can I haul it with my Ram 2500?

Here is a picture at our other property right after I loaded it and tied it down...I wanted it a bit forward for bed weight to make sure it didn’t do the tail wagging the dog deal...

Here it is at our other property about 35 miles away...

It works!

Nice sunset here this evening...

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[lakngolf]

Glad you are mobile with it now. Be patient always

 

[OkieKubota]

Glad you are mobile with it now. Be patient always

All 3 axles have electric brakes and they work great! It’s weird...stopping isn’t a big deal but going up really big hills may be a challenge. Luckily I know a way around most of those...

 

[OkieKubota]

I am pretty proud of the gooseneck hitch install as well...We ordered the stuff and I did it myself...

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[catscratch]

My dad being first born had his choice of land from the original farm my grandma and grandpa had. They had a beautiful creek running through some of the land and my dad wanted nothing to do with it because every single flood he was out there fixing the water gap from the time he was small. He chose the land furthest from the creek...

I get it and understand what your dad was thinking. If I had no love of moving water and wildlife creeks would just be a pain.

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[jteeen]

Is that 3/4 crusher run around the table?

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[OkieKubota]

Is that 3/4 crusher run around the table?

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That is a mixture of 2” all the way down to 3/4...I have had about 12 or so 18 wheeler loads of gravel put down because this was a virgin homesite. I have boxbladed it so much that it is all mixed...

 

[catscratch]

That is a mixture of 2” all the way down to 3/4...I have had about 12 or so 18 wheeler loads of gravel put down because this was a virgin homesite. I have boxbladed it so much that it is all mixed...

I'm going to have to add more gravel on our "virgin" site too. It's sinking and starting to hold water puddles in our drive/parking.

 

[jteeen]

I'm going to have to add more gravel on our "virgin" site too. It's sinking and starting to hold water puddles in our drive/parking.

I put down some geotile under mine. Its a PITA with a box blade but once its covered its great. We use it at work under our roads but its mainly used for slope stabilization. About $800 a roll retail but can be had cheaper 2nd hand. This is the plastic kind, not the fabric. Fabric only separates the fines and I dont have any because I have clay. Time will tell if it holds.

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[OkieKubota]

Cold one this morning!

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[Mennoniteman]

It says minus ten feels like- big surprise- minus ten! I saw that your cold weather is going to be in PA tomorrow morning, we are looking forward to some frozen ground to do frost seeding and get into some jobsites that were mud. So Saturday morning will be a work day.

 

[OkieKubota]

I drove up to SD a week ago and picked my wife up and drove her back for our routine dr and dental appointments and then Monday we drove back up to SD. Yesterday after she got off work we drove from Rosebud SD over to Valentine NE (about an hour) to eat at a restaurant and it was just before dark and I swear we saw about 100 mile deer and a couple hundred whitetail deer in fields near a small community called Mission here on the reservation. The deer herds up here winter in huge groups!!! It was too late for decent cell phone pictures and the deer were all a good ways off the highway...I am not used to dawn and dusk here. The sun just pops up and when it gets late in the day it just drops and gets dark quick!

 

[OkieKubota]

Tuesday I grabbed a couple of my whitetails and headed to OKC for an event called “Rack Madness”. It’s an event to try to get people to bring in deer to see if they make the Oklahoma record book for a Cy Curtis award...both my 8 point from 2018 Muzzleloader season and my archery 10 point from Last November are solidly in the books now...

The 2nd and 3rd floor table setups are all scorers...they said they had 492 preregistered folks and a hunter could bring 2 racks apiece...if you weren’t registered they would work you in at the end.

Yesterday I decided to do a little work in our woods with the dozer... first up I have a road/trail that works it’s way back through our property and in one spot it curves back toward our south plot from the west...it gets close enough I have spooked deer at this point that would be in the plot because they saw me. This is my best area to work my way past my plot to intercept the bucks that hang out in the woods awaiting dark to make their way to the plot to visit the does that are usually feeding in there. I worked on this area about 30 minutes or so and straightened the road out that runs back to the white oaks...to the right is the old road and to the left is the new one I dozed in...

This white oak with the big pine tree behind it used to be crowded by several small to medium size hickory trees so I released it...

I then moved to an area that used to be a dozer pile that I had burned a couple years ago along the north side of our plot...I decided to clean the jumbled mess up...turned out pretty nice...

I then worked an area immediately north of this area I have been wanting to open up to let sunlight to the ground so native grasses and briars could take hold since most of our property is solid woods...

They say the best 2 days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it...this was my jetboat leaving yesterday, lol.
I sold the engine out of it a couple years ago so it was just a Hull with all the parts there to install a Big Block Chevrolet engine in.

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[lakngolf]

The Man and his machine. Got a gun rack on that Cat?
Congrats on record book. You were already tops in our books!

 

[FL Plotter]

Looks like so much fun. If I had enough land, I'd definitely have to get one of those! I keep telling my wife I'm getting a Kubota excavator when we retire in 4 years....but the Dow has to recover if I expect that purchase to gain approval!!

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand. I did the same thing with my fishing boat last year. I've always had a boat going back to when I was 16 and in Florida, I've had up to 3 boats at a time. As I get older, I enjoy my Kubota time more than my Yamaha time, so I'm down to just a jon boat....can't say I have really missed the fishing skiff since it got sold. Although I did use the jon boat and a 2hp 2 stroke Yamaha to set out wood duck boxes this morning!

 

[OkieKubota]

The Man and his machine. Got a gun rack on that Cat?
Congrats on record book. You were already tops in our books!

No gun rack yet...I have noticed deer pay little attention to it when I am working...have had deer pass within 30 yards of me while I have been running it. Have also seen a lot of browse on the downed trees...thank you for the kind words...

 

[OkieKubota]

Looks like so much fun. If I had enough land, I'd definitely have to get one of those! I keep telling my wife I'm getting a Kubota excavator when we retire in 4 years....but the Dow has to recover if I expect that purchase to gain approval!!

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand. I did the same thing with my fishing boat last year. I've always had a boat going back to when I was 16 and in Florida, I've had up to 3 boats at a time. As I get older, I enjoy my Kubota time more than my Yamaha time, so I'm down to just a jon boat....can't say I have really missed the fishing skiff since it got sold. Although I did use the jon boat and a 2hp 2 stroke Yamaha to set out wood duck boxes this morning!

At first my wife liked this boat and we put a few thousand into making it nice with upholstery and carpet, rebuilt pump, etc... then I built a 650 hp 496 and put it in and when we hit 90 on water she didn’t want to ride in it any longer. I am a need for speed type person and she is all about being safe which helps ground me. It used to be a small group of us going on the water some weekends, then they dropped out 1 by 1 till I was the only one left riding around by myself so I sold the engine to a guy who wanted it for his hot rod. The boat sat for years taking up valuable garage space so I decided this was the year for it to go...just another chapter changed. I am sticking to my ground toys now...

 

[dogghr]

You and your toys Okie. Always a good read. If you havn’t watch movie Ford vs Ferrari.

 

[Turkish]

That’s a touch over weight with that 2500, no?