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It's not even about how fast you can get up in the tree. It's how little effort is required to do so. Personally, if I'm going in to a new spot to setup in a tree, I'm already walking in 30 mins earlier than I would if a stand was already up. I like to take my time doing this stuff so I don't over heat and start sweating like a pig. I can very easily get a hang on and sticks up in less than 15 mins taking my time, stopping to breathe and going easy not to make a lot of noise. Im sure I could hammer away and get a lock on up in 5 mins or less if I really wanted to. But what's the rush?

I'm in desperate need of this incoming rain. Everything has started to pop with the turnips being in the lead. This rain tonight and tomorrow plus some coming mid week should hopefully make my plot take off.

Climbing a tree with a climber in full camo sure isn't going to keep you cool. Especially if your having to cut multiple branches on your way up, readjust the platform and all that. That and worrying about losing your bottom platform the entire time alone is enough to make me sweat. Good climbing sticks go on so easy and so fast idk how anyone could think its harder. St least with a hang on setup your using your arms rather than your whole body to climb which in theory would take less energy and result in less sweat.

I had a summit viper that I used maybe 10 times. Sold it to a guy I work with. I can hang a hang on stand with far less effort. Although the climber was heavy, it was the bulky size of it that made it cumbersome to carry in all the time. Especially when I wanted to carry my backpack in to. Finding the right tree in the dark is quite the process that is avoided when using a hang on. The setup your thinking of buying would be much easier and faster to setup for me and I'm sure just about anyone else as well.

I don't have a far enough of a walk to ride to my stands. I could but it's level ground so walking is easy. If you run machines around enough it doesn't bother deer nearly as much as someplace that sees no traffic. During gun season I ride the quad a little more, bow season I try to keep the quad out of the woods. I'm looking into getting a lifted golf cart at some point. I would like to be a lot quieter as I ride around and check cameras and a golf cart is something I could ride to my farthest stands without making much noise at all.

I'd say numbers are pretty good in my area. We hunted them last year up in the state land and had some good action. I've been kicking them up all over the place behind my house. Ran two off nests back in turkey season.

Don't know too much. Just the bob cat and other dealers tend to be real proud of their stuff and charge higher rental rates. The last few times we've rented we found smaller rental places had much better rates.

I have no doubt they told you it cost that much. I've heard stuff like that myself. That's usually when I laugh and walk out the door. We went through that with a bobcat dealer some years back when my old man was renting stuff for some projects around our old house. He ended up having another place bring him up machines from like 2 hours away for far less than the local dealer wanted.

I guess it's all about what your looking for. To me I think land is the most valuable resource we have left. It's not going to get cheaper so I want to acquire as much of it as possible over my lifetime to leave to my kids. Because of a family fall out my dad sold our 111 acres out by oneonta. He bought that piece back in the late 80s for 20 grand. Had it logged 2 times since then which made him a little over 125k. Taxes were around 1700-1800 a year with a 980 sq ft cabin. If you can get the right land cheap enough with good timber, that alone can pay off a property in the long run. We could of logged that way harder than we did and made a bunch more to. My plans are to buy the 40 bordering my house and then eventually another 60-70 off the other neighbor when he's done farming. Possibly even buy his entire farm as he doesn't think his kids are going to be able to afford it and have no ambition to continue farming it. Personally I could care less if it's a bad investment at any point in time. Having land is much more personally satisfying than a big bank account. I'd rather be land rich any day. And being able to leave my kids a boat load of land to hunt on and do whatever the heck they want is most important to me.

300-400 an hour sounds about right with an operator. But they can mow down a lot of area very quickly so it shouldn't cost that much to have an acre done.

Umm. I think they might be pulling a fast one on ya. Those things don't cost that much. Here's a used 2014 mulcher on Craigslist for far less than 140k. Ad says they are 31k new and this used one is $21500. https://albany.craigslist.org/hvd/d/2014-bradco-mm60-series-ii/6244644647.html

Doesn't sound to bad. I've been seeing a lot of ads lately of guys doing land clearing with those mulcher attachments on skid steers. They look like they can chew up a lot of stuff really quick. Something like that might be something to look into. Couldn't hurt to get a quote at least. They advertise as it being a very fast thing so it's "more affordable". Whatever that means. But I bet you could get someone in there with just a regular tractor and have it cleared in a day. Then maybe another half day of tilling. I'd think you'd get bids anywhere between $1000-3000ish. Maybe more if it's a big name company. Check the farm/garden services on Craigslist for a few companies who do this kind of work. Here's one of those mulcher guys. https://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/fgs/d/forestry-mulching-landclearing/6284472736.html

So it's basically just an opening in the woods roughly an acre big with a couple small junk trees in it? What does the ground litter look like? Any big rocks you can see? Is the ground in that area rocky to begin with? What kind of vegetation is growing in the field now and how high is it? Is it something that could be cleared of big objects and then brush hogged down then tilled? Sorry for the thousand questions. Just trying to get a good visual of what kind of work would need to go into this. If the ground litter isn't all that bad this doesn't sound like a major undertaking really. The small trees aren't a problem, just drop them and drag off to the side and cut the stump down to ground level and leave it. A front end loader on a tractor can be used to push any other big chunks of wood out of the way and a brush hog will knock down any grasses and trees up to 3-4 inches thick. I'm going to guess your planning on planting small seed stuff so you won't need a super deep tilling so your basically just gonna need to get down to the surface and scratch it up good for some seed to soil contact. Where are you located at? Stuff like this is why I need to buy my own tractor because if your close I'd love to come over and help ya out. I've been relying on my neighbor to do my plots just because it's convenient but I've been itching to get my own equipment so I could maybe do some side work like this.

Good to hear the winds haven't tipped them. I would imagine it would take an awful lot to tip one anyways. I do see a lot of elevated box blind anchor kits for sale now. Pretty cheap too. Wouldn't be a bad idea to use one of those in any areas someone has a blind with a lot of wind but doesn't want to sink the legs.

Ahh ok I gotcha. I only ask because I talked with someone in the past about kinda this same issue but pertaining to a chicken coop.

Doesn't a structure have to be over a certain amount of sq ft to become a taxable structure? Or is that a based on what town your in type thing? Whenever I get around to building one I'll most likely sink the legs in, and I sure as heck won't be paying any taxes on it. They will take that money over my cold dead body.

Take some pics and it will be easier to tell what degree of work would need to be done. Area accessible with decent sized machine like a 25-30hp tractor?

Thanks for the info! They didn't produce anything last year but I wasn't sure if that was due to the drought or not. They deff are producing some big acorns that's for sure.

Ah ok. Must be bur oak then. These are stumpier fat shaped rather than oblong. I found some pics online to see it, I think your right with the bur oak call. Thanks grow.

That's kinda what I thought. But then I got looking at swamp white oak and can't make up my mind. Figured someone on here was good with trees. I got a bunch of these trees on the property. The thickest area with them is in a swampy area which made think its swamp white rather than bur.

Any idea exactly what type of oak this is?

Qdma has hunters insurance. Check them out. I can't remember the names of any others but I know I've seen ads over the years in hunting magazines. I've heard the qdma insurance is pretty good though.

Praying for rain now...

Well he does shoot a Matthews...🤣

I have a bunch of 5 and 6 pointers running around as well. Last year it was 7 pointers I was covered up in. Defiantly weird. Here's one of my 6 pointers who's become a regular at my apple tree