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    Footings for a small barn / shed

    in Land Management, Food Plots and QDM

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, grampy said:

    With the amount of rocks we have on the farm, a backhoe is the only way to dig anything. Digging by hand is just a recipe for much frustration.

    On the nose.  We're at about the same elevation, both in the helderbergs.  This is why I have digging hatred.  I know how many rocks I'll hit on my way down to 40" depth.  Think a skid steer with the post hole digger would get it done?  

     

    I'm a little torn on what to put up.  Realistically I'd like to have about 2 tractors worth of room in it, so I can put my quad, the plotting machine, seed spreader, roller in one bay, and the old tractor (eventually with a new-er tractor) in the other.  There's a nicely drained grassy spot about 30 feet from the cabin that would work.  Maybe something like the picture, and use some of the hemlock off my property thats supposed to be coming off soon.

     

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    Upstate Nerdnecks Nonsense

    in Member Hunting Journals

    Posted

    Was parked by the cabin at 440, already light enough to see.  Not a gobble to heard.  Set up in the lower trefoil field, no customers.  After a bit of wandering set up in the field with the food plot around 845. 

    Setup by a pine blowdown in the shadows in the leaf suit, pretty well tucked in.  Around..... 930?  945?  Heard a gobble just at the edge of hearing as I was thinking about packing it in.  Got a bit closer, gobble, then go quiet for 5 to 10 minutes, so by the time we as actually close, call it 1030?  Ass was asleep, back ached, hands were cold from being in the ready position for that long. 

    He started hammering just out of sight by the stream on the wood road (squiggles below),  and wouldn't budge.  So I clammed up, and after 10 or so he worked his way up threw a thick hedge row/stream bottom, towards the gap to the next field, which was maybe 50 yards away. Eventually got behind me in the pines and started putting, even though I hadn't moved a muscle.  Never once did I actually see him.

    I know he saw that Jake and hen decoy, but he was wary of them.  Maybe he associates them with busting me last weekend while the Jakes were beating on the deek. 

      Maybe he saw my outline from the side?  Had a freshly blown down pine screening me from behind, which made a great back drop for the leafy suit.    He was definitely not buying that hen was calling from the field, he was looking exactly at where I was parked 20 yards away.

    Maybe I can catch him henned up and piss the hens off tomorrow.  If I get him gobbling again from a ways off again I'm going to make a move closer along what route I think he'll take and just clam up, and try and ambush him.

    Love wary old birds like this.

     

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    New pickup thoughts?

    in General Chit Chat

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    4 minutes ago, Steuben Jerry said:

    I don't know of anyone who is sorry they bought a Tundra.

    I drove my first for 11 years, 3 years so far on my second. No problems except for batteries, tires, and brakes on either one. The dealer I bought this one from is trying to get me to trade it in and offered me 81% of what I paid for it 3 years ago. I'd take him up on it but he can't find me what I want in a new one.

    Last one the electrical system started cutting out, my local garage said they couldn't tell what it was.  Felt like a money pit so I traded her in, 2 months after I finished payments on it.

    This one the tranny blew last year during the rut, but it was covered under warranty.  Now the check engine light is on.  Reminds me I need to make an appointment at my local garage and hope they can fix it without taking it to the dealer again.

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