so waht ya doin today?

[Winelover]

As I mentioned earlier, I use Whitetail Institute's "No Plow" seed blend. Mix of clovers, including Crimson and other deer attractants.

https://www.whitetailinstitute.com/imperial-no-plow-annual/

Can prep soil with just hand tools. Which I have done with excellent results. Texas planting can be done in the Spring and or Fall.

https://www.whitetailinstitute.com/no-plow-planting-dates/

Here in Northern Arkansas, with our sandy rocky soil, I add lime as recommended. Fertilize after the seedling get 2-4 inches tall.

 

[Winelover]

Went and took some pictures, just now, of the food plot. Planted on Labor Day weekend.



Overall view. Foreground is the clover mix, turnips are past the middle two trees. Sparse spots, were reseeded, the other day.






Turnips



New tent blind, one of two, manufactured by Lucky's. Replaced the original...........zipper gave up the ghost, last season, after 20+ years.

http://www.luckyshuntingblinds.com/

http://www.luckyshuntingblinds.com/Ground-Blinds-Tree-Blinds-Ubly-MI.html

The one I purchased is the:

NEW Two Man Gun & Cross Bow XL

Cindy insists that I don't hunt out of trees, when shes not home.

 

[Hawk]

Clover is to bait/feed deer, but I would like it to germinate for next year, also.

Winelover,
I have never had success like your food plots. I'm jealous!
By the way, is that a land shark hiding in your picture of the turnips? Haha!

We used to plant oat patches, twenty years ago. Those guys are all gone now and the new younger guys don't really have the time to come out and work the property like before. Also, nobody has a tractor with a plow. We just have an old ford tractor that has a 5' brush hog and overheats The owner won't let anyone else drive it, because he's worried about it overheating and burning up.

 

[JonB]

Fall is here in MN.
I removed the window air conditioner today...inbetween rain storms
I'm thinking we won't have any more days above 70º this year...FINALLY!
I love this weather.

 

[Winelover]

By the way, is that a land shark hiding in your picture of the turnips?

Just the way, the fallen oak leaves have landed.

 

[JonB]

I started a Electrical project last week. I spend one full day, just running one new wire from the panel (at one end of the house) to the porch (at the other end of the house. The house was moved to this location in 1920. I don't know how old the house is?

Crawling in and out of the crawl space is challenging for this old fat man. The crawl space is a maze. I entered and exited 8 times that day...pulling and pushing the one wire. There was one area I needed to run the wire, that I was unable to crawl into, so I had to make a 10 foot pole (literally, LOL) with a hook, to snatch the fish tape, so I could pull the wire into the area where the panel is...which use to be a cistern, but was converted to a food storage cellar...and has a hot water heater in it. It is about 8 foot by 8 foot.

The space in the first photo is part of the crawl space that I dug out in 1993, so I could install a natural gas forced air furnace.









ANYWAY,
Yesterday, I finished the project, the porch which never had any electric in it, now has one regular outlet for a (new to me) chest freezer, one switch for one new LED light and one switched outlet for possible Christmas lights?

 

[smokeywolf]

Very productive Jon. I need to get back on the horse and make this house ready for sale.
We got a bit sidetracked over the last few months doing our best to make sure Timber's last months were as good as possible and getting one son ready to spend the next 5 years or so at college.

 

[fiver]

Jax got her first fishing trip in the boat today.
she done real well other than one incident where she inadvertently attempted to drive the boat while trying to grab a fish that fell on the floor.
when the boat shot to the side and started spinning around the look on her face was priceless.

it was chilly this morning.
the truck said it was between 32 and 34 from here on down to the lake this morning, it didn't start warming up until about 10-10:30.
the water temp is hanging out at about 60-F so the Bass will be shutting down here pretty soon.

 

[Hawk]

It was 97 on my patio this afternoon.
Send some of that cool weather down here!

 

[Will]

Got my Mec bolted to the bench today. Going to dabble I’m reloading some shotgun shells here soon.

Ordered a couple of buckshot molds. I can definitely see this draining my lead supply pretty quickly.

 

[fiver]

it's not so bad.
100 lbs of buck shot is quite a bit when you only use 400 grs. or so per shell, it's really about the same as a 45-70 uses.

 

[Will]

I think it’s just the initial stockpile of it all. I can easily see myself going through 100lbs of lead just sticking my different size buckshot containers. Not to mention the slugs.

 

[Intheshop]

Cherry on top,glued to a plywood substrate,Mahogany mould. Shot a cpl coats of cheap lacquer tinted with some amber yellow.

 

[freebullet]

Workworkwork

It is very likely, the tempt of lakes that almost never freeze & contain walleye will force me to move south a little or just for the winter if I'm ever able to retire.

 

[Bret4207]

Clover is to bait/feed deer, but I would like it to germinate for next year, also.

We used to plant oat patches, twenty years ago. Those guys are all gone now and the new younger guys don't really have the time to come out and work the property like before. Also, nobody has a tractor with a plow. We just have an old ford tractor that has a 5' brush hog and overheats The owner won't let anyone else drive it, because he's worried about it overheating and burning up.

If you want to establish a permanent clover field then you need to plant it for with that idea in mind. I know nothing about bait plots but I would check the seeding rates compared to rates intended for forage/hay crops. If your soil is real acid or alkaline I'd look into suggestions for working with that. You can get a basic idea on soil qualities from you local farmers or agricultural extension office and probably just from seeing what grow there naturally. Lime is available pretty much everywhere, although doing several or more acres gets expensive real fast when bought by the bag. You can seed with a lawn spreader or with a coffee can and a bucket.

As far as the old Ford. First thing to do is wash out the radiator fins fron both sides. My first old Fords rad was packed solid with about 20 years of mud and dust followed by paint the previous owner sprayed on in his "French Candian Overhaul" (a wash and spray bomb paint job). Just getting that out did wonders.

 

[Hawk]

Thanks Bret. Headed to the deer lease this morning. It's a 3 hour drive. On the road now.
I'll try to check out the tractor this afternoon, after I hang afternoon feeder and try to plant some clover with a hand spreader.
I bought 50 lbs of clover. Am going to spread 25 lbs. this fall and the rest next spring.

 

[fiver]

the pressure washer does work amazingly well
be careful not to roll the fins over on the radiator though otherwise you'll make things worse.

I just went over and washed out the trucks front side at the local car wash.
I thought I broke the sending unit for the transmission temp after washing things out, it started running about 20F cooler, and the engine started averaging about 4-5F cooler just from a 2 minute half assed truck spray down.
heck it even got some of the cow poop off the side and from under the fender wells.

 

[Rick]

About 6 years ago I bought a 3100 PSI pressure washer. Had a little buyers remorse not knowing how much it would be used but now I don't know what I ever did without one. Used for so many different things including the truck, gutters, drive, mowers, deck, window screens, house and on and on. Tough job taking the house to the truck wash.

 

[fiver]

now your just being lazy.

 

[Intheshop]

Sweating like a ho in church..... crazy weather knocked down some junky pine trees.Sorta right after I had detailed the rd going down in the woods..... yup,they all fell right in the rd. Chainsaw and sweat.

Wife threatened physical violence if she caught me hacking the bushes out front. Been doing it with arm excersizers(shears) for 30+ years. And it's not like you can get away with it, cause where they are.... doh. So,went to the Steal dealer and got this thing that goes on the weed wacker. Unfreakinbelievably fast,looked cumbersome at first but,you can balance it pretty well.

Need lanoline as recommended lube? So being a leadhead,what or where to get it that is suitable for bullet lube? Figuring I'll thin it down with sumthin to lube the hedge machine.