Post your to do list for habitat stuff for 2015. Mine: Stand work including hanging new stands and moving stands. Lots to do here. Cut Brush at new food plot location for no till food plot I am going to try this year. Cut down big trees on south side of small plot to get more light to the plot. Prune Apple Trees Scope out the Newly found East “edge” that I just found. It is a edge that has creates a line of old select cut and more mature timber. I found this during gun season this last year and need to learn more about this there was a lot of sign along it. General food plot planting and work. Should not need to lime as much this year I hope. Put less pressure on the land come summer so get my crap done early in the year.
I'll still work on my 3/4 main plot this year. Just going to do Buckwheat in May where my Brassicas were this past season. Followed by fall clover/rye. The other strip will stay clover, but I have a feeling I will be battling weeds a bit again, and if so, I'm tilling it all under and rotating in Buckwheat for the summer, then a Brassica mix in late summer. My dad and I started a project late last fall that I'm excited for. We are planting ~1 acre of new ground on our neighbor (not to hunt, although odd as it sounds, more on that later). We marked the plot, and already but down the first half of lime according to the soil test in November. We will mow it, spray down, deep till, and establish buckwheat. Till that under for clover and mostly rye/wheat in the fall. We're going to try minimal tillage and try to build up the OM on this new spot. It's all mainly old pasture, so we're going to be battling fescue and other fun things.
1. Move stands around and purchase 1 more for a new spot I like 2. Get granulated mineral sites going again 3. Cut firewood 4. Clean up dead fall and brush to extend honey hole food plot 5. Install chimney in cabin for wood burning stove before next winter 6. Cut firewood 7. Fill in the muddy ditch between the gravel road and my dirt driveway 8. Setup a meat pole for hanging deer 9. Cut firewood 10. Plant honey hole
Do you have any firewood to cut this year? Go get yourself some telephone poles and make an awesome meat pole that will outlive you.
1. Move a lot of stands 2. Build a few blinds for myself and my dad 3. Help a buddy do his first ever plots 4. Add more brush to the edges of my kill plot 5. Scout 6. Cut down a bunch of buckthorn 7. Cut a few trees 8. Clear a lot of branches 9. Create some creek crossings to walk across where water is too deep to walk
Yes, I have a lot of recent deadfall that needs cut. Telephone poles were the plan, just not sure how I'd get them back into my property, it's very narrow and making the turn into the property with a telephone pole would be a challenge.
Drag them with an atv? I strongly suggest painting them with roofing tar before you put them up. They will last forever. Makes them look finshed as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
We have alot of deadfall on our place down there as well. Thew chainsaws will be getting a good workout this spring for sure
Just a question. Why are you guys so quick to cut up deadfall? They can provide great cover for all animals and maybe get deer bedding there.
We use alot of firewood. I just prefer to take fallen trees instead of cutting them down. Also there is enough deadfall around our place I can cut up 6 or 7 large fallen trees and still have plenty for good cover and bedding
1) Open up a new plot. It'll be a small secluded plot, with a path/plot leading to a large ag field as it winds through heavy cover. 2) Get cover crops planted this spring. Probably red clover. 3) Get a plot screen implemented again. I lagged on it this year. 4) Cut a path through a very thick travel corridor for cruising bucks. Try to make them a spot to walk, instead of aimlessly meandering about. 5) Turn my current plot into half white clover, and back to brassicas on my rotation in the other half. New plot will be cereal grains. 6) Hopefully try and get a few pear trees planted. This may not get done. Also, may turn an old feed lot behind the barn into a clover field. We'll see on these 2.
1... do lots of off season scouting 2...shed hunting 3.. freshen up all my mineral licks 4..buy a cheap atv to get deer off the back side of property 5.. run temp power to camp site so I don't have to run generator 6..plant 4ac field in soy beans. 7..plant 6ac all in grain sorghum 8.. keep cams running year round. 9.. build a protein feeder oops spelled sorghum wrong..lol
1. Timber stand improvement in the main section of woods for improved bedding cover 2. Replant my small woods plot in clover/ alfalfa mix 3. Plant two 1 acre Austrian winter pea/ corn/ clover plots on north end of property 4. Plant two 2 acre bean/ clover fields on south end of property 5. Plant a dove field with sunflower and short millet 6. All food plots surrounded with plot cover (sorgham, tall millet mix) “In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.” -Theodore Roosevelt
We'll see. I may have to resort to something a little smaller like 8x8 posts or something and frame it with brackets. We'll see. I love the idea of roofing tar though, it does look mighty sharp. How easy was it to obtain the telephone poles? Where did you end up getting them? Also, I have to cut the deadfall because some of it is blocking my ATV path and I have zero firewood right now. I have so much old deadfall already that's too old to be used for firewood in the cabin that provides a ton of cover for deer. The only deadfall that I will be cutting is the 2 trees that fell this past year, 2 very big trees. Cover isn't a problem on my property.
I need to get a soil test done, frost seed some clover and alfalfa. Going to try to have my firewood done before hunting season.
I kept my eyes open on Craigslist and found them for 10 bucks. They seem to come available fairly often. I've heard you can also contact your local electric company and ask if they have any old ones available. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looks like I'm most likely starting from scratch again on new property this year. I'll be starting the process of looking for a new place in the next week or so. While its a lot of work, I always seem to learn the most and have the best encounters when hunting new places. I can't wait to get started.
1. Hang a few new stands on Property #3 in South Carolina 2. Hang some more cameras, Put up a gate, add a few cedar fence post, add barb wire and trim a few shooting lanes and cut down some trees on Property #2 3. Hang a camera, move a stand and plant a Spring food plot near the creek on Property #1 4. Start MonsterRaxx sites at all my properties. 5. Buy the Canon XA10 or XA20 Camcorder 6. Buy some more Glen Del Bucks for practice 7. Buy a Rhino XP Ground blind and Avian X Decoys
Scout Lime fields. Plant buckwheat in an acre plot and about 3 acres of soybeans. Hang stands back up. Mineral sites Make some water holes in strategic spots. Plant some pines for screens. And a lot more. I'm way behind.
I start on my to do list here either this weekend or next weekend. Snow should be gone soon. Can't wait to get started. This is a nice change of pace to be able to get an early start this year. Thank you Mother Nature.
