This is the link that chronicles the creation of my food plot. I'll update it when something starts to grow.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/r...food-plot.html
I now have a grapple for my loader, which is really something that I should have done years ago. Today, I started taking out trees. I would make small piles and then move to another area and do it again. When I ran out of room, I just turned around and started picking them up and driving them to the burn pile. It really was the most simple thing in the world!!!!
Here is the link to my grapple.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...e-my-555e.html
I'm not just clearing enough room for the blind, but for the entire playground and a road that will run along the side of it. Once this is done, I'll have to add hundreds of yards of dirt to build it up and create a gentle slope all around it. Before I can move the dirt, I'll have to put in two culverts to cross the road. I'm using top soil and "dirty" dirt for the fill on the playbround, but then need to lower the road two feet so it ties into the rest of the road on the other side of the culverts. This will be good "clean" dirt, so that's the rush for the culverts. Since I'll be moving all that great fill dirt, I really should have the culverts in place.
Here's some pics from today. The oak tree is ten inches thick, and I have no idea what it weighs. I can say that it was real easy to move with the grapple!!!!
Eddie