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Creating my Food Plot
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Nice pictures Eddie; very clear. I believe the boar does have tusks. In picture number 053 at the top, I think I can see one tusk sticking out of the right side of his mouth. It's also interesting that you can see he has just been wallowing in the mud or laying in it. The other picture that looks like tusks is 220 where the hog is eating something on the ground. The spread of his snout sure looks like tusks, but maybe its whatever he is chewing on. The picture where the hog is looking right at the camera, 449, makes it look like there are no tusks at all. Even so, my bettin' money would have to be on him having tusks.
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Gordon,
Nice picture. Is it black and white because it's infra red and doens't have a flash? I tried one of those, but only got it to work a few times. Of course, it was a Moultree, which I refuse to buy any more of their products. Customer support is worse then their products!!!!!
How big is your card? Ours is one gig and we've had it fill it up more then once in just one week. Especially if we get a big group of hogs in and they stay there for several hours!!! If you don't check on yours for several months, it must be a HUGE card, or you have it set to only take a few pics a day?
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Nice picture. Is it black and white because it's infra red and doens't have a flash? I tried one of those, but only got it to work a few times. Of course, it was a Moultree, which I refuse to buy any more of their products. Customer support is worse then their products!!!!!
How big is your card? Ours is one gig and we've had it fill it up more then once in just one week. Especially if we get a big group of hogs in and they stay there for several hours!!! If you don't check on yours for several months, it must be a HUGE card, or you have it set to only take a few pics a day?
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Eddie,
The camera is a Moultrie 6.0IR. The original Moultrie cameras were junk, the newer models are much better. The nighttime photos are black and white and the daytime are color. I have a 4GB card and it'll take about 3600 photo's over three months. Here's a daytime photo of the same group of hogs. The red one might end up on my dinner plate in another week or two.
The camera is a Moultrie 6.0IR. The original Moultrie cameras were junk, the newer models are much better. The nighttime photos are black and white and the daytime are color. I have a 4GB card and it'll take about 3600 photo's over three months. Here's a daytime photo of the same group of hogs. The red one might end up on my dinner plate in another week or two.
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I managed to move a little more dirt yesterday. I've been working on the engine of the dumptruck again,and got it back together and running on Saturday. Sunday was the big day!!!! My dad drove and I loaded. We were doing good and moving allot of dirt when all of a sudden, the dump truck wouldn't move. I looked it over and noticed that the bolts had all fallen out of the rear axle and it had slid out about 4 inches. OOPS!!!!
After that, I got on the little tractor and did some mowing. The bushes in the area that I'm removing the dirt needed cutting so that I'm not hauling them and to make it easier to see what I'm doing when I get the dump truck fixed. The corn feeder is real close to where I'm digging to.
When it got dark out, I kept on mowing in that same area, but sort of to the side of the big hill behind the backhoe in the pictures. I was never more then 200 yards from the feeder. As I drove back to the house, I drove towards the feeder and could see the hog eating the corn in my lights. I just kept driving up to him and he just kept eating corn. At about 20 feet, the edge of the lights passed him, and he turned and walked off. He didnt' run, he just sort of eased away. It would have been an easy shot with my pistol, but I didn't have it with me and I didn't really want to shoot him. Steph wants him, so we'll wait and see when that happens for her.
Eddie
After that, I got on the little tractor and did some mowing. The bushes in the area that I'm removing the dirt needed cutting so that I'm not hauling them and to make it easier to see what I'm doing when I get the dump truck fixed. The corn feeder is real close to where I'm digging to.
When it got dark out, I kept on mowing in that same area, but sort of to the side of the big hill behind the backhoe in the pictures. I was never more then 200 yards from the feeder. As I drove back to the house, I drove towards the feeder and could see the hog eating the corn in my lights. I just kept driving up to him and he just kept eating corn. At about 20 feet, the edge of the lights passed him, and he turned and walked off. He didnt' run, he just sort of eased away. It would have been an easy shot with my pistol, but I didn't have it with me and I didn't really want to shoot him. Steph wants him, so we'll wait and see when that happens for her.
Eddie
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I had a bit of a setback in my dirt moving when the dump truck started burning oil at an alarming rate. After doing just about everything possible to fix it, I finally realized that it was the worse possible scenerio, and pulled the pistons. Too much dust had entered the carburator and it worked it's way into the oil. This became abbrassive, and wore out the oil control rings and valve guide stems. I rebuilt it and it's running strong now, so I'm back to moving dirt. Just one of those things.
I'm just amazed at how much dirt has been moved, how much it disapears into the ground when spread out, and how long it takes to move thousands of yards of dirt.
Here are some pictures that I took on Saturday.
The thing that I like the most is how I'm working on the slope so that it's nice a gentle, but with a sort of funnel effect to catch the water, bring it too the food plot, and then bring it down to my lake. Then there is a small hump that's almost impossible to detect, but that's where the food plot will end and pasture will begin again. The far away picture shows it the best, but it's something that you have to stand there to see, and even then, Steph had to be told about it to see it in person. It's very subtle, which is what I've been working towards.
Eddie
I'm just amazed at how much dirt has been moved, how much it disapears into the ground when spread out, and how long it takes to move thousands of yards of dirt.
Here are some pictures that I took on Saturday.
The thing that I like the most is how I'm working on the slope so that it's nice a gentle, but with a sort of funnel effect to catch the water, bring it too the food plot, and then bring it down to my lake. Then there is a small hump that's almost impossible to detect, but that's where the food plot will end and pasture will begin again. The far away picture shows it the best, but it's something that you have to stand there to see, and even then, Steph had to be told about it to see it in person. It's very subtle, which is what I've been working towards.
Eddie
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Sorry to hear about that Eddie.
glad you got to it and repaired it though. What a pain it is to NOT have what you normally take for granted. Boy, you sure have moved a lot of dirt. Is it a good time in your area to get something into the ground? Out here it's over seeding time for us, a good time to grow some cool weather grasses.
I wonder if the next set of photos will be with your newly acquired grapple on the TLB?
glad you got to it and repaired it though. What a pain it is to NOT have what you normally take for granted. Boy, you sure have moved a lot of dirt. Is it a good time in your area to get something into the ground? Out here it's over seeding time for us, a good time to grow some cool weather grasses.
I wonder if the next set of photos will be with your newly acquired grapple on the TLB?
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I've been so focused on removing the hill that I didn't really think about getting the seed planted until I was done with that part of it. I've had the food plot area cleared and level for awhile now, but it just hit me over the weekend that I could plant it now and finish up with the dirt at a later time. Sometimes it's hard to be me!!! 
I started disking on Saturday morning before we had to leave for a wedding. It had rained a few days before an the ground was just perfect for this. My disk cut through it like butter and was turning it into powder. I was very excited and hated to have to quite for that wedding.
I couldn't get to it on Sunday, so I took Monday off to finish it up and get it planted. The difference in the soil was like night and day. It was dryer and much, much harder. Before, I was cruising with ease, this time, it took multiple passes to get the same results. I kept thinking about that wedding I had to go to and how I wish that I could have gotten out of it, but it's too late now.
After I had it disked, I went to the feed store for my seed. The local biologist said that iron and clay peas are the first thing the deer will eat, but that they will die off at the first freeze. They are summer plants only. He said that oats will bring thim in better then anything else for winter planting. While at the store, I mentioned this to the owners, who told me they sell Austrian Winter Peas, and that they are perfect for winter planting.
My food plot is about 3/4 of an acre with areas outside of my shooting lanes that I can't see if an animal was there, so that will be planted in bermuda grass. 50 pound sacks of oats is recomended for a acre, so I bought one of those for $15. I added ten pounds of Austrian Peas for $17, and mixed them together.
I took a chance and bought ten pounds of hulled bermuda seed for $52.50 and 100 pounds of rye grass for $55.90 to plant the surrounding area. This should help with the dirty water that gets to my pond. It's really too late for planting bermuda grass, but I got lucky on my dam when I did it a few years ago, so I'm taking the chance that it might take root and make it through winter. If so, I'll be ahead of the game. If not, I'll just have to do it again. The rye grass should grow anyway, then die off when it gets hot out.
I didn't amend the soil or do anything that my soil analysiss said that I should. No time for it, so I'll do it in the spring when I disk it up and plant Iron and/or Clay Peas.
I draged the seeds in with my log drag last night and finished up about two hours after dark. Good thing for those lights!!!! Now it's a waiting game for rain. The forecast says it might happen today or tonight, but tomorrow looks better.
Eddie
I started disking on Saturday morning before we had to leave for a wedding. It had rained a few days before an the ground was just perfect for this. My disk cut through it like butter and was turning it into powder. I was very excited and hated to have to quite for that wedding.
I couldn't get to it on Sunday, so I took Monday off to finish it up and get it planted. The difference in the soil was like night and day. It was dryer and much, much harder. Before, I was cruising with ease, this time, it took multiple passes to get the same results. I kept thinking about that wedding I had to go to and how I wish that I could have gotten out of it, but it's too late now.
After I had it disked, I went to the feed store for my seed. The local biologist said that iron and clay peas are the first thing the deer will eat, but that they will die off at the first freeze. They are summer plants only. He said that oats will bring thim in better then anything else for winter planting. While at the store, I mentioned this to the owners, who told me they sell Austrian Winter Peas, and that they are perfect for winter planting.
My food plot is about 3/4 of an acre with areas outside of my shooting lanes that I can't see if an animal was there, so that will be planted in bermuda grass. 50 pound sacks of oats is recomended for a acre, so I bought one of those for $15. I added ten pounds of Austrian Peas for $17, and mixed them together.
I took a chance and bought ten pounds of hulled bermuda seed for $52.50 and 100 pounds of rye grass for $55.90 to plant the surrounding area. This should help with the dirty water that gets to my pond. It's really too late for planting bermuda grass, but I got lucky on my dam when I did it a few years ago, so I'm taking the chance that it might take root and make it through winter. If so, I'll be ahead of the game. If not, I'll just have to do it again. The rye grass should grow anyway, then die off when it gets hot out.
I didn't amend the soil or do anything that my soil analysiss said that I should. No time for it, so I'll do it in the spring when I disk it up and plant Iron and/or Clay Peas.
I draged the seeds in with my log drag last night and finished up about two hours after dark. Good thing for those lights!!!! Now it's a waiting game for rain. The forecast says it might happen today or tonight, but tomorrow looks better.
Eddie
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Eddie, that's a nice looking plot. Seeing that ground and the Century sitting there is kinda strange for you. We normally see a dozer, backhoe, and dump truck. It takes an adjustment to get used to the fact that you can be doing tillage too. I'm looking forward to seeing it turn green. I do think you will have to add some fertilizer, but hopefully you will have a nice stand of food there soon.
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Thanks Jim,
I took a few more pics yesterday that show the ground all smoothed out with my log drag. After broadcasting my seed, I covered them with the log drag and smoothed it all out. The results are always very impressive, and for free, it's my favorite implement!!!!
On a side note, I built the log drag about five years ago from an oak tree that I took down. I've left it sitting outside all this time, which has finally taken it's toll. The log is rotten and this was it's last time out. I'm going to unbolt my chain and toss the rest of it in the burn pile. My next drag will be from some scap steel.
The pictures with the grass and small sweet gums in it are the view from where my blind will be. The shooting lane will be between the two trees and towards my feeder.
We just had a few sprinkles, so there's some hope that we're going to get some rain. The forecast has jumped from 50 percent chance of rain to 80 percent. I might get lucky!!
Eddie
I took a few more pics yesterday that show the ground all smoothed out with my log drag. After broadcasting my seed, I covered them with the log drag and smoothed it all out. The results are always very impressive, and for free, it's my favorite implement!!!!
On a side note, I built the log drag about five years ago from an oak tree that I took down. I've left it sitting outside all this time, which has finally taken it's toll. The log is rotten and this was it's last time out. I'm going to unbolt my chain and toss the rest of it in the burn pile. My next drag will be from some scap steel.
The pictures with the grass and small sweet gums in it are the view from where my blind will be. The shooting lane will be between the two trees and towards my feeder.
We just had a few sprinkles, so there's some hope that we're going to get some rain. The forecast has jumped from 50 percent chance of rain to 80 percent. I might get lucky!!
Eddie
