Property Development

[Carl_NH]

Maybe we are on the down side of winter. For 7 years we were feeding a one legged seagull. In Oct it would go away and come back in April when the weather was turning for the better. On his return he would hover at the window then the feeding would start again. Well the seagull came back today. Maybe he knows something.

That's a sweet story, and to be in tune with nature and your land like you are is a rarity today.

 

[kenmbz]

I just found this thread. I have been clearing trails and some land areas around my property.
Mostly using saws and saw blade brushcutter. Then keeping clear with a flail mower.

The one thing I am trying to do is figure out in the cleared areas is how to keep it attractive for wildlife.
The trail area is dense growth, but opening up land means less areas for wildlife to graze/hide.
So I will need to create areas for them to move between.

Thanks for sharing your work and pictures. Really beautiful area.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I just found this thread. I have been clearing trails and some land areas around my property.
Mostly using saws and saw blade brushcutter. Then keeping clear with a flail mower.

The one thing I am trying to do is figure out in the cleared areas is how to keep it attractive for wildlife.
The trail area is dense growth, but opening up land means less areas for wildlife to graze/hide.
So I will need to create areas for them to move between.

Thanks for sharing your work and pictures. Really beautiful area.

I just found this thread. I have been clearing trails and some land areas around my property.
Mostly using saws and saw blade brushcutter. Then keeping clear with a flail mower.

The one thing I am trying to do is figure out in the cleared areas is how to keep it attractive for wildlife.
The trail area is dense growth, but opening up land means less areas for wildlife to graze/hide.
So I will need to create areas for them to move between.

Thanks for sharing your work and pictures. Really beautiful area.

One way is to leave piles of brush. Animals makes use of brush piles. Neatly piled brush piles are not an eye sore. Also don't cut all the dead stuff. Insects lives in dead trees and is part of the important food chain.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

That's a sweet story, and to be in tune with nature and your land like you are is a rarity today.

Yes I am very lucky. I grew up with a caring parents. My father was a lumberjack and a mother who loved angling. Needless too say I spent most of my growing up in the woods. Had this crazy idea to go to university and get a computer job and suffered for 30 years in an office. I guess it put food on the table and money in my pocket but I had enough of that. Retired early with not enough money but will get by I'm sure.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Between yesterday and today I spent 10 hours blowing snow. Here in Nova Scotia the price of diesel is going up 17 cents per litre. It will be $1.87 per litre. I blow snow in my community to make some extra money. I hate to raise the rates because many customers are seniors and can't afford much more. Their driveways are very long and they are already paying $1000 for snow removal. Man we live in different times.

 

[kenmbz]

I do leave some of the fallen trees and stumps and I have a front area of a few acres which I have trails, but the woods around the trails are untouched.
Inflation is getting us here in the states. I don't mind paying more to reduce our need to foreign oil.
It's the rest of the price gouging that bothers me.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I guess we both know inflation is coming whether we like it or not. Wish we had access to more domestic fuel. I would pay a bit more for fuel as well as if it was a North American company doing the mining. Not so much if a foreign identity came in.

How many acres do you own?

 

[kenmbz]

I have 6 acres and most of the big trees are ash. Though I do have elm, cherry, shagbark, cedar, maple, pine and whatever else found a foot hold.
Wonder why we are not going full tilt on fusion. Seems to just be a lot of small labs working on this.

My neighbor and I both share plowing, and we have neighbors with larger undeveloped tracks so animals can roam through. There is only one hunter left on the adjoining property. He is quiet and efficient which is nice.
We had some hunters on the property behind us that were a nuisance and was not sorry to see them go when that property was sold.

I try to keep my trails just wide enough for my SCUT, so there is plenty of growth around for critter snacking and nesting. We seem to have a new fox litter right across from my house, so mouse problems are less than they were a few years back.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I have 6 acres and most of the big trees are ash. Though I do have elm, cherry, shagbark, cedar, maple, pine and whatever else found a foot hold.
Wonder why we are not going full tilt on fusion. Seems to just be a lot of small labs working on this.

My neighbor and I both share plowing, and we have neighbors with larger undeveloped tracks so animals can roam through. There is only one hunter left on the adjoining property. He is quiet and efficient which is nice.
We had some hunters on the property behind us that were a nuisance and was not sorry to see them go when that property was sold.

I try to keep my trails just wide enough for my SCUT, so there is plenty of growth around for critter snacking and nesting. We seem to have a new fox litter right across from my house, so mouse problems are less than they were a few years back.

New neighbour doesn’t like the foxes we have roaming around. Makes his dog bark. He know we like seeing them and they keep the rodent population down. Kind of pompous of him to want them dead because it makes the dog bark. Anyway I hope they don’t disappear.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I have 6 acres and most of the big trees are ash. Though I do have elm, cherry, shagbark, cedar, maple, pine and whatever else found a foot hold.
Wonder why we are not going full tilt on fusion. Seems to just be a lot of small labs working on this.

My neighbor and I both share plowing, and we have neighbors with larger undeveloped tracks so animals can roam through. There is only one hunter left on the adjoining property. He is quiet and efficient which is nice.
We had some hunters on the property behind us that were a nuisance and was not sorry to see them go when that property was sold.

I try to keep my trails just wide enough for my SCUT, so there is plenty of growth around for critter snacking and nesting. We seem to have a new fox litter right across from my house, so mouse problems are less than they were a few years back.

6 acres is nice. Lots of room to get mentally lost in.

 

[tradosaurus]

New neighbour doesn’t like the foxes we have roaming around. Makes his dog bark. He know we like seeing them and they keep the rodent population down. Kind of pompous of him to want them dead because it makes the dog bark. Anyway I hope they don’t disappear.

Barking dogs is the main reason I moved to 45 acres. Most people are not responsible enough to own dogs.
I would rather keep the foxes than the neighbors dogs.

 

[Bocephous]

New neighbour doesn’t like the foxes we have roaming around. Makes his dog bark. He know we like seeing them and they keep the rodent population down. Kind of pompous of him to want them dead because it makes the dog bark. Anyway I hope they don’t disappear.

Explain to your neighbor that more foxes = less chance of contracting Lyme disease, if Lyme is an issue where you are.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Barking dogs is the main reason I moved to 45 acres. Most people are not responsible enough to own dogs.
I would rather keep the foxes than the neighbors dogs.

I agree most are not responsible. He seems to be a responsible animal owner but wants to shoot the fox and everything so he doesn’t have to listen so his dog doesn’t bark. I use to be a hunter so not against shooting for meat but don’t start killing everything around so you don’t have to listen to your dog bark. He has a barn with horses so without the foxes there will be a lot of mice and rats so I suspect poison will be used on the rodents then eagles, bob cat and hawks eat the poisoned rodents and first thing your wildlife disappears. City slicker with not much responsibility to nature and all the great amount of wildlife we have here.

I have to admit some people just leave peeve me off and I would sooner not be around them. That’s why I am building a cabin in the remote water front area of our property.
The development of a 23 acres water front property. I started documenting the project.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Explain to your neighbor that more foxes = less chance of contracting Lyme disease, if Lyme is an issue where you are.

Great idea. Never thought of that. Didn't know that. I suppose the rodents are infested with Lyme and the fox eats the rodents so helps break the Lyme disease chain.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Everything matters. I did one piece of property in NewBrunswick. The guy said I heard you were good but I didn't expect to have a 15 acre park. We are still good friends and he still enjoys his cabin property with ample firewood. Most of the trees are still standing because I didn't cut to many away. You cut to many there is no wind break and the rest will sometimes fall down. Thats when the trouble starts. You just ruin habitat for many animals.
We need roads, we need firewood, we need ditching, we need space to build a house but if you manage it well and take profit away from being the priority you can have it all without hurting very much.
on the down side I could of clear cut it all in quicker and would of made more money short term but again I was invite back to do more work for them.

 

[Bocephous]

Great idea. Never thought of that. Didn't know that. I suppose the rodents are infested with Lyme and the fox eats the rodents so helps break the Lyme disease chain.

You are correct. The mice are infected with Lyme disease, the ticks feed on the blood of mice, and the ticks are the carriers that pass it to humans.

Also, possums eat a bunch of ticks.

 

[tradosaurus]

I agree most are not responsible. He seems to be a responsible animal owner but wants to shoot the fox and everything so he doesn’t have to listen so his dog doesn’t bark. I use to be a hunter so not against shooting for meat but don’t start killing everything around so you don’t have to listen to your dog bark. He has a barn with horses so without the foxes there will be a lot of mice and rats so I suspect poison will be used on the rodents then eagles, bob cat and hawks eat the poisoned rodents and first thing your wildlife disappears. City slicker with not much responsibility to nature and all the great amount of wildlife we have here.

I have to admit some people just leave peeve me off and I would sooner not be around them. That’s why I am building a cabin in the remote water front area of our property.
The development of a 23 acres water front property. I started documenting the project.

I have only killed one animal (Armadillo) since I moved here and that was because it was digging by our bedroom window. I have bats that show up in the evening and installed a nice bat house 20 ft elevation in a clearing but no bats in 3 yrs in the bat house.

I have 40 acres of woods and try to keep it thinned of brush and vines where possible. My belief is to leave the property better than when I bought it.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

If you burn up all the wood on your land what will you do if elect and natural gas are unavailable?

Kidding just a little bit.

It is a real issue and a lot of people can’t change their circumstance.

We have been lucky to have options of reliable electrical power + wood burning stove at the main house but not a huge supply of our own wood.

Second place has plenty of wood but no WBFP or stove (at least not yet anyway) but has reliable electric power (so far) and very reliable natural gas.

But these places are 5 hours apart.

I agree that having options and flexibility makes it easier.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Well I have not being working on the project much but spring is on it's way. Yesterday morning there were a few cracks in the ice and yesterday afternoon the west wind broke up the ice and sent it on it's journey. In the meantime I am staying busy with making maple syrup. It's great to see the open water again.


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[Carl_NH]

Really enjoyed watching this video on gathering and boiling maple syrup the old fashioned way with buckets! Seems like most use a tube system here to a collection point/drum.

Takes a lot of sap to make syrup, what is it 2 gallons to make a quart?