TC29-dude
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Do you know if your big pond is clay lined? I am not sure where you are but where I live we line lakes/ponds with a foot or two of red clay all the way to the top of the waterline.
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Timber
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Sink a well in the center of the pond and let it fly. It will find its own balance and in time will seal itself. Very cool place, Your a man after my own heart
Tororider
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That pond makes me want to buy a backhoe! Great stuff
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frwinks
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thanks, I love that hoe
the big pond isn't lined at all, which I find strange because everywhere I dig I find red clay, then grey clay, and shale...With the size of that hole, they should've had enough red clay to line it even 3feet thick ... instead they trucked all that dirt off the property
A well crossed my mind but do you think the walls would eventually seal themselves up naturally (without any liner material)??
the big pond isn't lined at all, which I find strange because everywhere I dig I find red clay, then grey clay, and shale...With the size of that hole, they should've had enough red clay to line it even 3feet thick
... instead they trucked all that dirt off the property A well crossed my mind but do you think the walls would eventually seal themselves up naturally (without any liner material)??
Timber
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Well that depends on the material. It sounds like you have a clay base naturally. Sinking a well will give you a continues water supply. The pond will fill until the pressure equalizes. I would put the question to the pond boss people. There combined knowledge is better than my opinion
Timber
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Well that depends on the material. It sounds like you have a clay base naturally. Sinking a well will give you a continues water supply. The pond will fill until the pressure equalizes. I would put the question to the pond boss people. There combined knowledge is better than my opinion
Tororider
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Do you have laying hens? I think if my neighbor didn't have hens, I would have to do the same thing you did, cause you can't beat farm fresh eggs.
Did you plant those pines yourself, or were they there? We planted about 700 this spring. Lots of work
Did you plant those pines yourself, or were they there? We planted about 700 this spring. Lots of work
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frwinks
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the two older hens (now I'm down to one, since a coyotee attack a couple of weeks ago ) are laying hens. The little chicks you see in the photos are meat birds. I'm bringin in a couple of more laying hens from a friend of mine before the winter.
We planted 400 norway and white spruce and yes it is a lot of work handplanting into unturned heavy soil. Then we lost about 100 due to this years drought conditions, but the rest are doing great.
This time around I'm going to till the ground this fall, till it again in the spring and plant about 1000 Colorado blue spruce (as they seems to fetch the most $$$ down the road).
As for pines...there's no $$ in pine IMO. We have a 6ac red pine plantation which went through it's first thinning and the wood was only worth $44/cord and that's delivered to the mill The only perk IMO is the property tax break we get for having a woodlot
got wood?
total of 35cord and 14cords of pulp wood left our place
the cab on this badboy was full of joystics and buttons..
) are laying hens. The little chicks you see in the photos are meat birds. I'm bringin in a couple of more laying hens from a friend of mine before the winter. We planted 400 norway and white spruce and yes it is a lot of work handplanting into unturned heavy soil. Then we lost about 100 due to this years drought conditions, but the rest are doing great.
This time around I'm going to till the ground this fall, till it again in the spring and plant about 1000 Colorado blue spruce (as they seems to fetch the most $$$ down the road).
As for pines...there's no $$ in pine IMO. We have a 6ac red pine plantation which went through it's first thinning and the wood was only worth $44/cord and that's delivered to the mill
The only perk IMO is the property tax break we get for having a woodlot got wood?
total of 35cord and 14cords of pulp wood left our place
the cab on this badboy was full of joystics and buttons..
Tororider
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Yeah, we planted 450 norway spruce, 150 balsam firs, and 100 black hills spruce. We have been very lucky, the norways I would say we have only lost a handful, the rest probably only 3% loss. We had the same drought here, but we bought a 425 gallon pickup bed water tank and took it out a couple times a week to water the trees. Lots of work, but it paid off in the end, lots of good growth buds that should really take off next year.
We rented a planter from the county, although it didn't work very well, we had to remove the seat and step in the trees, next time we will rent from s private company that actually uses the planter. We will probably plant some more next year as well.
We rented a planter from the county, although it didn't work very well, we had to remove the seat and step in the trees, next time we will rent from s private company that actually uses the planter. We will probably plant some more next year as well.