Wildlife enjoying project

Rowski · Jan 23, 2001

Another rockwork picture. The over flow from the small pond (pool).

Derek

Edited by Rowski on 01/23/01 08:17 PM (server time).

Rowski · Jan 23, 2001

Thank for the links Thomas, very helpful. They are bookmarked. The frost heaves are getting pretty bad. Had a guy come in yesterday that has a plow truck (for personal use) hit a heave so hard it broke the lift chain for the plow.

Derek

Harv · Jan 23, 2001

Derek -

I think you explained it a long time ago, but am I to understand that all those rocks were native to your property? That is, you scraped them up and relocated them?

RobS · Jan 23, 2001

Derek, great looking place you've got there. Did you do all the rockwork yourself? I'll have to show my wife, maybe she'll want a pond when we move. Of course, I'd have to have a backhoe to dig it for her /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Who's that the dog is taking for a walk?

Rob

Rowski · Jan 24, 2001

Harv

Those rocks are native, actually they came from the mountain above us a few thousand yeares ago /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif. They came from a stone wall, not a boundry wall but a wall partially seperating what used to fields. The backhoe with thumb is a must. I would break apart the wall, load the stone size that I need into a 1 ton dump truck. Truck the stones to the ditch, not far maybe 1500 ft. Dump the load. Get another load. Move the tractor to the ditch. Set the stones. Do it again all over again. I've got about 125 hrs of tractor time in laying the stones and roughly back filling the ditch. A lot of work but well worth it. Hope to have the trout spawning this year!

Derek

Rowski · Jan 24, 2001

Thanks. My father helped. I had my god father from Germany here to help with the grunt work, he like doing that sort of stuff. That's one way to get a backhoe! That would be my wife, the dog is her's or mine just depends on the day /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif.

Derek

TomG · Jan 24, 2001

I remember reading some about the project this summer. The results look real good.

As a side note, I'll comment about the dog. You may know that professional hunters used Airedales to accompany hounds when hunting mountain lions (There may still be a few hunters that contract to remove cats that habitually prey on stock). The purpose of the hounds is to tree the cat. The purpose of the Airedale is to protect the hounds if the cat comes down the tree before the hunter gets there. An Airedale is about the only dog that has the strength and temperament for the job and also has the stamina to keep up with the hounds. They are one tough dog and I admire them a lot even though I'm partial to shepherds.

Thomas · Jan 24, 2001

Derek,
You got some good looking apple trees there which need pruning..not trying to add to your project list for this year. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
If that should be a chipper behind the backhoe,I guess you won't have a brush pile to burn.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Harv · Jan 24, 2001

Derek -

I'm sure it was a lot of work, but from where I'm sitting it sounds like it was a lot of fun. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I might be able to afford a backhoe thumb, but it could be a while before I have enough spare bucks for the backhoe itself. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Hope to have the trout spawning this year!

I think that part is up to them. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

rlk · Jan 24, 2001

During 1999, I saw an all white doe on our property. Only saw her one or two times during 1999. Late that year, she had twins, a doe and a buck. Both of her twins are all white. Not a bit of color on any of them, except inside the ears there is some pink. Hopefully you will be able to see the pink in one of the attached pictures, taken 3/30/2000. (The pictures are not too clear since I took them out of my bedroom window. Did not want to chance walking outside and spooking the deer.) Since then, the buck was killed by a car, but the mother and baby are still around (guess you can't call her a baby any more). I'm hoping both will reproduce this year giving more all white deer. I keep hoping that no one shoots either of the doe, as they are a novelty. Very few people I have talked to have ever seen a white deer, and they act like they don't believe me until I show the pictures. Anyone else have unusual animals like this?