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thanks Forestryguy. I was thinking August as you said, but as I stumbled on a few posts online about garlon/diesel mixtures (25% rate) working in the winter...I thought I'd see if anyone had success there. Avoiding the heat and the ticks might make the job easier and keep me in the field...

Hi All - spent a few days hunting and am concerned with the amount of prickly ash in my understory(always thinking of the work ahead I guess). it is downright thick in my main section of timber. I mowed some paths the last two summers and I don't think that helped since they seemed to sucker...

Awesome stuff guys. Yes i have kids and the scenario was "what happens if the olane goes down on the family vacation". Pretty crappy scenario but probably good to think about. I would love to know it will stay wild. I will check out your ideas, thanks a lot!

My wife and I visited a lawyer recently to update our will and establish a "trust" where we are putting our land/house into this trust to avoid probate later. As part of the questioning from our lawyer with regards to "what if" type questions, he asked what we would like to happen with our...

Interesting...yeah i have lots of ditches so i will go check with the nrcs when i get a chance. Need to cash that one dollar check! I dont charge the guy simply because we had a real pain in the butt neighbor who poached/trespassed and having a nice/good neighbor was payment enough to keep an...

Yes, no crop history before i bought it. It was a pasture full of small honey locusts when i bought the place. I wish i could be getting some income at all from crp.

I will try something with that plumbers strap idea. Truth be told the only time I have had an accident with my chainsaw was switching it to my left hand after felling a small tree while sitting on my right knee and I reached for the tordon with my right hand and it cut my left knee( focused on...

Thanks guys. I should have said I am an Iowa resident. What got me hung up when reading the regs and the post from last month was the "farm operation" part. I definitely did not feel I was in the wrong the last few years,but reading that post had me rethink(overthink) things.

Hi All - I have been doing some cutting of ironwood/shingle oaks recently(and over the years) and I routinely get beat down by putting down my herbicide(usually tordon rtu) running the chainsaw then having to put down the saw and grab the herbicide for application. Do any of you have some kind...

I am very hesitant to post this question after seeing some replies to a thread back in August...so please be gentle with me :o I am a landowner of just under 100 acres. I do not farm the land, but I have done TSI, planted large areas of CRP (but I am not getting any income or enrolled in...

Prayers sent from me and my family, I do not know Paul personally (wish I did) but I have read every letter he has written on this site and I hope he knows he has impacted my life with his knowledge and grace and I have shared that knowledge with my kids as we walk our land and as we just simply...

anybody know where Joe went to? He was my guy as well and it has been a few years since I bought my bow from him and was thinking about upgrading possibly. Bummer because he was informative for me a few years ago when I knew nothing about bows.

Thanks for the info guys. I think i will create a hallway in my back section wher i tend to hunt more and try a total removal on the acre or so near my pond/shack. I would like to put in some switchgrass to replace that area. Next up is to improve upon my hickory desert in my timber!!

Hi All....I let a few acres of pasture "go" when I bought my place years ago. It turns out these two areas are all shingle oaks and it is very dense and almost impossible for me/deer to walk through. Most of the trees are 1-6" diameter and 8-20 feet tall I'd guess. I left the shingles go just...

I was working at my place near Bonaparte Saturday and it rained on and off all day, but at my home im the QC we are bone dry and need rain, although the crops do look ok around me.

Done and forwarded to a few friends to do the same

Raining steady for a long time near Bonaparte.....i am not getting any work done for sure

Just for my colleagues "reputation" :-), these are the regs as they read on the Illinois DNR site(http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/hunting/Documents/HuntTrapDigest.pdf): Night Hunting with Lights, Shining Wildlife It is unlawful to use lights of, any light from, or any light connected to a vehicle or...

Thanks all, my friend at work does this on the Illinois side and the regs don't seem to indicate it is illegal(regs say it just needs to be a handheld light). Sounds like the Iowa side it is a NO unless you have dogs.

Hi All, a friend of mine at work hunts coon at night with flashlights scanning the trees. He does well and it sounds like a good time. He hunts on the IL side and I looked into the regulations on the Iowa side and I saw that you are allowed to hunt with the aid of a light "with dogs". Does...