DWGH88 Farm Projects Thread 2017

Triple C · Jul 12, 2017

dwgh...I fly in to St Louis and then drive to Columbia, MO a few times each year on biz. Always enjoy the drive going thru what looks to be prime deer country. I'm always amazed at how few pine trees I see as compared to down here. Hardwoods galore out there. Food plots look fantastic!

Jim Boyd · Jul 12, 2017

Very, very good work

I love it!

Canuck5 · Jul 13, 2017

Very nice habitat!!!!

Curtis-UGA · Jul 13, 2017

Looking good!

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 13, 2017

Triple C said:
dwgh...I fly in to St Louis and then drive to Columbia, MO a few times each year on biz. Always enjoy the drive going thru what looks to be prime deer country. I'm always amazed at how few pine trees I see as compared to down here. Hardwoods galore out there. Food plots look fantastic!

you can fly into Columbia now if you connect @ Dallas or Chicago.
I am about 30 miles north of Columbia. NCMO and Northern mo are quite a bit different compared to the immediate Columbia area, Columbia is still semi-Ozark foothills, once you get into my county (Randolph) you start to get more rowcrop, though still plenty of hardwoods for a great mix.
Thanks btw, I put a LOT of time and $$$ into them. fertilizer and seed are not cheap. Not a lot of people around here go to the lengths me and my group of buddies do, esp for corn/beans but you sure can tell what farms fill up with 30+ deer in the late season. Larger recruitment plots (3+ acres) are my #1 tool to get deers attention and keep it through the fall/winter.

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 17, 2017

Fall Plot Work Day and Creative S Wind Stand Hung

Saturday was a very productive day at the farm. I was pulling into the gate before 5:30 a.m. and on the tractor by 6. I got everything that I sprayed 3 weeks ago next to the bigger of my two corn plots. I had also turned this up with a plow to break up the sod about a week ago. This turned out to be a mistake, as it did allow for easier tilling it made for an extremely bumpy ride that forced me to go in the slowest gear over about 1.3 acres. With my 5' tiller, it made for a long haul. It also isn't as cosmetically smooth as I would like as I am anal about that. I will likely top dress it again after I get 50-50-50 fertilizer spread.

Next, I got a stand up on a nice flat to the north of the east side food plot. This is the spot discussed in my creative S wind stand on N wind farm thread from last week. Its on the north end of the flat that will have my wind blowing out over the deep creek bottom and onto the neighbors pasture, with the idea that my scent will blow over any deer that may slip to the north of me in the deep creek bottom. With barometer rising this should work slick. I also tilled a nice past from the inside corner of the food plot to the base of the tree for quiet and cut down on any scent on my trail to the tree. My chainsaw blade was dull as a butter knife so I will have to come back in to trim that out sometime this week.

deerbuster · Jul 17, 2017

I like the idea of tilling to the stand, nice and quiet entry

Milkman · Jul 17, 2017

Good looking place

How about a pic of that Massey Ferguson?

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 17, 2017

There's a few that I have. Its a 1739E

the next one I get will be 60 hp... but Ill have to have a bigger truck and trailer for that

Milkman · Jul 17, 2017

Good looking machine. Do you know the weight including loader?

What kind of value is one like that used?

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 17, 2017

Milkman said:
Good looking machine. Do you know the weight including loader?

What kind of value is one like that used?

2800lbs total
this one was $20,000 new, depending on hours still in the 15K range I would have to assume. New came with 5 year powertrain warranty.

Gut_Pile · Jul 17, 2017

Nice improvements

2degrees · Jul 17, 2017

Is that fire you are pushing in the hard woods? Around here fire is bad for the hard woods. Besides that it looks good

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 18, 2017

2degrees said:
Is that fire you are pushing in the hard woods? Around here fire is bad for the hard woods. Besides that it looks good

Sure is, this is North MO and is a common management practice. Not sure what kind of hard woods you are referring to but mature trees handle it fine here.
The intention is to kill sprouts, clear leaf litter and encourage growth of grasses and forbes in the timber.

Dirtroad Johnson · Jul 18, 2017

deep woods goat hunter said:
Sure is, this is North MO and is a common management practice. Not sure what kind of hard woods you are referring to but mature trees handle it fine here.
The intention is to kill sprouts, clear leaf litter and encourage growth of grasses and forbes in the timber.

I've got a lot of hardwoods on my place & I do the same thing your doing, I just try not to burn to hot (slow back burn). You got it looking good. :cheers:

cjones · Jul 18, 2017

Not much you an do about rough plowed ground except turn it in the fall, let it sit through several freeze/thaw cycles through the winter, and work back down in the spring. That process doesn't work very well for food plot work, though.

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 18, 2017

Dirtroad Johnson said:
I've got a lot of hardwoods on my place & I do the same thing your doing, I just try not to burn to hot (slow back burn). You got it looking good.

Yup, I back burned the entire 35 acres of that particular block of timber.
Thanks! I need to get some pictures of what it looks like now.

deep woods goat hunter · Jul 24, 2017

Insert Dozer Here

After a lot of work and time and thought going into the little plot I made next to an older dried up pond on the farm, I have decided to expand on the idea, A LOT.

I was wanting to get the old pond to hold water, well I also thought while I have a dozer there why wouldn't I clear out part of the old field habitat and make a really awesome food plot close to the additional cover I will be creating with the next couple years TSI work. After talking to my dozer guy he said that it wouldn't take more than a day to make it happen and probably get to it this weekend.

I looked over the map and discussed what I wanted with him in detail. All of the trees will be pushed north to south to create a wall of brush pile to conceal my access to and from the plot and to make it more secure from the road etc. In doing this I should be able to slip in and out of the blind without spooking deer. I will also have him build a sort of peninsula into the plot to place a tower stand there. I won't be able to shoot the whole thing with my bow, but should be able to shoot a lot of it.
The pond sits to the west of the plot so I will use is as a blocker to keep the deer upwind.

If you can add any ideas to throw at me before this happens, please run it past me. its kind of hard to put the trees back after its done.

deep woods goat hunter · Aug 7, 2017

Pond Plot Dozed out and planted

Pond Plot is cleared. Got my dozer guy finished up about 5 pm last night. To the best I can tell the plot is about 2.75 acre.
I also had him patch the hole in the pond CensoredCensoredCensoredCensored so that it would hold water, hopefully up to an acre.
After he was finished, I had a couple good buddies help me disc, packed it, seeded Maximum with some clover and then packed it again.
I had him push all of the trees into a windrow parallel to the the road to block visibility to make the deer more secure and also funnel them when headed to the crop fields to the south.
As an after thought I am having dozer guy build me a blind mound 6-8' high at the west edge of the brush pile windrow with and approach/ramp tailing back to the south for easy and un-intrusive access to the future blind. I will have a 2 other strategically placed stands to hunt based on how the deer enter the plot. I'm going to have my buddy fly his drone over it again to get some after pictures as well

deep woods goat hunter · Aug 18, 2017

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