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Post by fence on Feb 17, 2020 10:01:43 GMT -6
This 17 acres will be ready for haygrazer this year. We're down to picking up sticks. It was just like the cedar to the right, you couldn't even walk through it. Believe it are not my family once grew cotton on this groun with first slave labor, then later wetback labor along with having lots of kids to work fields. I'll try to keep up with the progress.   |
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Post by Allenw on Feb 17, 2020 12:06:57 GMT -6
Doesn't take long for cedars to take over.
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Post by randy on Feb 17, 2020 13:24:34 GMT -6
A good hot fire works pretty good for cedar control.
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Post by backhoeboogie on Feb 19, 2020 7:54:36 GMT -6
a couple of 3 acre lots came up for sale beside me. I didn't want neighbors building on top of me. So I bought the lots. I left the cedar on the road for privacy. I cleared enough next to me to put up 6 chicken pens. Fence you could have crawled thru that area but that's about it. It was thick. I came out with about 40 posts and 150 or so staves. The chickens are keeping it picked clean.
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Post by backhoeboogie on Feb 19, 2020 7:57:05 GMT -6
That ground looks pretty flat. It would be suitable for cotton, or whatever. It looks to be good ground.
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Post by fence on Feb 19, 2020 9:02:00 GMT -6
a couple of 3 acre lots came up for sale beside me. I didn't want neighbors building on top of me. So I bought the lots. I left the cedar on the road for privacy. I cleared enough next to me to put up 6 chicken pens. Fence you could have crawled thru that area but that's about it. It was thick. I came out with about 40 posts and 150 or so staves. The chickens are keeping it picked clean. I've got a hilltop out in Mills county covered with big Virgin old growth cedar. Straight tall. I call it my unemployment insurance. As long as those big post are there I got work. Hopefully I never need them. We don't hardly ever cut the post out anymore. As long as we got work It slows us down to much for to little. I've cut my share and got through some hard times cutting post. Both financial and personal hard times. ..man can get alot of things figured out cutting post.. |
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Post by Allenw on Feb 19, 2020 9:13:00 GMT -6
A good hot fire works pretty good for cedar control. Yes a controled burn is the cheapest ceder control and I need to do some. I'm just a bit gun shy after all the big fires the last few years. |
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Post by backhoeboogie on Feb 19, 2020 14:29:00 GMT -6
a couple of 3 acre lots came up for sale beside me. I didn't want neighbors building on top of me. So I bought the lots. I left the cedar on the road for privacy. I cleared enough next to me to put up 6 chicken pens. Fence you could have crawled thru that area but that's about it. It was thick. I came out with about 40 posts and 150 or so staves. The chickens are keeping it picked clean. I've got a hilltop out in Mills county covered with big Virgin old growth cedar. Straight tall. I call it my unemployment insurance. As long as those big post are there I got work. Hopefully I never need them. We don't hardly ever cut the post out anymore. As long as we got work It slows us down to much for to little. I've cut my share and got through some hard times cutting post. Both financial and personal hard times. ..man can get alot of things figured out cutting post.. I had some on the river that must have been 40 foot. It was on the hill transition between the upper and lower flood plain. Straight as an arrow. Loved them. I sold that place. Those would have been perfect for a pole barn except some were just too thick and needed milling.
Found a bundle fence wire in one about 20 foot up. It must have been deposited before they built Possum Kingdom. The river has never been that high in my life time.
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