Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[KenJax Tree]

Use square ground on full chisel to cut?

Philbert

Lol i did use my old Silky on the bones

 

[mainewoods]

No baiting of any kind allowed up here. If you are sitting somewhere with apples on the ground near you, there better be an apple tree present. And the apples better match the tree they are under.

 

[MustangMike]

The bandits go around that one by spilling cider.

 

[KenJax Tree]

We can bait all we want but we can't use salt in any form. I bring bait piles right up to my deck. We can hunt from a tree stand with a gun now too, you could only bow hunt from a stand before.

 

[KenJax Tree]

The bandits go around that one by spilling cider.

You can rub apples on trees too

 

[MustangMike]

U can rub apples on UR clothes too, but that is just a scent cover!

Enjoy that nice looking venison, I have not even been out yet.

 

[KenJax Tree]

U can rub apples on UR clothes too, but that is just a scent cover!

Enjoy that nice looking venison, I have not even been out yet.

Get out before it gets cold!! Thats why i enjoy bowhunting, i can hunt with just pants and a long sleeve shirt and not freeze waiting. But i do sit out there and freeze with a gun too.

 

[mainewoods]

Can't until Nov.1st. Unless I want to be on the next episode of North Woods Law.

 

[MechanicMatt]

MustangMike had his property logged 15years ago to have tornado damaged timber cleaned up. Local logger up there John Hoover used his skidder and 372xp to clear a trail through the wreakage, night before opening day rifle season him comes to our camp. "Hey kid, your stand is the one all the way across on the other side of your uncles property isn't it" I nodded. He goes on to tell me that at 7:15am a seven point buck is gonna walk past my stand "missing brow tine on the left side". I thought for sure he was blowing smoke up my ass, but sure as $hit. Those antlers are sitting in the old cabin waiting to be mounted on a wall of the new cabin. Yes a chainsaw is like ringing the dinner bell for deer.

 

[svk]

MustangMike had his property logged 15years ago to have tornado damaged timber cleaned up. Local logger up there John Hoover used his skidder and 372xp to clear a trail through the wreakage, night before opening day rifle season him comes to our camp. "Hey kid, your stand is the one all the way across on the other side of your uncles property isn't it" I nodded. He goes on to tell me that at 7:15am a seven point buck is gonna walk past my stand "missing brow tine on the left side". I thought for sure he was blowing smoke up my ass, but sure as $hit. Those antlers are sitting in the old cabin waiting to be mounted on a wall of the new cabin. Yes a chainsaw is like ringing the dinner bell for deer.

Loggers have hit the public land near my hunting cabin several times in last two decades to cut during rifle season. Taken some real nice bucks too.

We can't bait but the few times we've dumped apples in the woods for deer in September and October they have rotted away. Deer dont even know what an apple is around us I guess.

 

[KenJax Tree]

I use sugar beets and carrots

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

Discarded pumpkins after Halloween work great. They have to freeze and get soft before the deer will eat them, but once they do, it's like deer candy.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Discarded pumpkins after Halloween work great. They have to freeze and get soft before the deer will eat them, but once they do, it's like deer candy.

I have a friend who grows pumpkins, he has a problem with deer kicking holes in the pumpkins and eating them before he get's to pick them. I had the same problem one year, when I had a garden spot near the back of my property.

My friend now plants extra and hopes the deer don't eat too many before he get's to them... lol

SR

 

[svk]

Taking my friend, who is originally from Kentucky, up to the great northwoods this weekend. He's a city kid so has never shot a gun or run a saw or splitter. That will change this weekend.

 

[mainewoods]

Hope you teach him the fine art of scrounging,svk!

 

[svk]

Splitting and stacking first, then scrounging I've got some 20-25" Norway to roll up to the splitter and could really use another man to help me with it. Otherwise I'm going to need to sledge and wedge into quarters...too much work for one person to take whole being they are on a hillside and I can only get the splitter uphill of them.

 

[MustangMike]

In that situation, I think I would noodle them.

 

[svk]

In that situation, I think I would noodle them.

They don't need to be moved far, just enough to make it too much monkey business for one person to roll and wrestle into the splitter. Fortunately it operates in vertical and horizontal.

 

[wudpirat]

Hey Hon, you gonna take the kids trick or treating ?

Hell NO. My duffle is packed and I'm headed to Maine, Deer open season starts in the morning.
How she put up with me all them years.
Must have been how well I treated her the other eleven months of the year.
Kid returned my trailer he borrowed to move his UTV. Said he had to go train his horse. I asked what kind.
A big Belgan draft, Gonna get into horse logging. I asked if I could have the tops.
"Yep, you got first refusal."
See, back on track, scrounging for the future.
The Oxford Wood Pirate strikes again.

 

[MustangMike]

Went to the Fish & Game club today just to make sure me and the bow were still able to put arrows where they belong, and scrounged a small load of wood while I was there. Mostly Silver Maple with some Ash.