So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[avator]

LOL... she's up now. And wouldn't you know it, she said she was just laying in there awake and watching the news for the past hour or so. I guess Boss did the deed earlier.

[avator]

The "Gateway To What Lies Beyond" is completed and open for bidness.
I'm not sure I can continue to post about in the "Non Airgun Related" gate because it looks like there are lots of things to shoot at.

[avator]

Next task will be blazing a 150 yd. trail through the wilderness to the barn area. I'll be putting on the knee highs and packing a gun for that job. The are no less than 5 species of snakes in there and 3 of them want to kill me.

[Madd Hatter]

Next task will be blazing a 150 yd. trail through the wilderness to the barn area. I'll be putting on the knee highs and packing a gun for that job. The are no less than 5 species of snakes in there and 3 of them want to kill me.

Well, what do you expect? You want to kill them.😲😁

[avator]

Next task will be blazing a 150 yd. trail through the wilderness to the barn area. I'll be putting on the knee highs and packing a gun for that job. The are no less than 5 species of snakes in there and 3 of them want to kill me.

Well, what do you expect? You want to kill them.😲😁

You bet I do... until they are dead !!!
That trail will pass dangerously close to the swamp pond and bidness will be a boomin'.

[anti-squirrel]

Bill- if the underbrush was any heavier I'd say rent a Billy Goat or BlueBird brushmower from Home Depot, but it looks pretty clear.  Except all those dang leaves prolly conceal about 10 million copperheads    We love our Billy Goat mower but we also had some crazy thick underbrush (nothing but Blackberry, greenbrier, and the 3 "Poisons", Ivy, Oak, and Sumac). 



We HAD some big "sneks" on our property but we're above the fall-line for moccasins, the copperheads don't stand a chance with all the hawks (and now we have a mated pair of bald eagles roosting somewhere close!) and owls.  Black Racers appear on the regular, but no rattlers that we've found. Heck, most of what we are finding now are owl pellets.  The rodent population shrank over the summer, so less food and more predation for snakes? 


I've been working on a data conversion for a major city in Kansas; very tedious work requiring a lot of double-triple and even triple-checking but it pays the bills.  I'm amazed customers will pay beaucoup bucks for a piece of software then do a half-arsed effort "cleaning up" their data.  Otherwise been considering building a Santa Maria grill.  The one I used while down in the OBX last week was a gamechanger.

[avator]

Yeah, most of it is just running it down with the ATVs. About 25% at the other end will need the most attention.

[avator]

Trail Blazing..
The Yamaha Kodiak 450 4x4 ATV with it's aftermarket 12" wide and 26" tall rear wheels and it's 9" wide and 26" tall front wheels is a formidable tractor. 
This morning I opened the gate and charged through on it.
In low 4wd I just plowed down 1 1/2" saplings, climbed over a few 4" fallen branches, zig zagged my way through the woods up over the 4' high old railroad bed, down through the north end of the swamp pond (at full capacity the water will be maybe only 1' deep at that end) and popped out at the cleared 1/2 acre of the barn acre at one end of the 3 rows of Muscadine grape vines. I came back to the house on the dirt road because I didn't want to run over those knocked down saplings and chance jamming them up under the wheeler.
I have my trail laid out. Next I will go back in with my hatchet and loppers ( I call my loppers Cindy, you know, Cindy Lauper?  ) and open the trail. It ain't going to be near the work I thought it would be.
Once it's open and clear I'll post a short video.
Disclaimer: No snakes or otherwise critters were harmed on this initial run... that's not to say it won't happen.

[Madd Hatter]

Trail Blazing..
The Yamaha Kodiak 450 4x4 ATV with it's aftermarket 12" wide and 26" tall rear wheels and it's 9" wide and 26" tall front wheels is a formidable tractor. 
This morning I opened the gate and charged through on it.
In low 4wd I just plowed down 1 1/2" saplings, climbed over a few 4" fallen branches, zig zagged my way through the woods up over the 4' high old railroad bed, down through the north end of the swamp pond (at full capacity the water will be maybe only 1' deep at that end) and popped out at the cleared 1/2 acre of the barn acre at one end of the 3 rows of Muscadine grape vines. I came back to the house on the dirt road because I didn't want to run over those knocked down saplings and chance jamming them up under the wheeler.
I have my trail laid out. Next I will go back in with my hatchet and loppers ( I call my loppers Cindy, you know, Cindy Lauper?  ) and open the trail. It ain't going to be near the work I thought it would be.
Once it's open and clear I'll post a short video.
Disclaimer: No snakes or otherwise critters were harmed on this initial run... that's not to say it won't happen.

You probably scared the snot out of any snake with your run through there. They probably headed for the hills? or what ever passes for one around there.

[avator]

Trail through the woods... done and done.
Betty Lou even rode it. One or 2 spots I need to hang orange tape on a limb because she tries to go the wrong way and it leads to dead end with no place to turn around. Once the trail is beat down it won't be a problem. 3 or 4 trips and it's already showing clear signs of a pathway. There are even a few spots where I can sling mud on her when I'm leading.   

[avator]

Trail Blazing..
The Yamaha Kodiak 450 4x4 ATV with it's aftermarket 12" wide and 26" tall rear wheels and it's 9" wide and 26" tall front wheels is a formidable tractor. 
This morning I opened the gate and charged through on it.
In low 4wd I just plowed down 1 1/2" saplings, climbed over a few 4" fallen branches, zig zagged my way through the woods up over the 4' high old railroad bed, down through the north end of the swamp pond (at full capacity the water will be maybe only 1' deep at that end) and popped out at the cleared 1/2 acre of the barn acre at one end of the 3 rows of Muscadine grape vines. I came back to the house on the dirt road because I didn't want to run over those knocked down saplings and chance jamming them up under the wheeler.
I have my trail laid out. Next I will go back in with my hatchet and loppers ( I call my loppers Cindy, you know, Cindy Lauper?  ) and open the trail. It ain't going to be near the work I thought it would be.
Once it's open and clear I'll post a short video.
Disclaimer: No snakes or otherwise critters were harmed on this initial run... that's not to say it won't happen.

You probably scared the snot out of any snake with your run through there. They probably headed for the hills? or what ever passes for one around there.

Moccasins don't run, they are quite aggressive. But I wore my rubber muckers when I was on foot cutting saplings.

[brewbear]

Trail through the woods... done and done.
There are even a few spots where I can sling mud on her when I'm leading.   

In your place, I wouldn't mess with  the cook! 

[avator]

Trail through the woods... done and done.
There are even a few spots where I can sling mud on her when I'm leading.   

In your place, I wouldn't mess with  the cook! 

Nah, she's a muddy girl. Out at the atv parks she seeks out the mud. She ALWAYS gets muddier than I do. The oversize front tires on that 4wd slings the mud right up at her and she giggles like a school girl. We usually end up in the creek or the bath house to wash some mud off before we leave.

[avator]

Ran several more trips through the trail and hung some orange ribbons. It's shaping up pretty good. I can go faster and faster each trip. I also spotting a couple good spots to set some bush blinds for sniping critters. There are a few large trees suitable for some off ground platforms. Thinking about making a couple out of the trees I'm cutting to keep them natural looking and avoid buying materials. I have a spool of 1/4" braided steel cable to lash them with.

[2A Georgia]

Took the failed Bourbon BBQ Squirrel and put it in a pot with venison bone broth, can of tomatoes, onion, jalepeno,  celery, mushrooms, potato and grandma style unmeasured seasonings.  Left it on low heat for 4 hours.  Pulled the bones out and enjoyed a bowl.

[maraudinglizard]

Spent the day recovering a vehicle that had a flat tire from yesterday, I could not get the spare down, I don't think the previous owner ever took it down to check it on a regular basis and to some extent I didn't check it either when I bought the vehicle, ended up with 4 new tires and have to find a full size rim for spare, I don't like these donuts. The rim on this vehicle spare is disintegrated. Did manage to get the rest of the monthly supply run done today. Tomorrow it's remove the tools needed to take a tire off and replace it with hunting stuff.

[Jshooter71]

Yesterday, I wound up with no jobs at work. So, I got the chainsaws ready for a little work and started pulling out some downed wood along our tree line. I cut up what needed cutting to fill the tractor bucket and dumped several loads in the fire pit. I’m planning on some more of that today.

[Sqrl Klr]

have to find a full size rim for spare, I don't like these donuts. 

Is what I did with my car and my mother's car too after she had a tire shred on her car which did not have a spare tire to begin with from the factory and now does.

Yesterday, I wound up with no jobs at work. So, I got the chainsaws ready for a little work and started pulling out some downed wood along our tree line. I cut up what needed cutting to fill the tractor bucket and dumped several loads in the fire pit. I’m planning on some more of that today.

Is what I did yesterday with my tractor too dumping the limbs in the woods. Also used the mower and trailer for that as well for what didn't require a tractor. Used the chainsaw to cut a couple of raggedy fence posts down so the place looks better now. I filled up 4 of my two gallon jugs with poison and killed a scat ton of ants in the backyard and I still have all those to kill in the front yard too! How many millions of ants do you have to kill for more queens to not fly in birthing more millions back so soon mercy....

[Jshooter71]

have to find a full size rim for spare, I don't like these donuts. 

Is what I did with my car and my mother's car too after she had a tire shred on her car which did not have a spare tire to begin with from the factory and now does.

Yesterday, I wound up with no jobs at work. So, I got the chainsaws ready for a little work and started pulling out some downed wood along our tree line. I cut up what needed cutting to fill the tractor bucket and dumped several loads in the fire pit. I’m planning on some more of that today.

Is what I did yesterday with my tractor too dumping the limbs in the woods. Also used the mower and trailer for that as well for what didn't require a tractor. Used the chainsaw to cut a couple of raggedy fence posts down so the place looks better now. I filled up 4 of my two gallon jugs with poison and killed a scat ton of ants in the backyard and I still have all those to kill in the front yard too! How many millions of ants do you have to kill for more queens to not fly in birthing more millions back so soon mercy....

I was just down at my Mom’s in Hot Springs, she’s got fire ants we were poisoning. Every time we thought we found them all, there was another ant hill. They were quite angry little buggers. We don’t really have fire ants as a problem, but we do have the bigger black carpenter ants on my 3 1/2 acres. I think if we lived here long enough, we wouldn’t have a single tree left.

[buellm2]

I was planning to blow some leaves around but I decided to rake instead.    I need the exercise.