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So how would one acquire land with the intended purpose of building a home on their own terms.

Hate it. Cut back when you can. Declare war on it. It takes down best trees by water starvation.

I bought 30 acres a few weeks ago in Leakey at the headwaters of the Frio. I like the cedars but hate that all of them have a "skirt" of dead branches that make them hard to walk through. one by one I trim them up. Great video.

Live in mason TX in the northern hill country so much cedar lol

Dude, I have acreage in Santa Fe TX. I just cut down nearly 200. On 3 acres. Great clip though.

It’s native 😮 this whole time I thought it was invasive

Please do a lecture on the Mesquite. They are taking over my land and have heard that they will take up the moisture in the soil also.

You gotta quit eating at those places.

What grows there is what the soil is suitable to grow. 😅change the conditions change the plants that grow

this is the most complete video of axis deer on youtube, it would be awesome seeing a video of how to upgrade a land for axis deer hunting!

The cedars were brought in cattle’s stomachs and pooped out and spread like wild fire . Your knowledge is new age and untrue

They came from the Spaniards who carried cattle who then shit out the beans and here we are . A cedar is an ancient root from the ocean floor , yes it’s an ancient root , cedars drink as much as 70% of ground water and starve pastureland of precious rain . Thank the Spaniards , not native that’s a new age lie .

According to my observation most Ranches are over grazed.

Would love to learn about some land in the hill country

How can I find with a home under 10 acres is that difficult to find ?

I own 22 acres in the hill country Uvalde county and all my property has cedar I don’t know what to use this wood for except cutting some size limbs for fencing other than that I just cut them en push the to a side for them to die and dry!

Cedar Fever?

Melanie is in prison. Soon, you will be too. Bad Judgement Chesney. Your new prison moniker.

Hey man! Great video! Were you able to find any solid info on how cold of a climate axis deer can tolerate? I hear they’re susceptible to the cold, but I know of some folks up in Indiana who raise them as well… and it gets plumb cold up there.

White ash juniper

The root-balls are typically very shallow, usually not more than 12-18". An "aquifer" is typically much deeper than that, so there's no validity to the "sucking the aquifer dry" claims. Moreover, I've found SO many Oak trees (and other varieties) growing out of the middle of a Cedar stand. The Cedar provides critical soil nutrients for an Oak tree to get started. I've harvested much Cedar for firewood. It burns well, and totally saved my ass during the "big freeze" in 2021. Cedars are not "bad".

Not a Cedar! Junipers

There is no cedar in United States edit: I watched the video it's great, there is a very clear delineation to the range of Juniperus virginiana and J. ashei along the Balcones escarpment's edge. Basically if you're on the left side of I-35 it's all J. ashei (Ash Juniper) vs. the right side of I-35 where it's all J. virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar). The two don't overlap. Another case for not calling the tree a "cedar" especially if you live in hill country - it's a Juniper!

What makes mad is ranchers pass away and thier kids sell the land off in 5-50 acre plots thete is no privacy. Any more thanks to the modern generations is south texas you sit in a deer blind or under a tree at a pond and all of a sudden some kid on the lil plot next to you starts thumping and vibrating with those disrespectful tradhy subwoofers. That should be illegal not just in residential areas not just in industrial areas not even just out in the country but should be illegal to own or be made those things disrupt every normal persons life. It should be illegal on earth ! Thete is no longer a place to get away and have any privacy anymore so whats the use. ? There is no respect from anyone anymore

The US has no naturally occurring cedar. If you know they're not cedars stop calling them that. It's juniper how hard is that to say. Juniper! It's just one more syllable get over it

They are there because hill county is rocky and a cedar tree will grow out of that rock

Rename this video or New Address Registry in Texas. Thanks.

Oh sorry, I don't want to here anything about "The Nazi State"

Thank you...yes cedar...

I have 30 acres in NE Arkansas. I have a bunch of cedar here.

Great video! You won't go wrong listening to this guy. We moved from central Texas to NE Texas because you can't succeed without water. Here, our average annual rainfall is 47 inches. We have seen years of 96 inches. We are on 200ac. About 140 of that is grass. 40ac Johnson grass is held back for hay. When we got here, the first thing I did was over-seed the grazing pastures with Big and Quick crab grass and Dalis grass. I incorporated Alamo Switchgrass into our Johnson grass hay meadow. We spray weeds and fertilize once a year after it dries up enough to get equipment on it. That's the same reason we lose our rye grass cut every year. When the grasses head out, we set the shredder up about as high as it will go and shred all the seed stems. This over-seeds for next year. We have managed our grazing and have run 75 mommas, bulls, and calves without any issues. Our Johnson grass/Alamo switchgrass pasture is producing 5 bales/ac/cut. We have found that good stewardship of the land is blessed. We always give 2 pieces of advice. 1- don't get greedy. 2- stop measuring time in minutes and hours and start measuring it in season. No one truly understands lost time until they have lost a season. Good luck to all, and may the Lord bless your efforts.

I've seen photos of the hill country from the 1920s and it was grassland.

Very informative and I enjoyed the content - thank you! One gripe: there's too much cutting in the video, it's very distracting when every 3-5 seconds there's a cut. Other than that it was great!

Loved your video. facinating.have your # thanks wb

Harris county is a lot less.

I watched the cedar, what about mesquite, yaupon and thorn trees, or hog pecans which grow like weeds and don't make good pecans.😊

Facinating stuff about the grasslands. I dont know which tree it is, mesquite or Cedar, but I love the smell of that region, especially once you get further west into San Antonio area and beyond.

I liked and subscribed to your channel

I can vouch for expensive to maintain. All I have is a Terex PT100G...hence the cost per day Mike offered.

Every real Texas knows why. The German immigrants brought them here. Cedars spread fast for a hard wood. I use the bark to smoke to help with cedar fever, it lasts a couple or so years.

I have many burned stumps on my place .the old nephew of the original owner said this was all grassland, good for cattle, he thinks the last fire was in the 1930s. Since then juniper/ cedar took over. He said his uncle would rent 2 bulldozer and connect with a chain and pull up the ceders so the cattle could get grass.

No one loves it lol

Best use of cedar = MULCH

Ceder was prime in developing a human sub-species known as a "Ceder Hacker". Austin had a clan of them that spread hate and discontent. I ran into a pack of some free range Ceder Hackers in Palo Pinto County. There is a saying "He's tougher than a ceder hacker's a$$."

Texas is shit and has fallen turning into 3rd world country resembles Mexico more than America

I wonder, are these the same cedar trees we have here in south west Kansas?

1. Find land. 2. Be rich. 3. Be prepared to be a renter to the state forever with an almost 2% property tax.

You forgot a very important fact. Cedars are dominant pollinators. They put out so much pollen that they overwhelm other trees and prevent them from seeding. After a generation, all the trees in an area are replaced with cedars. This is why A&M recommends all orchards remove any cedars.

You forgot a very important fact. Cedars are dominant pollinators. They put out so much pollen that they overwhelm other trees and prevent them from seeding. After a generation, all the trees in an area are replaced with cedars. This is why A&M recommends all orchards remove any cedars.

I've read that the Indians, or native Americans, would intentionally burn the prairies. In the past the U.S. government paid ranchers to clear cedar from their property. In more recent years the U.S. government tried to designate most of the Texas Hill Country as habitat for the Golden Cheeked Warbler and Black Capped Vireo to prevent landowners from clearing cedar. Such radical inconsistencies demonstrate why our Founders thought it best to limit the powers of the central government.