We just got another idle land parcel that fastens onto our existing farm, 100% honey locust forest.
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- We just got another idle land parcel that fastens onto our existing farm, 100% honey locust forest. This is going to be a very enjoyable project to tackle. This 6-acre parcel is completely taken over by huge, thorned honey locust trees. Look at it now so that you can compare it to what it looks like when we get done with our thinning exercise.
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Why you are successful is because you are always looking for things to improve. It's looking good Greg, keep expanding, and improving, have a wonderful day.
Yep that’s what makes any successful person. Always striving for better. Always learning. Always Intrigued, interested, passionate and humble. Doing things the best way not the easy way.
@devinsullivan7233 you definitely need to be humble in this business!!
So great that this land will be used to produce beef!
Thanks for this glimpse of a farm recovery. Looking forward to see the progress! That grass looks amazing.
Walnut hulls make a great dye for basket makers! Mom used a dedicated pot to cook them down.
In my youth, my friends and I would sneak into cow fields in the middle of the night and pck cubensis mushrooms. You'd only find the on nights you were seating a ton from humidity and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. I got a few big bottles of Skin-So-Soft, and mosquitoes never bothered us again. A friend said he was ready to make a testimonial commercial for it, cuz he could hear them buzzing all around his head but never got bit.
Skin so Soft_ a Safe, Effective non-Oily way to protect against insect pests. Active ingredient is Picaridan.
L. L Bean has a good line of tick repellant clothing. Been wearing it for 3 years now and I have not had a single tick on me except one warm day in February when I wasn't wearing it.
Ticks. You pull them off. Yes sir.
I go around my good trees too. My pasture is so hot in most areas. I wish there were more trees. We bought our 30 acres a few years ago. It was always just a hay field cut to the dirt. After running our sheep it's getting better, we were just offered the neighbors property to graze! Very exciting!
Looking forward to the “after” video on this one. Thanks for showing the before video.
Consider installing a Northern Saw-Whet or Eastern Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks. Owls reduce rodents which feed and attract pit vipers, Bobcats and Coyotes.
Given Forestry practices there are not enough quality nesting cavities for these useful birds. Congratulations on acquiring and parcel of Silvopasture. Looks like a Goat and Pig opportunity to start. The Honey Locust pods which hold the beans are good feed. Late Winter early Spring Controlled Burns help control ticks too.
If I remember right, burning damages your soil life? The ground gets too hot for the earthworms and microbes to survive.
@@bryanblackburn7074 Controlled Burns in late Winter early Spring are recommended every ten years by Missouri, Illinois and Indiana Forestry Departments. Your climate, soil and forestry conditions may differ and burns maybe recommended more frequently or less. Burning at the right time kills early active hungry blood suckers like ticks and releases nutrients.
Congrats on more land to rehab and make better.
My Grandad had a thornless honey locust on his Oklahoma farm. It was a beautiful tree. Trouble is, seedlings from that tree - not sprouts - had thorns
Greg you need a wood chipper instead of the fire. use the wood to your advantage
Chipping 200 thorny honey locust trees gives me nightmares even thinking about it. It would take you 2-3 months of 10 hour days to run all those through a chipper. Your hands would look like a porcupine hit ahold if you!!
Yeah you’d have to get a Black Claussen whole log chipper.
Or dig a V shaped pit, burn it, and make biochar 🎉
Bless you
That would be a nice job for a Ventrack with a brush cutter.
Greg I have read articles on making your own natural tick repellents. Mix 4 oz of distilled or boiled water, add 1/2 cup of Witch Hazel and 30-50 drops of Cedar Oil or Cedar wood Oil. Use an 8 oz spray bottle and shake it up. You can then apply this directly to your clothes or skin. This mixture will repel ticks as well as kill them. Let us know if you try it and give us your feedback?
Does artist grade turpentine work? It's not like the overprocessed stuff. :)
@@marlan5470 I don't know I haven't read anything about turpentine? There are other methods using Apple Cider Vinegar, essential oils, and dish soap etc. Another way this article suggested is to carry a lint roller with you and roll it over your body while you are checking yourself for ticks and it will pick up ticks off your clothing. The article suggested while coming in for lunch to peel off your outer clothing and throw clothes in a dryer and run it for 15 minutes the heat will kill ticks as well.
I have a system for ticks as I have encountered them a lot out here in the Washington state. I pick morels in the Cascade Mountains in the spring. Sawyer Premium insect repellent for clothing and gear. Clothes washed in Sawyers will be good for up to 3 washings. I always spray my ankles and my shoulders and back with Deep woods OFF before embarking on a foray mostly for mosquitoes. If the ticks do get into your clothing they will die before being able to bite. I have found a number of them expired at the end of many trips. Just make sure you follow the instructions on the bottle of Sawyer and don't forget the underwear and socks. If you wash them separate you will have to use the Sawyer on them as well.
good luck
Have you considered just hiring a forestry mulcher on a skid steer to come in an eliminate the unwanted trees? Fast and painless!!
Ah the maddening so nag of cicadas. Glad you got another bit of land to use.
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Great work
Exciting!
Thats going to be pretty. Hope you get some nice weather to work in.
Nice purchase on the batwing! I have the same one and couldn't imagine using anything smaller.
You should look into Tick Creek Ranch design for bio char maker, they have a couple designs. Could make biochar out if the trees you cut. There is also a way to make decent biochar just using a brush pile.
Agreed, that was my first thought.
Greg you should get a drone for better BEFORE & AFTER footage.
Beautiful land. Greg, you might consider grafting productive thornless varieties of honey locust onto some the stumps of the honey locusts you cut down instead of painting them to kill them.
It was the SAS who found that Skin So Soft is good against ticks and other insects. I kid you not!
Look at the browse pressure on that oak tree…. The deer population in that bottom is the reason there’s no oaks.
Thanks for the video! It looks like an awesome place! I would take that place in a heartbeat. The forage looks awesome with shade. I need to do a partial brush hog on my farm too. It has a lot of box elder trees. You need one of those bush shredder on a skid loader. I saw one work on a 1-1.5 feet diameter tree.
“Skin so soft” helps with ticks and mosquitoes
Al that honey loney locust is good eating.
Recently saw some device to go around each pant leg to ward off ticks. Don't know much about it, but I look forward to good technology or natural sprays to help out.
Greg. Ever try cutting the trees off at 8' and hooking a high cable to tractor to pull out root balls.?
Pushed over with a front loader bucket. If too large then a little bit of anfo in a tube to make it waterproof drilled and placed under the stump and backfilled. Blasting with low yield ANFO is really effective and you don't have to pick up a thousand splinters or fill a giant crater like dynamite does. Ditching and getting big tree stumps out with dynamite is practical but now access is so restrictive I would just make do with other methods. Tannerite used in exploding rifle taragets as a booster for ANFO is a very good combination to take out those stubborn stumps.Care in making an electric ignitor from a light bulb filiment buried into the tannerite and then surrounded by the ANFO in a waterproof plastic bag. Using mud to stem the explosives will make it more effective.A 9vdc battery to ignite the tannerite will make it safe and effective unlike what that covid vaxxs. lol
@paulcallicoat7597 That all sounds a little dicey for me. I’m going to let them rot out naturally😊😊
Hi Greg, That's a nice little grove. I've got a similar one to deal with. Fortunately I'm not on a timetable to have to get started! I guess if I were doing this project I would consider it a worthwhile investment in labor to move the cattle back to it, if they are at all close. Do as little as possible to get fence up, then run the cattle in, mob graze them and just let them pulverize it. At least as far as the landlord will tolerate! Afterward every fallen tree, branch and limb will be visible and there will be a lot less tripping involved! Can you tell I've tripped over a log or two buried in grass? Anyway, just my 2 cents... Thank you, -Chris
I definitely thought about reversing the cow calf mob but thought with 100 new baby calves, I might be looking at a wreck.(losing calves in the 3’ tall grass and brush. Isaac and I voted against it.
@@gregjudyregenerativerancher I hadn't even thought about the calves, good point! -- This might interest you, it's a piece of ground we turned around: th-cam.com/video/XRWIKDfOcGg/w-d-xo.html
This looks like madness Greg, just send in the goats followed by the sheep then a herd. They'll have it looking like a golf course in no time while fertilising, etc. and not denting the brush hog.
Greg, could you give your opinion about a new grazing method i see poping up called “total grazing” or “non selective grazing” ?
My doctor father-in-law uses/recommends permethrin as a tick repellant. You infuse it in your clothes instead of the skin. They are making clothes now with it built in already.
I am curious if you've tried it and how well it works for someone with such a high tick load job???
It would be helpful to have Isaac explain from an intern or manager point of view, especially if hiring someone to help on this kind of work. A lot of small farms they could benefit but the workers need guidance....
Greg, How do you fence around creeks: both sides with stream bank fencing, just one side of creek with fence, etc. ??? Thank you very much.
Most of our farms have either 1 single polybraid temporary fence or 1 hi tensile wire.
Should have put your sheep in there before brush hogging! Would have made the brush hogging go quicker and easier!
The cows and sheep are to far away to mow the lawns for you?
That’s what I wonder, why not graze it down first?
Ah ha! You didn’t watch’til the end did you? 😉
Hydro mulch requirement
How many acres is this new parcel Greg?
6
6
Serious question, how do you keep cattle from going lame stepping on thorns from the locusts?
I’ve had cows and honey locust trees together for 50 years, never pulled a thorn out of a cow hoof yet.
Thanks
Honey locust trees are legumes, they fix nitrogen. The inner bark also has anti-cancerous properties.
I hate to see you brush hog that parcel, there's a lot of grazable fodder there.
There are people out there with skid steers that have attachments that will pull out the smaller tree's roots and all.
If you are going to burn wood, make biochar. It would be a shame to let years of nutrients go up in smoke.
Have you considered just hiring a forestry mulcher on a skid steer to come in an eliminate the unwanted trees? Fast and painless!!
Have you considered just hiring a forestry mulcher on a skid steer to come in an eliminate the unwanted trees? Fast and painless!!