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Eric Krewson:
Ater a month and a half with no rain, we got 2" last night, perfect for burning my brush pile.
I started with this and added the top out of a medium sized elm tree that was mostly dead.
Everything was soaking wet, I used diesel fuel and a leaf blower to get things going.
I decided not to try to burn the green trunk of the elm, I cut it up into manageable pieces that I can load on my tractor and dump in what I call the "Grand Canyon" on one side of my place.
Eric Krewson:
After three years out of the game with health stuff, I decided to try to bow hunt again. I have a big Millenium ladder stand up in my woods that is permanently in place but needed a stand on the travel path to the other side of my food plot.
I like lock-ons and collected a pile of them over the years, I sold 6 a couple of years ago and still have 5 big, sturdy ones in my basement. I went through them and selected a climbing pole with an extra section to give me 20'.
For a 75-year-old guy this was quite an ordeal getting the stand up, I was up and down to the stand at least ten times, adding more straps, making adjustments and looking for limbs and saplings in front of the stand that I needed to trim to open shooting lanes, I was strapped in two ways during this project, I had a fall restraint rope and a lineman's belt.
I finally got it up;
I put double straps on the climbing pole and the stand itself.
My fall restraint, rope I special order these, they are much heavier than the standard ones you can buy in the store.
Ready to sit, I add a shooting rail to my lock-ons for more comfort and to provide a little extra security while I am in the stand. I have also replaced all of the cables on my loc-ons with chains.
Here is a shot from the food plot, the metal fence posts seen in the back of this picture are 20 yards away from the stand, I am not hunting the plot, only the trails going to it. There are deer on the plot every morning and afternoon, I can see them out of my bedroom window. My new stand is about 35 yards from the deer in the picture.
Pat B:
I hunted tree stands for years from 2x12 wedged in the crotch of a tree to climbers and lock on but a few years ago I was helping a friend put up a lock on and got so shaky I climbed down and haven't been back up. Ladder stands don't seem to bother me.
That's a nice set up you have there. Good luck with the hunt this year.
Eric Krewson:
I have a lot of limbs hanging down on my place that block the view of the deer movement, on the field edge the bigger the trees get the lower the limbs hang to the point they slap me in the face when I mow.
I did my trimming with a manual pole saw for 30 years, then I bought a Harbor Freight battery operated pole saw. It was actually very good but quit after a year and a half, Harbor Freight said they couldn't fix it. I bought a Lowe's battery powered pole saw off one of the return pallet sellers, it lasted about an hour. I took a chance on it and lost.
I finally did the right thing and bought a Stihl, I didn't need the commercial version so I got the shorter, lighter version.
I got to play with it today, it would trim limbs as fast as I could walk to them, I should have bought it years ago. I have the woods behind my house looking like a park now.
PaulN/KS:
Looks good there Eric. Be careful...
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