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This was 8 pounds per acre but it was broadcasted. Normally when drilled you drill around 6. You can plant thicker but normally thicker stands lose a little with height so I don't know if you'd be ahead on that or not tonagge wise. Join the group "switchgrass for farming" on Facebook and post that question. Roger Samson will respond and be able to help you out
I really like the ingress/egress solution here. Safety and possible to hide well. I spend many hours and often sleep in my blind during night as well since we are allowed to hunt when the moons makes regular optics safe to use. Without a nice chair that might be a bit harder. But I like the simplicity and effectiveness in this design,
Just put a 2 or 3 inch high block of some kind material for shorter hunters. Kinda like how you'd sit on a phone book in chair as a kid to be high enough at dinner table. 😅
That being said if Mathew’s wants to give you a new bow every year, or Yamaha a new utv or some new truck you would gladly start promoting and peddling content for them.
I would be worried the snow and mud from your boots would interfere with the sliding door, maybe a trap door that lifts up and catches with a magnet? that could be lowered with a piece of rope? Good Luck!
I know the Thompson family has hunted out of these for years with no issues with the door. We'll definitely be hunting it in the snow/mud so I'll test out your potential concern this year and see if it's valid. That's an interesting idea with the magnet, thanks for the input!
Then why did you even waste your time and ours to leave a insulted comment nobody wanted to read in the first place. Always has to be one ignorant jerk in this world
I'm in Gaylord,MI. I have 4 different models.of tactacams. Bought each one a solar panel and none have failed me yet. I hung em.with the panels in mi's September and was still at 90% the following archives, just unbelievable. And we all know tactacam cameras are game cams that are very reasonable priced compared to other set ups.
These stands are incredibly practical. Perfect for treestand type hunters that don’t want to hunt in Taj Mahal type stands with WAY too much extra space to heat and where you can’t see out of every window without moving around way too much. So much fun to hunt out of and way better chances to shoot a deer. And more comfortable than your climber or ladder stand. Especially if cold, windy, raining, or snowing 😉. Definitely worth buying one. If you buy one and hunt out of it and let others hunt out of it I bet you you’ll end up buying at least 3 of them… buy one for this fall and see what happens… 🤷🏻♂️
These stands are not loud at all. No different than most box blinds out there other than it’s likely quieter. Most people will likely be rifle hunting out of stands like this and not crossbow hunting though that would totally be doable. Deer also don’t hear as well as people seem to think in my opinion either. They hear well if there is ZERO wind or the wind is drifting their way, but ears are not their main sense, smell is BY FAR a way more important factor here. Their noses are incredible. Any kind of wind makes their hearing just meh. These box blinds are incredible to hunt out of. I prefer hunting out of a tree myself but on the really cold or really windy days there is no other type of box blind that I would prefer to hunt out of and I’ve hunted out of so many different style blinds. The simplicity and practicality of these blinds are awesome.
After I killed of the fescue and brome grass in a part of an old pasture, I tilled it and planted a brassica food plot for deer. The following year I left it alone to see what came up and the grass came back along with some goldenrod, but it is also overrun with sedges. Obviously, my seed bank is bankrupt. 😂 So the other day I mowed it down and as soon it starts to regrow, I will have to use glyphosate and start over. Clethodim as far as I know, won't kill the sedges. I don't need trees here; I just want a field like in this video that I can mow once a year or every other year.
@shawndickmann8215 the name is right on them, they're marketed to deer hunters. But I can't remember off hand. I'll check the next time I'm at the farm
@jeffsmathers414 thanks for the feedback. The mic definitely highlighted the sound more than in real life. The windows can open very quietly. I'll have to play around with the door. I think closing it slowly will be fine. There were some other good suggestions though in the comments about how to make that quieter.
Jayson, the designer, had a great idea. He stated you can simply put a piece of electrical tape over the wall magnet which will kill the potential click sound when you open the windows. I'll be doing that. These are deer view windows which are manufactured for deer stands. But yah, any sound isn't good but that sound would be an easy fix.
Ironically I'm building A new tower type stand too , but I'm using slabs of balsam with the bark on for siding , which would appear more natural and black colored screened windows on hinges versus your glass that would really put out A glare at that angles ....so I don't like your stand ...
Appreciate the suggestion! It's something that we certainly could improve upon. We'd have to carpet both the slide and the rail otherwise the wood fibers could snag on the carpet.
@@StevenSmith-7t391. It truly isn’t very loud though and it’s possible to slide it without making much for noise at all really. Jayson is open for as many critiques as possible tho! Appreciate it. Also in my opinion, because it’s so simple and quick to get in and out of the amount of noise made as far as magnitude and time spent making the noise is so minor it shouldn’t affect the hunt much at all. 99.999% of the time of the hunt is spent in peace and quiet and likely no different than someone climbing a clanky creaky metal ladder stand or opening a standard door with creaking hinge. If deer get booted it’s more likely because of being seen while climbing vs slight wood sliding noise :) . Also, that brings up another great point to these stands… you can crest a stealthy path to get to it and use sheeting or brush or camo cloth to conceal the bottom so when you climb underneath the stand you can be COMPLETELY concealed during the climb vs most box blinds where you are climbing up on the outside where you are visible to any possible deer bedded down next to your stand. ;)
Kip Adam’s recommends no more than 5lbs per acre on the switch to keep from getting too thick. The other ways is create pockets within fir bedding or throw up some conifers etc.
One of the cheapest biggest bang for the buck projects you can do as kill off cool season grass. One day i'm going to buy a bunch of native plant seeds and plant and put a fence around it. That's an expensive project, but I could do a small area and see what happens
Nice. I disced up an old open field area this spring to promote some native seeds to grow. I will definitely have to remember to do a cleth treatment next spring on green up. Some say a gly treatment in fall after a couple hard frosts is extremely beneficial for battling cool season grasses. I’ve been reluctant because of the small trees already there. Thoughts on the gly? Good video!
I would do clethodim in the fall after the first killing frost. That way you can ensure only grasses are killed. I have done the glyphosate in the fall, it does work well. But I tend to do it in areas that are primarily just cool season grass with very few trees.
For your Boxelder and Ash that is sprouting up, do you plan on keeping their height trimmed down fairly low for cover reasons or do you anticipate letting them grow to their natural heights?
@davemitchell731 it's fun to see what the seed bed has in store. This was old cattle pasture and it was full of all sorts of great native plants. Which I woulda never known had I not killed the grass.
If i were you i'd of planted Chestnut trees....They produce food....I just cleaned off a hillside of Red Cedar & tall poplars....no sunlight hit the ground so no food or cover there....
@stevegaines-vq3bd I'm too far north for chestnuts. The guys that try them around here either have them die or they never produce a nut. Cedars and poplar, more particularly aspen, are great up here. We need the conifers for winter Thermal Cover and cutting the aspen and letting it regenerate is great food and cover. Every region of the country is different. If you live in the midwest or the south I get why you're cutting cedars.
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