Should You Ever Hinge Cut For Deer?

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Should you ever hinge cut? Jeff explores when, how and why to hinge cut...and if you should hinge cut on YOUR land.
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@MegaBraunie Год назад

Hinge cutting changed my property from an average bedding area to a exceptional deer hub.

@courtofficermcilvaine7928 Год назад

I just hinge cut a stand of Sweetgum Trees along one of my property lines to help screen-off a neighbor's house. Worked out great. Thanks for posting the video!

@clintbrubaker4344 Год назад

I've got about 20 acres of solid honey suckle with very few mature trees. No hinge cutting for me! Just planning on cutting openings in the honeysuckle! Love working on the land!!

@jordanquade8881 Год назад

Love your channel, just bought my first bit of acreage, 22.5, not huge but the biggest I’ve owned to date. I can’t wait to try to utilize some of your suggestions. The property is in Maryland so hopefully I can apply these strategies there. Thank you for all your do!

@h-minus2212 Год назад

My wife and I are considering some hinge cutting as we thin our hardwood stand. We tend to cut only what we burn for wood in a season. Now, we decided to harvest what we can burn and hinge cut a portion in order to experience the benefits of increased sunlight to the floor, and whatever browse and cover the hinged trees provided. Thank you for creating great content.

@SethKinsinger Год назад

Hey thanks for your videos. I learned a lot since I started watching. And there’s finally someone that doesn’t promote things he doesn’t believe in 👊🏽

@huntwarbukz4117 Год назад

Awsome info Jeff thx for sharing with us as always 👍🦌

@whitetailhabitatandhunting Год назад

Thanks Jeff!

@underdogoutdoors Год назад

I use a lazy mans trick, brush hog overgrown fields, in patchy sections to leave cover- then spread lime heavy early summer, sometimes top it with 10-10-10 fertilizer, always blows up with deer all hunting season.- Just realized I'm off topic! lol.

@jimmyalamo839 Год назад

would love a vid on how to tell what signs or ways to tell where deer are currently bedding, or if you need a camera to check that. and how to keep them

@janitorialguy4436 Год назад

Tough call I’m not knowledgeable enough to make that decision. Thanks Jeff good video

@jamesnolan9651 Год назад

Great information

@jamesnolan9651 Год назад

@@jeffsturgis is this for real?

@dennybirchfield Год назад

I hinge cut an area between 2 pine tree clusters about 5 to 600 yards long really open now the deer move through there and I have 3 stand opportunities along there

@JasonMartin-ez7rw Год назад

Thanks Jeff, for another great video. We live in mixed ag and our 170 was previously used for pasture. Multiflora rose has exploded since the cattle have been moved off and we did a TSI for habitat. Do you have any videos on your thoughts on multiflora rose or how to manage it to benefit your deer habitat?

@ryanconklin5983 Год назад

Jeff. Love the content and advice you share. I have two smaller AG fields that total 6-7 acres. They are just weed fields now. I really want to incorporate the pizza looking switch grass field mix in both. I’m torn on what shrubs to mix in. I have thought about transplanting some AO that I have in some wood lines but this will not help with deer bedding as they don’t love to browse the AO. Southern Michigan mixed AG and rolling hills. Any suggestions ?

@JP_BowHunter Год назад

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the great information, as always. Question about bedding near a national forest. Would a national forest be big woods to you? If so you stated deer in these areas might not like thick bedding areas, so do you have a recommendation how thick and what size would you make a bedding area near a national forest?

@michiganwhitetailsociety Год назад

10.6 acres Michigan great potential, creek down middle. A couple of small areas of crp need thickening and a couple pocket plots. What’s your suggestion to grow new thickets in those spots without destroying the crp? Spreading existing might be a possibility but I’m unsure at the moment

@clintbrubaker4344 Год назад

Man I thought today might be my day! 😢 Good snag!

@bowman8316 Год назад

Lol 👍🏼

@kurtpearson2793 Год назад

You’ll get yourself a harvest soon-! Just think food and bedding, and wind, and temps..stand locations, stand access, and moon (you might see better)

@clintbrubaker4344 Год назад

Staying alert and on stand through mid-morning seems to be key as well!

@coltondietrich2478 Год назад

You often say you only recommend hinge cutting on approx 15% of client parcels. What clues should I look for to know whether my property is in the 15%, or the 85%? (Assume most of my trees are "hinge-able" based on species and size.)

@raypeppel8625 Год назад

Do you cut conifers down to create cover in areas where they are to tall to give cover?

@jerrybrewer4851 Год назад

What would you suggest to do when the area is almost 100% poplar that was logged in 2003 and is now getting mature?

@gerardsavage239 Год назад

hi jeff, is birch ever a good tree to hingecut?

@twoTsquared Год назад

Can small persimmon trees be hinged? We have a lot of mature and young ones all along our boundary of marshland. Need to open up a 1/2 acre point.

@christopherwelch192 Год назад

Just like a 9/16 wrench, they work great when you need a 9/16, but not so much when you need a 3/4!

@carlmize3251 Год назад

Is it worth hinge cutting on small benches where the deer are already bedding for thermals?

@mikeclement5383 Год назад

I did! I hinge cut to blow out the canopy so my conifers could come up. I had minimal cover and the hard woods in my area weren't desirable for lumber. Now I'm just waiting for my white pines, eastern red cedar and Norway spruce to come up. Edit: I should say that when my hinges do finally die off after a couple seasons, I will use it to heat my barn. Won't go to waste.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Год назад

The cool thing is the hinge cuts can live for decades if they receive sun

@jeremyrobs3643 Год назад

Does red oak or white oak hinge cut well?

@kurtpearson2793 Год назад

Any advice for us that have agriculture (corn/soy rotation) next door?

@fredmcintyre9889 Год назад

Become friends 😂, ...... seriously corn Trumps, soys in late season.

@paulcrave3112 Год назад

I have a property of about 10 acres where about 7 of it was planted in rows of maple trees probably 25 years ago. Most of the trees are in that 2”-6” diameter range. The woods is “see through” most of the hunting season. I’ve wondered for several years if this type of woods would benefit from hinge cutting. Even just parts of it.

@timhatfield6367 Год назад

Couldn't hurt...?

@travisjohnson8384 21 день назад

I have some areas hinge cut on old pasture ground for getting quicker cover, but now I am wanting to burn to get more growth. Should I burn the hinge cut areas or avoid them?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 21 день назад

That depends...what you need and your deer need is woody growth...shrubs, trees, hardwood regen. You want to make sure in burning you never replace good woody growth with green herbaceous growth that is not available Oct thru March. If the prescribed fire replaced that woody growth of the hinge cuts for more woody growth than that's great

@AdventuresWithJoshua.Videos Год назад

Does sumac or poplar hinge cut well?

@stevedenoyer5956 Год назад

No , sumac and pop pile will both root sprout, so if you have enough sunlight getting in to them, cut them off in the dormant season, and they should root sprout in the spring and summer. They will die if you hinge cut them

@JackFrostTheDeerHunter Год назад

Poplar tree cuts...ground level or hip level?

@fredmcintyre9889 Год назад

Ground

@disc4609 Год назад

If you have as many as I do, I’d pick a height that’s easy on your back 😂🤣

@mikeclement5383 Год назад

Ground in the middle of winter. It'll coppice the tree and you'll get new growth LOADED with high mineral content and nutrients that the deer will hit harder than a salt lick.

@JackFrostTheDeerHunter Год назад

@@mikeclement5383 wish I could we have 3-4 feet of snow in the woods right now. Definitely gonna do some cutting. Will buck some up for camp firewood and bonfires. Free wood is the best.