What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

They would go through the straits of Mackinac under the bridge to lake Huron, down to the St.Clair river, lake St. Clair, Detroit river and into Erie.

 

Here too

 

A little load for each truck today.

The HDPP ford didn't take much notice of the few sticks. The soil compreesed the ram's springs a little.

 

Stacked the wood I collected and split last weekend. Came out to just over a face cord. Through that door the stove is about 10 steps. Got most the yard and driveway blown of leaves. I guess I'm ready for the cold/snow tomorrow.





Blew off a trail down to the end of the driveway and then blew the driveway off back up to the house. As I got up the hill and looked across the yard these two where coming through. They hesitated slightly and then hurried, with tails down, into the woods.

 

A decent day with mostly sun and little wind. I cut up some tree top in a spit that will look better when its gone. Went to my brother’s deer camper (on my property) and watched the Indiana Penn State game, Our Lions club had out annual Chicken Noodle dinner and sold nearly 100 meals. Five chickens were sacrificed this time.

tomorrow is open to get in a little more wood after coffee. Cold weather early in the week so i want enough to get by.

 

Exactly.

This method of doing silage is getting more and more popular...sometimes these piles will be done in a concrete bunker, with 10-20' tall sides, sometimes just in a big mound like you said, and sometimes they do it in a big long "tube"...basically a big long plastic bag the gets blown full of the chopped hay, or corn, then sealed up to ferment.
All these methods using this heavy duty plastic to seal the silage in have a much lower cost than building a permanent concrete or steel silo (traditional silo, tall n skinny) but buying that plastic new each year is not cheap over time either, and there is a huge volume of plastic that has to be disposed of then each year too.
Most of the farms left are pretty big, and most seem to be doing the bunker or mound method lately...but with the amount of feed you need for these large herds, I dunno how else you'd do it really.

 

There snow here, about an inch, first of season

 

Just showed up at mu side job. Time to install some trim work. Did get to the disc golf store yesterday to pick up a couple new weapons.

 

We are supposed to have frozen mix/ snow tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to seeing it.

 

Farmer next door, dairy, does concrete bunker as brenndatomu described. Up here concrete has shortened those tubes are considered good short term but we are not NEO. Historicaly if you have a reasonably flat piece of land, out of flood plane and not a swamp etc, You build on it

 

Yeah but it’s a day off I got a wood stove and a cup of coffee; it’s pretty to look at

 

Looks like somebody kinda undid what I worked on yesterday and added to it. Supposed to get 3-5 more this evening/night. Luckily that'll melt away in a couple days.

 

Not a big fan of snow/winter but when snow comes and the leaves are still colorful. It's just so bright.

 

We had a tiny amount of snow overnight. Just enough to stick on the grass that all melted before noon. Once it melted, I was able to go out and haul and stack the trailer full of wood. Ash, black walnut and some 2 year dried honey locust. It is filling the far left bay. I should have enough wood on site that needs to be cut and split to fill the 4th of 5 rows per bay. I will need another cord after what I have on hand, but my buddy has a nice dead twin spar ash that will easily be a cord. That ash has to come down anyway before the carport for our boats goes up over Thanksgiving.

I picked the last few burdock plants that were by my bloomerang lilac bush. I put them in the empty trailer and I'll take those to the burn barrel when I go to fill the trailer up with splits again. I also went over to the neighbors yard and pulled the stinging nettles that grow on his yard in his ornamental grasses and the nettles droop into my yard and have hit me in the face and arms while mowing. That really sucks. So I go and pull these weeds when I can, because he is too lazy to pull them.