Texas Spring/Summer Thread

   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #341  
I live about 15miles from ********* and wild hogs are plentifull around here. Here is some of there destructionView attachment 266808. I was able to get 2 behind my house last week,biggest we have shot is 450lbs on our place. It is a constant battle with them in the hay meadows and pastures, I am always dragging and fixing there mess...Total kill in one year between us and the neighbor was over a 100 pigs

Yep, I have seen that near our place we had near Hico Texas, but that is the worst I have seen coverage wise ( your photo). I have heard they are the worst in East and Southeast Texas. I would be extremely PO'd to see my hay field like that!
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #342  
Dennis they are a real problem here. They come out of the many creeks at night to do their destruction. It's a constant battle and the only good one is a dead one. I never see a sow that doesn't have a litter in tow.

Charlie
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #343  
I live about 15miles from ********* and wild hogs are plentifull around here. Here is some of there destructionView attachment 266808. I was able to get 2 behind my house last week,biggest we have shot is 450lbs on our place. It is a constant battle with them in the hay meadows and pastures, I am always dragging and fixing there mess...Total kill in one year between us and the neighbor was over a 100 pigs

Hogs seem to have dwindled some since the guy started buying them. We have a creek border on one place and another is surrounded on three sides by paper co. land. Used to see a lot of hogs.

Lots of people must have built pen traps and started hauling the hogs in.

We haven't caught a hog in the regular trap in many months, maybe a year.

Hate to hear your still having a problem.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #344  
Hogs seem to have dwindled some since the guy started buying them. We have a creek border on one place and another is surrounded on three sides by paper co. land. Used to see a lot of hogs.

Lots of people must have built pen traps and started hauling the hogs in.

We haven't caught a hog in the regular trap in many months, maybe a year.

Hate to hear your still having a problem.

The trappers moved and on since they wasnt getting anymore,well now they have moved back in,thats the Leona place. At the house been tearing hay meadow up,have hog traps set but they are smart,only ones been getting is with spot light and 30-06...
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #345  
Jim, I can certainly understand your worries over buying such a large hunk of machinery hoping that you won't be it's last owner. While I don't know much "intricate" knowledge of old machines, most were meant to last excepting for wear and tear and typical hydraulic headaches.

I'd recommend you find a retired heavy equipment mechanic and PAY him for his time (maybe a c note and a meal) to go inspect such equipment. This could payoff big to keep you out of finanncial potholes that can totally sink old 45K lb machines.

There is also the hire it done mentality but we all know you like to DIY!!!

Wouldn't it be cool (since we have so many members), if we could somehow buy and sell an oldie but goodie in a good samaritan style from 1 member to the next?

Oh and back on subject, we need rain again here for the corn and hay. Maybe 20% chance on Thur, but I'm not holding my breath. I think we are back in a drought. :mad: We prayed about it at church today.
 
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Oh and back on subject, we need rain again here for the corn and hay. Maybe 20% chance on Thur, but I'm not holding my breath. I think we are back in a drought.

Yes, we really need rain. I was surprised when I learned from the city's website last Sunday (week ago today) that they removed the 2 day a week landscape watering restrictions the previous Wednesday (5/16/12). So after mowing, edging, and trimming yesterday, I really ran up my water bill.:(
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #347  
Kyle, I have guy up the road from me who used to run a dozer service and his family has owned lots of dozers. He said I could hire him to go look at any dozer I might consider. However, after listening to Eddie Walker, I think owning and operating a dozer can be a real challenge. I'm starting to believe I should just find one with a cab and a/c to cut down on the dust and heat. I'll still have a bone-shaking ride, but I'll do it in comfort. The problem with that is that it puts another $6k-10k onto the price. With the stock market in a downturn lately, I'm not going to be buying anything too quickly. I was hopeful when the Dow was 13.5k and going toward 14k, but at less than 12.5k, I'm lookin' for ways to maintain without scraping any of the "honey" off the top.:(
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #348  
Kyle, I have guy up the road from me who used to run a dozer service and his family has owned lots of dozers. He said I could hire him to go look at any dozer I might consider. However, after listening to Eddie Walker, I think owning and operating a dozer can be a real challenge. I'm starting to believe I should just find one with a cab and a/c to cut down on the dust and heat. I'll still have a bone-shaking ride, but I'll do it in comfort. The problem with that is that it puts another $6k-10k onto the price. With the stock market in a downturn lately, I'm not going to be buying anything too quickly. I was hopeful when the Dow was 13.5k and going toward 14k, but at less than 12.5k, I'm lookin' for ways to maintain without scraping any of the "honey" off the top.:(

There is a place over by Eddie that usually keeps some clean dozers southwest equip. I see them everytime go and visit my grandmother.

southwestdozer.com
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #349  
Kyle, I have guy up the road from me who used to run a dozer service and his family has owned lots of dozers. He said I could hire him to go look at any dozer I might consider. However, after listening to Eddie Walker, I think owning and operating a dozer can be a real challenge. I'm starting to believe I should just find one with a cab and a/c to cut down on the dust and heat. I'll still have a bone-shaking ride, but I'll do it in comfort. The problem with that is that it puts another $6k-10k onto the price. With the stock market in a downturn lately, I'm not going to be buying anything too quickly. I was hopeful when the Dow was 13.5k and going toward 14k, but at less than 12.5k, I'm lookin' for ways to maintain without scraping any of the "honey" off the top.:(

As you know the DOW JONES INDEX is made up of only 30 companies of which many people have no stock. People really get hyper over the DOW going up and down but for most folks investments the NASDAQ is a better indicator of what is happening to their money in some portfolio they are involved in. Never the less the DOW was 13.4 a few years ago so the growth of money invested then hasn't been squat, But what has? Not CD interest, Not real estate. If you figure in the inflation the question you here about being better off than x years ago has to make common sense, at least in my humble opinion.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #351  
Yep! I think I see a lot of their machines on craigslist.



I see them on 155 south of Tyler when I go to Noonday. Their Stuff looks clean and nice from the ads and from the road driving by. They have a nice building and look like they have been in business a while.

Don't know anyone who has done business with them.


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   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #352  
Yep, I have seen that near our place we had near Hico Texas, but that is the worst I have seen coverage wise ( your photo). I have heard they are the worst in East and Southeast Texas. I would be extremely PO'd to see my hay field like that!

Dennis,
How about a few more of these for your place? Free shipping:laughing:
A couple days ago my wife spotted chicken feathers on the ground under a Blue Bird box next to the garden that was being used by a couple swallows. The chicks have been hatched for a few days and keeping the parents busy feeding.
She said it looks like a coon has been trying to pull chicks from that nest.
We set the trap that night and got one and got another last night. May be 3-4 to go. Jinman's fence wouldn't keep these guys out of the garden so I'm glad they are showing up now as the garden is just getting started. The swallows haven't abandoned the other chicks so all is well.
Do you have much of a coon problem in Texas?
Ron
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #353  
Ron,
Coons can sure be a pest. I wouldn't say we have a "problem", but they can be a "problem":) The only time they pose an issue for me, is when I have something they want, like corn at the deer feeder. I have had them get in my garden 3 years ago (after the corn) and used the same remedy your using.

I don't know if their is a fence that will keep out a determined coon, maybe one in combination with claymores and other incendiaries!! I use the trap and .22 method
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #354  
Well they "bumped" the chance up to 40% this evening and the way the radars looking, we may get a good rain. Hopefully none of the large hail thats possible with this one.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #355  
Well the rain came and it was a windy, loud one, but I am now the proud owner of just under 1-1/2" of new water:thumbsup: I'm so thankful, I think I'll go fish'n:D
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #356  
Well the rain came and it was a windy, loud one, but I am now the proud owner of just under 1-1/2" of new water:thumbsup: I'm so thankful, I think I'll go fish'n:D

Outstanding!! Prayer does work. Now don't be selfish send some our way.

The radar looks like it might make it to us.

Charlie
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #357  
Well the rain came and it was a windy, loud one, but I am now the proud owner of just under 1-1/2" of new water:thumbsup: I'm so thankful, I think I'll go fish'n:D

Thats wonderfull news ... I knew if I turned on my irrigation it would make it rain (some where)

Still showing chances today thru Thursday ... Keeping the irrigation running in hopes of rain.
 
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Well the rain came and it was a windy, loud one, but I am now the proud owner of just under 1-1/2" of new water:thumbsup: I'm so thankful, I think I'll go fish'n:D

Wow, we only got about .48" although I see the NWS says Denton got .55", but I'm thankful for that amount here, and no wind.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #359  
My grass and I have two happy faces.:) My garden and my wife (who is doing most of the work this year) are also all smiles.:D We got about 1/2" up here. Not as much as Dennis, but enough to give things a really good soaking. I don't even care if my drained pond caught a little water. I'll just pump it dry again. I was in it yesterday, and it is very solid with 6" of mud or less in most areas. It hasn't "lived" long enough to have a lot of silt.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #360  
Wow, we only got about .48" although I see the NWS says Denton got .55", but I'm thankful for that amount here, and no wind.

I must have moved to Texas in my sleep.
It has not rained here in 16 days and the temp has been 93 for the past 3.
A slight chance today but it looks like it will be north of us.
 

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