dragoneggs
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JK, you cease to amaze me!
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Wakey
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Glad things are going well and I don’t blame you for unplugging from social media etc.
Speaking of unplugging, nice solar setup. What kind of batteries did you go with?
Speaking of unplugging, nice solar setup. What kind of batteries did you go with?
System is grid tied so no battery backup. Any overproduction is issued as a credit onto our bill at the end of each month. They installed smart meter that tracks both forward and reverse so consumption and production is totaled daily. If I'm using exactly what I'm producing then meter is static. If not then it moves forward or in reverse accordingly. If I sized the system correctly we should accrue enough credit to offset our bills in the winter when production is down.
Current pic of the pond from the tree stand.
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As you can see still has a long way to go. I'm finally getting around to working around the pond again. Spent the last several days hauling logs from one of the piles around the pond and getting it split. I've also started cleaning up around the surrounding timber. Clearing out the crap trees and leaving some of the nicer oaks and mature trees. Should get sunlight to the ground so natural grasses can take root and improve runoff. Also going to try to get some clay into the bottom of the 2nd ravine that is untouched. Pretty sure this is my problem area. Will post some pics as progress is made.
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2021-12-20_05-39-03As you can see still has a long way to go. I'm finally getting around to working around the pond again. Spent the last several days hauling logs from one of the piles around the pond and getting it split. I've also started cleaning up around the surrounding timber. Clearing out the crap trees and leaving some of the nicer oaks and mature trees. Should get sunlight to the ground so natural grasses can take root and improve runoff. Also going to try to get some clay into the bottom of the 2nd ravine that is untouched. Pretty sure this is my problem area. Will post some pics as progress is made.
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Making some good progress on firewood production. I've completely cleared one of my 3 log piles and turned it into firewood. Mostly oak and a small amount of black locust. I have 8 empty totes left at the moment. As soon as I can get these finished up will turn my focus back to clearing around the pond.
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2021-12-22_01-52-292021-12-22_12-54-472021-12-22_12-54-23Saving the best stuff for last. It's rough on chains and not very straight but nothing else burns as hot or holds a coal bed like it.
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dodge man
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Osage Orange? I assume you burn wood? That would last me several years.
Yes on Osage orange. Will propably have 3 years worth of wood. Maybe 4 if I fill the rest of my empty totes.
dragoneggs
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Wow... lots of hard work! I would sure enjoy some of that Osage for turning. Too bad I am not an easy drive from you.
We have plenty of it here. More than I will ever process.
No. It filled about half way then slowly lost water down to about 2 feet. Currently at about 4 feet deep with about 5 feet to go. The water loss seems to have stopped. Dam is good. No leakage on it. I think the problem area is the 2nd untouched ravine. Rocky or sand bottom and losing water when the water pushes into it. I'm hoping to get some clay packed into the bottom of it to shore it up this spring. We also lost a lot of runoff area, probably 60%, when our neighbor terraced his hay pasture and diverted the runoff around me for some reason. Dry here as well. No decent rain for several months.
ovrszd
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All new structures "leak" for awhile until everything gets compressed and sealed. Got a neighbor that finished a large structure mid Summer. It's maybe 1/4 full. That sucks about your neighbor's terrace system. You'd have thought he'd direct it toward you. I was down in the timber yesterday with my 2wd TLB clearing some scrub brush. It's very dry. Makes digging stumps easier, very little dirt clings to them. Hoping we don't try to catch up in the next couple months with snow..... Merry Christmas Jeremy.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. Enjoying the 60 degree weather here today.
Have made some progress cleaning up the timber around the pond. For the first time since we purchased the property you can walk this area now.
Here's a before pic of what the timber looks like.
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Couple of pics after a few days dropping and piling trees. This one looking uphill away from the pond.
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This one looking toward the pond. You can see the pond now in the background.
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Here's a before pic of what the timber looks like.
2021-12-24_11-07-40 Couple of pics after a few days dropping and piling trees. This one looking uphill away from the pond.
2021-12-24_11-08-18This one looking toward the pond. You can see the pond now in the background.
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Kyle_in_Tex
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Jeremy, my friend has a 70hp takeuchi and I told him how you put on new tracks, and said it made a huge difference. He got a new set in, and he's welding up the worn out rollers, and turning them down to size. In the meantime, he bought the biggest tracksteer takeuchi makes and says it's a beast.
Kyle_in_Tex
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And Merry Christmas!
I bet it is. That TL12 is a big machine at almost 13k lbs. About the only one bigger is the new Case TV620B which tops 16,000 lbs. Glad that helped him with his tracks. And Merry Christmas everyone. We are flying out day after Christmas for vacation if we don't get caught up in all the flight cancellations.
EddieWalker
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I bet you doubled your watershed by cleaning up all that brush from around those trees!!!
