How many acres do you own?

[workinonit]

I live on 110 acres of farm land my dad and I bought in 1980 in South Carolina and I own all of now. I built my house in 1996 to 1998. Cut the trees of the place and sawed the lumber for the house. I have a large farmer friend that farms the row crop on about 30 acres of it. 4 acres I just fenced in for garden and my house is on 4 acres or so of pasture that I cut for grass. The rest is woods. Taxes for the 110 acres and house is less than $700 a year.

 

[oosik]

Sounds like diving is allowed off your banks Mr. Oosik! That would be amazing, to have that kind of depth in a pond...

Any fish? (Just asking for a friend )

Look on the very left side of the picture. That is the very highest cliff around the lake. That is the NW side of the lake. My son and his friend use to dive/jump off that cliff. There is a rope - so they could pull themselves back up. It drove my wife crazy - watching the kids do this. Now my son is 50+ and says he can't understand how he had the courage. The cliff edge is 42 feet above the water.

Fish - Yes, right now it's large and small mouth bass. I find it amazing to sit on the cliff and watch the schools of bass as they make a circuit of the lake. The schools are gradated. Smallest in the lead - medium sized make up the middle - lunkers in the rear.

We usually get a pair of river otters visit every winter. They make a "belly slide". High up on the side and down one of the few small valley - out onto the ice. It fun to watch them. They will do it for an hour or so. Then they get down to business. They don't just come for the sliding fun. They enjoy the bass also.

They will make a hole in the ice. Next to the cattails where the ice is thin. They will catch 4 or 5 bass and then sun themselves on the ice as they enjoy eating the bass. Hold the bass in their two front feet and munch away. Sound like a kid munching on a dry icecream cone.

They will stay four or five days. Then gone - like a wisp of smoke. No idea where the come from or where they go. We are a good 30 mile south of the nearest river - Spokane river.

WA State game biologist says they are river otters. He might be mistaken - they could be lake otters.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I live on 110 acres of farm land my dad and I bought in 1980 in South Carolina and I own all of now. I built my house in 1996 to 1998. Cut the trees of the place and sawed the lumber for the house. I have a large farmer friend that farms the row crop on about 30 acres of it. 4 acres I just fenced in for garden and my house is on 4 acres or so of pasture that I cut for grass. The rest is woods. Taxes for the 110 acres and house is less than $700 a year.

Damn, 4 acre garden? Do you sell produce? Last year was my first garden, maybe 100 square feet. LOL...

 

[oosik]

Ha, ha. Our first garden was 80x120. This was before all the critters found it. We planted 14 hills of zucchini. Wife and I made - zucchini EVERYTHING. Took several loads to work and give them to the work crew.

It was a great garden. Everything grew so well. I even planted a row of Kohlrabi. Looked like little green Martians. I enjoyed the garden. I DID NOT like doing the work and having the critters eat it all.

I think the final straw - the wife came ROARING in the house. "Do you know what those @#$% chipmunks have done?". They had eaten every one of her strawberries. Just before they became ripe.

 

[ultrarunner]

Ha, ha. Our first garden was 80x120. This was before all the critters found it. We planted 14 hills of zucchini. Wife and I made - zucchini EVERYTHING. Took several loads to work and give them to the work crew.

It was a great garden. Everything grew so well. I even planted a row of Kohlrabi. Looked like little green Martians. I enjoyed the garden. I DID NOT like doing the work and having the critters eat it all.

I think the final straw - the wife came ROARING in the house. "Do you know what those @#$% chipmunks have done?". They had eaten every one of her strawberries. Just before they became ripe.

Reason my cousin bought an old greenhouse for almost nothing but the labor to move and set up.

No more critter problems and extended growing season...

 

[Semper Paratus]

We own 26 acres in New Kent County VA. On a reservoir, House (under construction) lot is about 1 acre, the future orchard area is about 1/2 acre and the equipment storage/parking are is about 1/8 acre. 800' of gravel road, all of this in a cut over area. Of the remaining 20+ about half is in plantation pine and half in second growth. Turkey and deer abound. The terrain is plenty steep to serve as a natural backstop out to about 200m for shooting.

 

[MoKelly]

We have 80 acres in rural MO near STL on the Big River.

50 acres are farmed by a neighbor raising feed corn and beans.

20 acres are woods.

10 acres are grass and hay.

I’ve got a 35 HP Bobcat tractor and 2 Zero turn mowers.

All is good except in Spring when it seems it’s impossible to keep up with road weeds (gravel road about 1/2 mile) and mowing due to rains/wet areas. By June all is back to normal.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

My farm is about 112 acres, I use for cows and hay, my hunting camp over on the Gulf coast is 3.5 acres of mostly pine and Live oaks, it's right across the road from the hunting club that I am in it's 96,000 acres.

 

[workinonit]

Damn, 4 acre garden? Do you sell produce? Last year was my first garden, maybe 100 square feet. LOL...

That's what I just finished putting 8' fence around. The plan is to start selling some stuff when I quit work but for now the plan is to give away what we don't need.

 

[John_Mc]

My farm is about 112 acres, I use for cows and hay, my hunting camp over on the Gulf coast is 3.5 acres of mostly pine and Live oaks, it's right across the road from the hunting club that I am in it's 96,000 acres.

A hunting club that owns 96,000 acres?! That's one hell of a club!

 

[Torvy]

23 in the Blackhills of South Dakota. Heavily forested in aspen, birch and ponderosa pine.

Nice! We'll be up your way once or twice in the next month or so. Family near Sturgis branding later this month.

Dad will be interred at the BH National Cemetery once he passes. (In hospice).

I love that area.

 

[Torvy]

We have just under 20 acres. Most of it is pine plantation. About 1/2 acre of house and building space. Easements are really the only parts that aren't wooded.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

A hunting club that owns 96,000 acres?! That's one hell of a club!

It's actually owned by a timber company and we just lease it from them, they own close to 400,000 acres in three county's and there are several other hunting clubs that lease the rest of it. The land was owned by the Foley family prior to being sold about 7 or 8 years ago and was reportedly the largest single land aquisition ever East of the Mississippi, also years ago the family donated 10's of thousands of acres to the State of Florida to supposedly protect the coast from development which amounts to about 20 miles of coast line.

 

[Citydude]

Nice! We'll be up your way once or twice in the next month or so. Family near Sturgis branding later this month.

Dad will be interred at the BH National Cemetery once he passes. (In hospice).

I love that area.

Sorry to hear about your dad. That cemetery is beautiful.

Our house will be built this summer on the place we have there. Excited and stressed at the same time. It's located between Deadwood and Spearfish.

 

[1Mech]

We have a 1/2 acre city lot n Sand Springs, Oklahoma, were we currently reside and 9.25 acres in Yellville, Arkansas we will be building on and moving to hopefully later this year. Waiting on permits to be approved.
The property has two creeks, one seasonal, the other spring fed, runs year round, forming the north and east boundries. Big hill to the west, blocking road noise and no visible neighbors, yet, we are in the city limits. Nice, quiet and isolated, our retirement place.

 

[East30]

We've got 70 acres, abutting to our 1.5 acre house lot. The 70 acres is used primarily for hunting. 30 acres of grass, half of that, bluestem. 3-acre and 1-acre food plots and 1/2-acre garden. 25 acres wooded, with a 10-acre pond in the middle of the woods. We spend pretty much each spring planting 100 to 200 spruce trees to develop better habitat for our tasty wild critters.

 

[tradosaurus]

45 acres. 38 acres wooded.

 

[tradosaurus]

I just added 70 acres to my arsenal, (I just bought my parents) so now I am a proud owner of 140 acres...

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Interesting boundary. Can you own half of a lake?

 

[tradosaurus]

my tax receipt states 126800 square meters. its somewhat confusing up here as people will use either arpents (old french measure) acres or hectares (metric). 90% is wooded, sad thing is its 61 metres wide by 2158 long.

So 31 acres.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Interesting boundary. Can you own half of a lake?

yes but no... Its complex and not entirely sure on the limitation of the law and how each would work, but I know that I do not own the fish (wildlife within the lake), it is my proprety and my proprety line but I am not sure if I could restrict access on water (or ice), since there is laws such as Navigable water rights, I definitely own the land below the water but I am not sure if I own the water per say. (my guess is no as water is public)

Regardless I am not worried I never seen anyone on this lake, it is too shallow for a motor boat and not a good fishing lake ether.

I guess it ownership with limitation...