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kmack · 02-01-2023, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chew

Hoop Coop in progress!

Looks like the beginning of semi-portable deer blind!

LesterMc · 02-02-2023, 05:35 PM

Hey Chew
I just joined TBH last night and spent a while reading your story. I am from New Caney and have a place just down the road from you. (292 and 1511). You’ve done a lot of work. It looks good. We have a lot in common, Orange tractor, Mule, buying a lot of slag lately, and just completed rebuilding a Mobil home so we could move out of our 1 room cabin. I noticed your honey color was light. My grandad raised bees there and it was the darkest honey I’ve ever seen. I plan on pursuing it again one day as a hobby. I’m glad to see all the good advise and comments on your post. It’s nice to find a forum with good people.
Hope to meet you some day.

Chew · 02-02-2023, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by LesterMc

Hey Chew
I just joined TBH last night and spent a while reading your story. I am from New Caney and have a place just down the road from you. (292 and 1511). You’ve done a lot of work. It looks good. We have a lot in common, Orange tractor, Mule, buying a lot of slag lately, and just completed rebuilding a Mobil home so we could move out of our 1 room cabin. I noticed your honey color was light. My grandad raised bees there and it was the darkest honey I’ve ever seen. I plan on pursuing it again one day as a hobby. I’m glad to see all the good advise and comments on your post. It’s nice to find a forum with good people.
Hope to meet you some day.

This is great to hear. Love seeing like-minded people move up here. Looks like you're only about 10 miles or so from us. Give me a shout one day.

CabezaBlanca · 02-02-2023, 09:44 PM

Loving the hoop coop!

Chew · 02-03-2023, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by CabezaBlanca

Loving the hoop coop!

Thanks. It's been raining so much and so much bad weather that I haven't got to do much since that second video.

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Chew · 02-06-2023, 12:24 PM

Finally. Day 1 of the home build has arrived.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tSXIf9z4Mog?feature=share

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scott1022 · 02-06-2023, 02:38 PM

Heck yeah! Congratulations on the process. I hope the excitement that you feel right now carries through the entire build! I'm guessing that you've seen enough in your career that all of the unexpected changes that come with a home build won't bother you too much.

Chew · 02-06-2023, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by scott1022

Heck yeah! Congratulations on the process. I hope the excitement that you feel right now carries through the entire build! I'm guessing that you've seen enough in your career that all of the unexpected changes that come with a home build won't bother you too much.

Thanks! Yeah...we've already fired one builder, had weather delays, bank/title company delays on construction loan. Par for the course for us! No big deal. We are blessed, and know it. I'm sure there will be a lot more issues.

tps7742 · 02-06-2023, 05:34 PM

Congratulations on getting your home started. You will enjoy watching the progress each day since you live onsight. When we had our retirement home built in 2016 I was able to watch it being built. Find your square, level & ruler.

Again congrats.

Quackerbox · 02-06-2023, 06:49 PM

Congrats Bobby

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Texas Grown · 02-06-2023, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chew

Finally. Day 1 of the home build has arrived.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tSXIf9z4Mog?feature=share

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Congrats to you and Mary!

Chew · 02-13-2023, 06:23 PM

Quail update...

http://youtu.be/x3oYkhRYS4U

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Chew · 02-14-2023, 06:45 PM

House build resumed today. 18 loads of select fill with more coming tomorrow.

http://youtube.com/shorts/2nmLNa5kgkw?feature=share

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EarleyBird · 02-14-2023, 06:50 PM

Awesome!

Stolle · 02-15-2023, 09:25 AM

Looking good Bobby!

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Chew · 02-16-2023, 07:47 AM

About 30 more loads of select fill yesterday. Turning into the house on a hill...

http://youtube.com/shorts/IQSjEtsnpAE?feature=share

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sling shot · 02-16-2023, 09:03 AM

Glad to see this coming along Chew.

Chew · 02-17-2023, 01:08 PM

https://youtube.com/shorts/y5FUs7JRB18?feature=share

Crazy size of this pad...

tps7742 · 02-17-2023, 02:19 PM

Looking good Chew. I know y’all are excited about seeing the progress. That underbrush work you had done looks good.
As a suggestion when you do get your siding of choice on your home, until there is grass growing, to keep the dirt from splashing up on the sides during rains you can put hay around the base of it. I put down hay around ours to keep it from getting on the brick when it was new, but our 60/40 came from red dirt Nacogdoches County. We also had a significant slope on our pad also and it was poured about this time of year also. I tried all kinds of grass seed etc to keep it from washing off during heavy rains. I even tried terracing it with my blade/box blade without any luck. What finally stopped it was railroad ties until I got my permanent yard going good.

Chew · 02-17-2023, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tps7742

Looking good Chew. I know y’all are excited about seeing the progress. That underbrush work you had done looks good.
As a suggestion when you do get your siding of choice on your home, until there is grass growing, to keep the dirt from splashing up on the sides during rains you can put hay around the base of it. I put down hay around ours to keep it from getting on the brick when it was new, but our 60/40 came from red dirt Nacogdoches County. We also had a significant slope on our pad also and it was poured about this time of year also. I tried all kinds of grass seed etc to keep it from washing off during heavy rains. I even tried terracing it with my blade/box blade without any luck. What finally stopped it was railroad ties until I got my permanent yard going good.

Thanks for the info. How to exactly did you use the railroad ties?

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tps7742 · 02-17-2023, 07:06 PM

PM sent

Chew · 02-18-2023, 07:13 PM

More work this morning. They did some trenching and formwork.

http://youtube.com/shorts/VEdFPb3oZmM

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Texas Grown · 02-18-2023, 09:36 PM

. Now, you can actually visulize it.

MikeHombre · 02-20-2023, 09:24 AM

It's your place, call it what you want. Living the dream from what I see. Congrats!

Chew · 02-20-2023, 01:47 PM

Big elm tree going down.

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Chew · 02-20-2023, 04:51 PM

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Mexico · 02-20-2023, 05:47 PM

Hey Bobby I spent the weekend at my dad's place on his tractor picking up huge limbs and small trees that succumbed to the freeze. He's west of town on 7 about 8 miles or so. How bad did you guys get it?

Chew · 02-20-2023, 05:49 PM

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Hey Bobby I spent the weekend at my dad's place on his tractor picking up huge limbs and small trees that succumbed to the freeze. He's west of town on 7 about 8 miles or so. How bad did you guys get it?

Shane, it wasn't too bad. Lotta pine limbs. It sounded like a war with all the limbs breaking around us.

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Mexico · 02-20-2023, 05:53 PM

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Shane, it wasn't too bad. Lotta pine limbs. It sounded like a war with all the limbs breaking around us.

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That's what he said, sounded terrible. I think East of town did a lot better than West!

Your place is looking good amigo, good luck with that build!

Chew · 02-22-2023, 08:32 PM

Lots of technical jargon/plumbing terms that are probably over yalls' heads:

http://youtube.com/shorts/uKncWrH1zXs?feature=share

Chew · 02-26-2023, 07:02 PM

Garden work the last few days. Pulling roots, compost spreading, mushroom mulch delivered, 4 passes with the tiller.

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TeamAmerica · 02-26-2023, 07:12 PM

Retirement looks like hard work! But rewarding!

Chew · 02-26-2023, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by TeamAmerica

Retirement looks like hard work! But rewarding!

It's all the kind of work I like to do!

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Mitchell8 · 02-26-2023, 07:19 PM

Do you have enough deer and hogs around to warrant a fence around the garden? Think it more so depends on how domesticated they are. Neighborhoodish deer will tear it up hopefully your deer are wild enough to not come that close to the house. Looks good though that mushroom compost kicks butt.

Chew · 02-26-2023, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mitchell8

Do you have enough deer and hogs around to warrant a fence around the garden? Think it more so depends on how domesticated they are. Neighborhoodish deer will tear it up hopefully your deer are wild enough to not come that close to the house. Looks good though that mushroom compost kicks butt.

Deer are pretty wild. Hogs have been scarce but I just don't know if I can justify the expense of a fence for just in case. I'm sure I'll regret that decision at some point. Sounds like a good excuse to sit outside at night with a cold beer and a 22 mag

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Mitchell8 · 02-26-2023, 07:34 PM

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Deer are pretty wild. Hogs have been scarce but I just don't know if I can justify the expense of a fence for just in case. I'm sure I'll regret that decision at some point. Sounds like a good excuse to sit outside at night with a cold beer and a 22 mag

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I don’t like vegetables enough to fence mine either. Neighbor has about 1/4 acre garden with deer in the back pasture. Deer don’t mess with their garden much if at all but it’s out in the open. Good luck gardening on that scale is a full time job

Chew · 02-26-2023, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Mitchell8

I don’t like vegetables enough to fence mine either. Neighbor has about 1/4 acre garden with deer in the back pasture. Deer don’t mess with their garden much if at all but it’s out in the open. Good luck gardening on that scale is a full time job

Thanks. I have no idea what I'm doing so it ought to be interesting. In fact I'm making a YouTube video kind of making fun of all the technical terms and fancy implements and high dollar fertilizer. I'll post a link when I get through.

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Texas Grown · 02-26-2023, 07:59 PM

Run a couple strands hot wires around the garden. Might keep the deer and pigs out. Just a thought.

Chew · 02-26-2023, 08:05 PM

Fresh out of hot wire!

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EarleyBird · 02-26-2023, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Mitchell8

I don’t like vegetables enough to fence mine either. Neighbor has about 1/4 acre garden with deer in the back pasture. Deer don’t mess with their garden much if at all but it’s out in the open. Good luck gardening on that scale is a full time job

Hahaha, my wife made me work my juevos rancheros off building a fence around our garden/orchard and my whole thought was, "It's ok if they eat some."

And as far as having a big garden, my grandparents (both sides) always had a huge garden; my parents always had a huge garden too. I mostly hated it, growing up. Wife and I have always had a fairly small, non-wasteful garden until this year. She's planning the mother lode of gardens and I really just want to come home from work and not do anything else when I get here.

Chew · 02-28-2023, 07:17 PM

Picked up a new implement today to help maintain our roads, trails, and the 9+- acres that are cleared. So far so good. This Armstrong Ag LR-6 is seriously overbuilt compared to the other models I looked at. Kubota dealer ordered it from me and had it painted orange and put the optional stand on it so it will sit up right when not in use.

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louieagarcia · 02-28-2023, 07:43 PM

Looking good Bobby!

Rubi513 · 03-01-2023, 04:47 PM

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Garden work the last few days. Pulling roots, compost spreading, mushroom mulch delivered, 4 passes with the tiller.

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Who did you use to deliver the mulch?

Chew · 03-01-2023, 04:48 PM

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Who did you use to deliver the mulch?

I'll text u.

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Chew · 03-03-2023, 09:01 PM

Garden vid-ya

http://youtu.be/CIYateuQSSQ

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Chew · 03-08-2023, 08:23 AM

Feel like I've been working my whole life to see these trucks show up. Very blessed to be here with my wife watching our dreams come true. Long way from where we started! Looking forward to about 1600 square ft of porches!

https://youtube.com/shorts/_fl8zG3bXmk?feature=share

https://youtube.com/shorts/RNLoKHZisnc?feature=share

Quackerbox · 03-08-2023, 09:25 AM

That's cause you have!

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gonehuntin · 03-08-2023, 09:57 AM

Things are finally starting to roll on, keep the videos coming. Like a good home build to follow.

TeamAmerica · 03-08-2023, 11:46 AM

Great stuff. Lot of supervisors standing around!

Chew · 03-08-2023, 12:12 PM

They were the real workers. Waiting on the pour to be finished so they could smooth and polish

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02-20-2023, 09:24 AM	#1674
MikeHombre Nubbin' Buck Join Date: Feb 2023	It's a ranch It's your place, call it what you want. Living the dream from what I see. Congrats!

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02-02-2023, 05:35 PM	#1652
LesterMc Nubbin' Buck Join Date: Feb 2023 Location: NEW CANEY Hunt In: BUFFALO/FLO	Hey Chew I just joined TBH last night and spent a while reading your story. I am from New Caney and have a place just down the road from you. (292 and 1511). You’ve done a lot of work. It looks good. We have a lot in common, Orange tractor, Mule, buying a lot of slag lately, and just completed rebuilding a Mobil home so we could move out of our 1 room cabin. I noticed your honey color was light. My grandad raised bees there and it was the darkest honey I’ve ever seen. I plan on pursuing it again one day as a hobby. I’m glad to see all the good advise and comments on your post. It’s nice to find a forum with good people. Hope to meet you some day.

02-02-2023, 09:44 PM	#1654
CabezaBlanca Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Rock Island, TX Hunt In: Colorado County	Loving the hoop coop!

02-06-2023, 12:24 PM	#1656
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Finally. Day 1 of the home build has arrived. https://youtube.com/shorts/tSXIf9z4Mog?feature=share Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-06-2023, 02:38 PM	#1657
scott1022 Eight Point Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Lafayette, LA Hunt In: Louisiana	Heck yeah! Congratulations on the process. I hope the excitement that you feel right now carries through the entire build! I'm guessing that you've seen enough in your career that all of the unexpected changes that come with a home build won't bother you too much.

02-06-2023, 05:34 PM	#1659
tps7742 Pope & Young Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Texas Hunt In: East tx	Congratulations on getting your home started. You will enjoy watching the progress each day since you live onsight. When we had our retirement home built in 2016 I was able to watch it being built. Find your square, level & ruler. Again congrats.

02-06-2023, 06:49 PM	#1660
Quackerbox Pope & Young Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Magnolia Hunt In: The woods	Congrats Bobby Sent from my SM-G970U using Tapatalk

02-13-2023, 06:23 PM	#1662
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Quail update... http://youtu.be/x3oYkhRYS4U Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-14-2023, 06:45 PM	#1663
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	House build resumed today. 18 loads of select fill with more coming tomorrow. http://youtube.com/shorts/2nmLNa5kgkw?feature=share Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-14-2023, 06:50 PM	#1664
EarleyBird Pope & Young Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Leon County Hunt In: Home	Awesome!

02-15-2023, 09:25 AM	#1665
Stolle Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Spring, TX Hunt In: Sutton County	Looking good Bobby! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

02-16-2023, 07:47 AM	#1666
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	About 30 more loads of select fill yesterday. Turning into the house on a hill... http://youtube.com/shorts/IQSjEtsnpAE?feature=share Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-16-2023, 09:03 AM	#1667
sling shot Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Splendora	Glad to see this coming along Chew.

02-17-2023, 01:08 PM	#1668
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	https://youtube.com/shorts/y5FUs7JRB18?feature=share Crazy size of this pad...

02-17-2023, 02:19 PM	#1669
tps7742 Pope & Young Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Texas Hunt In: East tx	Looking good Chew. I know y’all are excited about seeing the progress. That underbrush work you had done looks good. As a suggestion when you do get your siding of choice on your home, until there is grass growing, to keep the dirt from splashing up on the sides during rains you can put hay around the base of it. I put down hay around ours to keep it from getting on the brick when it was new, but our 60/40 came from red dirt Nacogdoches County. We also had a significant slope on our pad also and it was poured about this time of year also. I tried all kinds of grass seed etc to keep it from washing off during heavy rains. I even tried terracing it with my blade/box blade without any luck. What finally stopped it was railroad ties until I got my permanent yard going good.

02-17-2023, 07:06 PM	#1671
tps7742 Pope & Young Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Texas Hunt In: East tx	PM sent

02-18-2023, 07:13 PM	#1672
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	More work this morning. They did some trenching and formwork. http://youtube.com/shorts/VEdFPb3oZmM Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-18-2023, 09:36 PM	#1673
Texas Grown Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Burleson, Texas	. Now, you can actually visulize it.

02-20-2023, 01:47 PM	#1675
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Big elm tree going down. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-20-2023, 04:51 PM	#1676
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-20-2023, 05:47 PM	#1677
Mexico Pope & Young Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Clear Lake Tx Hunt In: Old Mexico, Centerville Tx	Hey Bobby I spent the weekend at my dad's place on his tractor picking up huge limbs and small trees that succumbed to the freeze. He's west of town on 7 about 8 miles or so. How bad did you guys get it?

02-22-2023, 08:32 PM	#1680
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Lots of technical jargon/plumbing terms that are probably over yalls' heads: http://youtube.com/shorts/uKncWrH1zXs?feature=share

02-26-2023, 07:02 PM	#1681
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Garden work the last few days. Pulling roots, compost spreading, mushroom mulch delivered, 4 passes with the tiller. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-26-2023, 07:12 PM	#1682
TeamAmerica Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Dallas Hunt In: Corsicana (Navarro County)	Retirement looks like hard work! But rewarding!

02-26-2023, 07:19 PM	#1684
Mitchell8 Ten Point Join Date: Jul 2021 Location: College Station Hunt In: Anywhere	Do you have enough deer and hogs around to warrant a fence around the garden? Think it more so depends on how domesticated they are. Neighborhoodish deer will tear it up hopefully your deer are wild enough to not come that close to the house. Looks good though that mushroom compost kicks butt.

02-26-2023, 07:59 PM	#1688
Texas Grown Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Burleson, Texas	Run a couple strands hot wires around the garden. Might keep the deer and pigs out. Just a thought.

02-26-2023, 08:05 PM	#1689
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Fresh out of hot wire! Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk

02-28-2023, 07:17 PM	#1691
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Picked up a new implement today to help maintain our roads, trails, and the 9+- acres that are cleared. So far so good. This Armstrong Ag LR-6 is seriously overbuilt compared to the other models I looked at. Kubota dealer ordered it from me and had it painted orange and put the optional stand on it so it will sit up right when not in use.

02-28-2023, 07:43 PM	#1692
louieagarcia Pope & Young Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kingwood, Tx Hunt In: Planet Earth	Looking good Bobby!

03-03-2023, 09:01 PM	#1695
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Garden vid-ya http://youtu.be/CIYateuQSSQ Team Little Debbie Pro Staff

03-08-2023, 08:23 AM	#1696
Chew Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centerville, TX Hunt In: Leon County	Feel like I've been working my whole life to see these trucks show up. Very blessed to be here with my wife watching our dreams come true. Long way from where we started! Looking forward to about 1600 square ft of porches! https://youtube.com/shorts/_fl8zG3bXmk?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/RNLoKHZisnc?feature=share