Gleaton Chip Ranch Updates

[bgleaton]

More Mulching Pics...

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[Tex1986]

How long did it take him to do the work? I'm trying to figure out how long it would take to make a road through a hardwood river bottom. Ours is thin in some areas but it gets a little thicker in others.

[kdkane1971]

Great looking place!

[bgleaton]

Last of the Cedar Mulching...

Here are the final pictures of the clearings that Britt did for us. I can't say how impressed we were with how fast he was able to clear/mulch. We will definitely be using him on an annual basis to help clear cedars strategically to help improve our habitat for deer.

















He was able to do all of this clearing for us in about 35 hours total. We had to find other areas for him to clear because he was blowing through it quicker than we anticipated. He's a great guy and very reasonable. In fact, we couldn't make it out to our place due to a family emergency to meet Britt to show him around, but he was very understanding. We sent him a map of our place and he was able to do everything we wanted and he texted us pictures of each clearing as he went along.

[hammer63]

Love what you've done with the place!

[bgleaton]

Thanks!

I contacted Turner Seed to get their thoughts about broadcasting native seed over the new mulch and they are afraid that none of the seed would get down to the soil. I would have thought that the spring rains would help push the seeds through the mulch and into the soil. Here's what the range seeding mixture is for Schleicher county, which is the county just west of us:
Grass Species Pounds Pure Live Seed / Acre (PLS)
Plains Bristlegrass 1.2
Sand Dropseed 0.5
Sideoats Grama 4.5
WW Spar Bluestem 0.75
Blackwell Switchgrass 1.4
Sorghum alum 0.5
Total: 8.85

I still may try to broacast a similar native seed mixture just to see what happens. I would think that the seed would eventually make it down to the ground/soil.

[TJShockler]

great lookin place

[bgleaton]

Cedar Mulching...

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[bgleaton]

If any of you guys need some clearing or mulching, we definitely recommend Britt Saha. He has a tree shear, a mulcher and a grubber for his bobcat so he can pretty much do it all. We will probably have him come out every year and mulch some meandering lanes throughout the property to help improve the ranch over time.

[DocHolliday]

Impressive work all around. Congratulations!

PM sent, I think I know some of your family.

[bgleaton]

2/6/2017 Update

Well, we haven't seen a lot of the nicer 3.5 to 5.5yr olds, but I'm hoping that we will see them on camera within the next month or so. There were 3 really nice 4.5yr old 10pt's that we were really excited to see over the next couple of years. I'm really hoping they didn't get shot by the neighbors, but if they did that's out of our control. I'm also seeing bucks still chasing does on camera. I'm not sure that's bc we still have too many does or what's going on here. I would prefer the bucks stop chasing and start recovering a little more. We shot 9 does on our place this year, but unfortunately I don't think the neighboring landowners shot many does this year. Here are some recent trail cam pictures:














Here's to hoping some of our nicer 3.5/4.5yr olds didn't get shot.

[DUKFVR]

Y'alls place is looking great!

[bgleaton]

Weird Picture of a Doe

What do you guys think happened to this doe? I have three pics of her and she is definitely favoring that front right leg. I'm not sure what if those are bones you can see above her shoulder or what's going on with her.





Let me know what yall think.

[bgleaton]

2/23/17 Update

We received 1.75in of rain on 2/21 and 1.25in on 2/14, so the months of January and February have been the wettest we've had since we purchased our place. We received a little over 2in for January and right at 3in for February. I hope the rain continues into and through the Spring.

We picked up 1,100lbs of cottonseed from Cape & Son's (Waco location) and filled up the 3 cottonseed feeders yesterday. Things are really starting to green up down there with this mild month of February. The food plots aren't doing so well due to cattle and deer grazing, but they are still green - better than nothing.

Here is a picture of one of the plots. You can see the plot in the background.

[Bone Thug]

Looking real good. Nice work!!!!