Video

You're a braver man than I!

Glyphosate 41% at qt per acre rate

All I do on the channel is share my experiences in habitat and hunting. Hope you find something you enjoy that helps you on your property!

Aspen doesn’t respond well to hinge cutting, and it’s fragile if hitting the ground hard. That was the reason for doing this type of cut. And then it backfired! ;)

Yessir. When swapping a field from cool season sod grass to warm season natives breaking it up is necessary. I've tried no tilling switch into killed sod but that stuff just doesn't give up easy.

Not sure if you watched the entire video or read the captions, but this is a time when I did not want to just notch and drop. I wanted the stem hung up on the stump to provide more horizontal cover in the area for deer. The tongue and groove technique is something used when you don’t want or can’t have the stem hit the ground.

@@HabitatProLLC l can see how that would work for dropping it in a tight condition like around houses. We don't get fancy in the woods. Deer will make their own way though the woods. A lot of times the deer will start using our logging roads.

In this video I used Measure Map Pro, but that's just a quick app I use when all I need is acreage of a polygon. It allows the user to travel the boundary of a plot dropping a gps track, and then closing that polygon into an area shape to give acreage. Now, all I use on client properties is a Northwoods Mapping PDF map running in Avenza Maps app on my phone. It has that same capability and also allows me to draw and export the entire design.

I have no idea what you meant to say, but Google Translate came up pretty funny. Thanks for Czech-ing in!

This shelterbelt travel corridor is fantastic Steve! It's amazing to see how deer in big ag country come like moths to a flame when you build things their way rather than the way of the farmer. Now if I could only get North Dakota folks to lay off the mowing...

This little saw has plenty of zip! I love it!

Here’s the feedback from the VP of Cuddeback on battery settings when using a solar panel. Hope it helps!

In the cam setup he chooses whatever the back is…so if it’s a 12AA cam, then chooses that. If it’s a 4D cam, then chooses that. With the 12AA back, he needs to use either no batteries in the camera or rechargeable batteries in the camera. With the 4D back, he needs to use alkaline batteries in the camera or no batteries in the camera.

I run cameras all year on full solar with no batteries in the camera.

@@HabitatProLLC nice.

I know someone who has a PW-3600 panel on a camera they haven't touched since October 4th, 2019...

Set to battery out. I think it’s gray. Not the yellow one from what I remember.

Thanks for the input. I’d love to see what’s actually going on at the molecular level. That kind of stuff is what my geek brain loves!

I’ve never experienced any residual control with that herbicide. If your switch is young, less than four leaves, you will sting it pretty good. Even mature, switch turns maroon in some cases for some reason. There’s really no predicting which switch plants take it hard and which plants tolerate it well.

So many options out there. Apps change so fast, you almost hesitate to do a video on it!

While I cannot give you exact advice without seeing the plot with my boots in it, if the Switchgrass is definitely Switchgrass, and is as tall as you say it is, you can spray Quinclorac at maximum labeled rate with MSO for your unwanted grasses. You won’t get them all but if you let them get much bigger, you won’t have much luck at all. I wouldn’t waste your time with reduced rates of chemical. Good luck sir!

Dirt in this area of Michigan grows some of the best early succession I’ve seen in the Midwest. If I tried to do that here in MN, we’d have nothing but Thistle. 😂

You are right on the money there, sir!

Of course, Chris! In fact, some of the Switchgrass varieties that were developed long ago came from Oklahoma or were developed in your state.

Thanks for the feedback Clint. Hope it helps in your neck of the woods! God bless!

@@HabitatProLLC I really don’t know what the problem is with the guy that commented before me four years ago. But I thought it was pretty straight up and easily understandable video. Continue on can’t wait to see more.

Little nuggets off the big food sources get hit hard!

This one has deer in it constantly. I wish it was easier to get to for the owner!

Thank you Mark. It was really fun to see Nick’s small property. I’m excited for him on his new one. I’m sure the hook will be a major part of it! Good luck, this habitat season sir!

Yes it’s pretty good. As a consultant, I am the first to tell my clients that pretty much any bird hunting outside of the spring turkey season involves invading your best cover at prime deer hunting times. Thankfully, we have enough public land around that also has good habitat that many of my clients who are bird hunters as well are able to leave their deer hunting properties alone for birds. Just have to help them assess their priorities. Some guys go for it just because they value their pheasant dog or two weeks of duck and grouse hunts more than four days of rifle season. For other guys, we design good pheasant habitat on the boundaries and then they can pound that for birds, but save their interior stuff for the finicky five year old buck. I never tell anybody how they need to use their property. However, I’m always honest about what will happen if they make this choice or that choice.

I’m convinced you could plant this stuff about 10 different ways 😂 I just wish it worked better and survived well up here in the north. Lots of money down the drain.

amzn.to/3HgRfgK

amzn.to/3XpB9Hx

amzn.to/3Xlabk8

Maximum labeled rate when weeds are young!

My contact info is at the end of my last couple vids sir!

Brand new food plots just carved out of the woods have no cover crop growing. It's bare dirt compacted by logging equipment. This area holds tons of turkeys as well, so there's no way a simple grain broadcast and cultipack over the top would have gotten that seed past those rats. Sometimes tillage is the best thing to do, and this was one of those times.

Switchgrass will do fine from 5.5-7.5 as most grasses will.

I can’t say I know the source, nor do I have any idea if they’ve actually selected better miscanthus. I will have a video update on this as I have some growing in northern Minnesota at my home-The long and short of it is that it might be worth further consideration for those at northern latitudes who have disposable income. It is still a zone five plant however, so if anyone is telling you it does well at northern latitudes they are probably trying to sell it. At least half of mine did not make it. I will be trying more this season. Subscribe for updates!

@@HabitatProLLC thanks for the in-depth answer!!!

Yes, this was a great timber harvest and drastically reduced the amount of maintenance we were doing trying to keep trails open after every wind came through and knocked down another 10 balsam fir.

I get a lot of comments from pro tree guys on that, but the logic doesn't pan out. If a saw is safe to use while hanging from a rope in a tree then it makes no sense to say it's unsafe with two feet on solid ground. This little saw is in my hands 95% of the time because it's got power and it doesn't suck the life out of my body carrying it around. I wouldn't suggest a novice do this cut, nor would I suggest a novice ever use a top handle saw.

@@HabitatProLLC I didn't use the world "safe" I said it's gotta be hard to use. As in, a lot of effort.

This little 201T is a dream to use, but not for the novice.

This client wanted to go for it. Some risks don’t work out, and this is one of those things up here in zone 3.

Yes

No it’s not, round up is known to cause lasting health effects not limited to different kinds of cancers, cardiovascular issues, and endocrine disruption not to mention it kills all the good bacteria in the soil.

Yessir! The only time to avoid is right when the sap is pushing up hard in spring. Good luck!

Easier to hold crosshairs on target. Keeps it the same for young shooters at shorter distances.

Because at three dollars per shell or more, I’m not going to figure out what the exact yardage is that each circle is zeroed at.

Deer love em!

Yes, there’s many things here that are not for the novice chainsaw person. I would say, even with a standard saw, not a top handle, most people shouldn’t even try a bore cut. Then you start screwing around with all these different angles you have to cut in there and it’s one of those things where you just know your strengths and stay in your lane. 😜 I don’t spend much time doing these cuts but every once in a while it’s fun to try again.

Yeah, this was back in my novice video production days when I didn’t know how to separate the soundtrack from the video track. Yikes!

If you are no till and the competition is killed off you go right ahead. If you are broadcasting I would get things all killed off and spread after soil temps dip below 50 in October of so.

Fun to try that’s for sure!

In general 1 lb per acre or 5 lbs per 100 gallons of water

You are probably correct. Stinger is potent and residual.

This is good feedback. Thanks for leaving it. Other folks can definitely take some of this and run with it on their properties. That’s what this channel is all about. Now with the new RC varieties, we also have new things to learn because it acts completely differently out of the gate than all the old unimproved varieties. It definitely deserves its own video.

Keep dropping them!

Yes for the most part. My clay soil is many times too hard to get much penetration with the 1200 lbs but I love that one planter can do dang near everything!

When you say "your spray chart", what are you referring to? Is the chart always with you? Which nozzle do you have in the spray heads? Do you have a coarse nozzle because you're using a chemical whose label calls for it? Are you using a fine nozzle because you have no wind and want better coverage? Did you remove the screens because you're using a thick chemical like Simazine? This video is for those who want to know how exactly how much chemical they are putting down with the setup and solution in the tank, especially when it's 125% the cost it was last year. I also have videos on how to run a germination test on your seed so you know how much of the bag we have left over from last year will grow. If you're one who wants to trust a chart written by ??? person in an office then you are welcome to. Be sure you have some extra chemical along with you in case you run out ;)

@@HabitatProLLC each sprayer and Nigel’s have charts already calculated and it makes it very easy to precisely calculate spraying. Not trying to argue, but as a certified applicator we certainly don’t pace off our spray patterns and run out gallons to figure out how much to spray. No need to reinvent the wheel, the math is all done..

The charts on my brand new sprayer are off by quite a bit. I'm glad I am using this method for accuracy. Way too many factors involved. Thanks

@@WC1978 it’s math only way they can be off is if you have one of the factors wrong. Right speed with right nozzle pressure equals gpm. No way around it not being accurate

Let us know how it turned out. Now that we have the new RC varieties it’s probably time for another “only video you’ll ever need” because that stuff acts completely different! 🤷‍♂️