Social Distancing - What's Everyone Doing?

[Winchester]

Sounds like you're going to have a lot of fun with that !

 

[dan maule]

I'm jealous, I have lots of cedar, spruce and pine that I have dreams of sawing up and building a cabin. Some day after the kids are out of college I hope to get one.

 

[THelms]

always wanted an overabundance of popular! LOL, sorry bro, couldn't resist.

 

[ColoradoV]

Been out shed hunting a few more times. Interesting how far my 8 year old can hike now and my 5 yr old loves to get out.

We also found a cool deadhead..

 

[cacklercrazy]

So this whole flattening the curve thing is reality now, like it or not. The only question remaining is, what is everyone doing? Here's my list.
1. Family Time
2. Packing to move into a new home
3. Trying to go fishing
4. Hikind and looking for antlers
5. Reading - All my books have been in storage for three years so I've been reading more digital media.
6. Trying to limit the amount of time I spend on Social Media.

We have a dairy, so same as always. Working hard and losing money. On a good note when I'm at the hospital farm by myself I take the calls to get some practice in. I love running Honker and speck calls.

 

[Hilltop]

Shooting my bow seriously now... Elk tag in pocket changes focus. What virus?

 

[mallardsx2]

Got this trailer for $500 from a guy. Power washed all of the mold and crap off of it, aired up the tires, tightened the castle nuts, greased the bearings and Just finished my last coat of used motor oil the other day.

 

[Winchester]

Only $500 ??!! Good deal !!

 

[mallardsx2]

I could easily sell this for 1500 but this is what I am going to put my portable sawmill on.

 

[Winchester]

It should work well for that.
You definitely got a great deal!

 

[mallardsx2]

FINAL TALLY:
3 Hydraulic hoses on the grapple bucket
Front tire came off the kubota tractor and filled the spindle and all of the bearings with mud (Thats a poor design...shame on Kubota)
1 Brake line on truck
1 blown trailer tire at 60 MPH
2 completely dull chainsaw chains.
3 black walnut trees had to die (Saving for the sawmill) and a copperhead snake for good measure.
80 gallons of diesel

 

[Bonecollector]

So you cut down all that brush just to find a copperhead and kill it...? Well....kudos to you. I hate those things too!
Maybe I missed it, but what are you doing out there?

 

[mallardsx2]

Clearing Land to build a house....

 

[Hilltop]

Started my one arrow per weekday routine today. Will shoot more on the weekends. This method has helped me a lot in previous years when I have been disciplined enough to do it. Starting off easy... I do random distances for the one a day. Today was 33 yards.

 

[kidoggy]

Clearing Land to build a house....

nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!congrats!
are you gonna build it or contract it out

 

[mallardsx2]

nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!congrats!
are you gonna build it or contract it out

Not 100% sure what we are going to do. Looking at steel houses right now.

 

[Winchester]

Sounds great mallards !
Are you building it to be your primary residence or for some other purpose?

 

[mallardsx2]

Primary residence. I am too far from work and we are running out of room for our animals and I dont have room for a big garage here. We are a year out from breaking any serious ground.

Right now I have a million irons in the fire. Its quite a rat race here.

$3500 worth of 4's (250 tons) coming in this week that needs to be re-scheduled if they ever want to see their delivery truck again...
Building permits
Clearing land
Septic Permits
water well
electric
Not to mention, everything else breaking and not going to plan...

Pretty standard.

 

[Winchester]

Whew … good luck mallards!!
Sounds like a ton of work but I'm sure it will all be worth it!!
Keep us posted on your progress