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Little Woods Season 1: Episode 11- Turkey edition #1 of 2
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Jake, T-bird, Drew and Whitt get caught back up before indulging in talk about turkey hunting.
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Return and Scheduling Challenges
00:00:17
Speaker
all right all right all right welcome welcome little words episode 11 it's been about a month it feels like maybe longer is this what a podcast feels like jake i don't know y'all been uh y'all been leaving me hanging we've been ready to podcast it's just all the timing's been off i'm telling you the inner favorite word is just busy uh you come valentine's day and everybody's trying to dodge having a baby um and then
00:00:45
Speaker
We rolled into that month.
End of Duck Season and Introductions
00:00:47
Speaker
It's kind of one of the most depressing months of the year, personally. So we're done with duck season. The geese have left. There's nothing to shoot there. Um, you know, you're starting to try to catch a fish a little bit early. Basically you're just out there getting real cold for no reason. Crows are still flying good. I know the crows are out.
00:01:10
Speaker
We got them around, but nah, this, hey, like everybody, if you're new to us, Little Woods Outdoors, my name's Whit. Tonight on the mic, I got Jacob out in Fort Smith. Tyler Burchfield graced us with his presence. Thank God he finally made it. He's out of his closet this time, so. Whoa, that didn't sound right, did it?
00:01:33
Speaker
but Tyler's up there in Fayetteville area. And then we got Drew and Dessert. Drew might get cut off. That internet still ain't good. But in previous episodes, we've experienced that, but we'll see what happens. They had better internet in the pyramids than Drew's got in Dessert. No kidding. I'm still working on my bag phone right now. I thought I heard a knoll tone. They said King Tut had Wi-Fi in his.
Running Out of Podcast Topics?
00:02:05
Speaker
Oh, that's too good. That's too good. Jokes on you, Drew. Jokes on you. But I'm glad all y'all made it out.
Unpredictable Weather and Tick Encounter
00:02:16
Speaker
We got quite a bit to talk about. Sounds like when you're doing a podcast series, if you do it weekly, you kind of run out of topics almost. It's like eventually you're talking about the same thing over and over.
00:02:32
Speaker
The end of this last month has been pretty eventful, even though it's been depressing. I mean, it's been raining. It's been cold. It got hot for a little while. I mean- Yeah, that fall spring. That fall spring. Well, I mean, the groundhog come out. He said it was gonna be a couple more weeks of winter. I didn't believe him though. Well, I already got a tick stuck to my butt cheek on those two warm days, so I could do away with the heat.
Tyler's Baby's Birthday and Turkey Hunting
00:03:04
Speaker
It's not cover all weather, that's for sure. It's always over all weather though. But with an all good and fun, I mean, what?
00:03:14
Speaker
What have you guys been up to, Tyler? It's been a little bit since we had you
Whit Gets His Tractor Stuck
00:03:18
Speaker
on. I know you got something good. Yeah, not a lot. I had babies first birthday today, so that was a little bit of a celebration. Other than that, working on some food plots, kind of getting ready for the fall, getting ready for some turkey hunting. Whit, I want you to talk about the disc situation. I'm going to go in and bring that up right now.
00:03:44
Speaker
Let's just jump out and do it. I really thought there wasn't going to be anybody in this world know about me getting that thing stuck like that. But then my wife took a picture. She thought it was funny and sent it out. Next thing I know the whole countryside knows I'm buried up. But you know, a little backstory. So this last year I got a tractor. I grew up on a farm. I got tired of borrowing my dad's stuff because
00:04:13
Speaker
Well, he ain't real nice about me borrowing anything. So I figured I'd just buy my home. That's the best way to put it. The game more than the hicker planes. He don't like sharing equipment. So I got my own tractor and I thought I was hot stuff. And we got us a new disc. We drug out of the weeds and got an operation on it.
00:04:38
Speaker
And in my mind, and I know everybody else out there is the same way as me, the end of February, like I've mentioned it, it just, there's not much you can do, but just wait for the next hunting season. Uh, you know, you spend time with family, do this and that, but at some point you just get bored in the house.
Tractor Troubles and Creative Solutions
00:04:57
Speaker
Well, I caught about three dry days and I got that just stuck big time. It wasn't dry yet.
00:05:06
Speaker
Was it stuck before or after the tire and wheel fell off? Well, whole story kind of starting from the beginning. So I go up there. We got this new disc. My full intentions were, you know, just get it to my house. My dad, I asked him, I said, you got it. Is it ready to go? He said, yeah, yeah, that's ready to go. Go hook up to it. So I hooked up to it.
00:05:34
Speaker
It's got a hydraulic cylinder on it. I hooked that up. I mean, lifted it up. Disc is good. I'm ready to go. Start jerking it down the highway. It's about three miles to my house, all right? That three mile ride down the highway, my wife's following me. Make sure I don't get run over. Make it fine. I drive down the driveway. I'm like, man, it's pretty dry out. All I'd been on was concrete and gravel road at that point, right?
00:06:05
Speaker
So I was like, well, I'll just, I just gotta test it out. I just, it was eating me up. I was bored. I needed something to do, but I started behind the house. Behind my house, I got 160 acres of what used to be beautiful tall pine trees. They're planted back a whole three, four years before I was born. And then they got clear cut probably nine years ago.
00:06:32
Speaker
Now it's up in voluntary pines and I was, just had some dozer work done where I had fire break cut around it. So I just was gonna disc this fire break. Well, I didn't make it very far down the first lane and about that time I let the disc down and I was discing, it was going good. And all of a sudden I looked back and I'm dragging the disc real, cause the tractor started to bog down on me and I looked back
00:06:59
Speaker
Whole right side of that disc is just burying up, just trying to just cut as far as it can. I mean, it's a big old cutting disc. This ain't something that a 75 horsepower tractor really needs to be dragging anyways. Yeah, I found out on farming simulator. Yeah. Yeah. Farming simulator didn't have nothing on this episode, I swear. About that time I looked back, that whole side's down.
00:07:25
Speaker
And I've got a tire just being drugged with it. My tires off on that right side. I'm like, what in the world? So I get out. It just so happened to be the wettest part of that fire lane. Just a big old, it was one of those spots that really needed to be dissed anyways on a dry day, you know, on a dry day and on a wet day. And I get out and the bolt.
00:07:52
Speaker
Apparently was never put in that tire. So basically I drove all the way home without a bolt in that tire holding that spindle in. Somehow by the grace of God, I made it all the way home without it falling off. But when I got back there, just a little bit of extra pressure, a little vibration, I guess. You almost disc up half of Hickory Plains.
00:08:20
Speaker
If you thought Arkansas roads were bad, you should have seen after I got home what that did. I wasn't on the local news. I made it all the way to my house at least. I just made it on Lacey's Snapchat store in that I was on local news for sure. Whit sent me a picture, his tractor just nosedive. I mean, back tires barely even touching the ground. I'm like,
00:08:48
Speaker
Did you not grow up on a farm? It was that secret home. Well, now we know why your dad is not too eager to lend out his stuff to you. Yeah, I made money. Makes sense. There's a reason there's full wheel drive on this equipment, you know what I mean? So you can just go through that kind of stuff. But if the tire wouldn't have fell off, I'd have been all right. He said it was too muddy to come pull you out, didn't he?
00:09:17
Speaker
Yeah, that tractor just sat back there for about a week. We had to let the creek go down. I mean, it went down a little bit. But no, so after the tire fell off, big thing is I was like, well, I'm man enough, I can fix this problem. I can fix this. So I go back to the house. Well, that's when Lacey come and got me, took pictures, made fun of me, carried me back to the house.
00:09:44
Speaker
I got a bolt. I was like, ah, I can get this back in there. That won't be a problem. I got the tire back in there. No big deal. Uh, it just, I was covered from head to toe in mud because I was in a mud hole. Got the tire back on, drug it, maybe.
00:10:03
Speaker
Oh, I bet y'all made it a hundred yards. About that time, the other side just goes straight down into what must've been an old tree root hole. And so I'm trying to drag that. Then my tractor starts trying to get buried. That's when Jacob was talking about my whole tractor was upside down, because that's when I really got a good hole there. Yeah, I'd say it was a pretty good one. So I unhooked.
00:10:31
Speaker
Hooked the chain to the disc, picked it up, drug it out of that hole. And then about that time, here comes my dad to help me. This is like a week later. I thought the tractor was going to need like divine intervention to get it out of this hole. Cause it was stuck, you know? And I had a bucket on the front of this tractor. I mean, and I, I tried to push it out with the bucket. I'm not a farmer. I don't run.
00:10:59
Speaker
that much tractor. I mean, I can run mine decent. I can run his fine, but I was, I was thinking we were about to have to have a bulldozer come pull this thing out. And I drive him back there.
00:11:14
Speaker
That's all he does, I guess, is drive tractors. He can't do my job. I can't do his. So I let him out. He got on this tractor, drives it right out of the hole. I was as mad as I could be. I was like, this is just bull crap. I was thinking we're going to need to win something. He just paid you back some of that clutch you had on his tractor. I'm pretty sure he had it in like C3, just full throttle. I mean, we put, it might only read
00:11:43
Speaker
50 hours on my tractor but that just it's like it's like vet school did to me at least took 10 years off my life i'm pretty sure we put an extra 150 hours on that tractor in about five seconds so he was pretty hard on it
00:11:59
Speaker
I get it back to the house and the hydraulic lines like shooting hydraulic fuel out. I'm like, Oh my God, how's that happen? Now, so we get it out of that hole and, and then that's when it got interesting. Cause he is back there.
00:12:14
Speaker
we're off in this mud hole and him and john both telling me you shouldn't have been back here this and that i'm like i told you before we came back here i'm in a bad spot okay i don't want to hear nothing about it oh they still had to rise me about it so i was hearing all about how you don't need to be out here it's too wet this and that well where i was going was pretty dry it's just i had to go through the creek to get there you know what i'm talking about
00:12:38
Speaker
It's like the pasture's always greener on the other side of the fence. That was one of those instances for sure, 100%. Well, my dad gets in a hue except the tractor and I just barely put that tire back on. I didn't have a bolt in it at that time.
00:12:55
Speaker
He goes maybe 20 foot and the tire falls off again. Then he's really mad at that point. So we're like, ah, crap. So we beat the thing back together. I had a couple of bolts. We finally get it back on there, put some bolts through it, screwed up about three bolts, driving them in, trying to get, but we finally got one in, put those on. Well, heck, he makes it maybe
00:13:26
Speaker
I don't know, 75 yards with the tractor. That bolt breaks, that tire falls off again. At that point, he's so mad, he just starts dragging it into an even deeper water
Tyler's Rock-Clearing Mishap
00:13:38
Speaker
hole. Oh my God. So I mean, he's fuming tractors in C3, just, I mean, 6,000 RPMs. It's full throttle. He's dragging that disc.
00:13:51
Speaker
Uh, that area back there, you don't want to even want to get in it with like a, like a side by side right now. Cause you can be sunk, but he gets all the way. He's almost to the dry spot where we could actually work on it again. And he catches a tree on the left side of the desk and it hangs up. And then that tractor just instantly just goes sits right down into the mud. I'm like, Oh no.
00:14:18
Speaker
He turns the tractor off, he looks back at me, he says, well, I guess we need to let it dry up first. I was about to say that's exactly what he had planned for the day, wasn't it? He was excited. He wasn't near as muddy as I was, but definitely didn't get it out. I mean, so, you know, that's just a good lesson for everybody. When you're bored,
00:14:46
Speaker
Kind of a little depressed about the weather. Ain't got anything to hunt. Don't drive your tractor and disc off in a mud hole. That's just not a good thing to do. I learned my lesson. I want everybody else to take this as a pointer. Just don't do it. So we finally get it all out. The tractor and disc is back at my house now. So if anybody's wondering, that was a good video trying to get it out. But we got it out. We got it home.
00:15:14
Speaker
The tire is in a temporary location, but this big heavy cutting disc I have literally, it's got just two tires on it. It's meant to have four. We're gonna have to put two more on it before I really work with it. But that's even funny you asked me about that story. Cause my dad called me today. He said, you know, if you need to hit that sunflower plot right out there by your house, you could probably use it on it. Just watch that tire, would you?
00:15:43
Speaker
Like, okay, you're worried about the doves now, aren't you? I see, I see. He's ready to get them flying over there. As long as it's not his equipment, he's okay if it tears up. He ain't worried about it. Well, I enjoyed all those pictures. You almost taught me into driving down there to help you, but I wouldn't have been able to help anyone. I mean,
00:16:15
Speaker
I don't know who I needed to help me, but I just didn't need to be in that spot. That's what I needed to be. I don't think there's any helping him. I think Drew was with me, and he was just hagging me on to go through that mud hole the whole time. He says he's learned his lesson, but this is about his fifth lesson in about 20 years, and, you know, he still hasn't learned. So take his advice. Learn the lesson the first time.
00:16:45
Speaker
I mean, why not even put four wheel drive on those things if you can't go through that hole? You know what I'm talking about? I really don't think they're meant to be driving through four inches of water with a, I don't know, a 500 pound disc on the back either.
Winch Failures and Misadventures
00:17:02
Speaker
Just like my Polaris Ranger, I got all that lift and all those tires and all that stuff on there. It just gets you farther back away where somebody can't get to, you can get stuck.
00:17:14
Speaker
You know, I mean, I know I'm not the only one to get stuff stuck. Tyler's got a little story. We're about to bring that up, too, because he brought this up. Yeah, give me back there. That's fair enough. But I mean to tell you, that tractor, I really thought it was going to make it, Jake. And I was cruising along there good until that tire just happened to fall off, and then it just put a little skid in my ride.
00:17:44
Speaker
I'm glad I'm out of it. He's trying to farm some potatoes or something up there. No, I swear we're farming rocks. Every year we just go to a food plot. It's just boulders. Rocks just keep coming up and that's what we were doing. We were clearing out all the rocks in the food plot. I'm talking anywhere from baseball size to
00:18:08
Speaker
you know, bigger than watermelon size rocks. We were picking them up and throwing them on the trailer. We had the side beside and it was wet. It wasn't as wet as what you went in. Let's, let's get that straight. But, um, we loaded the trailer down with God, a couple of hundred pounds of rocks going to go dump it in the creek. And we got stuck, got stuck big time. So we decided to let the winch out. We're going to winch up to a tree and pull ourselves
Work Truck Struggles
00:18:31
Speaker
out. Well, we didn't know we were at the length of the winch and it stripped.
00:18:35
Speaker
And I went flying pulling the winch about hit a tree. So we had to get a tractor and pull that out. And it was, yeah, it was a mess. I always say my dad is the best mechanic because he can mess something up twice and have to fix it. And that's quickly where I'm going with my skill as well. So not a good time. I'm not a huge fan of having to fix something. You know what I'm talking about? No, never. You'd think we'd learn to stop messing stuff up.
00:19:04
Speaker
In that moment, I just soon just leave that disc there and buy a new one. That's how that got mad I was with the instance. I was mad. I was back there. Thank God nobody could hear me. Good Lord didn't look down on me very good that day for what I was saying out loud, but I made it.
00:19:26
Speaker
I could have just left it all right there and I'd have been just as happy. We just rode around it. I would have had somebody make me a path around that ditch before we can just get around it and leave it there. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Little extra canopy come fall.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah. And I called John Jacob. He likes to work on stuff. I'm like, man, you need to come down here and help me get this out. Help me with this winch. I think we can do this and that. I had a game plan and he's like, Oh, I just, I just don't think I can do that. I said, all right. Uh, I got it out with, uh, duct tape and a pitching
Farming Challenges on Rocky Terrain
00:20:04
Speaker
wedge. I guarantee you if you would've came down, we'd have tore up so much trying to get that thing out. Oh yeah. I mean.
00:20:13
Speaker
The idea to use the K&M winch probably wouldn't work. It would have worked until we smoked it. It doesn't work. I was willing to tear a wits winch out is what I'm saying. That's just not very nice. Wait till it gets in the goose field. It'll be like my Ranger sitting up on four jack stands getting the front end rebuilt on it. You know what's funny about that also is like my dad and John, they didn't realize how stuck I was and where I was.
00:20:44
Speaker
they're back there they kept asking me can we get a truck to it can we get a truck to it i'm like y'all really don't realize where i'm at i'm like in the middle of the creek like i'm i mean both ends of it 100 yards both ways you can't get a truck too we cannot do a truck they just kept saying that i'm like
00:21:07
Speaker
All right, let's bring a truck. John, you bring your brand new truck, let's go down there and do this. That'd have been awful. We could have brought Jake's work truck, that might have worked. Oh, you ain't gonna get that little Ford and that little 150. I'm on dig all day, every day, checking them gas wells, just trying to wear them factory tires out so I can get some grip spurs or something put on it.
00:21:37
Speaker
You think they'll upgrade you or what? I mean, I hope to go to something that will actually sling mud the other day. I pulled up on this wheel side. I know it's a sketchy spot because I've almost got stuck there before, but I've been turning around in there. I'm like, okay, it ain't gonna be that bad. I pull in there, check what I need to check, hop back in. I put it in reverse, step on the gas, and it doesn't go anywhere. Just sits there. I'm like, oh boy.
00:22:04
Speaker
Cracked her down in the drive, didn't go anywhere. Anyway, I had to get kind of physical on the RPMs, about six grand on that little V6 and it wasn't even throwing no mud. I mean, them tires, I just need some tires on that thing. And my personal truck, or my truck, I've been taking the dogs out on Chaffee and down to the river. I need some tires on that thing too, man.
00:22:34
Speaker
Well, they sell them every day. I hate getting stuck. Hey, like you said earlier, all it does, if you got a set of tires, does it get you further away from something? Yeah, it really does. It really does. It just gets you back far enough away from the closest point to hook a winch. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's all I did with my tractor though. Honestly. And it sounds like Tyler, they're just up there farming rocks. I mean, do the deer eat them or what? No.
00:23:02
Speaker
No, the deer do not eat
Dog Training and Raccoon Encounter
00:23:04
Speaker
them. That's the worst part about it. And they just keep coming up. It's like the earth's shifting and they just keep coming up. Have you ever tried one of them little rolly things or whatever it is where it like grabs them and flings them up in a little basket or something? I don't know what it's called. I don't know if that would work. I'm talking, these rocks are huge. It takes two of us to pick some of them up. Now the smaller stuff would work. Yeah, we just run a pick through it and then a rake and get most of the small stuff up. But the big ones, it's just,
00:23:32
Speaker
They're not moving. It's tough. I am so glad I don't live up there where there's rocks because I'd really screw something up then. Well, it's, it's not, yeah, it's not bad from getting like stuck standpoint. Cause you don't get stuck a lot cause it's mostly gravel or, you know, bigger rocks. It's not that gummy mud, but you can't plan anything up here unless you run through it a couple of times. I mean, we spent two weekends picking rocks out of one of the plots.
00:24:03
Speaker
So deer better eat what we plant. Y'all are going to have the only food plot in a raise. Hey, that's actually not a bad idea. I hadn't thought of that. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. It's going to be soft now. Here we are out there picking up rocks and you come along in five minutes and fix the problem.
00:24:31
Speaker
That would have led to a bigger problem, I guarantee. Somehow the rocks would migrate their way up through it. Oh yeah, they just keep moving up. They're moving up. It's not much less rocky at my house. The raised beds of Fayetteville. What are you doing? Well, I just climbed up in my food plot here. I ain't gonna step up this ladder. Hey, it could work. It could work.
00:25:03
Speaker
No, let's keep a hog out. I don't know. Yeah, that's true. It's possible. But no, I just, I ain't been putting any food plots in or nothing cool like that. Been working with this little pup of mine quite a bit, trying to get him, get him on the right foot and he's doing pretty good. Let's see, what was it? Last week you called me. I was in about shin deep mud.
00:25:32
Speaker
Stomping around through the bottoms and I seen a I seen a raccoon from the road I was like, I'm about to I'm about to put this thing right on these dogs head So I get back. Well, you can see it from the road and you walk in there. You're like, well, I have no idea where I seen him. Luckily, I found it and Dogs sniffing around not really paying attention and See I shot him I killed him the first shot but I missed the other three I thinks what happened
00:26:02
Speaker
But he fell, I'm gonna say like 50 foot and landed. I thought it was stone cold dead. So I cut the dogs and that thing had a second wind and he just went to whooping the dogs. And I went over there trying to get it, get the dogs back and then my little pup grabbed that raccoon by the back and flung him up in my face. I had to swat the coon out of my face cause I thought I was going to get smacked.
00:26:32
Speaker
And, uh, anyway, we were all covered. Yeah, we were headed to tow covered mud and, uh, it wasn't too bad. Were you happy? Well, I mean, I wish they had found it, not me, but we're working on it. I got two right now behind the house that we spotted one ago later. Well, I got a trap set too, but I hope they find them naturally with their nose like they're supposed to.
00:27:03
Speaker
Oh, they were, they both were for sale two days ago. Both of them. I was in here taking care of the baby who just was turned two months old yesterday. So I'm in here holding him and I was like, well, I'm gonna go put the dogs up. I opened the front storm door, stick my head out and this smell hits me. I'm talking the worst smell I've smelled in a long time.
00:27:32
Speaker
I told Jess, what do they got out here? I ain't going to tell you what I said, but it stunk bad. Well, I peek out there and Reba has this wad of something about the size of a foot long subway sandwich, just chewing on it like gum. I'm like, Oh my God. I kicked that door open. I went to, you know, swinging my hat, you know, running them out of there. Well, you picked it up with your hands.
00:28:01
Speaker
No, no, no. Let me tell you, this took my breath away as soon as I stepped outside. So I stepped back in after I shoot them off, had to regain my composure because it smelled. I'm telling you, I don't know what it was. And well, here come Reba back up on the porch. Well, she forgot she had her collar on. Well, she went down to get that thing again. I hit her with about three megawatts of Garmin.
00:28:30
Speaker
and which is low six, I've tried it. It feels, it ain't no joke. But anyway, I gave her a few kilowatts and she wasn't interested no more. So then I had, I'm probably in my underwear, put my overalls on and go out there, go get the shovel. I go get the shovel. I'm telling you, I can't breathe on the front porch. It's so bad. And I took that, I took that shovel and I went to scoop that up and it like stuck to the concrete
00:29:00
Speaker
And it like rolled the shovel over the top of it. And that smell hit me. Dude, I gagged so freaking hard. I was like, and I mean, just uncontrollably gagging. I finally scoop it up on the shovel and Jess is inside. She can hear me gagging. I gagged all the way out to the woods where I went and chunked this thing and came back in. My eyes were watering. Oh my God. I don't know what that was.
00:29:29
Speaker
Still don't know what it was. I don't care what it is, but they were smelling rotten something.
Seed Blends and Planting Challenges
00:29:37
Speaker
So anyway, I put them on Craig's list for about 15 minutes. You take them off yet or what? You know, if they treat these kinds, I will. Hey, there's nothing worse when a dog finds something like that. But I mean, obviously she liked it. Whatever it was, I mean, it might have
00:29:58
Speaker
about to grow some hair on her or something. I don't know what the same would be. I don't know, but they were going to get to sleep in their inside kennels that night because it's going to be cold, but they smell like that rotten, whatever it was. So they got to live outside that night and probably get cold. But the next day I was putting a cotter on, on her and
00:30:24
Speaker
Judo is in the back of the ranger and I could still smell that on their breath and just instantly about made me puke. It was special. Whatever it was, it was special. I mean, you had that skunk experience we talked about on here, but I thought that was bad, but what you're describing. I will snort a line of skunk spray.
00:30:54
Speaker
before I smell whatever's on that bag of pork. I'm telling you right now. Just snort it. Well, you know, before I get off of, off on the drear, I know Drew's got us a story of what he's been up to with T-Bird. Real quick question, I had a fan message me and asked. He's an avid listener. He's wanting to know what you're planting this time of year in that food plot.
00:31:21
Speaker
Planting this time of year, I've got a Domain Seed Hot Chick. It's a chicory and clover blend. Supposedly is really good for springtime, hot summertime temperatures and can kind of handle some of the cold going on. So this is the first time I've used it. Usually I use Whitetail Institute. I haven't been super pleased with it up here.
00:31:45
Speaker
but we'll give this domain a try and see what it does. I'll tell you that domain, that's what I planted behind the house. We had this drought of 2022 this last year, in my mind. I struggled pretty hard, but right now in the spots, I use, oh, they have all kinds of names, like Big Sexy or what are all, I get all different names. Ridiculous names, yeah.
00:32:15
Speaker
I used a few of them and they had some clover mixes and et cetera like that. God, I can't remember the exact name of the one I used, but it's actually came back this spring, even after the deer, I mean, when I planted it last fall, it was a drought. And then when it finally caught a rain, it came up, then all the deer just mowed it down. But somehow, probably,
00:32:44
Speaker
probably 60% of it came back this year. And I got a bunch of clover and stuff growing. I mean, and some wheat and mess like that. So that actually came back pretty good this spring. I mean, it might've died here in this last 25 degrees we just had. I don't know where, but it did come back. So I like that domain stuff. I think if you're a better farmer than me, obviously I don't have skills to drive tractors and do that stuff.
00:33:16
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Yeah, if nothing else I'm gonna figure out a way to feed deer rocks because I got those I ordered it offline. They've got a website. They've got they probably got 28 different seed blends you just kind of yeah, just find what works best in your soil and you know climate and just kind of pair it up, but
00:33:39
Speaker
Like I said, this is the first time I'm going to use it, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.
Farming with Unpredictable Weather
00:33:44
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Stay tuned, I guess. And honestly, I think later on in the year, especially around late summer, early fall, I think we get to talking about food plots and stuff, because that's all I'm already like all over that. But I need some dry ground, so if anybody can send that my way, I'll be happy. But it happens, and then I want it to rain again. So I'm kind of hit or miss on this whole weather thing. I just, I ain't real good at it yet.
00:34:13
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I even told my wife the other day well actually I didn't tell her I told her dad me and him went hunting together and I said man we need to get us a big water tank that way we can artificially at least get some of it alive yeah that's what we had to do this past fall take take a water tank two trips out there and water the plot he's like
00:34:36
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Do you know how much that would be for one of those? I said, man, I just don't want to have to carry a five gallon bucket in the water. I said, I ain't talking, you know, 2000 gallon tank. I'm talking like, you know, like a four or 500 gallon tank. That'd be plenty. At least I don't have to make a bunch of trips, you know, but that's just right behind my house. I'd be, my water bill would be high, but it's high anyways. My wife likes to take baths. So.
00:35:04
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Just run your run your water hose and a sprinkler out there Could be done I Don't know where the water table is I don't think I can get there, but I was pretty close in that hole
00:35:26
Speaker
Pretty close. But, Drew, what have you been up to the end of February here? I know you've been busy at work. Everybody's been, you know, I ain't gonna get into too much info. Sounds like insurance business has been good, but...
Busy Insurance Times Due to Weather
00:35:40
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Yeah, we've been dodging some haymakers from old Arkansas mother nature down here. It's been pretty busy. You just got cold, tornadoes, ice storm. You just name it. We're gonna have it down here in the
00:35:55
Speaker
month of February but I just hadn't been doing too much just working really haven't had much to hunt new seasons done so just getting ready for this turkey season and didn't really start off on the right foot but we'll uh we'll talk more about that here later on