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  1. On 4/16/2024 at 10:57 AM, davidg said:


    That sprayer will work fine.  There are some recommendations for different spray nozzle sizes but I just use what came with the sprayer.  

    Here’s a couple of PDFs I saved a few years ago with different mix ratios for different applications and a slide deck from one of the AgExt BrushBuster seminars.  There are some of the seminar videos on YouTube if you want more info.

     

     

    ManagingDeep-RootedInvasions.pdf 4.6 MB · 2 downloads

     

    brush-busters-quick-mixing-guide.pdf 51.94 kB · 2 downloads

     

    Killin’ mesquite, honey locust and huisache is serious bidness.

     

     


    Quoting my post from April 2024 on killing mesquite.   

    I spend some time Sunday and Monday removing dead mesquite and honey locust that I had sprayed in June 2024.  After a year, they are usually rotten enough to push over with my boot, breaking off at ground level.  Trees with 2”+ trunks needed sawing at ground level.  

     

    Dead, 15 months after spraying
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    Made about a hundred trips to the brush pile.   Need a small trailer for the utv

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    Either missed this one or the poison didn’t take.   I didn’t put a marking flag on it so probably missed.  A sprayed and not killed tree will have about 20% of the leaves by this time of the year. Usually takes a 3 year, annual treatment on a pasture to kill them all.

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    Looking for a cattle cube snack

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  2. We’re finishing up a Labor Day trip to the lake with the boat and RV tomorrow so I’ll figured give a 5 year update on owning our trailer.

    This trip is number 44 with 134 nights slept and having towed a little over 11000 miles. Almost half of our trips were to the same state park/lake that is only about 90 minutes away which makes it an easy weekend trip.

    Overall we still love having the trailer and it has become a focal point of family get together wherever we go. We have had good luck not having any major system issues on the road or after pulling it out of storage. The worst repair has been an electric brake failure and a tire slipping a belt and I caught both of them before anything go to far out of hand.

    We retired in June so some bigger trips are on the horizon. We have 10 days in the Black Hills/Custer State park reserved for next year and are waiting to reserve a spot in the Davis mountains next spring. We have a Frio River trip and a week at the beach to close out the summer this year before we start taking long trips to the ranch this fall and winter.

    Thanks again to those early Covid posts in this thread that was instrumental in pushing me towards looking at RVs and ultimately buying one. It been a great ride.

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  3. They're pigs.  If you can procure some military ball ammo, try that if you feel safe running it in your rifle.  Zips through most anything.  Wacked an oinker years back with an old M1 Garand will ball ammo.  Sleepy pig had two small holes on each side.  If you let the air out of them, they take naps.....:)

    Even better, they run off somewhere else to die so you don’t have to dispose of carcasses under your feeder.
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  4. I bought a pair a few years ago off Amazon and they exceeded
    my expectation. The ones I bought had multiple heat levels and seems like they lasted a few hours on a med level while duck hunting.

  5. Come tax season, is there anything special that must be done with the distributions for the NEOS ETFs like SPYI?  Like would I need a tax guy to figure it out or a place like Schwab would automatically know how to categorize the distributions?

    You miss out on the company % match for the rest of the year too.

    Always check your plan deductions in your payroll portal and match to a check stub early in the year and when getting a raise/large bonus and prorate your 401k contribution to meet the limit sometime in December.
  6. Anyone rebuilt or had rebuilt a SeaStar Hydraulic helm pump? I have the HH5371-1 1.7 cu/rev pump and it’s sucking air and leaking oil pretty bad. Its had a small leak for a year or so but it really let loose last weekend and has about 1/3 of a rev backlash. I found a place in Ca called Seatech Marine Products that will do a rebuild for $200 using your old pump. Anyone ever used them or had one rebuilt here in Tx?

  7. The Seiko SPB143 is just above that price range.  It can be found for around $900 sometimes.  Another Submariner clone, but I like it.  It's a throwback to their 1965 dive watch.  I dig the satin sheen dial.
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    That’s $575 at Macy’s right now. I have similar looking Citizen Promaster Titanium Diver that $460

    https://citizenwatch.widen.net/content/1db5a7ycwb/webp/Promaster+Dive.webp?u=41zuoe&width=500&height=625&quality=80&crop=false&keep=c&color=F9F8F6
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  8. I had a spypoint and It sucked in the area I was using it. Wouldn’t maintain a cell connection and killed batteries trying to connect. I bought two reveal 3.0 Tacticams and they have been great. I also got the solar panel/lithium battery and have never changed out batteries in over a year. Will probably buy two more within a couple of months when the hunting sales start again.

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  9. I’ve done some pretty stupid stuff in Jon boats in my youth but this guy is off the charts. If you follow the Texas Water Safari, you’ll recognize the name as Robert Youens attempts to break the Great Loop speed record (a little over 19days) using a 16’ jonboat with a 60hp Tohatsu and 84 gallons of fuel capacity.
    He did a 420 mile direct route across the Gulf from Pensacola to Ft Myers yesterday, passed through Ochochobee Waterway today and is off the beach headed north right now. He has a couple of great informative posts on his FB page and the Great Loop FB page.


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    https://www.facebook.com/share/1KcydrSi5u/?mibextid=wwXIfr

    Jon boat Great Loop dude is gonna pass the Statue of Liberty within an hour or so. Has ran out in the Atlantic from Oregon Inlet to the mouth of the Hudson River
  10. I’ve done some pretty stupid stuff in Jon boats in my youth but this guy is off the charts. If you follow the Texas Water Safari, you’ll recognize the name as Robert Youens attempts to break the Great Loop speed record (a little over 19days) using a 16’ jonboat with a 60hp Tohatsu and 84 gallons of fuel capacity.
    He did a 420 mile direct route across the Gulf from Pensacola to Ft Myers yesterday, passed through Ochochobee Waterway today and is off the beach headed north right now. He has a couple of great informative posts on his FB page and the Great Loop FB page.




    https://share.garmin.com/robertyouens?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLhALZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhEk_a_KGiABgVqJZVRyPniFFt7oZ2YTchkQiY5rMJK-hRkrYr5muBpAPNbg_aem_S6JHctA1bMcP6jJis6Gmow

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  11. yikes 
    I also wonder how many they don't know about, i.e. people from out of state camping in their 5th wheel, and the only record of them being there is when they checked in at the campground office that has since been washed away.  nobody will know they are missing until they never show up back "home", if they even have a permanent home 

    This. Lots of “Missing, have you seen them” posts on TX RV groups on FB. Lots of folks not going to be checking in.
  12. Took this last year about as close as you can get to the bouys atthe dam at Inks.   Constant level lake, except for a few small creeks, any water released from Buchanan goes over the dam at Inks.   With the drought, Inks was about a foot low last August.

     

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  13. Speaking of Alaska, just got back from 9 days on my North River.  Did a 280 mile round trip in one day to Glacier Bay to see the Margerie Glacier and slayed kings and silvers off the coast at Yakobi Island.  The pic where it looks like the boat is floating on a sheet of glass is at 41.5 MPH through Icy Strait.  
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    Is there enough bunks on that boat to overnight 4 persons. I don’t remember what the interior cabin pics looked like. Awesome boat!
  14. My arms are sore just from looking at that picture....

    I have the tamping bar that has a 3” nailhead instead of the point. We replaced some fence posts a few weeks back including a corner post set using salvaged telephone poles. My arms still hurt.
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  15. So let me tell you a story.  See this guy ^^^^? We actually hired him.  Yes, a Surlyite was hired.
    Now, 2.5 yrs later, he up and quits.  Ok, retires, same thing. So we're back to hiring.  Know anyone?
    (Did I mention the only reason I'm going back to the well is because that guy was a great hire?)

    Haha, Yall hit me up via PM if you have questions.
  16. Anyone follow the Texas Water Safari? I’ve seen a bunch of video clips on social media over the weekend as they started the race early and stopped it short due to the amount of water in lower Guad.

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