Happy Easter

[TSIPP]

Yes my mistake. Was Manitoba not Saskatchewan.

I wasn’t really sure either exactly where but I’m wondering approximately how many acres are getting broken up, I remember in the 80s dad got a little heat for pushing the bush on 5 quarters, mostly from people that should mind their own business.

[TSIPP]

It’s proof that the perverts are running the asylum, trans day of visibility should really be a mental health day and definitely not on Easter Sunday.

[agstar77]

It’s proof that the perverts are running the asylum, trans day of visibility should really be a mental health day and definitely not on Easter Sunday.

Your problem is Easter moved to Trans day. Trans day not moved to Easter. How convenient for you. Easter could be a mental health day. How to turn an innocent thread into a personal religious crusade.

[flea beetle]

I wasn’t really sure either exactly where but I’m wondering approximately how many acres are getting broken up, I remember in the 80s dad got a little heat for pushing the bush on 5 quarters, mostly from people that should mind their own business.

I thought I heard 15000-20000ish acres? Not very confident in how accurate those numbers are though.

Yes, it seems people like to sweep other people’s door steps before their own!

[TSIPP]

Your problem is Easter moved to Trans day. Trans day not moved to Easter. How convenient for you. Easter could be a mental health day. How to turn an innocent thread into a personal religious crusade.

Easter moves, deal with it, it’s not a personal religious crusade it’s a moral one.

[TSIPP]

I thought I heard 15000-20000ish acres? Not very confident in how accurate those numbers are though.

Yes, it seems people like to sweep other people’s door steps before their own!

That a lot of acres, I can’t imagine the cash flow that handles it.

[agstar77]

Easter moves, deal with it, it’s not a personal religious crusade it’s a moral one.

In that case you are on really shaky ground. Glad you realized Easter is an arbitrary date and has nothing to do with morality or Trans.

[LEP]

That a lot of acres, I can’t imagine the cash flow that handles it.

Coming from an area where the only trees growing were one that were planted.

What does it cost to push bush on a large scale per acre? I assume most of those cats are rented.

[WiltonRanch]

Gosh I’d hate to know what today’s costs would be to brush and break an acre of bush. Walking, piling, burning, repiling, burning, burying; not to mention plowing, floating, root picking etc. Custom cat work probably $250 - $300 an hour at least. Big 8’s with 16’ knocking blades and 24’ pilers would you do half an acre to an acre per hour? I’ve heard an acre per hour but must be better cat skinners than what we’ve ever done. Repiling and cleanup thereafter is the time consuming part. Depends too on size of bush and terrain. Brushing hills is nasty work. Scruffy 30’ and under poplars is child’s play vs 60’ black poplars. When my family settled here there wasn’t a tree but once the constant fires were stopped the bush took over. My dad and grandfather cleared over 1000 acres through the years from using axes and saws to yellow iron. It’s a process which takes years to get a piece of land to its full production. Doesn’t matter how fast you clear it and can get a crop growing. The land itself has to adapt.

[TSIPP]

In that case you are on really shaky ground. Glad you realized Easter is an arbitrary date and has nothing to do with morality or Trans.

But when the looney president endorses the mentally challenged cutting off your parts stuff group, it’s suddenly a big issue, like I said, the perverts are running the asylum!

[TSIPP]

Stick up for the looney left all you want, it’s the 1% group!

[woodland]

Gosh I’d hate to know what today’s costs would be to brush and break an acre of bush. Walking, piling, burning, repiling, burning, burying; not to mention plowing, floating, root picking etc. Custom cat work probably $250 - $300 an hour at least. Big 8’s with 16’ knocking blades and 24’ pilers would you do half an acre to an acre per hour? I’ve heard an acre per hour but must be better cat skinners than what we’ve ever done. Repiling and cleanup thereafter is the time consuming part. Depends too on size of bush and terrain. Brushing hills is nasty work. Scruffy 30’ and under poplars is child’s play vs 60’ black poplars. When my family settled here there wasn’t a tree but once the constant fires were stopped the bush took over. My dad and grandfather cleared over 1000 acres through the years from using axes and saws to yellow iron. It’s a process which takes years to get a piece of land to its full production. Doesn’t matter how fast you clear it and can get a crop growing. The land itself has to adapt.

It’s definitely cheaper to buy cleared land but that’s pretty hard to do out here. With our hills and big poplars I don’t think $1k an acre would pay the dozer/hoe bill to call someone in to walk, pile, burn, and cleanup. Might be closer to $1,500. Then to disk and pick roots/rocks isn’t fun or cheap.

We run our own yellow iron so we don't keep track of time or expenses but I think the improving of the ground is one of the best parts of owning land and farming.

Dad was out playing in the bush yesterday and now it will be much nicer to get cows out of that as a bonus