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re: Possibly getting away from neighborhood life
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:39 pm to BoogaBear
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:39 pm to BoogaBear
Best mental health decision of your life. We bought and build out in the country. Have a pond, big garden, always outdoors things to do. Just a simpler life with a lot less assholes. Have fun and enjoy it!
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Posted on 5/20/22 at 9:01 am to BoogaBear
As someone who did this about 16 years ago, my only advice would be to invest in a nice shop for all the tools and equipment you will need. Whatever you think is a good sized porch, double it.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 4:03 pm to BoogaBear
quote:The gateway drug to homesteading.
dabble in chickens
I'd like to do this and Muscovy ducks. Better eggs and more meat. Muscovy's also raise their young very well, no need for a brooder. They also lay eggs at a consistent rate for their lifetime as opposed to chickens.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 4:17 pm to BoogaBear
We have 2800 under roof, 2200 "living space" and I honestly couldn't imagine having to deal with more. We have unused and rarely used rooms as it is. We have friends with bigger places and it just doesn't seem worth it.
Pool, if I ever do it again it is going to be an above ground with a deck. Oh, and it won't be near any trees, shrubs, bushes, anything! The only PITA about maintaining the pool are the love oaks on the property and even the high dollar robots can't keep up.
Water brings animals including rodents. Bait all your outbuildings and try to kill them there. We use just one bite.
Pool, if I ever do it again it is going to be an above ground with a deck. Oh, and it won't be near any trees, shrubs, bushes, anything! The only PITA about maintaining the pool are the love oaks on the property and even the high dollar robots can't keep up.
Water brings animals including rodents. Bait all your outbuildings and try to kill them there. We use just one bite.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 5:08 pm to BoogaBear
I needed this thread. We’ve been debating on buying 5 acres of raw land about 15 minutes from town that family is offering to sell us.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 7:36 pm to Cuz413
quote:I got chickens 2 years ago. Just let one of my broody hens hatch a couple. We collect 3-4 eggs/day and are highly entertained by watching them. One hen is a lap chicken. Walks up, pecks and scratches at my foot to be picked up and petted on. Occasionally falls asleep in my lap. Nothing quite like sitting out by the pool, sipping on a beer, listening to classic country, with an asleep chicken on you lap.
The gateway drug to homesteading.
I'd like to do this and Muscovy ducks. Better eggs and more meat. Muscovy's also raise their young very well, no need for a brooder. They also lay eggs at a consistent rate for their lifetime as opposed to chickens.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 7:40 pm to CrawfishElvis
quote:Do it! I like my neighbors..... but they are barely within shouting distance, and far enough away for me to pee in the yard.
I needed this thread. We’ve been debating on buying 5 acres of raw land about 15 minutes from town that family is offering to sell us.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 7:59 pm to greygoose
just had 30cy of shredded bark delivered to my place and got about half the pile moved and spread to create some nice new planting beds.
rented a kubota 39 hp to save my back. Real nice clark
chickens are great but we gave up once the foxes moved in. They will win that game 100% of the time. Plus we were always scrambling to get someone to pick up eggs when we go out of town. I’m all in on botany and out on livestock
rented a kubota 39 hp to save my back. Real nice clark
chickens are great but we gave up once the foxes moved in. They will win that game 100% of the time. Plus we were always scrambling to get someone to pick up eggs when we go out of town. I’m all in on botany and out on livestock
Posted on 5/20/22 at 8:56 pm to CrawfishElvis
We are official. Contract accepted and signed. Today has been a whirlwind of shite we have to sell our house and move but a comforting realization that damn we don't need 3,365 sqft living with a 1,200 sqft garage. Our house is so unmaintained (it's not that bad) we've got to do a good bit of things to get to to sell to the higher end market, appraises upper 500's. My wife and I are mid thirties and our kids are 2-7, we just think differently than someone who desires this type of home.
Kid writes on a wall, eh fuss em but no big deal we will paint when they get older. Now we have to get our place tip top shape
We have a 600 sqft basement that I finished with a full bar, fridge, bathroom, etc. I couldn't tell you the last time we've even hung out down there.
Kid writes on a wall, eh fuss em but no big deal we will paint when they get older. Now we have to get our place tip top shape
We have a 600 sqft basement that I finished with a full bar, fridge, bathroom, etc. I couldn't tell you the last time we've even hung out down there.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 9:04 pm to cgrand
A fox problem is nothing a good rifle can't handle.
Posted on 5/20/22 at 9:12 pm to cgrand
quote:Dude, buy a sub-compact Kubota with a front end loader! Best purchase I ever made, and I just replaced my old one with a new one last Fall. Pointed out to the wife, just yesterday while redoing a flower bed and shoveling sand. "Imagine we didn't have this tractor. Shoveling into a wheelbarrow, and shoveling out after pushing it way across our property". Box blade for my gravel drive way, small set of of disks for the garden, belly mower for the grass, hitch for moving trailers around, and the FEL for moving heavy shite. Only thing I want, that I don't have, is a grapple.
rented a kubota 39 hp to save my back. Real nice clark
Posted on 5/20/22 at 10:31 pm to greygoose
been looking
which one do you have? BX?
which one do you have? BX?
Posted on 5/20/22 at 10:45 pm to BoogaBear
I bought a similar albeit smaller place (4 acres) with pond, pool, shop etc. I have absolutely loved having the space and the therapy that working outside provides. Like you, my pond is older and the dam is now leaking and in need of repair in order to keep the pond at full stage. I don't have any real advice other than to say the lifestyle is great if you have the want-to to maintain a larger property. In my opinion it is well worth the efforts. Good luck!
Posted on 5/20/22 at 10:52 pm to cgrand
quote:Yep, the BX. Looked at all the other tractors in that class, and Kubota was the best value. Deere went to plastic fenders and hood, plus it costs more.
which one do you have? BX?
Posted on 5/21/22 at 8:51 am to greygoose
quote:
Deere went to plastic fenders and hood
I have a Kubota. But plastic fenders and hood aren't necessarily a bad thing. They bend and pop right back to shape when they get hit. Kubota fenders and hood just dent.
Posted on 5/21/22 at 9:08 am to BoogaBear
Dont know where you are located but we help sponsor events like this LINK / (Farm pond construction and management workshop)
Great way to understand what you want and connect to resources (dirt contractors, NRCS, LWF, Corps, landowners, LSU extension, etc...) to make it happen.
Properly building a pond and dam is not easy or cheap.
Great way to understand what you want and connect to resources (dirt contractors, NRCS, LWF, Corps, landowners, LSU extension, etc...) to make it happen.
Properly building a pond and dam is not easy or cheap.
Posted on 5/21/22 at 12:24 pm to cgrand
30 yards scooped and spread just beat the rain.
now I have to get a tractor LOL
sure beats a wheelbarrow
now I have to get a tractor LOL
sure beats a wheelbarrow
Posted on 5/21/22 at 12:43 pm to BoogaBear
Where did you purchase?
Posted on 5/21/22 at 2:25 pm to financetiger
tractor is a must. I am in the market now and comparing JD and kubotas
Posted on 5/21/22 at 9:46 pm to bengalman
Get the Kubota and be done with it.
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