Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Green Mountain Gringo on June 06, 2009, 12:57:44 PM
Title: Just outside my front door...well almost...
Post by: Green Mountain Gringo on June 06, 2009, 12:57:44 PM
Just this morning my wife and I took a hike and savored the natural beauty of our area.
The first video is the view after a 5 mile drive and a half hour walk up the trail of White Rock Mountain. The second is a little secluded area near our house with a couple of lovely waterfalls.
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Post by: m25operator on June 06, 2009, 07:31:19 PM
Beautiful ;D Thanks for sharing. I'll get up there 1 of these days.
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Post by: Green Mountain Gringo on June 06, 2009, 09:37:20 PM
Beautiful ;D Thanks for sharing. I'll get up there 1 of these days.
We spent a week down your way a couple years back when my son graduated AF boot camp. San Antonio is fantastic and we wandered on down to Corpus Christi for a daytrip.
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Post by: philw on June 06, 2009, 11:36:25 PM
very nice
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Post by: Teresa Heilevang on June 08, 2009, 11:37:58 PM
This is from this weekend at our lake property. We have 280 acres with a huge watershed and 3 miles of creek connecting off that. We built docks and have run electricity to it this year for all of our campers. and at the bottom at one end is a long area that we use for a shooting range. Anyway, Marshal practiced shooting and Mark ( my ex) and granddaughter and I went fishing. You can catch 3-8 lb bass out of this all day long. I'll share a few pictures..... :)
This one is half way across the main body of lake looking back toward the campsites.
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Post by: Green Mountain Gringo on June 09, 2009, 05:00:56 AM
Very nice. Looks like a great time. The wife and I are going to attempt a similar outing in August when we head out to Iowa where we've rented a two bedroom place on a lake. Why a trip from Vermont to Iowa? That 's where one set of kids are with two of our grandbabies. Gonna try and start a family tradition....
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Post by: philw on June 09, 2009, 06:20:36 AM
seeings we are showing off
this was taken a year ago 5 mins up the road from my place (http://gallery.mac.com/philw/100018/DSCF0207/web.jpg)
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Post by: Rastus on June 09, 2009, 06:28:51 AM
Phil,
Are those things good to eat? They look like big rabbits but do they taste like possum? Rabbit I can handle....greasy possum, not so much.
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Post by: philw on June 09, 2009, 06:54:40 AM
Are those things good to eat? They look like big rabbits but do they taste like possum? Rabbit I can handle....greasy possum, not so much.
yea mate they are tops to eat,
you need to like eating meet rare to medium rare as any more than that and it is over cooked, dries out and get tough real quick.
they have there own unique taste
i just saw some of the prices over there WOW not cheep http://exoticmeats.com/catdescmain.aspx?f=9 http://www.marxfoods.com/Kangaroo
over here is is real cheep one of the cheeper meets around it is not the most popular thing to eat freeks a few out so I make a point of eating it then hehe
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Post by: shooter32 on June 09, 2009, 07:13:32 AM
you need to like eating meet rare to medium rare as any more than that and it is over cooked, dries out and get tough real quick.
they have there own unique taste
i just saw some of the prices over there WOW not cheep http://exoticmeats.com/catdescmain.aspx?f=9 http://www.marxfoods.com/Kangaroo
over here is is real cheep one of the cheeper meets around it is not the most popular thing to eat freeks a few out so I make a point of eating it then hehe
wallaby or roos?
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Post by: philw on June 09, 2009, 07:18:21 AM
Great pic's Path. I see why you wished you still had it.
It wasn't all rosy - sad thing is, you can't turn a profit on it, too small (quarter section) and we had droughts for a couple of years - not consecutive, though. The creek would dry up too, meaning you had to haul water. However, we did put in a nice garden until the GF let it get away from her and it filled with weeds. The house was poor (a 25-year old single wide trailer), and for storms, the cellar was 100' from the door. Water was crappy for people, so for drinking we had to haul from town - or pay 10 grand for access to the pipeline (the pipeline would have to go under 2 roads and the Burlington tracks).
After I sold the herd pictured, I thought of raising feeder calves, but the prices of cattle at the time had jumped from $700-$1100 for a cow-calf pair, to $1450 for a bred heifer (young female cow that has never had a calf). Now, of course, the prices are in the toilet again, but alas, I sold the land.
On the plus side, wildlife was extensive - muleys and pronghorn, coyotes on occasion, skunks, raccoons, weasels and mink, muskrats, even a fox family on the hills. And pheasants - this area is the heart of the ND pheasant country. No turkeys, though. :'(
And I could literally walk out on the porch and shoot into the hills directly to the south (not pictured) - about a 150' tall natural berm about 200 yards south.
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Post by: Hazcat on June 09, 2009, 09:37:47 AM
Path,
For us non-ranchers what is a 'quarter section'?
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Post by: Timothy on June 09, 2009, 09:59:52 AM
1/2 sq mile 2640ft x 2640ft = 6,969,600 sqft divided by 43,560 sq/ft per acre = 160 acres...
I was wondering too but I found the same information on several reference sites.
DOH!....math!
;D
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Post by: tombogan03884 on June 09, 2009, 11:12:09 AM
1 section is 640 acres divided by 4 = 160
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Post by: shooter32 on June 09, 2009, 11:14:14 AM
In U.S. land surveying, a section is an area nominally one mile square, containing 640 acres (2.6 km²). Nominally, 36 sections make up a survey township on a rectangular grid. As the townships are based on meridians (of longitude) which converge towards the north pole, some sections which vary slightly in size are necessary to compensate. These unusually sized sections generally occur at the northern- or western-most edges of townships.
The legal description of a tract of land in the parts of the United States that use this system includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. Sections are customarily surveyed in halves and quarters, and further subdivision in halves and quarters is common. A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections. ??? ???
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Post by: Timothy on June 09, 2009, 11:22:30 AM
A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections.
Their refering to 1/4 of one quarter section or 1/4 of 160 acres = 40 acres....
Our English units of measure are a pain in the butt, but it's what makes us American.....
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Post by: PegLeg45 on June 09, 2009, 11:56:06 AM
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A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections.
That is exactly how our meager little farm is divided up. ;D
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Post by: Kid Shelleen on June 09, 2009, 02:03:49 PM
Beautiful pics from all.
I'm currently looking for some private lake front property with at least a 20 acre lake and at least 20 acres of land as well. It would be even better with a house already on it or even 2. Need the second house for my brother-in-law and future business partner.
Not and easy find but we're determined. We are open to just about any place in Texas.
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Post by: Pathfinder on June 09, 2009, 02:19:04 PM
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
This thread is hysterically funny. I am literally still laughing as i write this.
Sorry, I've been out or I would have saved you all the embarrassment trouble and answered sooner. To settle the question - a quarter section is 1/4 of a section which is 1 mile square - 1 mile on each side. 1/4 of that is 1/2 mile on each side. A section is a standard unit of measure in land surveying which I learned in college in archeology classes. Sections are also extensively used in the agricultural world too, as well as topographic maps. Sections are those square boxes on topo maps.
1 mile square is 640 acres, therefore a quarter section is 160 acres. My ranch was 146 acres or slightly less than a quarter section.
PS: The "South 40" references were to fields of 40 acres m/l
Sorry, better define that - m/l means "more or less", in other words, it might actually survey out to 39.67 acres or 40.12 acres, but for advertising 40 acres m/l is sufficient.
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Post by: Hazcat on June 09, 2009, 02:23:31 PM
This thread is hysterically funny. I am literally still laughing as i write this.
Sorry, I've been out or I would have saved you all the embarrassment trouble and answered sooner. To settle the question - a quarter section is 1/4 of a section which is 1 mile square - 1 mile on each side. 1/4 of that is 1/2 mile on each side. A section is a standard unit of measure in land surveying which I learned in college in archeology classes. Sections are also extensively used in the agricultural world too, as well as topographic maps. Sections are those square boxes on topo maps.
1 mile square is 640 acres, therefore a quarter section is 160 acres. My ranch was 146 acres or slightly less than a quarter section.