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[Blak bart]

Are you having bad weather ?

 

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[Dakota Sioux]

Morning all from South Dakota 24 inches of snow on the ground

 

[releventchair]

Releventchair, how would you like to have these in your front yard?

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I'd like them a lot more than my landscaping planting of hundreds of plants, trees , shrubs neighbor would!

Once in a while some sneak in at night. More rarely during the day.
Had one about three yards from me one where I sat on the driveway in my chair one morning. During a hunting season , and standing (browsing along) right under the tree I hang deer in...

I always enjoy watching them.
The dogs act like they're big trespassing other dogs or something.
Sometimes out back a deer gets away with not getting barked at. Most get busted though.

 

[DanMcG]

Morning all from South Dakota 24 inches of snow on the ground

and it looks cold too!

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Morning Dan 6 degrees this morning not too bad

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

Shoveled the little snow from last night that continues to fall.

Happy Chinese New Year to those celebrating. Good luck in the coming year.
(Far more than those in China acknowledge the season.)

 

[old texan]

mornin all - bright sunny 40 degrees this morning - forecast high mid 60s - not bad

 

[blossom]

What a trying day today has been 😔 the frost beat us, got a couple of bits, but after himself bent his spade we called it quits and returned home 😔 still yesterday was a good day so not complaining….. now to defrost and search the net for ice picks 😂 xx

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Blossom you are on the cusp of a major strike of treasure to be sure... unbelievable!!

 

[blossom]

Blossom you are on the cusp of a major strike of treasure to be sure... unbelievable!!

Hmmm…. Not sure about a major strike, I feel our ancestors paid their way thru life in buttons 😂 xx perhaps I will discover the first recorded button hoard 😬 xx 😂😂

 

[releventchair]

What a trying day today has been 😔 the frost beat us, got a couple of bits, but after himself bent his spade we called it quits and returned home 😔 still yesterday was a good day so not complaining….. now to defrost and search the net for ice picks 😂 xx

Ice fishing sees augers used a lot today.
Prior it was "spuds'.
Dangerous to relics , a spud can punch through shallow depth freeze areas before the ground is frozen deeper.
Given a site damage is allowed to be seen after a plug/holes are filled and tamped ; a spud might get your season extended a little.

I've used a spud to get through up to several inches of frozen ground for other purposes. But don't like the harm to the sharp edge. And worse the risk of hitting a stone.
A cheap one with hardened edge can be made up easy enough by a welder.
A sharpened steel rod of sufficient diameter might work too. With greater risk of harming a relic by using it to pry with instead of cut.

You get around farms or farm supply stores there's spuds for earth work.
Would suit your sites , but are heavy compared to ice spuds.

 

[releventchair]

 

[blossom]

Ice fishing sees augers used a lot today.
Prior it was "spuds'.
Dangerous to relics , a spud can punch through shallow depth freeze areas before the ground is frozen deeper.
Given a site damage is allowed to be seen after a plug/holes are filled and tamped ; a spud might get your season extended a little.

I've used a spud to get through up to several inches of frozen ground for other purposes. But don't like the harm to the sharp edge. And worse the risk of hitting a stone.
A cheap one with hardened edge can be made up easy enough by a welder.
A sharpened steel rod of sufficient diameter might work too. With greater risk of harming a relic by using it to pry with instead of cut.

You get around farms or farm supply stores there's spuds for earth work.
Would suit your sites , but are heavy compared to ice spuds.

That’s our additional problem, the fields we are in currently are very stoney, so they freeze into the soil … I dug several targets and put the whole clump in my bag to defrost …! these fields, they are still stubble, waiting to be ploughed and planted with sugar beet, so we dont have to make our holes super neat when we fill them in 😅 xx

 

[DanMcG]

how do ya swing in stubble? over the top of it, or do ya beat the stubble down with your swings?

 

[blossom]

how do ya swing in stubble? over the top of it, or do ya beat the stubble down with your swings?

A bit of both… the stubble is old so will give easily. Then when I get a tone, just trample the area to locate! xx

 

[WannaDig3687]

 

[WannaDig3687]

Are you having bad weather ?

Sorry, I was at my in laws. Rain but nothing serious. Must be a tree branch somewhere down the line . They had big winds last week.

 

[WannaDig3687]

We stopped by a state park yesterday.

🤷‍♀️ This looks like a shelter from naked and afraid.

 

[WannaDig3687]

We’re going to try and investigate this creek sometime.

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning all