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Old 07-15-2018, 03:00 PM   #1
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Deep deep EastTexas.....

No son, I wouldn't go there....
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Old 07-15-2018, 04:55 PM   #2
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Woo Hoo! Reminds me of so many misguided adventures I've been on!! Once upon a time my buddy and I were deer hunting in the Guadalupe mountains in NM. Lots of great trails and deer hunting in the NF. We were headed to "the top". Nothing up there and no roads to speak of. It was the night before opening day. Came upon what we knew was a bad section of trail that was literally a path of 2-4' boulders strewn around (a class 9/10 at the time). It had been raining and all around the boulders the water had built up. I told him, "let's make camp back down the road and we'll hit this when it's daylight". What? Heck no! We're in the "Tarantula"; a 1962 Ford F100 4x4....stock. No lockers, no nothing. So, we went in. About 1/2 way, as he tried to navigate a very large boulder, and took a very bad line....which I pointed out repeatedly, we fell on the boulder and high centered. We got under the truck, in the dark, in the rain, in the mud and accumulated water trying to get something to give us some traction. We kept working at it and finally accomplished driving the truck over the big boulder, into a huge hole between two bigger boulders in a sea of deep mud. Spent the night trying to sleep in that old truck someplace to keep warm. In the morning our other hunting buddies came up, found us, took a winch and got us out - mud caked, frozen and all. Your picture with that situation just popped that into my head....thanks - and I apologize for the long post.
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Old 07-15-2018, 05:46 PM   #3
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Old 07-16-2018, 03:28 AM   #4
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About 6 months ago I was spraying Round up around the gate of Betty's pine tree farm. I'm standing there looking at shoulder high weeds and water standing on the driveway. We just had to have a new management plan for the county tax office and the forester said we should work on drainage for better tree growth. It's been a very wet 2-3 years and if y'all know south east Texas there's no elevation change, flat as a pancake. A truck pulls in the drive, guy gets out and introduces himself. He's a neighbor that does land clearing. Hmmm...how much would you charge to get this place draining better and open some lanes around the pines. $2500. When can you start? When it dries out a little. He did, and it looked good. So good that we decided to rent a tractor and disc the lanes to create food plots for deer and hogs. Almost finished and the son says he's going to disc that other lane. No, I wouldn't go there, it's got standing water on it. Y'all know how they are....32 yrs old, 6 ft. tall and bullet proof. He went through it once, came back out and stuck it. We worked our rears off for hours trying to get it out. Deep in the trees, no breeze, 90F, 90% humidity. I don't think I ever sweated that much. Surprised that one of us didn't have a heat stroke. I called the land clearing neighbor. He came over with a big JD back hoe/front end loader. He stuck that, but dug himself out. Drove that back home and came back with a fair sized CAT track hoe. A little push with the bucket on the back of the disc and the son drove it out. Gave the neighbor all the cash we had...$70. I've got a gift card to mail him.
I went back yesterday and scattered milo on the lanes. Hogs were on it before I could pull my chain link fence "drag" over it.
What a weekend.
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