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Post by musher on Aug 21, 2009 15:25:49 GMT -6
The new trapping camp is now habitable according to Wifey. There's still stuff to do but it's just trim and washing. There's lots to do outside but that will be next year. We made a bumper guard so that the truck won't go where it shouldn't when we back up in the dark.  We made a new wood shed. It is VERY empty!  This is what we see from the front door.  Marten set in the yard.  The ceiling is done. This is where the bunk beds now are.  |
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Post by DaveM on Aug 21, 2009 17:08:27 GMT -6
Absolutely beautiful.
I like the bumper guards. Thats why I drive an old truck. " Just back up til you hit something."
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Post by mick on Aug 31, 2009 12:36:01 GMT -6
nice is this on your TP.
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Post by Hale87 on Aug 31, 2009 13:17:07 GMT -6
How wide is that like?
Looks about right for the 300. win mag?
All we need now is the moose..........
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Post by musher on Aug 31, 2009 14:00:21 GMT -6
Yep, it's on the TP.
Hale: the inside is about 15 by 15. There wqas moose tracks on a trail leading to the front porch last week-end.
Molding on the walls is now done. Darn camp is looking less campish by the visit. But Wifey is happy. Happy Wife, happy Life!
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Post by charger on Aug 31, 2009 16:06:44 GMT -6
That looks pretty neat. except for your gun laws I could really be at home there.
Jeff
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Post by northof50 on Aug 31, 2009 19:02:18 GMT -6
So was your summer season so cold your wild rice did not panicle out, head seed, like it has here?
Looks like a 25 year old balsam forest you are in.......good bunny cover ?
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Post by musher on Sept 1, 2009 4:36:41 GMT -6
No wild rice hee that I know of.
Yes, it's good rabbitat! I'd give the forest 35-50 years. Lots of black spruce.
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Post by Stef on Sept 1, 2009 6:30:30 GMT -6
Nice Brian... Will go up there one day..later
No wild rice here... I know one guy who imported some from Manitoba but man....... He had hard time finding some for sale because the big company are just "bulk selling" it.
Stef
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Post by northof50 on Sept 1, 2009 6:38:36 GMT -6
The pic seemed to have strands on the water and that looked like rice leaves. Wild rice has to be planted green shortly after harvest, so timing is the key. 4 oz paper bags with a stone dropped out of a passing plane is seeding method in remote lakes. Following year there are circles around every drop, next year the whole lake is covered, following year it is muskrat heaven if there is peat shoreline.
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Post by Stef on Sept 1, 2009 6:43:35 GMT -6
That was his goal!
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Post by northof50 on Sept 1, 2009 18:31:26 GMT -6
Bird dropping is how the rice got in the lake.
Don't tell the Feds, lots of problems with altering vegetation of fisheries habitat bla bla bla.
You need 4-6 feet water and organic bottom for best set. Some rice does not germinate for 4-7 years and lays dormate. Because of where it grows most wild rice has elevated levels of lead Pb and other heavy metals, something to do with the bacterial action and methal mercury in the lake bottoms. No wild rice meets standards to be called ORGANIC that is why it is blended with white rice so the levels are below sellable Pb standards, 5 ppm??
Stu Jansson from the Manitoba trappers Assoc. is a rice picker and may drop a pound or two in the mail for someone next year.
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Post by northof50 on Dec 19, 2009 16:04:56 GMT -6
Musher; what about some winter pics from your line now that le neige has come.
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Post by Maineman on Dec 19, 2009 20:17:20 GMT -6
Real nice Musher...Thanks for sharing the pic's...Thats good stuff
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Post by musher on Dec 20, 2009 5:53:06 GMT -6
Musher; what about some winter pics from your line now that le neige has come. I sledded it some yesterday. Too cold for pix! Nice north breeze with -20 something temperature. A pup on his second run on the team, too. Not time to play photographer. Just tying them up to check the few sets I have out was sport enough! |
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Post by northof50 on Dec 20, 2009 8:54:53 GMT -6
The neighbours dogs always liked that -20c temp for runs. Now you have a trail set down. How much snow do you have ?
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Post by musher on Dec 20, 2009 10:31:36 GMT -6
Less than a foot. Not enough to anchor or brake properly!
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Post by TrapperRon on Dec 20, 2009 15:23:03 GMT -6
Nice. Would like to see more pictures of your camp, inside and out.  |
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Post by musher on Dec 21, 2009 5:17:10 GMT -6
Ron: They are here somewhere. I think the thread is called "more camp views."
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