Kill Branch stream looks like a sewer, keep  the kids away from that!

eph221
Kill Branch stream looks like a sewer, keep  the kids away from that!

No.... it's not... it's got weak tea colored water which is generally pretty clean stuff.... and it flows year round at a decent flow rate so it's as clean as a stream gets in eastern NC. You can see the bottom in most parts. It's part of the Neuse river water shed and has a 50 foot buffer on both sides.... to protect it.  No cutting of large trees or digging/excavating in that buffer.  We can thin the underbrush but that's the extent of it.  I plan to hike back to the second stream tomorrow and have a look at it. It flows into the one in my pic.

Taking up farming at your advanced age, with no experience?
Got to be a former Marine.
Congratulations, Herb.

Is there an existing underground bunker, or are you excavating your own? What about perimeter defenses, tripwires and anti-drone systems? Is the infrared surveillance system up yet?

Mesh
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I think it's great to live out in the country (28 acres....wow!!). I told my wife that our next home will be away from city life and a bit deeper in the country (not complete wilderness though.....lol). My dream is to give our 5 children plenty of open land to live in while maintaining a few goats, chickens, vegetable gardens etc.....the only downside is I have no experience in farming and will have to learn as I go.  
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Weird ... all this and no music? The part over the dog house is the studio?
 
Gratz Herb ... btw!
 
Hopefully you can have cable so you can get some internet ... the location looks too far out for any cable service and 1000ft from the road will cost a lot to wire from the street.

craigb

jamesg1213
I do not own a farm. I have however, been in a car with a goat.

Just another date night in Scotland, roight? 

Hey (hey), McCloud, get off of my Ewe!   (OK, I'm leaving)

Quick update..... I went out to the farm yesterday to do some exploring in the woods.....
 
2 things of note:
 
1. It's really thick out there. I used a machete quite a bit. and I felt like Hansel and Gretel .... but I didn't use bread crumbs... I used marking tape.... bright pink.   It took me an hour and a half and still hadn't reached the stream at the halfway point in the back 20. I could see the hardwood trees on the stream...   When I got home, I found a tick on me.... so next time... it's some DEET infused bug spray when I'm bush-hogging the property line.
 
2.  Look at the picture of the house in the OP.... see that vine to the left of the door with the christmas light strand in it?  Well.........spring has sprung and it's starting to pop out leaves..... oh yeah... it's freaking poison ivy.  Who in their right mind grows poison ivy up the side of their house?  Removing THAT is going to be fun.  I might have to get one of those hazardous waste clean-up suits, full face and hand protection and then tackle it. That's the last thing I need.

Guitarhacker
Quick update..... I went out to the farm yesterday to do some exploring in the woods.....
 
2 things of note:
 
1. It's really thick out there. I used a machete quite a bit. and I felt like Hansel and Gretel .... but I didn't use bread crumbs... I used marking tape.... bright pink.   It took me an hour and a half and still hadn't reached the stream at the halfway point in the back 20. I could see the hardwood trees on the stream...   When I got home, I found a tick on me.... so next time... it's some DEET infused bug spray when I'm bush-hogging the property line.
 
2.  Look at the picture of the house in the OP.... see that vine to the left of the door with the christmas light strand in it?  Well.........spring has sprung and it's starting to pop out leaves..... oh yeah... it's freaking poison ivy.  Who in their right mind grows poison ivy up the side of their house?  Removing THAT is going to be fun.  I might have to get one of those hazardous waste clean-up suits, full face and hand protection and then tackle it. That's the last thing I need.

 
You could cut it through with loppers or a hedgetrimmer at ground level and again about 3ft above. Everything above the cut will die and turn brown then it would be easier to handle. Then spray the roots with something nasty.

jamesg1213

Guitarhacker
Quick update..... I went out to the farm yesterday to do some exploring in the woods.....
 
2 things of note:
 
1. It's really thick out there. I used a machete quite a bit. and I felt like Hansel and Gretel .... but I didn't use bread crumbs... I used marking tape.... bright pink.   It took me an hour and a half and still hadn't reached the stream at the halfway point in the back 20. I could see the hardwood trees on the stream...   When I got home, I found a tick on me.... so next time... it's some DEET infused bug spray when I'm bush-hogging the property line.
 
2.  Look at the picture of the house in the OP.... see that vine to the left of the door with the christmas light strand in it?  Well.........spring has sprung and it's starting to pop out leaves..... oh yeah... it's freaking poison ivy.  Who in their right mind grows poison ivy up the side of their house?  Removing THAT is going to be fun.  I might have to get one of those hazardous waste clean-up suits, full face and hand protection and then tackle it. That's the last thing I need.

 
You could cut it through with loppers or a hedgetrimmer at ground level and again about 3ft above. Everything above the cut will die and turn brown then it would be easier to handle. Then spray the roots with something nasty.

Yep, that's the way I'd do it. Pulling it off the house can still release the oils that cause the reaction. Learned that the hard way my own self...
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Guitarhacker

eph221
Kill Branch stream looks like a sewer, keep  the kids away from that!

No.... it's not... it's got weak tea colored water which is generally pretty clean stuff.... and it flows year round at a decent flow rate so it's as clean as a stream gets in eastern NC. You can see the bottom in most parts. It's part of the Neuse river water shed and has a 50 foot buffer on both sides.... to protect it.  No cutting of large trees or digging/excavating in that buffer.  We can thin the underbrush but that's the extent of it.  I plan to hike back to the second stream tomorrow and have a look at it. It flows into the one in my pic.

I live close to the Mattaponni River here in the Old Dominion and it has that same color. I believe it is natural from dead vegetation. The Mattaponni is listed as one of the cleanest rivers in the country, which would be why the Corps of Engineers want to dam it up and pipe it down to Norfolk for drinking.
 
Regards,
Dan