American Gamefowl

[roosterhavoc]

Around here a pile like that is gonna be half leaves half chicken sh*t. Play in at your own risk.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don’t rake them I just mulch them with the mower...

I live in the timber with mostly oak and hickory... the oak leaves don’t break down the same as say maple leaves ...

so you pretty much have to get them up or they will choke out the grass, not to mention they encourage the voles to move in, which brings in the copper headed snakes come spring...

... also we have something called fungus gnats ( aka dog pecker gnats) that breed in decaying leaves... they’re bad enough with all the woods we have, but if I weren’t to get the leaves up I think they’d carry us off

Yeah that makes sense. I have some oaks but mostly maple and poplar. Then again if I lived in the woods I wouldn’t want a lawn period.

 

[roosterhavoc]

You recall when the crazy lady racked them into the damn driveway and was burning them? I'm pretty sure I sent you a picture lol did 0 good. But I cleaned the ditch out pretty well when we got that 2ft in the gold truck lmao.

Yep I remember lol

 

[OhZark Biddies]

You recall when the crazy lady racked them into the damn driveway and was burning them? I'm pretty sure I sent you a picture lol did 0 good. But I cleaned the ditch out pretty well when we got that 2ft in the gold truck lmao.

A long time ago my neighbor would blow all his leaves to the ditch then when the weather was right he’d burn them...

Well somebody kept driving through them scattering them all over... so he put some concrete blocks in the pile, and quickly found out the teenager down the street was the culprit

 

[roosterhavoc]

A long time ago my neighbor would blow all his leaves to the ditch then when the weather was right he’d burn them...

Well somebody kept driving through them scattering them all over... so he put some concrete blocks in the pile, and quickly found out the teenager down the street was the culprit

That’s awesome. I had some teenager driving on my front yard for a few years. Right at the edge. Man I wish I could have caught him. I would have done donuts on his parents front yard and tore it all to hell and back. I guess he grew up since I haven’t had an issue in years.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Yeah that makes sense. I have some oaks but mostly maple and poplar. Then again if I lived in the woods I wouldn’t want a lawn period.

I hear ya, my house is on top of the “mountain” so our ground is so rocky and poor it’s hard to have anything grow... it’s more about minimizing erosion and feeding the deer than having a lawn... I hadn’t mowed since early September, and only mowed maybe six times this summer... but I am trying to get something of a lawn right up next to the house ( about 30’ x 50’)

 

[roosterhavoc]

I did have two guys shine a light in my house one night driving by. I waited outside with a flashlight and when they drive back by doing it again I ran out to them and ripped them for like 20 min. They said “we were just shining the field” I’m like that’s my yard you ****ing idiots.
Never saw them again either.
Had a guy knock on my door once asking if he could shoot the woodchucks! I said no I have dogs and a young son and don’t want anyone but me hunting in my yard?! I asked him what he was doing with them and he said just letting them lay. Such dumb*sses.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I hear ya, my house is on top of the “mountain” so our ground is so rocky and poor it’s hard to have anything grow... it’s more about minimizing erosion and feeding the deer than having a lawn... I hadn’t mowed since early September, and only mowed maybe six times this summer... but I am trying to get something of a lawn right up next to the house ( about 30’ x 50’)

I wish I could give you my whole lawn. Good god I get tired of mowing and running over potatoes and raccoon traps.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I wish I could give you my whole lawn. Good god I get tired of mowing and running over potatoes and raccoon traps.

I was thinking of you Sunday when I was mowing leaves under the bird feeder... kept pushing my luck with each pass thinking “if I’m not careful I’m gonna pull a havoc and run over that 450 that’s hidden in those leaves...”

My “grass” is mostly just clover that I’ve seeded in and whatever else wants to grow... but my wife insists that we have a patch of “grassy grass” in the front right next to the house... so I do have some turf grass there ... I’m with you on mowing though... riding a mower or tractor is about my least favorite thing

 

[roosterhavoc]

Ya know I do have a lot of voles here. Maybe if I raked I wouldn’t have so many?