NiobraraHunt

  I have been watching a guy in Tennessee built a homestead in the Smoky Mountains, called Smoky Mountain Outpost. He is doing most of the work himself with a little help from family.  He has a sawmill.  He is building a big cabin with post and beam using mortis and tenon with wood peg joints. Although I think I could do it, it is probably beyond my years and forest resources.  He has also built a forest kitchen using post and beam but with cedar wood.  This is more compatible with my Niobrara land.  I am going to refer to his videos with comments on the construction and our site. The Utube channel is Smoking Mountain Outpost and the forest kitchen is in season 2.  I can't get episodes right now but the one I want to discuss is the use of cedar trees for roof rafters. Installing the metal roof was season 2 episode 29 so the rafter one was before that. What he has done is taken cedar logs with a base of 5-6 inches to 3 or 4 inches at small end and has m...

I really enjoyed using the tracked mulcher at Tom's. I ran it for 1 day and for 11 machine hours.  Tom has some trees in his pasture that he wants shredded. I ran the machine for about 1 hour on 20 year old trees and they were shredded. For 2021, I would like to rent the machine for a week.  That gives us 40 machine hours.  I think Birkel Farm and Ranch would use it for one day or 8 machine hours. With that Tom could do a lot of clearing in his pasture.  The machine rents for a week for the same rent as 3 days. We would then take the machine to the Niobrara. On the Niobrara, there is a really nice bench just west of the pump site that has a lot of Oak trees.  I would like to clear out all of the cedar and maybe some of the oak trees.  It would make a great family area or cabin site.  I would seed some blue grass as I did at the other cabin site.  The site would have a great view up the river.  I think I could put in a drive from the pump site...