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Got out cache hunting today. Interesting place.

George-CT

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This is and old Up Down Sawmill located in Ledyard, Connecticut. Its about 30 miles from me. My buddy lives just down the street from it so I made a visit to him and then to the SawMill to find the cache. Found the cache no problem, not really hidden that well....Beautiful area. Normally this would be working, but the pond has dropped way down as we have not had much rain for this time of year. They run it in the fall till the pond freezes and in the spring until the pond drops. I will get back so you can see the mill working, its really pretty neat... Here is a link that tells all about it and most about this one is at the bottom with pictures of what was left of it and how it works....Up Down Saw Mill I took these for my own enjoyment and to post here......It was only 88 down there so that fell pretty nice after the last 3 days of 100 up our way. Ocean breeze cools it off nice.......

#1 is a shot of mill where water enters from pond....way down now, not enough to run it........

#2 almost same shot with close of millstones scattered all around there.

#3 lower side of mill where all the action goes on.....Really neat to watch them do it.

#4 is mill and pond spillway under bridge....nothing going over it right now.....I liked the shot for the reflection of the mill in pond....

#5 just wanted to show you my buddy Jim's jeep. He is a Blaster...good job in these parts... As you can see from his front license plate
he is proud of it. We have had some good times on some of his jobs.... Many more restrictions now than there use to be.....They
let you drive all over this place as long as your careful....

#6 took this to show you one of the ways they hide the caches. This was under a big white pine tree way away from the mill but on their property.
 
sawmills somewhere but I can not really remember where the heck it was, maybe up your way. It doesn't seem that the one I saw was running either but I found it interesting the cleverness of the people to get the job done back then.

Those tell tail sticks, all laying in the same direction are a give away. When I follow the GPS to the numbers I usually just stand there and look around for something that does not look natural, such as those sticks laying parallel. Now I found one cache, way back in the boonies by the South Branch that took some hunting. The person that hid the cache put little piles of those sticks in a half dozen spots to confuse the hunter and then hid the cache carefully.

I found one yesterday that I had gone back to 5 times and finally found it and then felt stupid. It was an easy find but I just could not see it, a mental block I guess.

It has cooled off a bit today, 64 right now and if the humidity stays bearable we might get out for a while, at least I might get out for a while :D

Thanks for the pictures George
 
I still cannot see the cache in #6 though... How is it hidden?

calm seas

Micheal
 
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all those sticks neatly lined up on it.... Its a big clear nylon Lock & Stock box sprayed with camo paint..... I'm not really fond of the ground hides as winter snows and ice make them impossible to get at. I know you can't see the video's Mikie but there at a couple of good ones on the bottom of that link that show the mill in operation.....
 
It is a beautiful, peaceful looking site and sad to see he water level so low. I wonder how it stays so green with the lack of rain? These are some good pictures, helped me understand the story. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
pond might of had more feeders streams into it back then. With all the development around down there, things change for water tables and flow... If you go to the bottom of that link I attached to the post, there is a movie or 2 of it all running way down at the bottom, with sound etc.... Slow way to go but better than by hand for sure....

On the green Fred. We get heat but nothing like you guys and even when we do its short lived. Summer here may provide 20 days of days that make it to the 90's. This last heat wave was 6 days and not the norm for us. I'm guessing but I'm thinking our layer of topsoil here might hold more water and allows it to stay green... Not as sandy as out your way I would think... Our grass here just went dormant with zero growth right now in the fields, but that will change once the rains come again.. I know the hay guys are worried as if it don't come soon, no second cutting or at best a skimpy on for bales per acre.

I was on Blue Servo yesterday on the border Webcams and I see the Rio Grande was really over flowing and running hard....Usually it looks ike you could walk across it, but not right now...... Did you guys get any of that rain or was it all south of you?

Geo
 
How many bales per acre and how many cuttings per season? Your question, most of the heavy rain was south of us.

Our primary hay down here in South Texas is Coastal Bermuda Grass. We usually have three cuttings per year, but often we can get a 4th cutting, 75 to 90 bales per acre per cutting depending on how much fertilizer you used. We usually fertilize twice per season, early spring and again approximately 60 days later, three hundred lbs. per acre of fertilizer. Average bale will weight 65 - 70 lbs. and will be 12 to 16 flakes per bale. Some folks will use the round bales which weight approximately 1,100 lbs each. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
Here you can usually get 2 nice cuttings, and late fall short one... Varies on amount here per acre depending on rain fall.....can be 75 or up to 125.... A lot of round bales being done now....Mostly for cows, so they bale anything, wet don't matter, but the horse hay, they pick the prime stuff and match the price to it..... The bale light here now, seldom over 50 lbs, usually less......Price don't change but the amount of hay in the bale does....Typical swamp yankees...... I know, I are one.....LOL Round bales here, again, they can be rolled loose, and weight 400 lbs or rolled tight and be 1000 lbs.... Just had a guy give me 2 1000 lbs ones...really nice stuff... For me all my storage is up in the loft. Nothing down low for big round bales, YET, so if I put it in between the stalls, it takes up a lot of room. Working on putting up a big shed roof off the back of the barn so I can roll them in in winter...... Once we get snowed in, movement of anything becomes a problem... Its more like and ice skating ring once the horse pack it down.... I fI was younger I'd put up a big indoor and have them roof for all of it and use the ring for turn out in winter..... but we are on the back side of the horse hobby now, just have the 2 here and can see a time when this will all stop....one injury can stop it alot sooner... mostly back injuries..... Last year Jane just boarded them out a friends so that saved a lot of work, but we now have a loft full of hay, well half full now, so we will not load up until second cutting.. I'm putting a new motor on the hay elevator now..old one burned up after 40 years.... It hsould have my kids wold laod the elevator heavy then ride up on them.... Just bought a new motor at Tractor Supply. Do you have those down your way?

Geo
 
They are excellent for buying supplies, but I never would buy their feed because it was seldom fresh in my opinion. I had the habit of trying to buy all supplies and feed from the local feed stores and only went to the Tractor Supply Store as a last resort. One national chain store that I seldom ever buy anything from is Wal-Mart...I just do not like them.

The weight of the bale of hay is often determined by the density of the row of the cut grass in the field before it is baled. Next time you see a freshly cut field, and just prior to it being baled, walk down some of the rows of cut grass. You will notice that some spots are thicker than other spots in that roll of cut grass. As the hay is being baled, the heavier, concentrated spots in that row will produce a heavier bale. The lighter bales will usually come from the edge of the field or in low lying areas where you see water standing after a rain shower. Most bales down here are bound with wire, you seldom see rope bound hay anymore. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
have closed up in these parts. There are still a few, but not like it was. There was a big one K & L Grain that was really good, but they folded up a few years ago. One big one not to far away delivers, Blue Seal products but he has ticket a lot of locals off... He wold say come to my neighbor, and the end of my driveway to deliver then to us, than other friends just down the street. We would all order at same time... yet he was changing all of us the same delivery fee.
even if we had him leave it all at one barn, he would tack on the delivery fee, so we all dropped him as did many others..... We started buying from Tractor Supply and so far, no problems... Decent prices, and they are open 7 days a week......

They still bale here with the twine.....

Geo
 
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