Remember that weekender guy who wanted to make a living on 40 acres.. First off, he's long gone, never did a thing out there. But he left too quick. First, he left before the solar farm came out and mapped off land, his could have been in it...Second, biggest fad now is Elderberry stuff. And guess what grows out here.....yeah, elderberrys. And not only that, he could have made money with pine sap. His place did have a small portion of pines on it. With the pine sap and elderberrys, he might have made a good living on that 40 acres..
He gave up too quick
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kenny thomas
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Did you buy the land?
greggy
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What guy ?
Dont they all come asking if 2 cows and a bull are enough to replace the city income with ? All while you watch tv or sit around on your rear end ?
Dont they all come asking if 2 cows and a bull are enough to replace the city income with ? All while you watch tv or sit around on your rear end ?
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cowgirl8
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greggy said:
Not only that, but he wanted to sell hay off it. First off, its crap land..without a lot of work, the hay would be bad quality. He ask us to bale it and wanted to know what we'd pay him per bale.. Husband quoted him 2 dollars a bale and he might make 40 bales. He basically call us crooks...lol.. The people who have it now did put cows on it. They have 6. Its been a good grass year so they've done ok.. But a normal year they'd struggle with that many cows. He has no hay yet, so i'm guessing they'll come to us to buy and we'll probably have to deliver, and they will have to pay us a prime price for that. This winter though, if it keeps raining, they'll have problems with cows bogging down. We use to lease that place and always had cows getting stuck..
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cowgirl8
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This was the 3rd weekend new land owners didnt come out and bask in country life. This is the same old song and dance. They get the place and see tons of things they want and look forward doing. They invest in equipment, spend hours mowing, moving dirt, sprucing up whatever structure is already there... This place was a flurry of excitement for months.. But, once what they did needed done again and again every time they came out to relax, their excitement slowed. Basically, from Feb to Nov, if you want you're acreage to look like the lawn you have in the city, you'll have to mow, and mow, and mow.... If you miss a couple weeks, you're looking at weed heaven since the last owner gave up quick and it just sat around with no maintenance, so the persimmon, hackberry, and locus trees have taken over. The crap fence corners you made out of pine, dead pines to be exact, will be gone by spring. And now there are cows on it 24/7 with no rotation, weeds like goatweed and ragweed have spread because the grass is shorter than it needs to be. No one is checking the pond, but luckily we've had more water than normal, but their pond wont support 6 cows over a summer...If they were planning on coming next weekend, hurricane Laura might come up and run over us, which, in a normal year we'd be super dry and could support a lot of ran. But we have standing water still... not sure what would happen then. But i'm guessing, we'll get a early start on it being wet.. They've already had storm damage to the structure they lazily built because there is freedom from building codes. We had a small storm that blew the roof off part of their new addition. We've had some good strong hurricanes hold together way up here and i expect that what they've done will continue to blow down....
