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here's 1/2 of next years wood (ash all hand split since I got the fiskar - no splitter rental yet) and buried under the snow is 4 truck loads of oak and 1 of cherry to split. I was hoping to get out and get some more this weekend - I am sick of this snow. We are supposed to get a major storm next week (4 days of snow) and really cold temps. - minus temps at night. Brought in the good wood so I am ready.
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Real nice shots! It looks like we should look here, but snow has been lacking. We're slowly catching up though. We have fox and deer in the neighborhood and snow on the woodpiles. Love the moon shot and the flocked trees. Those pictures could have been taken in these parts!
Alot of people picture NJ differently. Mainly they only get a glipse of it while driving on the Turnpike (95) thru Newark. Sadly - this does not reflect the rest of the state. I am about 10 minutes from the Delaware Water Gap and over into the Poconos. We have a ski resort 10 mins up the road too. The AT runs down the Kittattiny range which I can see from the top of my back yard. It reminds me alot of Virginia where I lived all my life.
The fox is walking on the neighbors pond - that drains into my bottom land where the deer were. I'd love to make a lake in my bottom land - but I can't afford to go thru the approval processes. I may never move if I had a good bass lake on my property!
The fox is walking on the neighbors pond - that drains into my bottom land where the deer were. I'd love to make a lake in my bottom land - but I can't afford to go thru the approval processes. I may never move if I had a good bass lake on my property!
Backwoods Savage
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Nice pictures basswidow. Looks great.
We used to have plenty of fox around here but rarely see them any more since the coyotes took over. I got one picture of a fox on the game camera last summer which surprised me because I thought they were all gone because it had been so long since seeing one.
We used to have plenty of fox around here but rarely see them any more since the coyotes took over. I got one picture of a fox on the game camera last summer which surprised me because I thought they were all gone because it had been so long since seeing one.
SolarAndWood
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basswidow said:
Your part of NJ is beautiful. Hopefully, the ruggedness of the commute and the landscape will keep it that way for a long time.
k3c4forlife
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Ya, I live in Northwest NJ as well. It really is a beautiful area and it is really frustrating to know that a lot of people think the only two exciting things to come out of Jersey are the Jersey Shore and Housewives of New Jersey... bunch of idiots. None of them are even from New Jersey. This is where I live. It's Forest Lakes in Byram, NJ.
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basswidow said:
Actually I think of that as a good thing-it keeps people out!
basswidow said:
Are you in Warren or Sussex? We like Hunterdon, but its so darn expensive here-I'm hoping the housing crash is going to have a good effect on the market here and bring it back to earth somewhat. Lebanon Township to the north is nice-still large properties to be had there, some that back to state park and game land, etc...but still more pricey than Warren. We love the area around Blairstown but would need to find new jobs so that we don't spend 50% of our lives at work and the other 50% just driving back and forth.
basswidow said:
We're hoping to get our hands on a home with 30 acres or so of forested land and manage it under forest preservation. I figure with that amount of land, what we cull every year as part of the management plan, plus deadfall would meet our heating needs with a gasification boiler. The tax break would be essential of course. The deals are out there-I saw a property on GSMLS in Blairstown on 95 acres under woodland management for about $600K-the taxes were $6000 a year! The house was nothing special and needed work but I'd feel like I died and had gone to heaven. With 95 acres I could have a different deer stand for each day of the week :lol:
k3c4forlife
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And a few friends in the area to help take all those stupid trees off your property...
Basswidow has to be in Sussex if he is that close to Mountain Creek.
Basswidow has to be in Sussex if he is that close to Mountain Creek.
Badfish740
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k3c4forlife said:
Ah yes...duh... If I could find a way to work from home or for myself in some way I'd move to Vernon or Stillwater in a heartbeat. A good friend of my wife's owns a 50 acre farm in Stillwater, about half of it is wooded and they raise hogs, chickens, and sheep on the other half.
thewoodlands
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basswidow said:
Nice pictures. It's been two years since we last saw the fox on our property.
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I am in sussex county. Lafayette in particular.
I wish we'd given more thought before we bought. I would have gotten a smaller farm. Taxes are much lower. My taxes should be considered illegal. A guy across the street from me has about 80 acres for which he pays about $ 90 a year in taxes. The way they do the taxes in this state is crazy. They suck the life out of the working families and the wealthy have loopholes. The farm preservation shelters them from taxes. Wish I knew that before.
Yeah, Blairstown is nice. You've got the paulinskill and delaware river, nice mountains, real pretty spot.
I wish we'd given more thought before we bought. I would have gotten a smaller farm. Taxes are much lower. My taxes should be considered illegal. A guy across the street from me has about 80 acres for which he pays about $ 90 a year in taxes. The way they do the taxes in this state is crazy. They suck the life out of the working families and the wealthy have loopholes. The farm preservation shelters them from taxes. Wish I knew that before.
Yeah, Blairstown is nice. You've got the paulinskill and delaware river, nice mountains, real pretty spot.
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