Rick wrote:Unless you had a heck of a mess of light decoys, I'm thinking you'll find specks easier without.
Ericdc wrote:If he'll let you cut your own boards and regulate water, that was a very valuable asset we had at my old lease. Could adjust boards based on forecast or let water out after big rains.
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Darren wrote:Ericdc wrote:If he'll let you cut your own boards and regulate water, that was a very valuable asset we had at my old lease. Could adjust boards based on forecast or let water out after big rains.
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We did just that, cut our own board.......but the existing board already had water against it by the time we could get to it and would thus be really tough to get out.
Darren wrote:One other thing to keep an eye out on this summer will be ammo supply, currently very scarce. I'm afraid the "out of stock" designation from the usual vendors will be all too common.
DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:Ericdc wrote:If he'll let you cut your own boards and regulate water, that was a very valuable asset we had at my old lease. Could adjust boards based on forecast or let water out after big rains.
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We did just that, cut our own board.......but the existing board already had water against it by the time we could get to it and would thus be really tough to get out.
So your drain ditch water level was as high or higher than the cut level?
Rick wrote:If I think of it, I'll take a pic of a board gate on tomorrow morning's county round. Very seldom see a single plywood sheet here, as it's usually stacked 2x4 or tongue-in-groove 1X boards for depth adjustment - and ease of pulling to drain.
Darren wrote:Stacked boards of smaller width would be far easier to manage, tongue and groove type fit or something like Rick said. That's NOT what we've got, and these boards are very difficult to remove. See pics I had from couple years back
Note a few fields drain via this field and thus via this culvert.
Ericdc wrote:Could u use pieces of plywood instead of solid sheet much like using various sized pieces of lumber?
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DComeaux wrote:I had to rebuild a couple of gates for the Gueydan farm we hunted after they were damaged by a bush hog. I copied what was there and it used tongue and grove slats. I have pictures on my other old, stored computer and I'll try dig it out of the closet and post a few pics here. I thought I had those pics in this forums hunting logs but realized it was another forum that is no longer on line. They were very easy to set. They do attract snakes, especially if it's flowing during draining.
Rick, what was the name of that forum? Time sure fly's when you're having fun.
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