These videos are the best... I would rather watch these than any Tv show any day.. Not to mention it is very inspiring and motivating as it has helped me do the same for my hunting property.
How far away from the food source would you ideally create these bedding areas? I assume you would want to hunt the travel corridor between the bed and the food?
We are cutting at that height because we want deer to have overhead cover but still be able to easily move around under it and feel that they can escape predators. If we cut lower it becomes rabbit habitat, not deer habitat.
+Jiri P they cut them higher so the deer can get in there and lay down and have cover for bedding because you don't want it to low because the deer are only so tall
I'm on a property where it's 90-95% white pines. I can't hinge cut because pine just won't do that. how can I great a bedding area in pines that are 30-40 ft tall and inside look like a skeleton with no ground cover.. Trigger243
+TriggerTube243 I have friends in the same situation. They have made awesome bedding areas by hinge cutting pines. The trees will not survive but if you can hang the butt up on the stump you create tremendous horizontal cover that lasts a good long time. In the meantime, you can disturb the ground around them by raking the pine needles to expose soils, producing florid growth from the seed bank in an area that now has sufficient sunlight from cutting the trees. Even with poor soils you will produce a thicket in a couple of years, with two caveats, one, you made need to fight ferns with herbicides for a couple of years, treating them in the spring to kill them and allow other stuff to grow, and two, if the deer population is too high you may not get good growth because they browse the new growth back faster than it can establish itself. Give it a try, you will like the results. But be careful because pine trees are soft and can break off readily. The more lower branches and knots you have, the safer it is to cut the trees. If they have long stems without branches, be exceedingly cautious as you can get major barber chairs. It is better to face cut and fell such trees by conventional means. Depending on the size, they can then be lifted up onto the stump by hand or with heavy equipment.
Anytime you see someone making head high hinge cuts tune out and immediately assume they are misinformed or don’t know what they are doing. Deer need side cover. Cuts should be waist high. The overhead cover fad is a waste of time. Any time I see guys making a dome for deer to bed under I just laugh.
These videos are the best... I would rather watch these than any Tv show any day.. Not to mention it is very inspiring and motivating as it has helped me do the same for my hunting property.
Is hinge cutting more successful in the growing season when trees are green?
How far away from the food source would you ideally create these bedding areas? I assume you would want to hunt the travel corridor between the bed and the food?
do you have pictures of deer using these hinge cut beds?
why you guys cutting the tree so high?
We are cutting at that height because we want deer to have overhead cover but still be able to easily move around under it and feel that they can escape predators. If we cut lower it becomes rabbit habitat, not deer habitat.
+Jiri P they cut them higher so the deer can get in there and lay down and have cover for bedding because you don't want it to low because the deer are only so tall
I'm on a property where it's 90-95% white pines. I can't hinge cut because pine just won't do that. how can I great a bedding area in pines that are 30-40 ft tall and inside look like a skeleton with no ground cover..
Trigger243
+TriggerTube243 I have friends in the same situation. They have made awesome bedding areas by hinge cutting pines. The trees will not survive but if you can hang the butt up on the stump you create tremendous horizontal cover that lasts a good long time. In the meantime, you can disturb the ground around them by raking the pine needles to expose soils, producing florid growth from the seed bank in an area that now has sufficient sunlight from cutting the trees. Even with poor soils you will produce a thicket in a couple of years, with two caveats, one, you made need to fight ferns with herbicides for a couple of years, treating them in the spring to kill them and allow other stuff to grow, and two, if the deer population is too high you may not get good growth because they browse the new growth back faster than it can establish itself. Give it a try, you will like the results. But be careful because pine trees are soft and can break off readily. The more lower branches and knots you have, the safer it is to cut the trees. If they have long stems without branches, be exceedingly cautious as you can get major barber chairs. It is better to face cut and fell such trees by conventional means. Depending on the size, they can then be lifted up onto the stump by hand or with heavy equipment.
I got it so deer can pass thru Sorry
for how long the cover will be good?
Oops, responded before I saw this. Trees can survive indefinitely after hinge cutting. Not all do, but many do.
Anytime you see someone making head high hinge cuts tune out and immediately assume they are misinformed or don’t know what they are doing. Deer need side cover. Cuts should be waist high. The overhead cover fad is a waste of time. Any time I see guys making a dome for deer to bed under I just laugh.
You are protecting the deer so you can hunt them down later!!