Tks! Great Tip Bill, similarly I remember telling my grandson, ALSO; ‘think of the deer having guns’

Holy crap!! even with the trail cleared that's a challenging climb! Love your channel and the content! well done Bill!

Looks like some high quality gear

Reminded me , I have a lot of this to do. However a few years ago I did see several copperheads on the rocks

Great video. With the boom sprayer can you shut off individual nozzles also like the boomless?

I have a couple creeks on my small 80 acre farm. I need to start utilizing them for access to some different setups. Idk about you bill, but going up that steep ditch I’d be sweating like crazy even when it’s only 20 degrees

Thanks guys, cutting/clearing accesses tomorrow too! Successful private land hunting is work! Appreciate! 🦌

Exciting, Hardcore route ! Looking forward to see what it can produce Good luck

It makes the hunt so much better when you’ve really worked hard. I enjoy the hard work part too. Brothers I see all the hard work you guys are putting in!! Some would see that as crazy work. I think it’s a great idea and would have done the same. Luke 9:62

get piles of corn scented concentrate

Will these fabrics collect burrs???

I’m pretty sure my lazy butt doesn’t want to kill a buck that bad. 😂 Problem here in north Georgia is you do all that work and the best buck you can hope for is 120”. Would seem kinda stupid. 😂😂😂

Great video Bill, I was wondering if there were any drainages that could be used as access with all the ridges on that farm. Thinking outsode the box as always

Looks like really nice gear, but right now, I'm still keeping my sitka fanatic

I know you said ditches are good access. But lets be honest, loose rocks and small tiny twigs and crunchy leaves will make it impossible to be completely quiet so I guess my question is , wont that still alert deer on both sides that something is in that ditch? I access a stand for a short distance during the rut to a spot. Never spook deer but definitely still make enough noise and the deer must just think its a deer or some animal crossing the way i do

Yeah that spot looks like it's going to pay off....I would be thinking a nice rut corridor from East to West ...Glad you didn't cut too much. Just enough for a safe undetected passage. Thanks for not cutting us off cold turkey like some the other hunting channels👎

I agree, its easy to underestimate the time and energy to clear ditches like these in the driftless area. I have opened up 2 ditchs, 1 old logging trail and the beginnings of a new logging trail on my property. Hunting apps are good for navigating to specific stand sites from opened terrain but I find ribbons or reflective tacks are the most efficient methods for coming from the cleared ditches/trails to the specific stand sites in the dark. #BigBuckInTheTruck2025

Bill could you rent an mini excavator and work top down cleaning and filling that ditch, hard to tell from video the angle. Great work fellas. Sure that wasn't easy

in the late 1980 and early 1990 ds I would try to sound like a deer in compleat darkness no flashlight walking on my toes wind in my face some times they would let me walk by 20 feet away .I do not know how meany times I could smell the deer so close to me that I got scared knowing that it is a racked buck fallowing a doe . some times I use a stick adding a 3rd leg as I walk I force the stick into the ground between each step and walk right up to them. I still do that now .I pray every time that I go deer hunting that the deer that I sometimes jump on my way in let them run of weight 10 seconds and blow my nose one time as hard as I can . in the dark circle down wind and cross my scent trail , I figured this out in 1992ish let my pet rabbit bis on a small rug and each weak I leave my hunting boots in rabbit shit and yurin with tarcial gland hair on top of the rabbit shit , in the north east MAS NH if it is not posted you can hunt . I never leave any thing in the woods .my tree stand lone wolf self climber comes in and out every time . when someone sees a tree stand in the woods they walk over to see it and deer sign . spot ruined . my average tree stand hight is 39 feet I never get bust ed .7 times in the last 17 years it just does not happen when you are that high . I get 25 feet up a tree with my bow on my left side as I climb . I grab the bottom of my lone wolf treestand with my legs and readjust the angle and climb again so when I get to my desired hight it will be flat in the compleat darkness. I let the deer hunt me leaving a buck tarsial giant tied to a branch 7 feet off the ground all the time . I haven't let anything ever touch the ground except the bottom edge of my the stand wile I in stall the climbing aid .it takes me less then 4 minutes to be that hight . 228 deer bow hunts only I shot 5 in a field . most hunters will learn from this post but few will go to my KZbin page and look . I Never stop learning .

Bill's quote of the day.....deer hunting isnt easy.

I’ve thought about taking a dozer and creating some of these ditches so I can travel incognito to a couple spots. The realized how much work that would actually be. 😊

Great plan ! I always think of the field of dreams, build it and they will come ! In deer terms clean it up and they will find it and use it ! Lol I've learned to block off the trail with the cut branches and when I go back in later in the year to hang a stand clean it back up and rake a trail to the stand

With all those rocks and rough terrain, are snakes a concern?

Bill a backpack blower works great for clearing leaves and debris form sneak trails

Not easy as people might think. Ive been following your new adventure here and even with all the work, all the planting and careful in and outs, I dont remember you even getting many opportunities at 2-1/2, 3-1/2 year old bucks. Different travel behavior than you'd expect. 2 years from now you should be back in the booners in a big way. Next year should provide a shooter or two also. Chucking those 6' logs will keep you in an 80# bow longer, too. Be careful!

That my friend is a fantastic idea,thanks for sharing this,I guess I better get to work once it warms up just a touch.

The work involved with getting ready to hunt was always fun for me

Looking forward to a scouting video associated with this access/area. In my experience, it's a good feeling to do work like this with a tangible result. You have access and options. I hope it pays off in venison.

That looked like a workout...Thank you for sharing.

Bill you are correct there is a popular you tuber who I watched this year and he had cell cameras all over the place chasing 170 and above whitetail one instance stands out he was in a stand and was disappointed a deer he was after didn’t show up his cell phone rang and it was the buck he was after and it was at his other stand he climbed down and went after that deer . I use cameras because I hunt state property big woods in the north east not easy hunting but I use them to check on the heard so I know what’s there and what is not . Always enjoy your show and insights thanks again

Cool looking entry for sure!

Do you experience many ticks down there, and do you have any preventative measures you take ? Starting get a lot up here in Ontario.

Did some thing similar and made some trails then the deer starting using them 😂

Thanks for taking us along on your journey building another great farm! I only have approximately 40 acres of hunting area on my family farm but many of your improvements I can apply to that land. I look forward to your next video as always!

Have the same situation!! Perfect timing for this video and finalizes my thoughts

How much does erosion worry you now that your stripping the all the vegitation with deep roots off the slopes?

I imagine going a size bigger and allowing shrinkage...

Bill, how about using a light going in in the dark? I think a lot of guys blow deer out they never knew were there using a headlamp going in. If i have to use a light, i cup it in my hand pointed at the ground(green or red), only opening my hand to let it shine a bit enough to see my trail going in. On private, i also keep my trail raked clean so it's dead quiet going in. I even stalk in in the dark using this method and have walked right into deer on the trail. They usually don't spook, sometimes I get within 20 feet of them before they shuffle off.

Is that your daughter? She's quite pretty!

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I see others have mentioned eye protection, very important

Why not put load lifters on the backpack??

Hey Bill try the 3 blade brush whacker and get a helmet with a forestry face shield.

Hey Bill, love the show! Seems like the overall quality of bucks on the farm is steadily rising for you. Do you attribute this to habitat improvements or less pressure/less harvesting of younger bucks now that you own it?

Awesome video and great tips about taking things to the extreme. Bill, please get yourself some Stealth Strips to silence your stand and climbing sticks. Hard to hear a lesson about being quiet while watching you with all that stand and stick metal exposed.

Myles Keller always said if he could he'd prefer to be dropped in from the sky into his stand. He also talked highly of stalking to your stand.

Stump sprouts = deer food.

Excellent! I have field dressed plenty of deer, and still learned how to do it better and faster.

Wish the genius that hunts where I do had that mentality he walks the whole way to his big huts flashlight whipping all around crashing thru the timber. Ever since he's been back there big buck daylight fell off a cliff and he parks as close as he can and it's a driveway the whole way

Good stuff! Thanks 🙏