How is the frost for the rest of you

Rick Kr

Well-known Member
Mid Michigan froze up pretty good a few weeks back with temps in the teens and even the single digits.

After this recent warm up I have found a few places where the frost was still 4-5 inches down with the top being thawed. Of course I am finding this with my tree spade.

After you pull a plug or a tree, you get a really nice "picture" of how much top soil someone has before it turns to clay sub soil. I find all sorts of interesting combinations in peoples yards.

I need to snap a few pics to post. Til then... keep digging!!!

Rick
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How long do you keep transplanting, until the frost is to deep for your spade? I have a buddy that bought one to move some trees on his hunting property and poeple he talked to said to quit at the end of september. Didn't make sense to me but I'm not the expert!
 
I don't think there's more than an inch. I just tried to pick corn. It's a lost cause. Too cold,the stalks are too brittle,no point being out there. Trouble is,IF it warms up and toughens the stalks a little,it'll get too muddy to make the hills. Might as well put the picker away til spring I think.
 

The frost had stopped fieldwork here in my part of NWIA for a few days, then it started back up again after a few warm ones. Haven't seen any activity out there for the past couple days so it must be frozen too deep again. The early freeze really put the hurt on the liquid manure haulers. They had to spray it on top after the freeze and boy was there an aroma around here for awhile. The manure loses some of it's 'goody' if it's sprayed on top too, not to mention the runoff. jIm
 
Lots of truth to that water/frost comparison. Few years ago we had a dry fall, no rain since early August. We tiled through 10 inch, very crystalline frozen ground, first week of December.
 
Spook,
6ft $85. 7ft $100 at my door. To plant I have to figure in quantity and distance. I have been shying away from that too much the last couple years as I have more than enough business at my place.

JD,
Around here most start digging late August depending on how dry the ground is. I have dug past Christmas before. You want the tree ball to settle down into the hole so the roots are exposed. More than an 1' of frost I usually quit for the year.

In the spring I start digging as soon as I know I want sink my tractor to the axles.

Rick
 
A picture of the "babies", from this spring. 12-15" spruce. They should be ready in 8 years.

Rick
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Except where the snow has been run on and packed down, there isn't any. About 4-6" inches of snow after the ground thawed out last weekend, and it's got a really nice blanket now to protect it. I posted some pictures of plowing today.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
You guys are so lucky!!! It was -29 C (-20F) here today... in the middle of the afternoon. And that does not include windchill. My Goodness it's COLD here! (Alaska Highway, BC).

Wishing I was anywhere else...

Troy
 

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