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Offline Jackalope

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Hello from the Adirondacks
« on: July 26, 2016, 11:28:21 AM »
Hello folks from the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York.  I'm a long time survivalist, with over 40 years of experience.  Other relevant experience includes an extra class amateur radio license, licensed commercial fixed wing aircraft pilot, and long term experience with poultry, gardening, orchards and alternative energy, especially solar electric and wind turbines.  I've been reading some of the posts on the forum, and it's been interesting.

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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2016, 03:43:16 PM »
Welcome Jackalope to Unchainedpreppers.  :pirateThumbUp:

When I was in my teens, I use to go to the Adirondacks - Specifically Brant Lake, N.Y. My buddy had family there and we used their house as a base camp while we backpacked all over the place east of the Lake. Good times  :thumbsUp:

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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2016, 08:27:23 PM »
Welcome Jackalope to the funny farm. If your lonely up there you could move down here to southern Delaware. I could sure use a like minded friend.
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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2016, 08:54:59 PM »
Welcome buddy! Tells us about the orchards! I was told it can get real cold up there.. I'm a New Mexican so my scale could be out of calibration ;)

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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2016, 10:41:52 PM »
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome.

My current orchard is quite small, only five trees, though I've managed larger orchards of several hundred trees.  The trees I have now comes from a nursery that specializes in cold climate stock.  It does get quite cold here, with temps down to -40 F/C, though that hasn't occurred during the past few years.  The biggest problem I have is we often get a frost just after the trees have blossomed.  So we'll get limited fruit that year.  We had snow this year until mid May, so the trees were a little late blossoming, which was a good thing. 

I think I'll be heading down to Tennessee once I reach retirement age.  The winters are too long and harsh here, and as I get older, the more I dislike the cold.  I've been scoping some locales in Mid-Tennessee, and I think it'll be a good fit for me...we'll see.

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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2016, 12:22:29 AM »
I know the feeling but flip the script.. the summers here are too dang hot and too long!

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Re: Hello from the Adirondacks
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2016, 07:33:56 AM »
Welcome!  I planted the first four trees of our orchard this spring. Now to wait until next year to see if any of them are alive! They're all TSC ones, though,  so I won't weep too much if they don't survive, or be too surprised. Only one currently has leaves.
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