Just floating this idea around.

Have 200 acres of property in Crockett, tx with plenty of pigs and I'm wanting to see if maybe someone would be willing to make a deal with me for some free hunting.

I need the following projects done. (Due to work travel and general life I have very little time to get up there to do it myself)

Yard leveled: our yard has been riddled with pig ruts to the point where I can't mow. I need it level so that I can either sod or seed with grass again (about 1 acre of damage)

About 75 yards of fence cleared

Patch of bamboo removed
A few piled of wood removed
Spraying of some herbicide

The level would take the most work and would need some heavy equipment

In exchange I would grant hog hunting access (have feeders and blinds already set up just add corn) starting in February through the end of August.

Pm me if interested.

Sounds like something that I would jump at if I still lived over there

I don't think your idea is a bad one I just think you might be marketing to the wrong crowd. Almost everyone on this board has full time jobs just like you. Most of that work sounds perfect for a few high school age kids who are.looking for a new place to hunt.

I don't unfortunately. I'm sure if someone had a disk and then drug a tractor tire over it, that would get the job done

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Hey OP.

My son is a sophomore at UTD and would be willing to do work with a friend or two if you let them hunt pigs. It would be a good group of college kids who can really crank work out.

Let me know if that sounds agreeable to you.

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Seems like an excellent opportunity for someone who is machine rich and money poor. I don't see what the problem is. Seems as though OP doesn't exactly care how it gets done just that it gets done. Resourcefulness is key for those out looking for these types of spaces.

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Somewhere about 10 or 11 I wanted a new 10-speed bike. Aunt and Uncle made me a deal. I'd get my uncle's twice ridden like new sitting in the garage bike in exchange for clearing all the weeds and crap from their BAAAAAHHHHHHHHH...SOWHENYAHHHHHHHHHHHH...MAMABEATSEBABAHHHHHHHHHH circle of life ass builder-never-sodded backyard. Didn't have fancy equipment other than a shovel, two hands, a hatchet, and ultimately a flashlight. But I wanted a bike. And I rode that thing until a Burger Boy bike delivery dude went Kamikaze into my front wheel one night in front of the Academic Building my fish year. Last time I ever went over a handlebar. But I digress.

30 years later I had a crazy work travel schedule, and my own BAAHHHHHHHH.. yard. I also had a Traxxas Tmaxx with a gummed up transmission and sticky piston, with a bunch of support gear, taking up space in my garage. My buddy's kid was wanting one, and had a shovel.

Somewhere there's a college kid who used his semi-retired uncle's equipment to clean up his neighbor's place to earn money for a new AR. And now he wants to hunt hogs.

I have made similar deals to get access to property I couldn't otherwise lease. Unfortunately the opportunities are harder and harder to get due to landowners being taken advantage of. So he hats off to the OP for offering this. If it was closer to CS, I would have the deal closed for you.

One word of caution for the OP, if you find someone to make the deal with you, make them provide their own liability insurance and name you as additional insured.

Hope you find someone thats the right fit. I get at least a couple of emails, Facebook posts, or calls a week from people wanting to hunt for free. Usually they have the same claim "pigs do a lot of damage, you should let me come kill them for free. I would actually be doing you a favor"... As soon as I tell them I don't give away free hunt's but would consider bartering for work, they never contact me again...

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Work requiring the use of your own heavy machinery is the opposite of free

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OP didn't say heavy machinery. He said heavy equipment. He Later clarified to say all it would take would be a disc and drag. Sounds like this work might be handled by a four wheeler, UTV, or small tractor which are fairly common if you have any outdoors or rural friends or family that would lend their stuff for a day. My use of the word "free" was inappropriate but the point still stands....there are hunting opportunities in this state for those that can put excuses and laziness aside and be resourceful and thrifty.

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Work requiring the use of your own heavy machinery is the opposite of free

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OP didn't say heavy machinery. He said heavy equipment. He Later clarified to say all it would take would be a disc and drag. Sounds like this work might be handled by a four wheeler, UTV, or small tractor which are fairly common if you have any outdoors or rural friends or family that would lend their stuff for a day. My use of the word "free" was inappropriate but the point still stands....there are hunting opportunities in this state for those that can put excuses and laziness aside and be resourceful and thrifty.

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I had the same thought. Some people are thinking Caterpillar when he really meant Kubota.

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Me and the Front Porch Boys can do it next time we're up that way for the International Bluegrass Competition.

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Missed this earlier. Love that song and think of it every time I hear about Crocket TX!

Wish I was closer to Crockett, sounds like a fair deal to me.

No such thing as a free lunch, right?

Op- I think you're offering a fair deal here, but may have to add a little cash for the yard leveling since it would involve moving the heavy equipment to and from the location!

Hope you find somebody because although we don't hve hogs where I'm at in Virginia, hauling the old cat 955 down there wouldn't be very cost effective.

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I could do the other manual labor plus build you a deer stand. I build tables, barn doors, shutters and other things and I could build you a deer/hog stand that would be elevated about 3 feet off the ground, 4' wide by 8' long and 7' high with a slightly slanted roof. Openings on 3 sides to shoot. With 8' long, you could easily fit 3 people in it. Doors and openings would be fitted with padding to keep bugs and critters out. Also would paint to your liking.

Would love to do that in exchange of me and my son hunting for some hogs and deer.

Let me know if you would be interested!

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Hot damn... we got a man who knows how to negotiate.

Live and die by shades of gray!

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I could do the other manual labor plus build you a deer stand. I build tables, barn doors, shutters and other things and I could build you a deer/hog stand that would be elevated about 3 feet off the ground, 4' wide by 8' long and 7' high with a slightly slanted roof. Openings on 3 sides to shoot. With 8' long, you could easily fit 3 people in it. Doors and openings would be fitted with padding to keep bugs and critters out. Also would paint to your liking.

Would love to do that in exchange of me and my son hunting for some hogs and deer.

Let me know if you would be interested!

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Hot damn... we got a man who knows how to negotiate.

Live and die by shades of gray!

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How can I get in touch with you?

pblocker at icloud dot com

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pnsagdad said:

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Just floating this idea around.

Have 200 acres of property in Crockett, tx with plenty of pigs and I'm wanting to see if maybe someone would be willing to make a deal with me for some free hunting.

I need the following projects done. (Due to work travel and general life I have very little time to get up there to do it myself)

Yard leveled: our yard has been riddled with pig ruts to the point where I can't mow. I need it level so that I can either sod or seed with grass again (about 1 acre of damage)

About 75 yards of fence cleared

Patch of bamboo removed
A few piled of wood removed
Spraying of some herbicide

The level would take the most work and would need some heavy equipment

In exchange I would grant hog hunting access (have feeders and blinds already set up just add corn) starting in February through the end of August.

Pm me if interested.

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I would not know how to level land and not sure you would want someone watching a YouTube video and renting equipment and figuring it out.

I could do the other manual labor plus build you a deer stand. I build tables, barn doors, shutters and other things and I could build you a deer/hog stand that would be elevated about 3 feet off the ground, 4' wide by 8' long and 7' high with a slightly slanted roof. Openings on 3 sides to shoot. With 8' long, you could easily fit 3 people in it. Doors and openings would be fitted with padding to keep bugs and critters out. Also would paint to your liking.

Would love to do that in exchange of me and my son hunting for some hogs and deer.

Let me know if you would be interested!

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Interested in a trade for hogs south of San Antonio?

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blockhead said:

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pnsagdad said:

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Just floating this idea around.

Have 200 acres of property in Crockett, tx with plenty of pigs and I'm wanting to see if maybe someone would be willing to make a deal with me for some free hunting.

I need the following projects done. (Due to work travel and general life I have very little time to get up there to do it myself)

Yard leveled: our yard has been riddled with pig ruts to the point where I can't mow. I need it level so that I can either sod or seed with grass again (about 1 acre of damage)

About 75 yards of fence cleared

Patch of bamboo removed
A few piled of wood removed
Spraying of some herbicide

The level would take the most work and would need some heavy equipment

In exchange I would grant hog hunting access (have feeders and blinds already set up just add corn) starting in February through the end of August.

Pm me if interested.

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I would not know how to level land and not sure you would want someone watching a YouTube video and renting equipment and figuring it out.

I could do the other manual labor plus build you a deer stand. I build tables, barn doors, shutters and other things and I could build you a deer/hog stand that would be elevated about 3 feet off the ground, 4' wide by 8' long and 7' high with a slightly slanted roof. Openings on 3 sides to shoot. With 8' long, you could easily fit 3 people in it. Doors and openings would be fitted with padding to keep bugs and critters out. Also would paint to your liking.

Would love to do that in exchange of me and my son hunting for some hogs and deer.

Let me know if you would be interested!

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Interested in a trade for hogs south of San Antonio?

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i would be...

AggieMarkSA said:

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blockhead said:

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pnsagdad said:

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Just floating this idea around.

Have 200 acres of property in Crockett, tx with plenty of pigs and I'm wanting to see if maybe someone would be willing to make a deal with me for some free hunting.

I need the following projects done. (Due to work travel and general life I have very little time to get up there to do it myself)

Yard leveled: our yard has been riddled with pig ruts to the point where I can't mow. I need it level so that I can either sod or seed with grass again (about 1 acre of damage)

About 75 yards of fence cleared

Patch of bamboo removed
A few piled of wood removed
Spraying of some herbicide

The level would take the most work and would need some heavy equipment

In exchange I would grant hog hunting access (have feeders and blinds already set up just add corn) starting in February through the end of August.

Pm me if interested.

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I would not know how to level land and not sure you would want someone watching a YouTube video and renting equipment and figuring it out.

I could do the other manual labor plus build you a deer stand. I build tables, barn doors, shutters and other things and I could build you a deer/hog stand that would be elevated about 3 feet off the ground, 4' wide by 8' long and 7' high with a slightly slanted roof. Openings on 3 sides to shoot. With 8' long, you could easily fit 3 people in it. Doors and openings would be fitted with padding to keep bugs and critters out. Also would paint to your liking.

Would love to do that in exchange of me and my son hunting for some hogs and deer.

Let me know if you would be interested!

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Interested in a trade for hogs south of San Antonio?

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I am in Fort Worth and so getting all the supplies down that far and building would probably be a couple of day project and not sure if I have that margin.

Email me,
My user name at the gmail