The work required for deer camp prep has to be a team sport. Regardless of how many owners, lease-holder partners, club members, family or friends a deer camp might have, nobody can do it all.
Everyone involved in the camp should share in the toil to appreciate the enjoyment of the hunting later on.
There is a rational approach to sharing all the tasks that need to be done to get the camp ready for hunting season, which involves figuring out who is best at doing what.
At Spring Lake Farms the talents and work skills of the owners, dependent children and guests are highly diverse. First of all the first-tier of owners is getting older, with ages ranging from the 40s to 60 plus. There are health issues to consider when work details are handed out.
Professions among the active owner group includes a preacher to a forester, one dentist, a community college administrator and an oil field service employee.
Beyond that each brings to the table real-life practical skills, including carpentry, chain-saw operation, banking and bill paying, knowledge of deer management and food-plot oversight, DMAP management and hard back labor.
The group relies on dependents and guests to provide extra labor and assistance to ongoing annual projects.
All in all the process seems to work out pretty well.
Equipment and tool wise, the group is well supplied. Among the big stuff owned by the camp owners are a small farm tractor with a bush hog for larger mowing jobs, a zero-turn mower for camp trimming, weedeaters, chemical sprayers, chain saws, a welder, electric generators, ladders, ATVs, trailers and copious hand tools of all kinds.
So, when your hunting club makes prep work assignments for the year, make sure they are realistic and matched to the right people. Be sure the right tools and equipment are available to do the jobs correctly the first time.
Invest the appropriate time and money to do it right, and work days will be efficient and kept to a minimum.
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