East of Dover, Near Cumberland City, North shore of the Cumberland
Both sides of the Cumberland River are good.
Thanks for the added data. I am excited to be working on this property that is such a natural gem and getting to participate in maximizing the potential there.
It can be and it can be a real challenge to. Much of it is organic rich sediment and silt with a high sand content. But there is a massive sand bar that runs diagonal across a lot of this that gets very dry at times. While working this we opened a gravel bar that the core drillers missed and we were racing ground water seepage from that moment till we finished. Good soil is likely not as deep here as on the south shore as we are up against those hills and Hollars you mentioned . But is very evident the river was over here eons ago.
At least there is soil there!
It has always been a wonder to me about the Cumberland. Starting out up in eastern Ky in some really rugged hills and hollars, playing with the plateau across so much of Tennessee’s heartland collecting the best of the runoff from those hills and ridges, all that organic matter and various minerals released by the rocks eventually ground down to sand and less. Every tributary donating parts from yet more fertile hills then spilling out into the flatlands where the flooding is just a mechanism for depositing those nutrients onto the lands. Those fertile lands along the the Cumberlands last few miles owe a lot to the Cumberland Plateau for thousands of years of contributions. I have spent a lifetime working all around this river without recognizing its significance. From Somerset to Byrdstown on down thru Gainesboro not to mention all over the Candy Fork, Carthage, Hartsville, Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, Nashville, Ashland City, Clarksville to Dover and back to KY flowing out at Grand Rivers. Only now do I begin to realize that this river has been an ever present force in my life. Everyone of those towns has been significant in My life for a variety of reasons. I have driven over, floated on, boated through, eaten from, recreated beside and in that river and it’s tributaries. I have farmed land along or near it’s tributaries and hunted all about it. The glass of water I am drinking right now came from it. The Cumberland seems to cling to the hills like my heart it gets it’s strength from them thar hills. It’s the hills that allow the Cumberland to spread its riches onto the lowlands and flatlands as itself slows, spreads out and becomes old.At least there is soil there!
Much of my hunting areas (like most the county) is as much rock as soil!
Really amazing how one side of the river can have such good soil, while the other side does not.
And the soil seems to get better along the Cumberland River the farther north you go?
This property is west of the ferry between the river and the ridge line right back against the TWRA boat ramp. I am told that this was a cattle farm at some point in the past.
That 850 had 2 hours on it when they delivered it. No doubt a sweet ride. The balance point is a little aft and the machine is long so subtle changes can really challenge the operator. The blade needed cutters and wings to increase the carry volume but it sure can roll dirt and long distance grading is a real pleasure.
