Eager beavers.

[treeman82]

I was at a place today with a small pond and stream which runs into a larger stream. At the side of the pond a couple of beavers have been doing some felling. They sucessfuly felled a small crab apple, and are working on at least one other. Do you guys see these things at a residential property often?

 

[arboromega]

did they use they use one of murph's patented tapered hinges?

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by treeman82
a couple of beavers have been doing some felling. Do you guys see these things at a residential property often?

Too often. they get trapped anmd relocated here. Chew-Stop repels them, a mixture of cayenne and mustard. Wire cages do too but are buttugly.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by arboromega
did they use they use one of murph's patented tapered hinges?

Hahaha!!!

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by arboromega
did they use they use one of murph's patented tapered hinges?

ROFLMFAO

 

[kf_tree]

i'm surprised your not complaining that they did not set pull ropes/ did not have insurance and were not wearing safety gear.......

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've always thought it would be neat to have a pet monkey with me on trims, even TD's. He could be trained to go out to the tips with a 'lil silky, and you could just hang 'round in the bowl.
On TD's, he could set your rope for ya on tha hard to get to ones.
Thirsty? Drop yur handsaw? The possibilities are limitless...

:Monkey:

 

[kf_tree]

all you need to do is teach the monkey to sharpen a saw and i'll buy one.

 

[treeman82]

I like your idea about the monkey Butch, but I think that a wood chipper on a leash might be a bit more convenient seeing as how you wouldn't have to rope anything... just send the beaver out to the tips and let it start chipping away. How much harm could a bunch of wood chips do to most things?

They have 2 other crab apples with hinges all set to go. I guess they just have to come back and make their back cuts. If only they would have gone after the DEAD willow tree. However, that would take either a beaver on steroids, or a massive family of beavers. Probably 4' DBH and the owner doesn't want any heavy equipment going near it.

Guy, can you give more detail about the pepper?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yo Matt...

My monkees would smoke yur beavers when climbing.

 

[Newfie]

Originally posted by treeman82
They have 2 other crab apples with hinges all set to go. If only they would have gone after the DEAD willow tree.

Beavers around here have definite preferences. They go for the cherries and birches first. The crabapple probably satisfies their sweet tooth also. Willow probably tastes like a$$. They will go after the other species once their favorites are gone.

Beavers are hacks. They always leave leaners around here.


Butch, easy w/ the monkey spanking and beaver talk,eh!

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Chew-Stop is the brand name. Aerosol or brush-applied. Some folks mae their own in a blender. Like any other liquid repellent, it needs reapplying after rain or a long period of time.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Beavers are a nuissance. I grew up trapping those things. My uncle is a ditch rider for the mager canal company back home and they are constantly daming up the irrigation ditches. When I was around 12-14 I would catch one of those buggers aday along with half a dozen muskrats. Back in the 80's I could get about $30.00 for a beaver pelt and about $3.50 for a muskrat. Back then I would trap about $600.00 worth of fur a month. Not bad for a kid that wasnt even old enough to drive. Since then the fur market has gone down hill and the trapping regulations have pretty much banned every thing. My uncle still does a lot of bounty trapping for the ranchers and farmers back home. I know this will cause some of you bunnie huggers to get peeved, but you are probibly the same ones that complain when a coyote eats your poodle or a racoon scatters your trash all over your front yard.

Oh and for the record, beavers love willow and cottonwood, Its like Ice Cream for those rodents.

Kenn

 

[OutOnaLimb]

What are you trying to say there Dan? When I go skiing I like to hit the back bowls at Arapaho Basin or Keystone. I know where your comin from Butch, dont wory I got your six.

Kenn

 

[Jumper]

Friends of my parents who have a B&B on the shore of the Ganaraska River lost over 15 large sugar maples off their property to the pesky little rodents. They ended up having a trapper come in to stop the property damage.

 

[Chris J.]

My parents had a couple of small lots

near Splendora, Texas. The lots originally belonged to some neighbors, & when I was 8 or 9 I helped the neighbors clear the lots. At that time the land was dry. About 13 years later my parents bought the lots--a big mistake. At some time beavers had built a dam on a tiny stream, & over the years they kept adding to the dam until they had created about a 2 acre pond (wonderful breeding place for snakes & mosquitoes). They had an impressive lodge in the middle of the pond.

My folks called the Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. I'm still not sure how the guy kept a straight face when my dad explained how he & I were going "break down" the dam. The fellow did give a firm NO to my idea to dynamite the dam. He did say that TPWD had previously tried trapping the beavers, but all they caught were nutria (this was back when only real backwoods & bayou folks considered nutria as food).

We (mostly me) cut, chopped, & hacked on that dam all day long. All we (I) managed was one small channel maybe 6" wide. My father, a former farm boy who in no way missed the physical labor of farm life, gave up on the dam after that one day. By now there's probably a new lake near Splendora, filled with happy beavers.

The point of this story: Sometimes it takes a lot of dam effort to make a beaver happy.

Chris J.

 

[treeman82]

My friend was telling me a beaver story the other day. Apparently a few years ago some beavers made a dam at a local pond which wound up flooding some woodlands. The town came out and busted up the dam. The beavers then came back and re-built. The town busted up 3 dams before they had to have trappers come in and kill the little suckers. I believe that they caught and killed 3 - 5 of the little SOB's

 

[fmueller]

Are there beavers in bayou country?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Heck yah!

 

[fmueller]