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lduren
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I emailed these links to my family. Maybe we will get a chance to try one out.
Snow Equipment Owning/Operating beavers have cut down 4 trees this year
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I emailed these links to my family. Maybe we will get a chance to try one out.
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lduren
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One way I heard of getting them to come out for an easy kill is to first find their hideout, get a steel pipe and a hammer, knock a hole in thier den from above. then with the pipe all the way in, pour a little deisel fuel in and when they get it on them they come out in the water to try to get it off. this is the opportunity to make the kill.
tree farmer
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As Sumpter said, sheet metal seems to work. I had some leftover 3-4 ft. pieces of 36" wide painted steel roofing that I wired around 15 or 20 alder trees near their dam in my creek. Those critters cut other alders of the same size that were much farther away, but left those with the metal on them. Use fairly heavy gauge steel wire though. They chewed right through 12 gauge copper. I've heard that red hot pepper works too. Sure keeps our horses from chewing up the cedar fence posts.:licking::thumbsup:....Dan.
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Too bad it wasn't 50 years earlier. You could go down to your local hardware store and get a box of dynamite and toss a stick into the dam every year. After few years they will move on.
Then again everyone has diesel and almost anyone can their hands on fertilizer. ;-)
Wedge
Then again everyone has diesel and almost anyone can their hands on fertilizer. ;-)
Wedge
ANFO! Kaboom!
Anyhow we have an earth dam and the beavers and muskrats do some pretty severe damage to it if left unchecked. DNR says don't shoot the beavers, but nothing here eats them, so that is where we came up with the expression shoot, shovel, shut up. We have been beaver free for about 3 years now, its nice not having to deal with the destructive little pests.
Also there is nothing serene or more natural about a beaver dam than a man made one. Beavers dam up water to make a high side and a low side, if the low side isn't draining they go down stream and destroy what ever other dam is in the preventing the draining. They are just like man shaping their environment to what they want. If they were equal to man they would have little beaver rifles and shoot back, lucky for us they are just giant rats.
On to the topic of shooting animals.
I kill and eat deer they are tasty destructive pests, and they are so over populated here there are over 200 deer car accidents every year on the 20 mile stretch of highway I live on. Last year almost 100,000 tags to hunt were issued (2 per tag) and the population still expanded.
I kill and eat turkey and snow goose (snow goose are destroying much of the northern tundra due to overpopulation).
I kill and leave to rot nuisance animals like possums, coons, muskrat, and beaver because they are destructive or disease vectors and natural predators for the most part don't exist.
I take a prairie dog hunting trip once a year because I am a sicko and I love watching the little guys explode when hit with my 22-250.
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Lduren,
My neighbor had a couple of beavers in his pond a few years back. When he told me about it, I thought he was an idiot. Noone has ever seen beavers around here, then he showed em' to me. Anyways, we are in the Gainesville area and I hope this isn't becoming a new species to these parts. Just curious where in N. Fla are you?
My neighbor had a couple of beavers in his pond a few years back. When he told me about it, I thought he was an idiot. Noone has ever seen beavers around here, then he showed em' to me. Anyways, we are in the Gainesville area and I hope this isn't becoming a new species to these parts. Just curious where in N. Fla are you?
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lduren
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Hey LRTX1
I live in teh North Florida area around Panama City. The farm is in South Georgia close to Tifton, where the beavers have moved in.
Well, I am glad they are further North than I thought. Hope you get the problem resolved soon. Those 2 beavers I spoke of at my neighnors are (were) the only ones anybody knows of around here.
I spent some time in Panama City, a week or so every spring in the nineties:licking:
Almost went to ABAC in Tifton, hindsight I should have went.
pat32rf
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I've worked out a system with the beavers in our small lake.
If they show up at our neighbour's--he shoots them (the week he moved in they cut down the 4 ornamental birch trees on his front lawn)
If they cut my poplar they are responsible for limbing and cleaning up the branches, I get the main trunks for my woodshed.
If a tree they cut gets hung up, I pull it down for them, but they still have to clean up the small branches.
When they cut one of my big birch trees, which fell on the hydro lines, breaking the pole and dropping the transformer I did get a little pi$$ed and retaliated by chopping a swath thru their tag alders so the pole truck would have LOTS of room......
I believe I have outsmarted them as far as their dam dam which controls the lake level goes. I ran 100' of weighted big O out into the lake, connected it to 20' of 4" steel pipe that goes thru the dam, then connected the steel to another 100' of big O that runs in the streambed and down over the hill. For the past four springs we have had full flow out the big O right up until August when the lake level drops below the dam level...and the spring water levels have stayed within reason...
If they show up at our neighbour's--he shoots them (the week he moved in they cut down the 4 ornamental birch trees on his front lawn)
If they cut my poplar they are responsible for limbing and cleaning up the branches, I get the main trunks for my woodshed.
If a tree they cut gets hung up, I pull it down for them, but they still have to clean up the small branches.
When they cut one of my big birch trees, which fell on the hydro lines, breaking the pole and dropping the transformer I did get a little pi$$ed and retaliated by chopping a swath thru their tag alders so the pole truck would have LOTS of room......
I believe I have outsmarted them as far as their dam dam which controls the lake level goes. I ran 100' of weighted big O out into the lake, connected it to 20' of 4" steel pipe that goes thru the dam, then connected the steel to another 100' of big O that runs in the streambed and down over the hill. For the past four springs we have had full flow out the big O right up until August when the lake level drops below the dam level...and the spring water levels have stayed within reason...