Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/24/16 02:17 AM
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Sandvik is great for cutting brush on the line.Or a power scythe(stihl brush cutter) for serious brushing grown in trails.
Last edited by Boco; 01/24/16 02:23 AM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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01/25/16 02:54 AM
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Cutting the brush is the easy part. It's getting all the cut stuff out of the way that's the pain in the rear. Having a swamper or two doing the clean-up helps you gain a lot of ground. For black spruce, I use a machete. Just bend the tree over a bit and give it a whack at the base. It will bust right off. I use a chainsaw for the bigger stuff.
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise."
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/04/16 01:33 AM
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One was seen just outside of Bethel this winter.
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin." Linus Van Pelt www.alaskafinandfur.com
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: mad_mike]
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02/04/16 02:00 AM
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Anybody eating those things yet? They were promised one to eat at some point, they said no one shot or ate one yet but lost a bunch through the ice this spring during breakup. Moose go by here on the ice too, I wonder if we will see buffs going by this spring.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/10/16 03:42 PM
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What's the earliest you have seen a bear out of hibernation? I have a picture from a friend who saw a brown out the other day. It came out of a den dragged its back legs down to the river, got some water then dragged its back legs back up into the den of willows. It is warm this year just curious if they going to start coming out. Ill have the picture up here this afternoon.
Water is good for two things, Floating Ships and making Beer.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/10/16 03:48 PM
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Malukchuk There was one killed up river from here a couple weeks ago I have not heard the condition of the bear so not sure if it was a hunger thing or the exceptionally warm weather we are having
We get out of life only as much as we really want and work hard enough to achieve
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/23/16 02:30 PM
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As far as I can tell its only on the inside. I got the picture off of facebook from some folks here in Nome.
Water is good for two things, Floating Ships and making Beer.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/23/16 02:47 PM
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Looks like "cottage cheese disease". I've only seen it a few times but here is an excerpt from the Biological Field Techniques for Lithodid Crabs ( https://seagrant.uaf.edu/bookstore/pubs/AK-SG-05-03.html). ".....is a microsporidian infection and is recognizable by the white, large curd cottage cheese-like appearance in the abdominal cavity of male and female crabs....has been found in red, blue, and golden king crabs......probably fatal (to the crab) because the cardiac muscle of the heart is heavily invaded...." The shellfish research biologists at Kodiak ADF&G would likely have more info too.
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Re: The Almighty Alaskan Thread #9
[Re: trapper ron]
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02/27/16 07:00 AM
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Does anyone have a link to the Almighty Video thread. Seems it may have been pruned. I can't find it using the search option. I really hate loosing some of these threads.
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