Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: PAlltheway]
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12/13/18 08:43 PM
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Lugnut, your camp is in a very special, quiet corner of the world. Member here PCR is up there too, I think. A real good place to live, or to retire when you can. Not too many other places I would want to be. Maybe Alaska. PA still has a high freedom index (guns, trapping, hunting, etc.), which is why I strongly support the PGC; that one agency is one of the very few left in the nation that will send a uniformed officer with a badge and gun to stand in front of a class of young students and, among other related things, explain how they have second amendment rights. Gotta hold on to PGC
[/quote] I couldn't agree with you more about everything you've said.
PCR's place isn't very far from my camp and I do have plans to retire up there, or at least spend much more time up there in the next few years.
Yes, we can't let the state legislature continue to financially strangle the PGC and turn almost 1.5 million acres of SGL's into bike trails for spandex wearing yuppies![/quote]
Amen, Lugnut, well said. Exactly
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: CoonsBane]
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12/14/18 12:38 PM
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Somebody ought to invent a device with some sharp cutting teeth on it that would make it easier to cut that tree down. Not too many beavers around here, though a pet beaver would be neat. "Sic that tree, Beav!" I chose not to use a chainsaw for several reasons that seemed self evident, and the warden concurred. I can explain them, if anyone wants to know
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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12/14/18 01:46 PM
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had several cats do that over the years on drags or cable extensions. Had a buddy show me how he was going to handle one of these cat situations a few years back in Kansas.
I fell down laughing so hard. I got a couple of photos before it got interesting. He snared it with a pole all right then the tug of war began. That cat didn't want to come down. All of a sudden I see this stream of yellow come down all in my buddy's face and shoulders from this big cat.
Oh my gosh that was priceless, you just had to have been there to see it all unfold. LOL Needless to say his lunch tasted funny that day. Bob, I'll have to ask Mick about that! Wish I was closer, I would have tackled that job just for fun! Three thingsm you have to. watch out for, teeth, claws, and pee! lol
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: CoonsBane]
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12/14/18 02:09 PM
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I agree about the chainsaw. I would have thought the Warden or you would have had a small hand saw. Would have kept the cat calmer than pounding on it with an axe. I keep a folding Gerber along with me. Comes in handy for cutting poles or guide sticks and whatnot. We thought about that, too, believe me, and the axe gave us a lot of advantages for moving the cat, lopping branches where the chain got hung up, lifting and pulling things that a saw could not do. Just two guys with four hands, so we had to improvise and make choices with trade offs. One thing mentioned above is the animal going potty during this event. Let me tell you, it is stinky stuff and staying as far away from it as possible is a real pleasure. I have only previously encountered dry or mostly dry bobcat doody, but this was the real fresh stuff, and it stank horribly, and got everywhere, as well as the urine. So the axe was a good tool to have on hand for a bunch of things, and it did not seem to bother the cat much. I'd like to see how the next guy handles his cat up a tree. Surely there are different ways too skin that cat. For us, it all worked out right. The critter was uninjured and the humans maintained their dignity.
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: PAlltheway]
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12/14/18 04:09 PM
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22 will get him outta that tree
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: PAlltheway]
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12/15/18 06:25 PM
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Is that scrubbrush what you call a tree in Gods country,lol.You could whack that down with a Sandvik.
Last edited by Boco; 12/15/18 06:26 PM.
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Re: Real time help needed: Cat up a tree
[Re: Beaglador]
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12/15/18 09:35 PM
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So did you remake the set? Heck yeah! Nothin in it yet since then, daggonit. That trap had been there about twelve hours when the cat hit it. That spot has produced coyotes and now one cat, so it should produce again. But come Monday I am moving to a new spot, and it is raining raining raining, so it is tough to imagine much happening until I come back in January. Boco: "Is that scrubbrush what you call a tree in Gods country,lol.You could whack that down with a Sandvik." It is a tree nevertheless, and a tough one at that, a thorny honey locust. Only about five inches in diameter and twenty feet high, but tough as iron and no fun to handle. They grow to about twelve inches in diameter and make lifetime fence post material. Right up the hill from this spot we clearcut twelve acres eight years ago and the trees were 185 to 195 years old, most in the 48" to 56" diameter range. Oaks and poplars. Those definitely qualify as trees, and a bobcat up in one of those is just gonna have to stay there. Ryan: "22 will get him outta that tree," is factually true, but because the bobcat season started today and not two days ago, getting him out of the tree with a .22 would have earned me some time away from hunting and trapping and a lighter wallet. I told the warden that had it been Friday, I would have just left it up there and gotten it at midnight. But two days up in that tree would have been too long. And not legal by any measure.
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