Re: The beavers are getting smarters
[Re: jebediah]
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12/18/22 11:53 AM
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You must be close by to me. Lenawee/Monroe county here. We finally had some beavers show up this year, been extirpated since the late 1800's. Had several calls to trap them but I can't get myself to trap them out again. Maybe in a couple of years.
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
[Re: jebediah]
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Beavers went to the customers shed and took wooden handled shovels,rakes, hoes...that were leaning up against the shed and put them in the dam..along with his kids basketball and soccer balls.
Guy was thrilled when I found all his stuff
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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12/18/22 12:31 PM
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It's a 2x4 sorry about the bad picture
the harder the trail is the better the story
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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12/18/22 12:33 PM
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I found part a pelvic bone from a deer or small calf. Not sure which but you could tell it was quite old as it was black clear though from being in the mud so long. They use whatever available.
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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I have seen beavers use dead beavers in their dam. Minnow traps,old or new are not uncommon in some places. Found an old HBC axe head in a beaver dam once.
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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12/18/22 01:23 PM
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Walked up to a set on a drowning cable and thought I had a catch as the cable was stretched out the opposite direction that I had placed it. Trap was still set in its bed but the beavers had pushed my drowner weight over onto the dam.
Your entitled to oxygen. Everything else is earned.
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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12/18/22 01:42 PM
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I thinking about trapping one for a Christmas dinner but besides that I'm not gonna trap them. I'm out in Livingston County
the harder the trail is the better the story
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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What did you do with the axe head
the harder the trail is the better the story
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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What did you do with the axe head I put a handle on it,sharpened it up and used it for a few years then lost it on the line somewhere.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: The beavers are getting smarters
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12/18/22 10:38 PM
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I have axes, pliers and stuff scattered all over my half of Pa. Some day I will find one of my ow that I previously lost.......jk
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