Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: Gulo]
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01/05/24 02:51 PM
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Nessmuck
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That is one great looking jacket .
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: Sharon]
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01/05/24 08:52 PM
01/05/24 08:52 PM
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trappingthomas
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Hey Jack, I got some wallets from Randy a while back. How's he doing? Sharon, how about a photo of the coat? Here is the coat. A crop coat, meant for out on the town fun. Tubari is the best on earth for how they hand pluck fur ending in the highest quality product. Tassos, the Greek furrier, has decades of garment experience. He also made me a pair of earmuffs and a long nice scarf from the leftovers. The last pieces, he sent back to me and I puzzled together a lap blanket out of the four heads and long scraps. Nothing was wasted. The hat is great too. Made by a student in college , from N Idaho, years ago. Dont know what happened to him. He was a nice kid with talent in fur handling. The coat compliments you very well! Cool use of fur.
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Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: Gulo]
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01/06/24 08:28 AM
01/06/24 08:28 AM
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Posts: 20,337 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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Great thread as always Jack. I zoomed in on your picture of Randy and the super blanket- wow.
Miss Sharon that's a great picture too, you look both warm and stylish!
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: MJM]
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01/06/24 10:24 AM
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Gulo
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A beaver house made of mud and cattails and bulrush. When there are no trees, what else would they do? They wintered on aquatic plant roots. The dam was made out of the same material as the house. It was a spring removal job and I took six beaver out of the spot.
Great photos Mark. I remember walking along a beaver dam in Alaska, east of the Talkeetna's and south of the Alaska Range. It was in upland tundra with no trees for miles. Biggest willows and dwarf birch were about pencil-sized. Incorporated into the dam were many caribou antlers that the beavers had picked up and used. I remember most were dropped female antlers. Sure wish I'd'a had a camera.
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Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: Gulo]
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01/06/24 08:21 PM
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MJM
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Gulo. I have seen them cut off the wood corner post on a barb wire fence to try to get a chunk of wood to add to the dam, But it was just hanging by the top two wires. I have seen them cut power poles too. I have a picture of a grass beaver house in the water with a rail road tie on it. I dug a plastic bristle broom out of on and used it to clean the bed of my pickup for years. I have never see antlers in a dam, but if that is what was there I am sure they would use them.
"Not Really, Not Really" Mark J Monti "MJM you're a jerk."
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Re: Photo Phriday - Beavers
[Re: Gulo]
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01/07/24 01:09 PM
01/07/24 01:09 PM
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Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,365 Interior Alaska
Oh Snap
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Only trapped beaver in the Interior. Lots of 5 ft. ice in the colder winters in the 70's and early 80's. My first gas auger was then, the heck with chipping holes. I met a beaver trapper that trapped the Portage Glacier area when I first arrived and he had an antique gas auger. Thinner ice there. Enjoyed this thread. Beaver trapping is my favorite trapping subject! Not everyone is cut out to be a Beaver Trapper.
Last edited by Oh Snap; 01/07/24 01:14 PM.
I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
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