Beavers and Tree Felling...

[Zombiechopper]

Ah, what a good thread.

Matt, in the great white Canadian North Beavers are thought of much like your Roos. They are basically pests. Trappers here have a qouta of beaver they must trap each season. Not a limit of how many, a minimun number required to be killed. A trapping licence is one of the only ways to legally purchase dynamite to blow up dams. They can be shot year round as many as you please.

Now, as to felling technique. They use a conventional notch often all the way round the tree. They cut into the hinge until the tree goes over in a random direction. They tend to take small trees mostly saplings.

I have not eaten one but I hear it can be done. Beaver tails are pretty good too with powdered sugar

 

[Guido Salvage]

Alright,everyone who has posted on the last two pages of this thread needs to take a minute and click a box.......

Wait a minute.... I was on topic and provided some salient insight...

 

[nmurph]

Alright,everyone who has posted on the last two pages of this thread needs to take a minute and click a box.......

wait a minute. everyone of my posts were on-topic with none of the juvenile, locker room enuendo. i was especilly proud of telling how to spread a furry beaver hide everywhere by poking a hole in the middle of the den mound and inserting your dynamite stick!!!

 

[Rounder]

Lots of 2 legged beavers around these parts, I avoid 'em, so I can't help you much, lol - Sam

 

[Gypo Logger]

Beaver Attack

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1151185/pg1

 

[chopperfreak2k1]

the only thing i know about beavers is they must grind their two big teeth on wood or the teeth will grow so large that the beaver will be unable to close it's mouth and therefore will be unable to eat, causing death.

 

[ChrisF]

Must be a slow, lonely, boring night down in OZ.

Without a beaver in sight anywhere.

 

[Gypo Logger]

There's huge beavers up here. They call them bank beavers, living in huge caves they carve out of the river bank.
Most other wildlife is dependent upon the beaver for their survival.
I ate a beaver once that was fried in bear fat.
Gypo

 

[ChrisF]

Was it tasty?

 

[Freehand]

Wait a minute.... I was on topic and provided some salient insight...

Oh wow man.......that was......luminary......whoa......:hmm3grin2orange:

wait a minute. everyone of my posts were on-topic with none of the juvenile, locker room enuendo. i was especilly proud of telling how to spread a furry beaver hide everywhere by poking a hole in the middle of the den mound and inserting your dynamite stick!!!

LOL

 

[Gypo Logger]

Was it tasty?

Yes, beaver jam is always tasty.
John

 

[FATGUY]

There's huge beavers up here. They call them bank beavers, living in huge caves they carve out of the river bank.
Most other wildlife is dependent upon the beaver for their survival.
I ate a beaver once that was fried in bear fat.
Gypo

man, you're making me homesick...

 

[Mad Professor]

Flat beaver

 

[Zombiechopper]

Flat beaver

yes yes. That would be the all the way around conventional notch with an unknown tragectory when he went through the holding wood

 

[pops21]

Here is a few really good links about the worlds largest beaver dam. Its more the 2790 feet long and can be seen from space. What amazes me is how large of chunks they can take out of tree's.

This is a really really good link. It has TONS of reading and pictures.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1282971

Another good link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/7676300/Worlds-biggest-beaver-dam-can-be-seen-from-space.html

 

[CentaurG2]

Without a beaver in sight anywhere.

Beavers are not native to Australia. They are famous for their white pointers and brown snakes. Not too surprising they have interest in the North American beaver.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyCL-ELRxg

 

[SawTroll]

Flat beaver

Someone have to teach them how to do it safely!

 

[SawTroll]

Yes, beaver jam is always tasty.
John

Surely!

 

[Gypo Logger]

Surely!

I wonder if beavers instinctively know where the natural lean of a tree is? I suspect that even if they do the tree can still fall several degrees from it's intended direction of fall. They may do a sort of undercut and do the backcut last as opposed to just indescriminately chewing away.
I also wonder if their jaws hurt the first time they dump their first poplar?
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

Beavers have several enemies other than man, including wolves, coyotes, pike,bears, otters, lynx, fishers, cougars and probably eagles.
The beaver has offset this predation somewhat by making ideal habitat for muskrats.
The bank beavers here are at least 80 pounds. I guess the bigger ones have 1/2 the enemies.
John