Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[James Miller]

I hear you, and I'm pretty sure they look exactly like a coyote to the untrained eye .
Those rolling hills with dens would make a perfect resting place for them too, block the back door and fill with exhaust, nighty nite.
Some sore of weasel just bled out out like 30 of my neighbors chickens, I don't have any chickens, but if I happen to see anything I'd be happy to relocate the little son of a gun, to bad were not neighbors.

Sounds like you got a chupacabra .

 

[svk]

To get off my soapbox for a minute, my cabin “driveway” is a 3.5 mile logging road. They just started logging a 60 acre chunk about halfway in. The woodbuggas I’m sure will clean up all the hardwood tops due to the ease of access but at least the road will be graded up to that point. The out of town logging operation that cut 200 acres behind me last fall did a terrible messy job and in addition to leaving a lot of garbage left the road in shambles. These guys are local and have a good reputation.

 

[panolo]

I hear you, and I'm pretty sure they look exactly like a coyote to the untrained eye .
Those rolling hills with dens would make a perfect resting place for them too, block the back door and fill with exhaust, nighty nite.
Some sore of weasel just bled out out like 30 of my neighbors chickens, I don't have any chickens, but if I happen to see anything I'd be happy to relocate the little son of a gun, to bad were not neighbors.

Had a bunch of trouble with mink doing this cause they kill for sport. They will destroy a flock for the hell of it and eat two bites while killing 25 chickens.

There are plenty of wolf that don't make it if they appear but they are smart as hell. Not that easy to get. Few loggers up by SVK carry some fire power in the skidders and such. AS the deer keep getting thinned out they have resorted to pets and moving south. It should be a manged resource but the greenies have lots of lobbying power and money.

 

[svk]

Most loggers unfortunately will just watch them go by....cant take a chance with the smaller collars/chips that can be embedded in these critters now.

 

[panolo]

Most loggers unfortunately will just watch them go by....cant take a chance with the smaller collars/chips that can be embedded in these critters now.

Been a few of those collars that have made it onto a semi trailer bound for someplace warmer. Or a few that floated down the vermillion river.

Not quite like the stupid collared bears that those idiots shoot. Can see the collar from a mile away and they still shoot it. I think the last one that got shot raised almost a million dollars from the greenies for Lynn Rogers bear center.

 

[svk]

The old stories about collars around here were one ended up on a train that went from International Falls to Duluth daily...another in the middle of a lake lol.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

 

[svk]

A guy from town was very big into killing wolves in the 80's. Unfortunately for him, he developed verbal diarrhea every time he started drinking and bragged to USFWS agents in a local bar. He was lucky to escape with a 10K fine and three years loss of hunting/fishing privileges.

 

[svk]

Rumor has it that his wife actually tipped off the USFWS because she was sick of hiding the pelts......Once they bought him a beer he did the rest LOL

 

[chipper1]

A guy from town was very big into killing wolves in the 80's. Unfortunately for him, he developed verbal diarrhea every time he started drinking and bragged to USFWS agents in a local bar. He was lucky to escape with a 10K fine and three years loss of hunting/fishing privileges.

I bet a go fund me page would bring in 10k to get them taken care of .
You may even get enough to get some new hunting tools.

 

[svk]

I bet a go fund me page would bring in 10k to get them taken care of .
You may even get enough to get some new hunting tools.

That is the coolest thing ever.

 

[chipper1]

That is the coolest thing ever.

It's actually hot .

 

[chipper1]

Sounds like you got a chupacabra .

Yeah, they've been ravaging the area here, that and we are seeing a jump in the drop bear sightings too.
I put all the mink, martins, fishers and weasels in the same category, and rightly so since they are all part of the weasel family.
Kinda like a rick a federal cord or a face cord are all a 1/3 of a cord, or a face cord if your in the right part of the country(couldn't find the flag emoji ).

Had a bunch of trouble with mink doing this cause they kill for sport. They will destroy a flock for the hell of it and eat two bites while killing 25 chickens.

There are plenty of wolf that don't make it if they appear but they are smart as hell. Not that easy to get. Few loggers up by SVK carry some fire power in the skidders and such. AS the deer keep getting thinned out they have resorted to pets and moving south. It should be a manged resource but the greenies have lots of lobbying power and money.

They are bad, I don't get it myself.
Coyotes are the same way, I can spot animals very well, and I bet I've seen less than a hundred yotes, and there are a lot of them. Many times I have seen them from the truck when I was driving and they were just the other side of a hill right beside the highway, the only way you would have seen them was from up where I was, not a single car saw them, they are sneaky.

 

[turnkey4099]

Yeah, they've been ravaging the area here, that and we are seeing a jump in the drop bear sightings too.
I put all the mink, martins, fishers and weasels in the same category, and rightly so since they are all part of the weasel family.
Kinda like a rick a federal cord or a face cord are all a 1/3 of a cord, or a face cord if your in the right part of the country(couldn't find the flag emoji ).

They are bad, I don't get it myself.
Coyotes are the same way, I can spot animals very well, and I bet I've seen less than a hundred yotes, and there are a lot of them. Many times I have seen them from the truck when I was driving and they were just the other side of a hill right beside the highway, the only way you would have seen them was from up where I was, not a single car saw them, they are sneaky.

I've been living here since 1976. There is a coyote den about 200 yards up the fence row from the house. Number of coyotes seen? Two and one of them was a pup peeping out of the den when I stumbled on it.

 

[farmer steve]

One of our fellow scroungers @bear1998 came to get his scrounged wood today i was storing for him. poor trailer.

 

[dancan]

Geez , the forecast is not looking good for me scrounging this weekend up here in Igloo , the land of the frozen tundra , it's calling for full sun and temps around 90ish or more , bleh ....
Oh well , looks like I'll spend Canada Day weekend on the beach staying hydrated

 

[crowbuster]

Yeah, they've been ravaging the area here, that and we are seeing a jump in the drop bear sightings too.
I put all the mink, martins, fishers and weasels in the same category, and rightly so since they are all part of the weasel family.
Kinda like a rick a federal cord or a face cord are all a 1/3 of a cord, or a face cord if your in the right part of the country(couldn't find the flag emoji ).

They are bad, I don't get it myself.
Coyotes are the same way, I can spot animals very well, and I bet I've seen less than a hundred yotes, and there are a lot of them. Many times I have seen them from the truck when I was driving and they were just the other side of a hill right beside the highway, the only way you would have seen them was from up where I was, not a single car saw them, they are sneaky.

I've been lucky enough to kill many yotes in a lot of states. Hundreds in my home state. They aren't taking over cause they are stupid.

 

[chipper1]

I've been lucky enough to kill many yotes in a lot of states. Hundreds in my home state. They aren't taking over cause they are stupid.

No, it's because certain individuals are .
Animals come before humans these days in regards to so many things, it's absurd.
They are very adaptive to their surroundings.

 

[chipper1]

One of our fellow scroungers @bear1998 came to get his scrounged wood today i was storing for him. poor trailer.
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Nice work guys. Looks like she could use another spring in there if it's gonna be loaded like that often.
Nice shade tree there .

 

[Picaso]

Well guys, I got a message from a guy i know and he said his neighbor had a big red oak tree down and was I interested? I said Id stop by and look at it. Well, the red oak turned out to be a red maple, 26-28" diameter. Not my favorite wood to burn, but the guy was in a pinch so I told the guy Id take a couple pieces to help him get rid of it. I grabbed some 4' sections. I put them in the log pile without a plan. I decide to do some cutting, and decide to use my new stash of red maple to waste on. Surprise.. the red maple was hiding something... no not metal (yet), but some nice curly figure. I cut a proper chunk out of there and hit it with my handplane to clean up the surface.

i'll burn the off cuts... but for now the wood will be bowls and pens and guitar tops.