Muskrat AND beaver problem

Keller said:
We bought our property just over a year ago and discovered a large 6 acre beaver pond at the back. Last spring we met a local trapper that kindly "removed" 7 beavers from the pond for us.

The lodge is out in the middle of the pond and the dam itself is over 500' long. The water at the deep side of the pond is about 6' above ground level! You can walk beside the dam like it's a retaining wall. These beavers have clearly been here for generations.

Even with the thinned out population the surviving beavers managed to down quite a few mature trees for their winter feed bed.

I love the pond since it brings moose and other wildlife to the area, but I'm thinking I may have to let the trapper thin their numbers every year or so to prevent my forest from disappearing.

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Where legal, and only if you are trained and licenced to do so, fill a ziplock freezer bag with ANFO with a 1/4 stick of 75% Forcite stick powder taped to the outside of the bag primed with a safety fuse. Dig a deep hole in the dam, tie the charge to a stout pointed pole and get it as deep in the hole as you can. Back fill on top of the charge with wet mud and pack it down. If you want to open multiple points along the dam, connect the initiator charges with det cord and tape the safety fuse to the end of the det cord.

Or so I've been told............

 
And I thought the fun part was to fill that hole in the dam with Tannerite ..... and shoot it from a distance .... 😂

Joking aside .... I have taken apart my share of beaver dams without explosives or machinery.
I have even made my own tool just for that purpose ..... I call it the "beaver axe"!!

It is a 8 to 12 foot pole with an axe or tomahawk head attached. And it's purpose is not to cut anything but to rip the dams apart while standing below.
 
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^^ OP, is just whining. Probably first time in his life seeing these "critters" in action.

It's eco warriors though... What can you expect ? :cry:
 
0faustus0 said:
And I thought the fun part was to fill that hole in the dam with Tannerite ..... and shoot it from a distance .... 😂

Joking aside .... I have taken apart my share of beaver dams without explosives or machinery.
I have even made my own tool just for that purpose ..... I call it the "beaver axe"!!

It is a 8 to 12 foot pole with an axe or tomahawk head attached. And it's purpose is not to cut anything but to rip the dams apart while standing below.
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My beaver dam breaking tool is a pitchfork, with the tines bent to 90 deg, basically a big claw. Great for pulling apart dams. Still need to get in there and get muddy with some of the larger logs. I've torn down hundreds of dams over the years and this works the best for me so far, but yours sounds interesting
 
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