NorthernRedneck
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.....begins today!!!!!
I spent the weekend out at camp. Friday night, I figured I'd take a short walk down to check my boat at 11:30pm. By that time, it was completely dark and the batteries in my flashlight were dying. As I was approaching the boat, I heard a big splash in the water right next to it. Scared the crap outa me.(we had a bear in our campsite last year and that was my first thought when I heard the noise. I ran back to the camper and found another flashlight then ran back down to the water to see what was out there. By then, I figured out it was a beaver. They usually tend to live in streams, rivers, and smaller bodies of water but sometimes build their houses on the shores of open lakes. This morning, as I made my daily stroll up to the outhouse, I discovered a 75ft tall poplar tree leaning badly towards one of the campers out there. I went to inspect and found that a beaver had been chewing his way through the trunk and was almost halfway done. One bad gust of wind and that thing was coming down hitting either the camper or our clubhouse.
I camp at a smaller campground operated by our snowmobile club during the summer months. The Lamtrac and BR160 are both stored in our garage right across the road from the clubhouse and only a few hundred feet away from the tree that was leaning badly.
So, I called up a few of the guys and we went to work getting that tree down away from the camper and clubhouse. I fired up the Lamtrac and we hooked a heavy duty strap halfway up the tree to the back of the machine and slowly pulled it over so that it would fall clear of the camper. As I was pulling with the Lamtrac, my uncle was cutting the base of the tree with a chainsaw. It worked flawlessly. I didn't get any pics of that procedure but did run back to the camper to get the camera after it came down. We then decided to do the same procedure to a smaller dead birch tree that was leaning towards one of the other campers. Once we were done cutting down the trees, I hauled them over to the other side of the garage and pushed them out of the way with the front blade.
Now, the only thing left to do is deal with that beaver before it drops every tree out there on our campers.
I spent the weekend out at camp. Friday night, I figured I'd take a short walk down to check my boat at 11:30pm. By that time, it was completely dark and the batteries in my flashlight were dying. As I was approaching the boat, I heard a big splash in the water right next to it. Scared the crap outa me.(we had a bear in our campsite last year and that was my first thought when I heard the noise. I ran back to the camper and found another flashlight then ran back down to the water to see what was out there. By then, I figured out it was a beaver. They usually tend to live in streams, rivers, and smaller bodies of water but sometimes build their houses on the shores of open lakes. This morning, as I made my daily stroll up to the outhouse, I discovered a 75ft tall poplar tree leaning badly towards one of the campers out there. I went to inspect and found that a beaver had been chewing his way through the trunk and was almost halfway done. One bad gust of wind and that thing was coming down hitting either the camper or our clubhouse.
I camp at a smaller campground operated by our snowmobile club during the summer months. The Lamtrac and BR160 are both stored in our garage right across the road from the clubhouse and only a few hundred feet away from the tree that was leaning badly.
So, I called up a few of the guys and we went to work getting that tree down away from the camper and clubhouse. I fired up the Lamtrac and we hooked a heavy duty strap halfway up the tree to the back of the machine and slowly pulled it over so that it would fall clear of the camper. As I was pulling with the Lamtrac, my uncle was cutting the base of the tree with a chainsaw. It worked flawlessly. I didn't get any pics of that procedure but did run back to the camper to get the camera after it came down. We then decided to do the same procedure to a smaller dead birch tree that was leaning towards one of the other campers. Once we were done cutting down the trees, I hauled them over to the other side of the garage and pushed them out of the way with the front blade.
Now, the only thing left to do is deal with that beaver before it drops every tree out there on our campers.
Sheesh! Bob! 
