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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 4375903, member: 9260"] 'harvesting' trees (in a manner of speaking, they are in the garden, and you do get dirty) always gets me to thinking aboot the pros, as i've watched them over the years. [I]this years crew.[/I] last fallish, i noticed a mebbe 12 inch white oak stump. it was felled in the signature way -teeth. that's not unusual. what was unusual was where the log was, aboot 200 yards away, in the river as the original crosstimber for a dam, signaling the return of beavers. [I]how on earth did he/she/they lug this thing so far?[/I] oak is like 22 pounds per cubic foot. they started coming decades ago, when the environment for fauna exploded. at first, i was 'no way, i ain't losing turf to them' and so i hired a state rec'd trapper, who answered my question on biggest that he caught with 'mebbe 50 pounds.' whoa. 'what do you think u'll catch here?' he says, the usual, mebbe 25 to 30 pounds. a month or so later, he bagged a 35, a 50, and a 60 pounder. that was some tail that i kept, until the stink set in. time passes, and i watch as they come, and go, and come again, and the changes they made make me change my tune. fine by me now. [I]the whole scene, extra floodlands notwithstanding, is for the better.[/I] this is my favorite documentary on ol bucky beaver, with the, [I]literally, [/I]iron teeth. better saw game than huskavarna. [MEDIA=youtube]s2YXFeraM8I[/MEDIA] funny, too. [/QUOTE]