Water over the dam
Jul 5, 2021 23:43:52 #
Spent 3 hours digging out a beaver dam on my pond. I lowered it about 3 1/2 feet, equal to around 1,700,000 gallon on n my 1 1/2 acre pond. The pond was put in by the DOT for water management. The outlet is a 5 foot culvert that runs for 3/8 of a mile under the 4 lane highway, entrance and exit ramp. I cleared out the dam to within 1 foot of the bottom of the inlet which I did by hand, with the help of a stick to stir the mud. One heck of a job, even though the dam was only 10 feet wide. On the plus side my dock now sets on the water as it should and I eliminated about 3/4 of the duckweed from the pond. Now I can go in next weekend and spray the rest to keep it manageable. I went back out this evening to try to eliminate the dam predator, but he never showed up. No pictures of the draining, didn't trust having my phone on me.
Jul 6, 2021 05:55:36 #
Jul 6, 2021 06:01:25 #
Iowa Farmer wrote:
Spent 3 hours digging out a beaver dam on my pond.... (show quote)
Good job Farmer. Did he build it while you were on vacation, or before? You're a man of the world, so I won't give you any advice about dealing with a bad Beaver.
Jul 6, 2021 07:05:47 #
Iowa Farmer wrote:
Spent 3 hours digging out a beaver dam on my pond.... (show quote)
That must have been quite the project, those rascals build some substantial interwoven structures. Used to trap beavers 🦫 in my youth and only ever had one bad one.
Jul 6, 2021 07:34:04 #
Rutinbuck
Loc: Haysville, Kansas
A good old case of lead poisoning should take care of that mean and nasty beaver.
Jul 6, 2021 07:48:34 #
Jul 6, 2021 08:23:21 #
dbed wrote:
A little dynamite would have loosen it up
Problem is the dam is across the culvert and the DOT might not like what dynamite would do to that.
Jul 6, 2021 08:25:27 #
Rutinbuck wrote:
A good old case of lead poisoning should take care of that mean and nasty beaver.
Yeah, I have a Ruger .204 that is very effective, if I can ever catch him in the act.
Jul 6, 2021 08:38:48 #
kandydisbar
Loc: West Orange, NJ
Nice welcome home there but good work and hopefully no more problems!
Jul 6, 2021 14:23:12 #
Maybe set up some artificial Xmas trees or real brush with pallets etc to fool it into thinking he needs to go chew their stalks and then will be on land.
Jul 6, 2021 14:25:16 #
Beavers supposedly do good things according to what nature needs and water conservation but they usually screw stuff up according to people. They cut nice trees down. The plug up culverts all that. I just watched a documentary on them few days ago.
Jul 6, 2021 14:35:17 #
Jeremy wrote:
Beavers supposedly do good things according to what nature needs and water conservation but they usually screw stuff up according to people. They cut nice trees down. The plug up culverts all that. I just watched a documentary on them few days ago.
Yeah, he worked on a couple of oak trees last fall.
Jul 6, 2021 14:40:11 #
My uncle had them in Oregon on his pond. I was thinking you could fool him or her with artificial Xmas trees. If you figure out where his main den or house is. Probably the culvert. There is probably more than one also.
Jul 6, 2021 19:43:11 #
Jeremy wrote:
My uncle had them in Oregon on his pond. I was thinking you could fool him or her with artificial Xmas trees. If you figure out where his main den or house is. Probably the culvert. There is probably more than one also.
Who? Me?
Jul 6, 2021 21:05:22 #
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