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Okay all you perverts that have clicked on this link because you have preconceived ideas of what this thread is about, nothing to see here!
This is not a joke!
For those of you that do not know (or really care) I am the Area Team Manager for a Water Utility in the South West (no prizes for guessing which one). One of my Outstations is a very large river intake on the River Tamar, and whilst one of my operators was down at the plant he noticed that there was some damage to some of the trees and that one or two were in a potentially dangerous condition. On reporting this to me I arranged for a contractor to go down and sort it out. Within an hour my phone was ringing and the result is that we have a problem with a Beaver, not any old European Beaver, but a bloody great Canadian Version weighing 40 kilos (88lbs) that has escaped from quarantine upriver.
The damage done to some of the trees is amazing to see, it (and there is only one beaver) has eaten over halfway through a 40ft high, 2.5ft diameter tree to the extent that just pulling it with a pickup truck was enough to pull it down (in the direction it needed to go). In all we have had to have five reasonably large trees cut down as they were in a dangerous condition.
There is a specialist team coming down tomorrow to try and trap it (humanely I hasten to add), but I can't help think that I should have gone out and tried to get some pictures of it even though it is a nocturnal mammal.
Although I am not too keen about walking around the edge of a large river hunting a 40 kilo rodent with teeth that can rip a tree apart.
Thoughts?
This is not a joke!
For those of you that do not know (or really care) I am the Area Team Manager for a Water Utility in the South West (no prizes for guessing which one). One of my Outstations is a very large river intake on the River Tamar, and whilst one of my operators was down at the plant he noticed that there was some damage to some of the trees and that one or two were in a potentially dangerous condition. On reporting this to me I arranged for a contractor to go down and sort it out. Within an hour my phone was ringing and the result is that we have a problem with a Beaver, not any old European Beaver, but a bloody great Canadian Version weighing 40 kilos (88lbs) that has escaped from quarantine upriver.
The damage done to some of the trees is amazing to see, it (and there is only one beaver) has eaten over halfway through a 40ft high, 2.5ft diameter tree to the extent that just pulling it with a pickup truck was enough to pull it down (in the direction it needed to go). In all we have had to have five reasonably large trees cut down as they were in a dangerous condition.
There is a specialist team coming down tomorrow to try and trap it (humanely I hasten to add), but I can't help think that I should have gone out and tried to get some pictures of it even though it is a nocturnal mammal.
Although I am not too keen about walking around the edge of a large river hunting a 40 kilo rodent with teeth that can rip a tree apart.
Thoughts?
