What animal do you see the most while looking for metal?
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What animal do you see the most while looking for metal?
raccoons and skunks about equal
I usually see the south end of my north bound labs as they are chasing my competition. The order of completion starts with raccoons, then pheasants, followed by squirrel's, cats, deer, and a badger once in a while. Skunks use to be part of the equation (second only to the raccoons) but my business partners got tired of sleeping outside and not being allowed to go to work with me. The rarest observation was six bald eagles perched in a tree watching a flock of geese in a slough this spring. That was special but a camera was not available to record it.
Great idea for a thread.
Deers and once in a while a moose will be crossing the road or on a job site were on.
Squirrelly little squirrels! and birds. Only see racoons at night when it's dark.
My evil competition.
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Goats!!!!
Goats??
NOPE!Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=tYKPdNvH800
When I go to get the cars
Mouses and Bees in the summer
ALWAYS carry several cans of the shoot 20 feet Bee / Wasp kill
Cars that have been sitting >> They love to hang the hives on the door hinges and behind the glass of the bigger side view mirrors
I see mostly dogs and I have had good luck ie not bitten!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNdrBNnaUPI
Snake scared the hell out of me today! LOL
Cats, racoons, deer, cockroach, other scrappers
Mice + rats = cats - My observation!
Rule of thumb >> The BIGGER the Cat >> The more money I getQuote:
Originally Posted by bigburtchino
Cats for me, but I should have said Goat. ;)
Yeah man, goats!!Quote:
Originally Posted by DakotaRog
There in my computer................they're everywhere.............
I have many critters and wildlife around the yard, so I see a bit of everything. What sticks out the most is the chipmunks as they get excited when I get near a area where they live.
Then there are the buzzing things, wood ticks and fire ants here and there.
Totally goats. Wait...Do moobs count?
ScrapperT there are 2 things we don't discuss on this forum. One is gold refining and the other is moobs. You have been warned.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrapperTrecycling
Seriously though, a few things I'm always careful of are spiders, wasps and snakes. I learned if you find a big wasp nest it's better to take care of them at night when it's cooler instead of 12 noon when it's hot and their pissed off.
Kinda like your wife...Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
You want a sweater, Jimi? ;)
Okay, I'd have to say horses then.
I brought them carrots a couple years ago and now they come running every time they see me.
For me, the question should read: How much scrap can you find before you get mugged?
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The culprits.
Spiders , siders, and more spiders. I hate spiders. It seem that the one thing you hate the most, is the one thing you run into the most.
i've seen the occassional raccoon in the dumpster, but late at night, and i swear, i always seem to run across swine with huge snouts.
i yell "Get out of here you nosy pigs!"
Birds, normal everyday Thrushes, sparrows and seagulls.
Next might be cats, the furry sort, then spiders, then snails.
We don't really have 'pest' animals in NZ, theres no poisonous spiders unless you search for them in remote places. Except Possums, they got introduced from Australia and live in trees in native forest and sometimes trees around the edge of towns.They are considered a proper 'Pest'. We can trap then and sell the skins but most possum huters just pluck he long fur off them. Its worth good money.
It never freezes and is warm and mixes with wool for quality clothing material.
Theres no snakes at all, no racoons, skunks or other marmosets, or other wild livestock.(no goats or deer unless its on a farm, then you can include sheep and cows too)
We do get spiders that are 'largeish' but not as big as they have in Australia(HUGE!! Dinner plate size!).
I pick them out and give them a new home, sometimes they are protecting their ball of tiny spiders, nest I guess.
I move that and put the spider with it.
In two cases I have seen crockroaches, ugggghh. We have native ones, really tiny things but gross. We never have them in houses, they live in 'bush', trees and such.
Never see ants except on the edge of concrete paths and you have to look for them, tiny ants too, no 'biters' at all.
NZ is pretty safe, the only thing thats going to bite you except pet dogs is sandflys, I might see 2 or 3 on a hot day as I'm close to the coast.. No mozzies at all, they only come out at night anyway, in native forests. Billions of sandflys in native forest areas though.
Yeah, so Birds, then pet cats...
Rabbits.
Everytime I go out picking.
Rabbits everywhere.
The kid and I usually count them as we go along.
I've hauled scrap cars from various ;locations across Canada,
Hope BC - marmot hitched a ride to my yard, skunks nesting under cars, pack rats building nests under the hood then lots of wasp nests.
Penticton BC - rattle and bull snakes, lots of wild horse herds on the reservations..
Vancouver Island - deer, moose and elk hides and remains stuffed into reservation vehicles.
Manitoba - porcupines, mice and ticks by the millions, honey bees that had swarmed and relocated inside the wall of an old house got about 20 lbs of honey filled comb. .
Wasn't scrapping, just riding around when I came across two ducks sharing a log with a turtle.
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For some reason the mice I see when scrapping always say Logitech on them... :)
Lately, it's been wild turkeys while i'm doing my tear downs out back. There are about five in the flock and those suckers are big & healthy. They come within about 20 feet of me.
Before that ... it was a little brown bunny.
He had a bad day a few weeks ago. He was out there grazing on the lawn in the early morning. The turkeys came in and they squared off over territory. He had lots of heart. He stood his ground but they drove him off.
Later that day ... i walked down to the mailbox and there was a little brown lump of fur on the side of the road. Mr bunny got hit by a car. ;(
There's a sad lesson to be learned somewhere.