Beaver Dam Removal Spring 2023!! 

Hi Christine, 👋 They sure did. This was a rather large one. Those 🦫 's are hard workers. Thanks for watching.

​@@geneplumley4136 I bet the 🦫🦫🦫 are laughing cuz they are giving you hard time to remove their BIG DAM! LOL! 😂😂 Just kidding with you.

Thanks, DodgeWatt, 👍

Thanks, Sammy. 💪 🦫

Hi Linda, 👋 It felt really good to get back out there. Winter is far too long here. 😆. Thanks.

Thanks Melissa! It was a good day.

Thanks, Faye! We just got our first real snowfall today. It's hard to believe that it's this time of year already. Seems like yesterday it was spring!!

Thanks, Randy! Much appreciated 🙏

Hi Ken. I am in Northern Ontario. 🦫 🇨🇦 Thanks, I will find more soon.

Northern Ontario here too

@@amandaderasp1981 HI Amanda, 👋

👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 hi to u also, me and my 5 year old love watching these videos together ❤❤

@Amanda Derasp Well, thanks for watching you two! It is a lot of fun doing this. More videos will be coming soon. 🦫 🇨🇦 🦫 💪

Hi there Fred, 🖐. Thanks, it's good to be back. It's been a long winter. 🦫 💪

@@geneplumley4136 gonna have to get yourself in shape

@Fred Russell hahaha, I know right. I had to sit down for a minute. The first couple of dams are always rough. I call it getting my "bush legs" back. 💪 😆

@@aliabdelsalam503 Hi, Ali. 👋 Thanks, much appreciated.

Hi Dee, 👋 Thanks, it was a good way to start the season.

Thanks, Doctor Sunggles! 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Thanks! It was a good one to start with for the year. 🦫 💪

Hi Noah, 👋 It sure was. 🦫 💪 🇨🇦 🌊

They have been there for years. I visit here twice a year just to make sure the roads are OK. Keep those 🦫 out of trouble.

Determined to the end! New subscriber. Thanks for filming

@Suze Glesky HI Suze, 👋 Thanks, I try, lol.

Thanks, Daniel. 🙏 Oh yea. They don't like me at all. 🦫 🌊 🌊

Hi Mark. It sure was! A lot of the ground is still frozen here. The clay is really solid, even with the running water. Thanks for watching 👍

Hi Robin, 👋 I was surprised, lol. I thought it was going to get my leg on the way by. Thanks for watching 👍

Thanks, Lisa! 🦫 💪

Hi David 👋 Thanks. It's funny you mention that. I usually start getting ready for this a month or 2 in advance. Eleptical & free weights, 💪. I used to wear a fit bit, but they don't last long for some reason, lol.

Thanks, j cc d! 💦 💪 🦫 🌊

Hi Becky, 👋 Winter was looooong! 🌞 🦫 🌊

Thanks, Kayanne. Beaver 🦫 😠 😡 😤 🌊 🌊

Thank you, Kimberly, I will. 👍 🦫 🌊

Thanks, Glenn. Much appreciated. 🦫 🇨🇦

Hi Mama, 👋 Welcome, and thank you! 🇨🇦 🦫 🇨🇦

Hello again. It has been a long time Yes, there is still snow on the ground here. It is almost gone, though. 👍. I will be too hot very soon, 🥵. I enjoy the cooler weather. It was a big beaver dam, 💪. I will be careful, thank you. 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Hi Brumby, 👋 Much appreciated from here in Canada. 🦫 🇨🇦 🦫 Thanks for watching.

Thanks, Judy. 👍 That was more water than I was expecting on this one. 🦫 🌊

Thanks, Rustie. Hopefully I find some more like that this year.

Hi, Brenda 👋. Thanks! This was during the spring here. I could only open the thawed part that the water was running through. The rest was frozen. I will go back and see this place before winter. Maybe I can remove the whole thing this time, 💪.

Hi Allan, 👋. Thanks. I hope the beavers keep me busy this year. 🦫

Thanks, Ruth. I appreciate that. I hope the beavers keep me busy this year, 💪 🇨🇦 🦫 🌊 🎥

Thanks, Kay! I always start that way. Once the water starts flowing, it's hard to get those sticks out of there. The potato rake is definitely the way to go. This dam could likely heat someone's house for a year! So much 🔥 wood! 🦫 👍

Thank you, Pasc-chris Nous. 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Thanks, Southern Biscuits! It was a good time. Rain and all! 💪 🇨🇦 🦫 🌊

Hi Cheryl 👋 It was a pretty big one. It's great to be back out there. Thanks, will do!

@@geneplumley4136 looking forward to your next one and to a new season!

@Cheryl Gauthier Thanks, Cheryl. 😁

Hi Lina, 👋 A wrong step or 2, I might have, haha. 🌊 🌊 🌊 If they rebuild this one...it won't take long. I will go check it out in a few weeks.

It's great to be back. 😁 🦫 🌊 Yes, I didn't remove as much as I usually do. A lot of the ground is still frozen here. Thanks!

Hi Connie, Thanks! It is getting warmer by the day! Northern Ontario. Winter is hold on this year....

I think Gene is from Ontario, Canada. I might be wrong.

I am actually up in Canada. Northern Ontario. What about you?

@@geneplumley4136 I'm down south, in NW Oklahoma 🤣. Altho, I've lived all over the USA, this is where I've landed for my "golden" years.

@@JudyMenzel7 Then it must be nice there. 👍.

@@geneplumley4136 I did spend 3 weeks in Northern Ontario back in the mid 90s on a fishing trip on Lake Ontario. It was crazy beautiful. I lived in Northern Wisconsin for 9 yrs, and it's very similar, yet not as wild. I loved it.

Hi Excession! Maybe I will make a funny video one day. Call it drinking with beavers! Set up a campfire and bring some chairs, lol. Sit right on the dam!! Thanks. The water was deeper than I realized. I set up a camera on the top side of the dam, but it died before I was finished. I might do a follow-up video for it anyway. I thought that log was going to hit my leg and tear my weighters. It was hard to tell how big it was until it started to go. Yes, we definitely have a spring melt. We go from 6+ feet of snow to nothing in a month. If it rains during this time, bad stuff happens. This particular place is like this year round, though. There is a spring somewhere feeding it. Rivers here rise by several feet every spring. It can be quite dangerous. 🍻 Cheers.

I was also watching the level on the tree it amazes me how fast the level goes down but I guess with water flowing out so fast not surprising.

@scottmcmeeko9651 It dropped pretty quickly! There was another dam just upstream.

Hi Mariagdaws, 👋 I kind of like playing in the rain. 😉 💧 It makes you appreciate the nicer days anyway. 🦫 🇨🇦 🍁 🌞

😂. I guess you will have to show me how it's done. 💪

Hi Diane, 👋 Yes, I was pretty happy to see this one when I got there, 😁. Thanks, there will be more to come soon. 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Hi Shesablue, 👋 Thank you! It's hard to believe that it was spring there, and summer is coming to an end already. 🌞 ❄️

Hi Marilyn, 👋 Thank you. I don't think this one has been opened yet. Maybe by someone else at some point?? I am not sure. They are very beneficial for sure. Just in the right places....😬😆. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Hi Christina, 👋 Thank you, 🙏

Hi Todd, 👋. They might even have a few other things to call me, too. haha. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

It's a dam not their lodge!

Hi D Sabre, 👋 You're right! 💥 🌊 I am not sure. There was nothing there the next day anyway. 🦫 💪

Hi Meredith, 👋 That log was definitely alligator like, lol 🐊 🪵 I was waiting for a piece of it to get my leg and tear my chest waiters. Thanks for watching 👀 👍

Thanks, Mary. 🦫🇨🇦 💪 🌊

Hi Geoffrey, 👋 I hope so, 😎 🦫 🦫 🦫 🌊 🌊

Thank you. I could not remove more of the dam because it was still frozen. It was early spring here at this time.

Hi Mark, 👋 Thanks, I am so happy to be back out there. Ontario, Canada. 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Hopefully, lol. 🦫 💪 Normally, the beavers are trapped before the dam is removed. On this particular job. Only a couple were removed in an effort to control the damage they cause while still having them around. I will go see in the fall. Their house was upstream above a dam I did not pull. So I am sure they will be back.

Hi Denis 👋. We shall see in the fall. They might just maintain the dam upstream. We'll find out soon.

Maybe one day..... 💥 💥 💥 🌳 🪵 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Hi Owen. You must live or work downstream of a beaver dam. I am out here helping the people who live upstream of the beaver dams. Where the new dams are causing flooding.

msTECH gets paid for all his removals

@@markleonard-pe3os Spot on 😀

Hey James. I watch TECH 86 as well. He does a good job. Thanks, I will give it a go. 💪 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Hey Toni, 👋 I didn't forget. It is actually a tip I learned from a viewer. If you put one strap across your chest and leave the other one off. The waders stay on instead of falling off my shoulders all the time.

Thank you, 🙏. 🇨🇦 🦫 🦫 🦫

I will do that one day, lol. 💥 🌊

That's a bit of a strange question, lol. I am not trespassing if I am paid to be there?? This is my job.

I know, lol 👍 🦫 🍖 🥓 🥩

Hi Kandy, 👋 It's not the worst idea....lol 💥

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😆 🔥 🔥 🔥 The 🦫 's wouldn't know what to do, lol. Plus, it's pretty wet there.

It's hard to know where to start with this one, lol. I am not really sure where else you would find a beaver dam for starters. They live in the water..... 🦫 🌊 🤔 Anyway. I remove beaver dams because that is part of my living. I get commissioned by our government to do this. I also offer services to private landowners as well, but I mainly work for our township. Now let's try to un boggle your mind a bit. The places you see me working are part of an engineered drainage system. The water levels in these waterways must be kept low or else things flood. Mainly roads, culverts, bridges, farm fields, homes, etc. Each of my videos are of the result of a flood complaint from one of the above-mentioned problems. I hope to get a drone eventually to better show this. We have an enormous protected beaver population here. I have a license and special permission to do this. Do you have any actual questions instead of ignorant statements? I choose the word "ignorant" carefully. I am not sure why you think my community doesn't know anything about our properties, but I assure you. You're wrong. I don't speak for everyone doing this, but these are reasons why I remove beaver dams.

@@geneplumley4136 "I remove beaver dams because that is part of my living. I get commissioned by our government to do this." Yes, that's what the guys working for Hitler said as well--just doing my job. I've seen municipalities all across the country fill wetlands and I've seen endless karens in urban dead zones complaining about nature encroaching on their manicured lawn. I understand what you do better than you do. Engineered drainage system is a government whitewash of an eradicated wetland. There is nothing more inconvenient to a developer than a wetland and ultimately you work for the developers, not the city, in eradicating these wetlands. I would ask what considerations are taken before obliterating riparian forests and wetlands but I already know the answer: how much money the landowner has or how connected the developer is.

You're trying to compare what I am doing to what Hiltler did??? Dude, that's terrible. You should be ashamed of yourself. That's shows such a terrible lack of respect for the holocaust. These are not wetlands nor subdivisions. I assure you, there are very few manicured lawns around here, 😆. Although, I have gone to sites where beavers were swimming across people's front lawns. Those beaver had to go. The places I am at are established and beavers have moved in and are causing property damage in one way or the other. You're trying to make it sound like I am killing the beavers so construction can begin. It's very manipulative and incorrect. How can you say that you know more about what I do, when don't really know what I do. It's so ignorant. You're unreal. To answer you actual question. "What considerations were taken?....." The landowner or whoever reports the problem, contacts the town. The drainage supervisor goes out to determine what the issue is and if it is or is not part of the drain system. If it is not considered part of the drain system then it is left alone. The landowner has to deal with it on their own. If it is part of the system then I get the call to go in. The only reason I get the job is because the existing water levels cannot rise in the area without causing existing property damage. So again, ignorant. I guess you didn't know the answer after all right. 😬. I am curious. What part of the world are you from? I am in Northern Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦.

Hey Louis, 👋 They are good. Don't get too fat now. You won't fit a canoe! Lol 🛶

Are you serious? What would give you that impression?? Of course, I have signed permission to be here. They contacted me to come here. I get paid to do this. Why on earth would I post videos of trespassing while trapping illegally?? 🤦 Maybe ask questions first next time....

Thanks for watching Mary.

I will get to do that one day, lol. 💥 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊 People used to do that around here. But now you have to have insurance and a license. Plus, the Ministry of Natural Resources doesn't want us to do that anymore. It would be fun though, 👍 Northern Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Hi Judy. 👋 Thanks. It has been a while. 🥶. Winter is so long here. I am so happy to be back at it.

Hey, Dale. It is amazing how they do that. Some of this stuff weighs more than them. Back is all good 💪. Thanks!

They sure make it their own space! 🦫💪 I would hate to be without them. They make some really nice landscapes out there. They just need to stay out there, lol. Not in our drainage systems, 😆.

Thank you, Sandra! 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Hi Carol, 👋 I live in 🇨🇦....it is in the middle of nowhere! Lol. I live in a small town, so it pretty much looks like this all over. This is someone's private property. They are developing it and selling parcels of land. My purpose here is to keep the population of beavers low but not gone. Once the water gets high enough here, it threatens the road going in. Also they want to protect their 🌳's. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks, onmyway. It was a long winter, 🥶

Thank you, Anita 🙏 🦫 🇨🇦 🌊

Thanks, Ralph. It's a lot of fun. Best job I ever had. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Hi Mat, 👋 Thanks, you're right. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

Hi Ponkkaa, 👋 This will keep them busy anyway 💪 🦫

That's my job and I love it. 👍 If it makes you feel any better, the beavers were removed first. 🦫💀 I am commissioned by our local governments to do this. Not to worry, they pay me pretty well. 😉 The beaver dams you see here on my channel are causing legitimate problems. They are either flooding farm fields, roads, trails, homes, and culverts. I hope to get a drone soon so that I can better show this. I live in a rural area, so it appears that I am in the middle of nowhere, but I am not. Well, sometimes the beaver dam causing the problem can be a few miles in the bush. But generally, I am not far from a road or hiway that is being affected. Imagine not being able to get home one evening because the road you live on is under water!?! Do you just say, "Oh well," and start a new life somewhere else and leave all your stuff behind? Because now it's an animal habitat 👍. I am guessing that a pathetic man like me will get called in to solve your problems. Anyway, good luck in life. Maybe ask questions next time.....

You know if you knew anything about why these different people open these dams up then you wouldn't have wrote those stupid foolish things. Gene told you like it is, but I just had to stick up for him and every other person who does this same work. They're doing more good taking out these dams than you have probably done your whole life. Stop and think about that. No, I didn't call you stupid just the words you used. Next time get all the facts before you attack someone else. There's nothing wrong with being worried about the environment and all the critters that use it, just be more responsible about the way you try and take care of it.

That is a really good idea, Julia. 🙏 Thanks! I have left one behind before, and I definitely wasted time looking for it, haha.

@@geneplumley4136 i discovered such channels only a few days ago. It's more fun than ASMR. I subscribed to them right away, at least 3 of them. Thanks for the quick reply, I would not have expected. 😀

@@juliab.8200 of course, 👍 🦫 💪 🌊

Yes, that would be fun. I don't think I can just go buy that here, 🇨🇦.... I have never really tried, though.

Back when I was young, farmers were able to get explosives to remove tree stumps and boulders.

@@nickreyes4570 I have heard lots of people around here talk about that as well. The good old days.....I will ask around, but I bet I will need a license now.

Thanks, Dane. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

👋 🌞 🇨🇦 🦫 💪 🌊 🌊

Hey Paul 👋. You're right. This was a difficult one. The reason it was so strong is that it was still frozen. 🥶. That's why I only opened up a small channel. It was thawed due to the water flowing through it already. Beyond that, it's like concrete toward the sides.

Hi Mary. 👋 Thank you! I will do my best. Take care, Ontario, 🇨🇦 🦫 🦫 🦫

Hi Kay, 👋 I am in Northern Ontario, 🇨🇦 What about you?

@@geneplumley4136 north Georgia mtns

@kayjohnston202 Nice looking area Kay. 👌

I have seen them use the same sticks. But generally, they go get new sticks every time. 🦫 🌳

Yes, they will. I removed a couple 🦫 , but they will re build it.

Thanks! 🦫 💪 🇨🇦 I should be pulling dams soon. It has been a really busy spring for beavers. They seem to be everywhere around here this year.

Hi Peter, 👋 I have never pulled a dam here before. I frequent this property every spring and fall but never removed a dam. The landowner usually uses equipment.

Hi Heather! I will try to 🎥 more this year, 👍 🦫 🇨🇦 Thanks for watching.

@@monikalinde6618 Hey Monika! Thank you. I am in Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦

Hi Richard, 👋 That was a huge log! I thought it was going to rip my waiters... Thanks!

I give this video a 10 out of ten rakes. Beavers are amazing.

@Reviloj Thanks for the rakes! 🦫's are the best! 👍

Thanks, Christopher! It was fun, rain and all. 🦫 🌊

Thanks, Lt.guppypatrol. That's was a good one. 🌊 🌊 🌊