I never thought to test the capacity of a deck railing in this way, but apparently my neighbor did. It’s from this morning right after he put out the bird feeders.
A separate thought is that the railing doesn’t look like it’d pass the 4″ ball test…hmmm, the city’s usually pretty strict.
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man... that is one hairy pig
that is the funniest thing i have seen all day.
Does that dog resemble its owner?
Dinosaur
A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...
But it is not this day.
Now that is some live load!
He won't have to worry about over crowding will he?
Dave
Shoo bear! Go away!
Shout out to Andy C. Namaste my friend.
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When's bear season...
Hmmm,
That's not the neighbor you been fueding with is it?
Can we check your garage for bear bait?
Nah these guys are cool.
Well, it looks like the railing can bear the weight O.K.
Hate to think of it failing...a grizzly thought!
That'd be one mother of a demo to paw through.
...all I need is the air that I breathe...
>>A separate thought is that the railing doesn't look like it'd pass the 4" ball test...hmmm, the city's usually pretty strict.
And what inspector is going out there to test the spacing?
I would.With a pot and a big spoon.
A person with no sense of humor about themselves, has no sense at all.
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Ya gotta have 4" balls to go out there and check them when the bear is still about!
Dave
Well, the last time I checked they were just regulation size, but I've chased away bears that size at least half a dozen times now with the equivalent of big pans and big spoons.Doesn't take much.The last one was taking his sweet time. And at one point, actually turned and started back toward me. Course, all I was doing at that time, was yelling.I went back in the house and got the matchete. At that point I don't have any idea what I had in mind. Maybe trimming it's claws for it ?But I ended up beside my burn barrel.Half a steel barrel with a piece of tin laid over the top.With the bear maybe 5 yards from where I was by that time, I started slapping the flat of the matchete on top of the tin.Whack, slap. BOOM. The resultant noise was like a combination of thunder, the crack of steel on steel, and god shouting...That bear moved faster than any other that I have seen so far. This one was bawling out loud, and breaking branches and small trees, helter skelter all the way up the steepest part of my ridge, as fast as it could go.That bear was indeed sh*tting in the woods all the way up and over the ridge. LOLSometimes life is fun.=0)Then there's the cougar last year that jumped on top of my trailer, and was prowling my yard for what seemed like half an hour, trying to get at my cats and dog.Went down to the river and just kept yowling at me after I shot in the air with the shotgun.Then, CAME BACK, after about ten minutes of yowling down there...Now that one was scarey. Thought I was going to have to actually shoot it. And was hoping I would see it with time enough to point the shotgun in it's general direction, if it decided to have a taste of me instead of the dog...
A person with no sense of humor about themselves, has no sense at all.
hmmm thought you said bird feeders.... not bear feeders...
I was working in northern New Brunswick, the day after moose season closed. One of the guys had had a license, but hadn't had any luck. Then his cell phone rings. It's his wife; there's a moose on his front porch, looking in the living rom window.
"Gotta go. It's threatening my family. That's self defense!"
that's what he get's for mixing up the bags of bear/bird chow ...
Jeff