Beaver Dam Removal with Canoe Ride.

Hard to beat the weather on this one! I had to paddle my canoe to the end of the drain to confirm there was a second beaver dam. Check out the end of the video for a time laps version of the dam removal. The horses got some apples and the turtles are awake!

[@jackviney6886]

thanks for the video... the sound of water with no talking... keep up the great work.

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Jack. 👋 Will do. Thanks

[@fredrussell1823]

Good to see you back in the saddle again.

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Fred. 🦫 🌞 💪

[@teresal5959]

Bless your heart there. Alot of hard work!!!👍👍

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Teresa, 👋 It really is the perfect job for me. 🦫 💪 Thanks.

[@ruthwright5395]

Welcome back 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏good job, great video ❤️🇺🇸

[@geneplumley4136]

Hey Ruth! Thanks! 🙏

[@excession3076]

Hi Gene Great to see another video. That has to be one of the most annoying dams I've watched anybody break. All those thin springy sapling branches, they were never ending. Have to say, I was beginning to hope you would just run off and get a bloody great excavator from somewhere, anywhere, hijack one....😀

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Excession, 👋 Thanks. It was brutal. There were so many tiny sticks! There were no big trees around for them to use. An excavator would have been nice for sure. This property owner had a couple of smaller ones. There was no getting through these fields without sinking, though. One day... lol.

[@indojake100]

Excellent job! So complete 💪

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks. I didn't leave much behind on this one, 👍

[@67ontarget]

Great job. Back breaking work done

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Sharon! Much appreciated. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

[@user-zv1re7ne1l]

Great work ,gene take caŕe,watching now your vidio from norlfolk virginia ,godbless❤❤❤

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Avelina. I looked there on Google Earth. Are you near the ocean?

[@martinmarsola6477]

A classic dam removal today. No visible traces of the dam are seen. A lot of labor, but excellent water flow make it all worthwhile. 😊

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Martin, 👋 I didn't leave much behind on this one. Thanks 👍

[@christinegombas7490]

So glad to see you are back! Keep up the good work! 👍🏻😁

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Christine. Will do! 🦫

[@camel1945]

Happy to see you again great job thanks!!

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks onmyway!

[@CryogenicFire]

Great to see you back at it Gene. Another awesome job; it looked to be hard work with all this whip thin branches woven through it.

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Cryogenic Fire! It was difficult. At first, I thought it was going to be a quick and easy one. Wrong, lol! 🦫 💪.

[@dalehalliday3578]

perfect weather. No bugs! Hope you had sunscreen on! Good job.

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Dale, 👋 I did! 🌞 🔥 Thanks!

[@shesablue4243]

you gotta number the videos..I keep getting lost..afraid I will miss one..enjoy your videos..

[@geneplumley4136]

That's a pretty good idea. I really didn't think I would have this many videos, lol. 🦫 🌊 🌊 🌊

[@kenadams8487]

Man what a well built dam. Canadian beavers rock. Great job Gene good to see you back at it.

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Ken! They are definitely smart, hard workers 🦫 💪. The dams are all a little different depending on what they have to work with.

[@connieeberle5862]

Just found you again. Have a great summer,

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Connie, 👋 Thanks, will do! Same to you! 😁

[@tonisyarif9856]

Amazing Gene👍💪

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Toni. Glad you like it.

[@user-qx2xb9ed7i]

The beavers are at it again

[@geneplumley4136]

They never seem to stop! 🦫 🦫 🦫

[@sophiagavra2872]

Very good job.Bravo

[@geneplumley4136]

Grazie Sophia! 🇨🇦 🦫 💪

[@beckyirvin2504]

You’re back! Yeah !

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Becky. Time sure flies. It's been a really busy spring fighting 🦫 's. Thanks for all of your comments.

[@Reviloj]

There was always Post 10.

[@cjthompson1521]

FANTASTIC

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Carol. 🦫 💥 🌊 🌊 🌊

[@JudyMenzel7]

Construction builders could learn a thing or two from beavers😅👍

[@geneplumley4136]

Hey Judy. They sure could. 👍

[@donna-marieosullivan6590]

Awesome dam removal. Wow, the beavers are good at what they do. ❤

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Donna-Marie! They sure are! 💪 🦫.

[@populustremula7496]

It has recently been estimated that all of the beaver dams that existed in the tributaries of the Colorado River before the arrival of the white man held back more water than was held back by the Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon dam combined when at their maximum capacity. And those beaver dams contributed a broader reach of water quality and water health, over the entire drainage, than Hoover or Glen Canyon could hope to approach. Just as the American prairies have never been made more bountiful than they were with the buffalo running wild upon them so too we are discovering, and too late, that the beaver surpasses the human being in building dams that maintain greater supply, health and vitality.

[@geneplumley4136]

Seems like you are trying to get at something, but you're being very indirect. I am pretty sure even back then if a beaver plugged anyone's drainage system. They would remove the beavers and their dams. This one was flooding farm fields and private property. Maybe ask questions?

[@NiceLoki]

Just a thought for when you take us on your canoe rides with you... would it be possible to get a view from right up front of the canoe?

[@geneplumley4136]

Done! Lol, 👍. 🛶 🎥

[@mademoisellekaya1438]

Just ran into you again today, I've been a sub over 9 months at least I could find so far and glad to be watching your Channel too! Love to hear and watch while working myself too, split screens are ideal 😁 But umm.. what kind of snake was that? I am not afraid of them and know a little about them, also that a lot, just like a muskrat likes to live in a dam.. but just wondering what kinds of snakes live where you are working? But, loads of respect for you!! 👊😎

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Kaya, 👋 Thank you for sticking around 👍, much appreciated. What type of work do you do? I believe it was a Northern Water Snake. We have common Garter Snakes as well, but I am not sure what else. I know I have seen others, though. 🦫 🐍 🐢 🐸 🐟 🌊

[@marieclaudeetcheverry3067]

👍 👏👏👏

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks, Marie! 🙏

[@NiceLoki]

3:25 will you be going back to clear that dam do you think?

[@geneplumley4136]

You bet!! I will be back there before the snow flies this year. 🦫 🌳 🪵 👊 🌊 🌊 🌊

[@gregturner1029]

This guy’s just making a mess.

[@geneplumley4136]

Hi Greg. That's what I do best.......👌

[@user-us3in7nz2o]

Dude, respectively watching you pull a branch at a time for 1:50 hours is too much....

[@geneplumley4136]

Thanks for watching. 👍

[@BrokenOAP-pn4dk]

Facinating our native beaver population died out many many years ago, england🦫

[@geneplumley4136]

That's too bad. We have lots to spare, 🦫 I can't imagine living without them. I spend quite a bit of time with them. Our land would look so different in their absence. Northern Ontario 🇨🇦

[@BrokenOAP-pn4dk]

some parts of england they are reintroducing them, YORK that floods every year and the somerset mashes, even the Thames vally so theres hope yet👍 scotland is doing well tho they are thriving

[@geneplumley4136]

@@BrokenOAP-pn4dk That's great. I hope they do well. Before you know it, you'll need people like me over there, haha. 🦫 🦫 🦫 🦫

[@BrokenOAP-pn4dk]

@@geneplumley4136 scotland is doing realy well, bears, red squillrels beavers and wild cats too, scotish wild cats are only small so we need to follow there example🤫👍