"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Will Power said:
I've heard that Coyote will kill peoples' pets in their garden, so cats and medium sized dogs are not safe..:eek: unpleasant and if you keep any manner of ducks or chickens....
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Large dogs are safe in the back yard. Medium dogs likely also. But coyotes hunt in packs. No single dog is safe against a pack. One of their tricks is to tease a dog into jumping the fence and then pursuing a single coyote. That one leads the dog into the pack. Lunch time.

We live next to a park devoted to nature trails. Runs about 10 miles from the coast inland. No grassy parkland. Lots of undergrowth. They do try to keep the main trails clear of poison oak. (You're on your own on the lesser trails.) There are coyotes, bobcats, skunks, possums, owls and hawks. There are also two-legged creatures who live in the park out in the bush. Best to stay on the trail.

We keep the dog in at night. The cat stays outside, but is smart enough to stay in the front yard where it's safer. (Cat grew up in the Valley. She wandered into our yard about 14 years ago and we have traded food for rodent killing ever since. Fair dinkum trade. She is more of a co-owner of the property than anything else.)
 
r8shell said:
Scissors are cool, but what about button hooks?
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Care of the generous Jack Black Jack Black
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Thanks, Jack!
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I'm glad they finally made it Rachel :) :thumbsup:
 
A few years back a local rancher and I were shooting Belding Ground Squirrels in his alfalfa fields while some of his cows were calving. We noticed a coyote feeding at the back end of a calving cow. The coyote was eating the afterbirth while the cow wasn't able to defend her calf. We shot the coyote and drug it away from the cow. Talking to the rancher, he said although not common, coyotes are a danger to calving cattle.
 
knarfeng said:
Large dogs are safe in the back yard. Medium dogs likely also. But coyotes hunt in packs. No single dog is safe against a pack. One of their tricks is to tease a dog into jumping the fence and then pursuing a single coyote. That one leads the dog into the pack. Lunch time.

We live next to a park devoted to nature trails. Runs about 10 miles from the coast inland. No grassy parkland. Lots of undergrowth. They do try to keep the main trails clear of poison oak. (You're on your own on the lesser trails.) There are coyotes, bobcats, skunks, possums, owls and hawks. There are also two-legged creatures who live in the park out in the bush. Best to stay on the trail.

We keep the dog in at night. The cat stays outside, but is smart enough to stay in the front yard where it's safer. (Cat grew up in the Valley. She wandered into our yard about 14 years ago and we have traded food for rodent killing ever since. Fair dinkum trade. She is more of a co-owner of the property than anything else.)
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It occurs to me that I forgot rabbits, gopher snakes, and rattle snakes. Rabbits would go right through the chain link fence to feed in our yard. I had to kill two rattle snakes in my back yard last summer. (Lived there 20 years and hadn't had any prior problems with them.) One had taken up residence in the tomato patch. My wife discovered it about 6 inches away from her hand when she was working there. The other got stuck in the chain link fence and I could not safely extricate him. I put half-inch mesh over the bottom two feet of the chain link fence that runs between our yard and the park. I also put a plastic extension down into the dirt on the wooden fence that runs between us and the neighbor. Now the critters have to stay on their side of the fence.
 
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Here is my rather poor attempt to make a Barlow knife (along with an example of what I used the blade and spring from). I made the handles a little slimmer than your typical Barlow because the blade is also very thin. I’m not sure I like the lines - I may go ahead and round off all the corners at some future date - but it has a decent snap to it and no blade play, so for now I’m going to leave it alone.

I’m going to call it a “rustic Barlow”, because “rustic” sounds so much better than “crudely made”.
 
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