Coon in the fan

    So today I got one of those critters that has been working on the sweet corn.  The bad news is it was with the radiator fan of our gleaner combine with a plastic fan.   Knocked  a  couple of small pieces of  the plastic off on a couple of the fan tips, but  no torn wires or belts and the radiator seems fine.  Made one heck of noise before I could shut it down.  The funny thing is I crawled up in the engine compartment before I started it the first time and didn't see a thing, shut it down and on the second try there the little sneaky rascal was.  As you can imagine it was a nice mess to clean up.  That is the second time I have taken out a coon with a gleaner fan.  We have good crop of coons hanging around this year on the farm.

 I wish I could have pulled one out of there in one piece like that.  I'm talking blood and guts everywhere. Not a pretty site. LOL

Maybe you need a couple a dawgs. They were a barkin at a pil of cement blocks and I finally got tired of the noise so I went over and started tearing the block pile apart. They were the 12" two hole blocks anyways one dawg got his head in one hole an the other in the other hole and it sounded like they had their heads stuck... but I got them backed out and took that block off an the one stuck her head in and dragged that big coon out and the other grabbed it and it was toren apart that fast... right in front of me. now got ceement blocks that got coated red.theyre mean on woodchucks and fox too and seen them chase kyotes out of here too. Yup, you need some dawgs.

One time we came back home to see a garden full of coons in the sweet corn patch.  Must have been a momma and 6 almost grown little ones.  Me and dad got the 22's out.  Dad with his single shot and me a semi-automatic with 17 rounds.  I think dad got one and I got five and one got away.   Didn't like doing it but not much choice. 

Get you a blue tick hound dog, I have one that will kill coon so fast you will miss it if you blink. He's gotten four so far this year he's a good dog!!!

Don

I renovates a office on the front of a storage shed I have in town last year for a new business to move into.  It had been vacant for 8 years after I bought it from Cargil when they closed their grain elevator there.  I use the back part of it to store my farm equipment.  When we were finished the renovation I had killed 23 raccoons in the building that were living there and I know there is more because I swept the floor last week and there are fresh tracks in the pile of dirt off the floor in my backhoe bucket.  They are getting a lot more plentiful the last couple years here.  The price for the hides is way down and not that many people hunt anymore.