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Topic: Coon in the fan
Posted By: ScottinSWIL
Subject: Coon in the fan
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 10:23pm
    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.



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Posted By: DSeries4
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 10:32pm
Couple of years ago at the neighbour's tractor show, there was trouble getting the threshing machine going.  Eventually, this critter fell out the back.  Dad took him home for the turkey vultures.


Posted By: ScottinSWIL
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 10:45pm
 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


Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 12:06am
You may want to send that coon over to the state for rabies testing...

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Bob, North Carolina

1949 B


Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 12:18am
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.


Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 6:20am
My dad told about huntin coons for their skins. His dad used a dog to tree the coon, but didn't let the dog at the coon because a ripped up hide wasn't worth much and it wasn't a sure thing that the dog could whip the coon.

Gerald J.


Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 8:18am
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. 


Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 9:13am
A couple of years ago I had to extricate one from the distributor on the neighbor's 70' grain elevator, after it had been in there for a couple of days. 

Dusty 


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917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express"


Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 6:40pm
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

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3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.



Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 11:56pm
I came walking back into the house one night, and I was pretty mad.

Wife said "What happened?"

"I shot twenty-three raccoons"

She said: "That's pretty good... but I only heard ninteen shots"

"Yeah- I got a good line a couple'a times"

She said: "So why are you mad?"

"I did a lousy job"

She said: "Whadd'ya mean- you shot twenty-three, with ninteen rounds... that sounds good to me..."

"four got away.  I should'a placed better shots".

(After this night, I stopped using the 00 buckshot, and started using the 35-round clip 22LR... more shots, and much easier on my eardrums)


Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 6:57am
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.


Posted By: MilesGray (CO/KS)
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2010 at 7:16am
One got into my house in Kansas about 10 years ago, luckily he fell into a back bedroom that was closed off from the rest of the house. He completely destroyed the walls, windows and furniture before finally getting back into the ceiling and crawling out to the sun porch, which is screened in but outside of the main house, died in the ceiling and then fell through. When we found him, we almost didn't want to go inside for fear of what we'd find!

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Miles Gray (CO/KS)

5 1938 B's, 1940 B, 1944 WF C, 1948 NF C, Gleaner A, White Top Rotobaler, 1957 IH Golden Jubilee... I'm either a collector, or crazy!



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