The Beaver Excluder is done, 2016-09-25

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With many hands to make light the work, we had some fun building the beaver excluder on the weekend of 24/25 September, 2016.  Thanks to Paul, Natalie, Dave, Marian and Bob.

You can see a short descriptive video here; Talking tour of the beaver excluder

The up-stream side looks like this:

Beaver Excluder Upstream

 

 

 

 

The downstream side looks like this:

Beaver Excluder downstream side

A bill of materials:

  • Reinforcing mesh (like for concrete floors) 6 x 6 mesh, 10 awg, 4 x 8 ft. 22 pieces at $8.49 ea
  • T-rail fence posts, 8 feet long, 21 pieces at $8.99
  • Wire (electric fence, galvanized, 17 awg) a lot less than the 1320 ft rool at $27,99
  • Hog Rings, Malco HR2 Hog Rings, 1000-Pack (we used more than half of those) at $33.

And a receipt"

Beaver Excluder Receipts