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["Larry D. Cook" <cookfrenchlick@yahoo.com>]

Anyone have any proven ,simple plans to prevent moose from eating his apple 
trees?  He is about 100 Mi west of Fairbanks,Ak.  (FBX is" Fairbanks")
Thanks 
Larry D. Cook

--- On Sun, 4/7/13, Duane Ose wrote:



To: "Larry D. Cook" <cookfrenchlick@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, April 7, 2013, 11:53 AM




Larry... Thanks for the info. Yes we would be interested in all kinds of 
fruit bearing trees and bushes.. The problem is with Moose is not there 
rubbing of there antlers, but there munching of young trees. They eat 
branches and wood. Like grass is to cows. Moose eat frees. Not til a tree is 
tall and big do they leave them alone. I build a steel 8 foot fence around 
them and hang Bars of Irish spring soap in socks about the fence. That keeps 
them away. Till the urge is to overwhelming for them. It has been hard to 
start a small tree . It has been a battle between Moose eating them or 
stunting the growth of the young trees. . Then if we have to need to leave at 
times . Moose have there way with the young trees. I would very much love to 
have apple trees and a farmer north of FBX does have a orchard. Sells on the 
farmers market every year. Trees grow fast if they can get past the small 
stage. The one Bing Cheery tree ( 3 now ) is 10 inches in Dia.. It was a
 stick when we planted it. Mose here are as big as a work horse. 1800 pounds 
+ Pisses me off them moose always finding a opening to eat my hard won apple 
tree small starts... Sort of given up on trying now. Was hopping to have some 
here when I die.
Duane
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Larry, 
Only solution I can see is a SUBSTANTIAL cage/fence around each individual
tree, or fencing the entire orchard with electrified high-tensile wire.  
HT fencing is relatively inexpensive to erect, on a per-foot basis,  easy to
maintain, and modern fence energizers pack a wallop - when I've got mine in
good working order- properly grounded, and all 'shorts' corrected, it
maintains 10-12kv - very high 'pain potential', but little 'electrocution'
hazard, as the amperage is very low. 
I don't know how tall you'd have to build a fence - not sure how adept at
jumping moose are. 

Lucky

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To: North American Fruit Explor; Indiana Nutgrowers
Subject: [nafex] Moose eating apple trees

Anyone have any proven ,simple plans to prevent moose from eating his apple
trees?  He is about 100 Mi west of Fairbanks,Ak.  (FBX is" Fairbanks")
Thanks Larry D. Cook

--- On Sun, 4/7/13, Duane Ose wrote:



To: "Larry D. Cook" <cookfrenchlick@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, April 7, 2013, 11:53 AM




Larry... Thanks for the info. Yes we would be interested in all kinds of
fruit bearing trees and bushes.. The problem is with Moose is not there
rubbing of there antlers, but there munching of young trees. They eat
branches and wood. Like grass is to cows. Moose eat frees. Not til a tree is
tall and big do they leave them alone. I build a steel 8 foot fence around
them and hang Bars of Irish spring soap in socks about the fence. That keeps
them away. Till the urge is to overwhelming for them. It has been hard to
start a small tree . It has been a battle between Moose eating them or
stunting the growth of the young trees. . Then if we have to need to leave
at times . Moose have there way with the young trees. I would very much love
to have apple trees and a farmer north of FBX does have a orchard. Sells on
the farmers market every year. Trees grow fast if they can get past the
small stage. The one Bing Cheery tree ( 3 now ) is 10 inches in Dia.. It was
a  stick when we planted it. Mose here are as big as a work horse. 1800
pounds + Pisses me off them moose always finding a opening to eat my hard
won apple tree small starts... Sort of given up on trying now. Was hopping
to have some here when I die.
Duane
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