Alaskan moose stand about 7 feet tall at the shoulder when mature, alot of that is just long legs, but a complete bull moose can easily be 3/4 ton. most collisions with cars end up clipping the legs out under it and the moose goes straight through the windshield at whatever speed you were moving. for those reasons and others large trucks are the rule, and cars are a risk. moose here are mostly crepuscular, active dur…
At least in Alaska you probably don’t salt the roads. In places that do, the road actually baits deer and moose. And sometimes go for the salt on your vehicle: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/worl...
Hitting a Moose
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Re: Hitting a Moose
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
just the gravel dust, attracts them, if there really salt deprived they will lick the road, you can really tell who uses salt in thier drivway or not as well, and you have to be carefull about it if a moose gets hit or becomes a behavioural problem, you can get fined for wildlife attractant, if they put 2n2 together.
There's a moose cow and her calf hanging around my property since the spring. They are not scared of my ferocious labrador.
yard moose, theyve lost fear of humans and dogs, and may become defensive and territorial about your yard, especially a cow with calf. your describing the setup for most moose stompings. These are not docile pets, dont turn your back or get between them
Re: Hitting a Moose
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a moose cow and her calf hanging around my property since the spring. They are not scared of my ferocious labrador.
yard moose, theyve lost fear of humans and dogs, and may become defensive and territorial about your yard, especially a cow with calf. your describing the setup for most moose stompings. These are not docile pets, dont turn your back or get between them
I know. Not sure how to convince her to move along somewhere else. She wanders between my 2.5 acres and the neighbors around me. Price of living in the woods, I guess...
Re: Hitting a Moose
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
yard moose, theyve lost fear of humans and dogs, and may become defensive and territorial about your yard, especially a cow with calf. your describing the setup for most moose stompings. These are not docile pets, dont turn your back or get between them
I know. Not sure how to convince her to move along somewhere else. She wanders between my 2.5 acres and the neighbors around me. Price of living in the woods, I guess...
one of the most effective ways is to use your yard alot, and control the entrance to your shoveled plowed area, mainly its the sun, and the easy path through.
unless you have willow, or orchard trees...
Re: Hitting a Moose
#65I live in the only Canadian province that doesn't have moose, or bears, or deer, or any large animals other farm animals. Even skunks were imported (and escaped) as a cheaper replacement for fox fur. We don't have the experience of being aware of large animals on rural roads. Most times it is known if a cow or a horse is on the loose. When I travel to neighbouring provinces I am nervous driving on the highway. Especi…
Don't bury the lede. What province is that?
Sorry, yes as mentioned below Prince Edward Island aka PEI.
We in PEI along with the Northwest Territories NWT also don't border any other nation.
BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Yukon all border the USA.
Newfoundland and Labrador has a border with Greenland/Denmark, France.
Nunavut borders Greenland/Denmark.
Re: Hitting a Moose
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It’s been a while since high school physics, so I may be way off, but you only need to overcome the static friction of the object and surface. It’s the reason I can push a large piece of furniture across a floor even though I could never lift it myself.
Valid for a spherical moose on a smooth plane with constant coefficient of friction, sure. But an object dragged across a real surface will catch on things, and the force to overcome that is going to depend on the breaking strain of the objects and the elastic coefficients required to deform them. That’s the reason that even a winch rated to the weight of your sofa can’t pull it through a doorway that’s too small for…
> But an object dragged across a real surface
There are many different kinds of real surfaces.
A dead moose also has more give than a sofa.