Thread: Tree bark peeled off question

I've seen horses do similar damage eating the bark and the wood itself on cabbage trees.

Originally Posted by Bill999

Yea mate that was me and my lady in her where's wally thermals.

Were you with the Auckland 4x4 crew or the bikers?

Nah...I was the ol' prick sucking on the bottle in the passenger seat of that rust bucket Suzuki with the kid driving and the petrified Asian in the back...it is also recognizable by the fact that it has no doors or exhaust either...sorry for disturbing the tranquillity of your wanderings...it is a noisy bitch of a wagon even on a good day. We were over the track the previous weekend on horses and don't recall tying the horses to trees in the area we seen you...

Yea there was horse shit all along the track but this inst horse damage some is way too high for a horse to reach

What was the box of grass about?

That track turns into queen street up top.

Not trying to be a dick or anything, but giving something like this to DoC, or F&B could really backfire and be used as evidence to 1080 areas.

Originally Posted by Munsey

I've past on those photos to doc and forest and bird ! Hope that helps

Originally Posted by Rusky

Not trying to be a dick or anything, but giving something like this to DoC, or F&B could really backfire and be used as evidence to 1080 areas.

Pretty sure he was having a laugh mate

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well there is fuck all deer in there and bugger all possoms. I cant really see that poisoning a area that borders ship loads of houses getting the 1080 treatment

besides if they are going to poison they are going to poison. no ifs or buts about it

Two shot pointed this out to me this morning, bout head height and could clearly see teeth marks.
No way its a possum and was too high to be a goat......so we reckon deer.

This is what a horse chewed tree looks like.

There's no way a deer could reach as high as we saw

Originally Posted by Bill999

There's no way a deer could reach as high as we saw

Sasquatch? There is some tall hairy men in those hills

Don't worry mate that's just me, I don't eat bark tho

Surely if it was a horse it would have some clear prints close by? or prints/crap of the actual offender?

Originally Posted by Spook

This is what a horse chewed tree looks like.
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Horse must turn its head sideways and scrap/ bite, the pics i took are vertical like they have opened their mouth and draged the top teeth down the tree trunk.

Originally Posted by Bill999

There's no way a deer could reach as high as we saw

Due to the height that you state...I think kaka...and gibo's are deer

Originally Posted by Bill999

There was plenty of feed around and this was fresh chewing like the bark was tasty and only in a specific area like it was a bedding down area

My thoughts are
1 possum (but the teeth were abit big)
2 deer but why eat bark?
3 goat because they can climb trees when necacary and stand tall on their back legs

The gouges looked like what hares do to newly planted trees except vertical
And were obviously done to remove the bark, which wasn't in a pile under the trees

Area was hotsprings road katikati right up the top of the hill before the east west track meets the Tauhua or something similar to that

Was up there in the weekend saw alot of this myself a mate I was with said the same, goat or deer