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Title: mascot
Post by: coxy on April 17, 2015, 06:49:15 PM
does the ff have one  if not it should be a goat eating grits  we shur do talk a lot about goats and grits  :D :D
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: WV Sawmiller on April 17, 2015, 06:56:33 PM
You never want to choose a mascot you may have to eat if times get hard.

Due to the woody nature of the forum I'd think a beaver would have to be to mascot and it we had a FF bird I'd select a Pileated woodpecker. Maybe an honorable mention to a porcupine.
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: coxy on April 17, 2015, 07:04:24 PM
you put a goat in a field of hardhack it eats it and poops out wood pellets  :laugh: :)
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: thecfarm on April 17, 2015, 09:24:31 PM
goat,porcupine,just about the same thing when it comes to eating.  ;D
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: PC-Urban-Sawyer on April 19, 2015, 01:20:44 PM
Quote from: thecfarm on April 17, 2015, 09:24:31 PM
goat,porcupine,just about the same thing when it comes to eating.  ;D

Seems to me a porcupine would be quite a bit tougher to clean and butcher than a goat...

Herb
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: WV Sawmiller on April 19, 2015, 05:35:59 PM
We don't have porcupines here. Saw my first one last year on a trip to Maine - a road kill. (I still wonder if he flattened the tires of the car that hit him.) They are big.

Of course they are ill tempered. Mating and giving birth has to be a real trick. I'd be chewing trees too.
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: Shotgun on April 19, 2015, 05:53:14 PM
Quote from: WV Sawmiller on April 19, 2015, 05:35:59 PM
We don't have porcupines here. Saw my first one last year on a trip to Maine - a road kill. (I still wonder if he flattened the tires of the car that hit him.) They are big.

Of course they are ill tempered. Mating and giving birth has to be a real trick. I'd be chewing trees too.


I really wouldn't call porcupines "ill tempered." I've been around a lot of them, and have never seen an ill tempered one. They flip their tail around a bit, but the tail is pretty short. They will turn their back on you, but I guess that's understandable.
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: Den Socling on April 19, 2015, 06:36:51 PM
Porcupines are not aggressive at all. One time we were camping with our kids who were small at the time. Jessica went to the woods to relieve herself. She came back yelling that there was a giant porcupine. We went to investigate and found a little porcupine and laughed. Then we saw the big mother porcupine. No agression.

Another time we were camping in the same spot along Pine Creek. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Creek_%28Pennsylvania%29
Up from the creek came a whole troop of porcupines in single file. They walked right through our camp without saying a word.  :D
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: Den Socling on April 19, 2015, 07:02:30 PM
BTW I think that a Pileated Woodpecker would be about right.
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: jueston on April 21, 2015, 09:58:05 AM
and all this time i thought that pesky goat thats always hanging around was our mascot....  :) :D
Title: Re: mascot
Post by: goose63 on April 21, 2015, 10:39:10 AM
I think he hid him self to many rubber bans round here