[lobsterman]

 

[archerynutNB]

looks like "Huckleberry Finns" Raft!!

.....Must have drifted all the way from the mississippi?....Might be worth something!

 

[Sako]

My guess would be the base for some kind of duck blind. Huck Finn's raft is okay with me, though.

 

[Hunttoomuch]

Looks like something you would see at "Fiddlers on the Tobique"

 

[lobsterman]

I've seen two of these, or the same one twice, while atving up around Campbellton and I've only been there twice.
It's in a little pond.

I'm stumped!

 

[Halftail]

I can't really tell how big it is.Maybe a float for beaver or muskrats?

 

[Winchester]

My guess would be something thrown together for duck hunting

 

[lobsterman]

Keep in mind this is just a little beaver pond, if that helps yas any.

 

[Winchester]

Strange. It looks like a seat on it and a long pole on the far side behind the "seat" for pushing it around in the water? Maybe it was built to get out in the water to set the beaver traps away from shore?

 

[bushslayer]

well everyone knows those beavers are pretty talented engineerrrrsssss...
ive just ended a 2 month battle with the beavers on a culvurt on my woodlot road.... must say i won the war though... after removing the dam 3 times a week for that period, and waiting for them to come out never once saw one beaver... finally i put some engineering brains of myself to use and i cut down every alder i could anywheres close... no material no dam. They havent come close to that culvurt for 2 weeks now

 

[Bull's eye]

I'll take an educated guess here, looks like a floating musk rat trap. My dad used to trap with one of those, anchored to the bottom, the rats enter the feeding cage, then fall in to the submerged trap cage, unable to come back up (there is a one way hinged flap on the floor of the trap), they drown and the trap stays active. Pretty ingenious design if you ask me, a local trapper in Bathurst catches well over a thousand of those critters every year with such a contraption. Carrots and potato skins are great attractors for such a trap.

Hope this helps...

 

[lobsterman]

Sounds good to me.
I was thinking the same kinda thing, only for otters and maybe mink.

 

[Bull's eye]

The top box (shown on the right) could certainly have an open end with a 110 or 120 conibear, looks to be the right dimensions for a dry set.

Funny contraption for sure, I'll ask my ol'man.

 

[Mister November]

maybe that is where he sits...and keeps his feet warm out of the wind(the little box)?
lmao

 

[Bull's eye]

LOL!!!

 

[timberwolfshere]

Raft with two seats,see the pushpole on the side.

 

[lobsterman]

Sure it looks like a raft, but the entire body of water was about the size of a bungalow. Why would anyone need a raft there?

 

[daveyn]

Sure it looks like a raft, but the entire body of water was about the size of a bungalow. Why would anyone need a raft there?

because putting a motor boat in that little pond would be just silly.