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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Ok...so how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

T.

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Don Orr

The same amount as pecks of pickled peppers Peter Piper can pick.

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Jim Rutten

A woodchuck would chuck whatever a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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The Answer!

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

No Golden Uni this week.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

About 700 pounds. Compared to beavers, groundhogs/woodchucks are not adept at moving timber, although some will chew wood. (At Cornell, woodchucks that gnaw their wooden nest boxes are given scraps of 2-by-4 lumber.) A wildlife biologist once measured the inside volume of a typical woodchuck burrow and estimated that -- if wood filled the hole instead of dirt -- the industrious animal would have chucked about 700 pounds' worth.

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