pesky varmints

steve19438

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if I didn't like watching them cavort about in the back yard so much I would turn my son loose with my .410.
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Your son cavorting around with a 410 would be just as much fun. Especially when they kinda bust into pieces. In the immortal words of General Custer 'the only good squirrel is a dead squirrel'.... or somthin like that.
The first Huntsman I ... ran into?? was as big as a dinner plate... and the web bounced me back... now THAT was a spider.
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I have had some success keeping varmints away with a drop or two of peppermint oil placed on cotton balls and placed around in the shop and tool shed areas.

apparently mice and snakes do not like the smell of it.

I have also spread moth balls around, again must be the smell, so far no squirrels in the barns, but I also have about 5 old barn cats roaming around just waiting for a squirrel to get to close to the ground. I see them eating a squirrel dinner from time to time.

I also have raccoons and possums, if you live in the woods where they live, they come around looking for food,
 
one year I stored my spray rig out by the woods line
the next spring, most all the plastic elbows had been eaten through like your battery.

I ask around why would squirrels eat plastic, someone told me that squirrels have to keep eating or using their teeth in order to keep their front teeth down to proper size, if not the teeth would grow to the point they could not eat.

do not know if that is true, but I moved my spray rig out into an open area in my small orchard, so far, many years now, no more squirrel damage.

squirrels are a pain in the rear, but then again I moved into their homeland, a large woods lot full of hickory and oak trees, both food sources for the squirrels, we have learned to live together over the years.

what I have not learned to live peaceable with are the raccoons and possums, now they are destructive animals.
 

You can watch them cavort around your yard all you want but wait till they start chewing up your wiring.

Critters haven't bothered my tractors too much but I did have one eat the wiring to my O2 sensor on a Dodge Grand Caravan. It was in such a bad place that I had to take it to the Dodge agency to have them fix it.

However, I did find out one good thing. Honda makes an anti rodent tape. This stuff contains capsaizin or something that rodents won't chew on. I had them wrap the wires with that stuff and no problems for the last three years.

It's kind of expensive but it works. You can find it on Ebay.

"Honda Rodent Tape"

I had squirrels eat three sets of ignition wires out of a Toyota Carolla. I didn't know about the tape back then. I finally used clear plastic tubing and slit it lengthwise and slipped it over the wires to protect them. That stopped the problem.
 
"Honda Rodent Tape"

Honda, Toyota, and possibly other car manufacturers started using an "environmentally friendly" soy based insulation on the wiring. Seems that the critters like the soy and eat the wires. As a stop gap measure, Honda came out with the tape. A class-action lawsuit was filed in 2016 seeking damages from Honda, alleging that they knew about the problem because they were selling the tape.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/aut...g-covers-irresistible-rodents-lawsuit-n504746

Newer Volvo and Mazda cars also have soy coated wiring. (This link may take a bit to load, wait about 10~15 seconds for the ad to finish then you can read the article.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michae...-give-rodents-plenty-to-chew-on/#680a9191780a
BillL
 

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