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Paul from MI · Apr 24, 2014

Not exactly tractor related, but kinda is. I have a bolt cabinet in my pole barn where I restore my tractors. It is an old IBM cabinet originally built for punch cards. Very well built and works great, except that during the winter the darn mice will build a nest in one or two drawers and travel thru the rest, leaving their usual evidence. Does anyone have a sure fire method of keeping the little guys out? I use mothballs in my combine and grain drill, but not much success with my bolt cabinet.

Royse · Apr 24, 2014

Don't know if it's sure fire or not, but I've heard that peppermint
oil on cotton balls keep them away. I've been putting them in my
old truck for the past three years (on a metal lid so it doesn't stain)
and I haven't seen any evidence of mice in the truck or wiring.
It's at least cheap to try and available at Meijer.

M w J · Apr 24, 2014

Black pepper works great.

mattwillson · Apr 24, 2014

peppermint extract seems to work rather well, has a good hang time between applications.

redforlife · Apr 24, 2014

Mice are very destructive and nasty in a building. If they get to chewing off wires on your equipment in that building, your going to wish they weren't in ther at all, and not just staying out of your bolt bin. I suggest poison. I use the nail down stuff you can get for rats. Takes care of mice too. I take 2X4's about a foot and a half long. Nail on 2 pieces of poison on each end. Place in a areas where rats and mice are likely to travel. Under a work bench or a cabinet. Check on it on occasion, and pull nail and add poison as needed. Have pretty good luck keeping a building rat & mice free as long as you not run out of poison. If you do run out for a length of time, it don't take long to get over run with them again.

M w J · Apr 24, 2014

Our shed we keep combines in got about 1.5 pounds of pepper spread around on the dirt floor and we have seen no sign of mice in that shed but the other shed with trucks in and bated all around and we still had mice in a truck

redforlife · Apr 24, 2014

I have noticed that the bate you get in those little paper bags that ya throw around don't work very well. This rat stuff that I use, they make 3 different kinds of it. I asked why, and whats the difference one day. The guy at the store told me that your suppose to use one for awhile, then another, then the other and start back over. He said they will get where they won't eat it anymore, or as much, and they will build up a resistance to it if useing the same all the time. They don't make the poisons as good as they once did, like everything else. So I change it around, and what I use works fine. But ya, that bagged mouse bate doesn't seem to work very good from the git go.

GregCO · Apr 24, 2014

If you don't mind having a dozen barn cats running the place they seem to work good.

Greg

Scott-SD · Apr 24, 2014

I haven't tried it, but there was something called "cab fresh mice repellent". Either TSC or campbells newspaper ad I seen one time.

farmerwithmutt · Apr 25, 2014

When i put bait out i use old stinky gloves was told that mice can pick up the human smell on bait then they avoid the bait

Robin Hood · Apr 25, 2014

I've used moth balls for years in all kinds of places. It does work.

rick deere · Apr 25, 2014

use black paint and paint a cicle on the basboard or close to the floor they will think its a whole and run in to it knock themselves out than you get the 10ib sleg hammer and mash them while there out they never know what hit them.

RMinVa · Apr 25, 2014

Had trouble with mice getting in the cab and building a nest on top of the engine on my tractor. I had an old plastic tool box I used to keep supplies for working cattle in. I drilled 2 holes near the bottom of the box about 1.5in. dia. Then put Just One Bite cubes in the box and set it beside the tractor under the shed. Took about 5 days to kill them all.

I keep the top latched on the box and don't have to bother about dogs or cats getting to the bait. Kill out what's at the shed and then moved the box the the next shed. It has worked well so far.

NNP · Apr 25, 2014

tried most ways of keeping them away over the years,
always go back to poison and old fashioned spring traps.
I put poison out until it stays full.
Sure, a little smelly when they die someplace hidden, but it doesn't last that long.
Spring traps, I use a LOT of and treat them just like a real trapline.
Walk the trapline every morning, dispose and reset.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 25, 2014

I tried mothballs once in tractors and trucks. The only thing it kept out was me. I think they thrived on them.

Steve@Advance · Apr 25, 2014

Screen wire and metal weather striping.

jwmfarms · Apr 25, 2014

Calling that bait bar Just One Bite should be considered false advertising. We had a box of those sitting on the shelf. Walked by the aisle where the shelf was and heard a distinctive sound, the kind mice make when gnawing on something. Went to get a bar to put out, and found a mouse in the box. Over a period of time HALF of a bar had been eaten. Mouse jumped out of the box, and never looked back. We never did find or smell a dead mouse. Went back to traps.

RESLLS · Apr 25, 2014

I know Irish Spring soap keeps them out of drawers
and linen closets at the vacation house. My GSP is
pretty good at catching them and chippy too.

kennytractor · Apr 25, 2014

Grandpa used bull snakes. They didn't work. he had a shed full of mice and snakes!!!!

Hal/ Eastern WA · Apr 25, 2014

I use D-con in my garage. A new package a couple of times a year. Works for me.

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