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FBH44 · Sep 29, 2015

I can see areas in various mowers . tractors, with exposed wiring, that I can see, I just cannot get to. Cannot get to to put in plastic conduit, or too difficult to remove and re-do. Anybody ever reach in and wrap wiring with segments of heavy-duty Reynolds wrap aluminum wrap?? Little stinkers wouldnn't chew thru that, would they??

Greg K · Sep 29, 2015

Ummm, aluminum is not an insulator but a conductor. You'll throw sparks if you wrap it in aluminum. They make some spray on rubberized coatings maybe a person could spray some of that in there?

rustyfarmall · Sep 29, 2015

Unfortunately yes, they will chew through aluminum foil. Best bet is to scatter plenty of bait chunks around the shed. Strategically placed moth balls will also discourage them.

Billy Shafer · Sep 29, 2015

Yes they would.I have spent hours trying to rat proof. Generator sets. They always got in.I think they carry wire cutters and torches. Best I found was rat bait.

Kenneth Ronald Ohnstad · Sep 29, 2015

I've heard that mice don't like the 'Great Stuff' spray insulation.

Eric in IL · Sep 29, 2015

If any of this equipment is headed for storage, removal of any shields or covers that will let light in will help. Mice don't like light or open areas.

Donald Lehman · Sep 29, 2015

Yeah, they will chew though aluminum foil. Plain old mouse traps and baits is about the only way to get rid of them.

01gentdc · Sep 29, 2015

wake up!! ,, aluminum foil around wires that are a target for vermin is a accident looking for a place to happen ,, you could drape the wires with that foamy yellow crud in a can

Tx Jim · Sep 29, 2015

Mice don't like smell of peppermint oil which can be utilized as a deterrent.

4520BW · Sep 29, 2015

I have used moth balls for years with good luck but last two years the critters have been in my combine cab.Maybe the EPA and PETA changed the formula so it would not harm moths and mice?

wd9garymn · Sep 29, 2015

Bounce clothes dryer sheets tucked in areas where mice can hide keeps them out for me.

Ken Macfarlane · Sep 29, 2015

They might not like it but they don't mind chewing it.

Blackhole49 · Sep 29, 2015

I have had very good luck with mothballs in an open dish for my cars and boats. They are covered though. Also, the 5 gallon pail mouse trap works pretty well for mice. I can't seem to do anything but feed the chipmunks with it though.

da.bees · Sep 29, 2015

I have good results "rehomeing" snakes to rat/mice infested areas. There are easily overlooked benifits of releasing harmless snakes around an area. Many harmless snakes are preditors to poisonous snakes. And it's been proven that rattlers will set up shop near high rodent populations. Don't know if it's benificial to heart health but an unexpected incounter with a "chicken snake"can really increase heart rate for a few secounds. I recently gave instructions on constructing an electrocuting rat trap for use in certain types buildings,courous if anyone has tried one yet.

ACSam · Sep 29, 2015

I have 2 small sheds and had mice in one. I put out d con poison, the green pellet type. Next day the container was empty so I put out another, Same thing again next day gone. Thinking I had taken care of the problem, I didn't think about it any more. About 2 weeks later I was in the other shed and needed something out of a rarely opened tool box. Imagine my surprize when I found a good sized pile of the green pellets in the top tray area. They took it from one shed and put in the other shed.
I use cheap hairspray on small engines. Apply to a cold engine and don't run till at least next day. Seems to work keeping mice out. Just a lite coat. I spray on the wiring any where I can reach.

37chief · Sep 29, 2015

Here in California the poison has been detuned so much it hardly kills anything anymore. I do find a rat, or mouse dead from the poison, but not like in the past. Years ago I could get some good stuff from the county. I think people were throwing it around like chicken feed, and it was killing every thing that ate it. so the county stopped selling it. I have tried a bucket water trap, but my mice are too smart to go for the peanut butter on a revolving can over a bucket of water. I think if my chickens go, so will the mice. Where I have my tractors there is not a feed source, so I don't have mice or rat problems. Stan

Deutz Lover · Sep 29, 2015

One thing I noticed over the years. They are much more likely to chew on something where a human hand has been. They do have to chew because their teeth are continually growing, but I think they like salt from sweaty hands etc. I think the snakes are a good idea, maybe some old pieces of rubber covered with salt and then poison or put some coated pieces around the poison chunks.
They actually chewed about 1/4 of the plastic wheels off of one of my push type fertilizer spreaders like a pie wedge.

They also chewed up the wiring inside the body of my Murray riding mower three times. ##4@@$5!^^5&=----it!

jeffcat · Sep 29, 2015

I have put this on a couple of times. Mouse traps work really well but here is what I do. Peanut butter as everyone knows. Next is the Goober stuff. Peanut butter and grape jelly. Now this has worked the best for me. Now this works even better,peanut butter and a sprinkle of DinoVite. Yep the product for your cats and the other for your dogs. I have the cat stuff and what you do is sprinkle a pinch on the peanut butter on the trap's trigger. The mice are drawn like a moth to a flame! Used it this past winter and nailed nine mice in like three days. After that, no more mice.
No kidding, give it a shot!

Deutz Lover · Sep 29, 2015

you might try a test piece with some extremely hot sauce on it. Mammals can taste it, but birds can't. Anybody got any ghost peppers? Maybe some kind of spray without any salt in it.

CIA used to use it on their dead drops (literally in this case a
dead rat etc.) to keep mammalian scavengers away.

I was also wondering if powdered sulfur around vehicles would deter them. They get it on their feet and have to lick it off when grooming. They used to use it for rats with ground glass or some kind of itching compound and strychnine sprinkled on their paths when they got wise to traps and poison bait quickly.

Deutz Lover · Sep 29, 2015

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you might try a test piece with some extremely hot sauce on it. Mammals can taste it, but birds can't. Anybody got any ghost sprinkled on their paths when they got wise to traps and poison bait quickly.

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