"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:52:33 -0700, "Steve B"
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6" leach field pipe? I have some 4", but need a piece of light 6" for a
squirrel trap. Haven't seen it at Lowe's or HD.

Gotta be leach field? Ya mean the plastic stuff with holes in the
bottom- or the old clay tiles? I've got a couple pieces of the clay.
Drop by [I'm in NYg] and I'll trade you for a welding lesson.

Try a culvert place to see if they've got some scraps? Last time I
dropped by mine they were happy to part with a bunch of 8" plastic
that was busted up.

Where's the trap plans? I'm always looking for new ways to automate
my squirrel/chipmunk population control.

Jim

We get rock squirrels here. Huge *******s. Stripped two of my almond
trees. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.

Going to take a big plastic barrel with no top. Cut a piece of pipe about
2x the diameter of the barrel. Make it so that it balances half on the
barrel, half sticking out at a right angle. Put a stop on the end over the
barrel so that it cannot flip up, only down. Cut said pipe down a little
into the barrel so that as it tips down, the inside of the edge of the
barrel will keep Mr. Squirrel from running out that end. Balance it exactly
so that it always returns to horizontal, hitting the stop above it. Put a
limb diagonal up to the entry of the pipe. Slather the inside with peanut
butter. Mr. Squirrel goes in, the end of the pipe rests against the upper
stop above the end, making it feel solid. And once past center, his weight
causes the pipe to tip vertical, dumping him into water that is squirrel
deep plus six inches. Inside of pipe must be slick, as inside of
white/black sewer pipe is, so he can't get any traction to run out. I think
when it tips, it will dump him so fast that he won't have time to run out,
and they weigh like three pounds, so he should drop pretty fast. He'll also
be headed downhill, so will take him a bit to turn around. Considered the
4" so that he couldn't turn around, but would have to test to see if they
will enter that small a pipe.

I was going to mount the thing like those little buckets on water features
that fill with water, then tip over to drain all the water, so that when
deceased smelly squirrel needs disposal, I shall just fill up with water,
and it will dump over canyon wall, where it will be located. Will also have
one under apple tree, current main squirrel target.

I have neighbors waiting for me to make and test these. BIG problem with
these around here. I can become rich if this works. Will post pictures on
flickr of construction, testing, and results.

;-)

Steve

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