On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:53:01 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:01:33 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:16:02 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
wrote:

Or any other ideas?

Yes. Have the power company contractor trim the trees or you can cut
them down. Tree rats only jump so far!

The rats can climb the power pole and get on the wire. There are no
trees near any of our power lines but you still see a rat up there,
the bushy tailed ones and the slick tailed ones.,

The only way to keep them out of the house is to plug up all the
holes.

If there are no trees near the pole, apply a metal cone type thing on
the pole. Make one, or I think they can be boughten to keep squirrels
off bird feeders. Greasing the pole miht help too. Of course if they
climb another pole that wont work.

As much as I hate rats, I'd say to expose some of the hot wires and
watch them fry, but thats dangerous for you to do and could cause a
power outage. I do like the idea if a tube over the wires, which rotates
and the damn rat may fall to it's death. (hopefully).
piece of 1.5 or 2" PVC pipe would work. Cut a foot or so piece, but it
in half (the long way). Then put it over the wires and tape the halves
back together.