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Keeping MICE out of equipment???
Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how
to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. |
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Mothballs are somewhat effective. Put some fresh ones inside the cases
during migration season. Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak"
wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his ..357. ;-) Wayne |
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"Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A hard-working cat can help, but the best thing for equipment (ie, places to hide from the cat in) is tiny-mesh hardware cloth covering up all the openings. If you also tighten up the building with hardware cloth and polyurethane foam that provides another level of slowing them down, and keeps the building a bit warmer as a side effect. Cleaning up as much other clutter (mouse hiding places and nesting supplies) as possible will also help. Mothballs deter some, don't seem to bother others. Poison gets some, doesn't seem to bother others. Sticky traps and ye-olde mechanical traps nail the ones that get into them. I don't even bother to bait mechanical traps anymore - just set them in the corner of wall and floor where the beasties run. Etc... -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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Try putting some mothballs inside. Only problem is that the
fumes of some of the mothballs will attack some plastices [styrene] On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. |
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In article , Waynemak says...
Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. Gunner would ship you a couple of cats for a very minimal fee.... Jim -- ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at pkmfgvm4 (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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"Ignoramus26924" wrote:
Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. I have used poison to keep mice out of my shed that houses my hens and their feed. The problem with that is whatever might eat the mouse gets sick. Cats, dogs, birds, all of them are known to eat dead mice, and don't deserve the poison meal. Jon |
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"Waynemak" wrote in message ... Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. Hi Wayne, Try here http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/...ent.html#rp110 My brother in law swears by the plug in trap that emits a high pitched squeel that can't be heard of by the human ear. He used it in his quonset to keep mice out of his combine and tractor. I also park our motorhome in this building and have has no mice in it since he started using it.( we had a few perviouse years). I respectfully disagree with the other posters saying to use poison as mice will pick some of the damndest places to die...then you have you have the smell and a body to look for. Traps are good as the trap would "Anchor" them so you can at least find them to dispose them. I reccomend a combination of traps and this squeel emitter seen at that link. I see that the link is in the UK as all I did was google searched pest control...I know they can be bought in the States and Canada with a better search... Hope that was of some help....Jim |
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wmbjk wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his .357. ;-) Wayne That is one *mean* looking bug! Where do they live? I don't want to go there. Ready-made B horror flick monster. -- Fred R ________________ Drop TROU to email. |
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"Ignoramus26924" wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote: "Ignoramus26924" wrote: Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. I have used poison to keep mice out of my shed that houses my hens and their feed. The problem with that is whatever might eat the mouse gets sick. Cats, dogs, birds, all of them are known to eat dead mice, and don't deserve the poison meal. That thought never occurred to me, but I must say that I have yet to see a stray dog or cat wandering around my yard. I will keep this in mind and think about it a little more. The poisoned mouse can travel a ways farther than your property before it dies. Jon |
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I have been battling mice in my house for 30+ years. I haven't used
poison 'cause I didn't want them dying in the walls and smelling. Spring traps are OK, but I don't like handling the dead ones and resetting the traps. Last year I found the most effective trap so far, it might have been here, I can't remember. Anyhow, it is a 5 gallon bucket with a rod (3/16" +-) across the top, through a hole on each side. On the rod is a plastic bottle (2" diam +-), the rod through a hole in it's cap and bottom. I.e., the rod is through the bottle's axis. There is a ramp (1 x 1 +-) on the outboard end of the rod, down to the ground. Peanut butter is smeared on the bottle and water is added to the bucket, a few inches deep. The mice go up the ramp, step onto the bottle for the peanut butter. The bottle rotates and dumps them in the water where they drown. The water & mice are dumped in the toilet for disposal. One nice feature is that it doesn't have to be reset to catch more mice. I once had 12 in it when I didn't check for a week. HTH Bob |
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Downy sheets. Several boaters around here have this issue with
critters every time this part of the year. Started putting downy sheets in the various nooks and crannies and haven't seen any mice since. "Old school" mothballs used to work pretty effectively, but I think the formulation has changed as that doesn't seem to be as effective anymore. JW |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:06:04 GMT, Fred R "spam
wrote: wmbjk wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his .357. ;-) Wayne That is one *mean* looking bug! Where do they live? I don't want to go there. Ready-made B horror flick monster. You're not kidding. We have those around here though not many thank goodness. It's one of the few things that'll make me jumpy. You would be especially jumpy if you've ever seen how fast one of those things can move. I once emptied a shotgun into one at point blank range when one popped out while I was reaching for a dove I'd shot. It didn't even phase the centipede but it made a pretty good sized hole in the ground. I can take rattle snakes ok (I do get into a real heightened awareness mode when ones around) and most anything else won't even phase me. Wasps, spiders, and anything like that don't bother me in the least. But those large centipedes really put the fear in me. Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm |
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I wrote: If you also tighten up the building with hardware cloth and polyurethane foam that provides another level of slowing them down, and keeps the building a bit warmer as a side effect. Cleaning up as much other clutter (mouse hiding places and nesting supplies) as possible will also help. Ignoramus26924 wrote: mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... That's why you put hardware cloth in place before foaming. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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Ignoramus26924 wrote:
mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i Hmmm ... sprinkle some metal chips on the foam as it sets? The stuff has certainly damaged me often enough. Might as well use what ya' got! -- Fred R ________________ Drop TROU to email. |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:22:32 GMT, Fred R "spam wrote:
Ignoramus26924 wrote: mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i Hmmm ... sprinkle some metal chips on the foam as it sets? The stuff has certainly damaged me often enough. Might as well use what ya' got! Steel wool with Great Stuff seems to work for me. |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:23:32 GMT, Ignoramus26924
wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:22:32 GMT, Fred R "spam wrote: Ignoramus26924 wrote: mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i Hmmm ... sprinkle some metal chips on the foam as it sets? The stuff has certainly damaged me often enough. Might as well use what ya' got! I have a mouse hole to patch up, and I will use broken glass instead of chips. Maybe I will do it today. i I've been killing lots of mice the last few days. My shop has become infested. Mouse traps are, to me, the best solution to mice already in the shop because they kill fast. I like the idea of hardware cloth in the foam. But dislike the idea of broken glass. I think the broken glass would deter the mice by slowly killing them from the cuts they would recieve. That seems cruel to me. Better to kill them fast if they must be killed. Eric |
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The problem with that is whatever might eat the mouse gets sick. Cats,
dogs, birds, all of them are known to eat dead mice, and don't deserve the poison meal. And I don't deserve the $1100 bill I jsut had on my car for their close relatives, the chipmunks - eating the wiring harness and destorying the internal computer. The adjuster is decising whether I need the $1100 repair or a whole new harness which puts it dangerously close to being totaled... When poisioned, they go to their den and bleed out then die. If your cat, dog or bird goes into mice dens, they will get sick. But I will not lose thousands of dollars because of unsecured dogs or cats and the birds won't go extinct because of my small efforts. -- Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022 (908) 542-0244 Automatic / Pneumatic Drills: http://www.AutoDrill.com Multiple Spindle Drills: http://www.Multi-Drill.com V8013-R |
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Jon Danniken wrote:
"Ignoramus26924" wrote: That thought never occurred to me, but I must say that I have yet to see a stray dog or cat wandering around my yard. I will keep this in mind and think about it a little more. The poisoned mouse can travel a ways farther than your property before it dies. T'is true. Our family dog nearly died after eating a poisoned rat in our backyard. The next door neighbour's dogs were both very sick (bit rats but didn't eat them). It was the neighbour beyond them that poisoned the rats. About 100 meters away. All yards are fenced, so it was the rat that staggered into our yard, not our dog going into their yard. Incidentally, if you suspect your pet has been poisoned with rodent bait, immediately remove all sources of food and water, and get them to the vet ASAP. -- __ Pete Snell Royal Military College Kingston Ontario The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw ------------ And now a word from our sponsor --------------------- For a secure high performance FTP using SSL/TLS encryption upgrade to SurgeFTP ---- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_surgeftp.htm ---- |
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Waynemak wrote:
Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A cat. When we first moved to the Okanagan from North Vancouver, our cat stayed behind with my son who was living in the house. That year I trapped 23 mice in the cabin. (We have a cabin on the property where we were/are building our new home.) When the house sold we brought the cat up here. Never saw anything more of mice except a very occasional tail out on the porch. BTW, females are generally better hunters than males. Ted |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:06:04 GMT, Fred R "spam
wrote: wmbjk wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his .357. ;-) Wayne That is one *mean* looking bug! Where do they live? I don't want to go there. Ready-made B horror flick monster. Northwest Arizona. I don't see them often, and when I do they're just trying to get back under whatever I moved that exposed them. The creepiness of the centipedes got me thinking... real estate prices here are rising quickly, which probably means I could end up with more human neighbors than I'd like. There's not much I can do about it, except this - http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/frightnight.htm EG Wayne |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:50:26 GMT, Ignoramus26924
wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:35:16 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:23:32 GMT, Ignoramus26924 wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:22:32 GMT, Fred R "spam wrote: Ignoramus26924 wrote: mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i Hmmm ... sprinkle some metal chips on the foam as it sets? The stuff has certainly damaged me often enough. Might as well use what ya' got! I have a mouse hole to patch up, and I will use broken glass instead of chips. Maybe I will do it today. i I've been killing lots of mice the last few days. My shop has become infested. Mouse traps are, to me, the best solution to mice already in the shop because they kill fast. I like the idea of hardware cloth in the foam. But dislike the idea of broken glass. I think the broken glass would deter the mice by slowly killing them from the cuts they would recieve. That seems cruel to me. Better to kill them fast if they must be killed. Eric I doubt that the mice are so stupid as to continue trying to chew their way through broken glass. That would be counterintuitive. i That's why they walk past a dead mouse in a mouse trap and try to eat the bait in the trap next to it. ERS |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:27:44 GMT, Ted Edwards
wrote: Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A cat. When we first moved to the Okanagan from North Vancouver, our cat stayed behind with my son who was living in the house. That year I trapped 23 mice in the cabin. (We have a cabin on the property where we were/are building our new home.) When the house sold we brought the cat up here. Never saw anything more of mice except a very occasional tail out on the porch. BTW, females are generally better hunters than males. Ted As are well fed cats. They will catch many more when they have plenty of energy to burn. ERS |
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"Ted Edwards" wrote in message
news:klFYe.301665$on1.161052@clgrps13... | Waynemak wrote: | Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how | to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything | else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. | | A cat. When we first moved to the Okanagan from North Vancouver, our | cat stayed behind with my son who was living in the house. That year I | trapped 23 mice in the cabin. (We have a cabin on the property where we | were/are building our new home.) When the house sold we brought the cat | up here. Never saw anything more of mice except a very occasional tail | out on the porch. BTW, females are generally better hunters than males. | | Ted I second that. When we were kids we always had cats, so I didn't realize there was an ulterior motive. As we got older, my mother managed to keep a couple stray, mostly feral cats around the place (my brother hated them, so when the last one died on the road, my mother was convinced he had something to do with it. Being that I was the one with the shovel, I kinda doubted that he could catch that damn thing whether he wanted to or not!) and there was always zero rats. The only thing that was ever annoying was that the best rat catcher would always go to one spot in the store room to enjoy its kill, so when I cleaned out the store room a few years ago, the pile of dried carcasses and half skeletons made for a lovely smell in the Texas heat! Go to the pound and find the wildest two or three you can find. Feed them well with cat food and some reasonably fresh meat and keep 'em in big cages or locked in a room for a few days. Then let them go, but make sure that they always have a bowl of food that's safe from raccoons and whatever but never full enough to satisfy them. Water should be plentiful, though. They will be afraid of you and steer clear, so as long as you see them around every now and then you'll be fine. Then again, Boeing put up some cats in their aircraft assembly plants to keep the rodents down. The cats grew so happy and enjoyed the place so much they multiplied like crazy. Then cats became more of a problem than the rodents! Like mentioned before, keeping them all female helps, providing you can keep other cats from making it in for a late night dip with the pussy (pun intended) population. |
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In article , wmbjk says...
What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg Those are mean. My dad had a display setup in his office, with millipedes, tarantulas, and some *large* south african centipedes. He would handle any of them to show them off to vistors, except the centipedes. Those were handled with long, long forceps. They move unbelieveably fast, and have terrific venom. They are remarkably strong, tough, and flexible. They can put a serious world of hurt on small adults and children. Basically highly evolved killing machines. Jim -- ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at pkmfgvm4 (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:53:25 -0600, "Jim & Lil"
wrote: "Waynemak" wrote in message ... Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. Hi Wayne, Try here http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/...ent.html#rp110 My brother in law swears by the plug in trap that emits a high pitched squeel that can't be heard of by the human ear. He used it in his quonset to keep mice out of his combine and tractor. I also park our motorhome in this building and have has no mice in it since he started using it.( we had a few perviouse years). I respectfully disagree with the other posters saying to use poison as mice will pick some of the damndest places to die...then you have you have the smell and a body to look for. Traps are good as the trap would "Anchor" them so you can at least find them to dispose them. I reccomend a combination of traps and this squeel emitter seen at that link. I see that the link is in the UK as all I did was google searched pest control...I know they can be bought in the States and Canada with a better search... Hope that was of some help....Jim An installer of commercial alarm systems told me, back in 1966, that any location in which he had installed an ultrasonic motion detector, never had a mouse problem thereafter. Hearsay evidence only, I have never tried this myself. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On 22 Sep 2005 09:25:01 -0700, "jw" wrote:
Downy sheets. Several boaters around here have this issue with critters every time this part of the year. Started putting downy sheets in the various nooks and crannies and haven't seen any mice since. "Old school" mothballs used to work pretty effectively, but I think the formulation has changed as that doesn't seem to be as effective anymore. JW Don't know about mice, but about every five years, skunks take up residence under the back shed; I toss in a dozen mothballs and they relocate under the neighbour's shed who then calls in the wildlife control guy two doors further along. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:27:44 GMT, Ted Edwards
wrote: Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A cat. When we first moved to the Okanagan from North Vancouver, our cat stayed behind with my son who was living in the house. That year I trapped 23 mice in the cabin. (We have a cabin on the property where we were/are building our new home.) When the house sold we brought the cat up here. Never saw anything more of mice except a very occasional tail out on the porch. BTW, females are generally better hunters than males. Ted Especially if they have kittens about a month old. This is how the summer residents of Pelee Island used to open their cottages for the summer. Every winter the year round residents organized cat hunts to protect their Pheasant industry. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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I was told three colour cats make the best mousers. It turns out that
three colour cats are always female except to the rare sterile hybrid/male. Randy "Ted Edwards" wrote in message news:klFYe.301665$on1.161052@clgrps13... A cat. When we first moved to the Okanagan from North Vancouver, our cat stayed behind with my son who was living in the house. That year I trapped 23 mice in the cabin. (We have a cabin on the property where we were/are building our new home.) When the house sold we brought the cat up here. Never saw anything more of mice except a very occasional tail out on the porch. BTW, females are generally better hunters than males. Ted |
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Ignoramus26924 wrote:
I have a mouse hole to patch up, and I will use broken glass instead of chips. Maybe I will do it today. Reminds me of the joke my dad told about the girls talking about how their dads got rid of rats. Several talked about poison and traps etc. whaen one said her dad pounds glass in their holes. One (the blond) said who holds them? Well it was funny to me about 60 yrs ago. ...lew... |
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Bob Engelhardt wrote:
I have been battling mice in my house for 30+ years. I haven't used poison 'cause I didn't want them dying in the walls and smelling. Spring traps are OK, but I don't like handling the dead ones and resetting the traps. Last year I found the most effective trap so far, it might have been here, I can't remember. Anyhow, it is a 5 gallon bucket with a rod (3/16" +-) across the top, through a hole on each side. On the rod is a plastic bottle (2" diam +-), the rod through a hole in it's cap and bottom. I.e., the rod is through the bottle's axis. There is a ramp (1 x 1 +-) on the outboard end of the rod, down to the ground. Peanut butter is smeared on the bottle and water is added to the bucket, a few inches deep. The mice go up the ramp, step onto the bottle for the peanut butter. The bottle rotates and dumps them in the water where they drown. The water & mice are dumped in the toilet for disposal. One nice feature is that it doesn't have to be reset to catch more mice. I once had 12 in it when I didn't check for a week. HTH Bob Dunno if I posted that one here or not, but I have been using the same rig for a few years now and with good results. In the winter (so this really is selectivly applicable) I use an inch or so of antifreeze in the bucket. It will stay liquid and kills the mice very fast, between the temperature and the ingestion thereof. I place it where there is adequate access for the mice to climb beside the bucket and I have no critters loose in my shop. Had I creatures roaming, I expect the solution would be to form a largish plastic funnel for the victim to slide dowm to it's doom. The smaller opening would keep the interested out. We had great success with catching mice in large steel salad bowls that were used for the dogs' dishes. The mice would slide down the sides to get at the last crunbs of kibble, and when they tried to get out, all they could do was to scrabble up the sides 'till they lost traction. When they jumped, they could only go straight up, and landed back in the bowl. The most we got was three at once, pinging around like a furry pinball game. :-) Cheers Trevor Jones |
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Maybe nail mice hides up on the shop wall at mouse level - Seems to me that was done
with wolves and other varmints. Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder RoyJ wrote: Mothballs are somewhat effective. Put some fresh ones inside the cases during migration season. Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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That is one heavy duty centipede! - I thought I had some good sized in the Red wood forest.
Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder wmbjk wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his .357. ;-) Wayne ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Make a welcome to the neighborhood booklet :-)
Maybe prices will drop or houses vacant. New Shops! Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder wmbjk wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:06:04 GMT, Fred R "spam wrote: wmbjk wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. What you need is a herd of meat-eating centipedes. http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/images/mouse.jpg I emailed that photo to a friend of mine and he found it a bit disturbing. He thought the critter was dead. Then I told him that not only was it alive, it wouldn't let go of the mouse. My friend said that if it had appeared in *his* shop, he'd have gone straight for his .357. ;-) Wayne That is one *mean* looking bug! Where do they live? I don't want to go there. Ready-made B horror flick monster. Northwest Arizona. I don't see them often, and when I do they're just trying to get back under whatever I moved that exposed them. The creepiness of the centipedes got me thinking... real estate prices here are rising quickly, which probably means I could end up with more human neighbors than I'd like. There's not much I can do about it, except this - http://www.citlink.net/~wmbjk/frightnight.htm EG Wayne ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Just thought -
We all live under the view of overflying hawks, eagles, owls and the like. (we have to watch out for our little dog!) - So like slugs - put out plates of beer! The left over beer when you have to run the neighbor home because it is late... Or the ones that go flat... Maybe it will make them drunk - and just not think of what they are doing or not doing... Yell - here birdie a lot. Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Ignoramus26924 wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:35:16 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:23:32 GMT, Ignoramus26924 wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:22:32 GMT, Fred R "spam wrote: Ignoramus26924 wrote: mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i Hmmm ... sprinkle some metal chips on the foam as it sets? The stuff has certainly damaged me often enough. Might as well use what ya' got! I have a mouse hole to patch up, and I will use broken glass instead of chips. Maybe I will do it today. i I've been killing lots of mice the last few days. My shop has become infested. Mouse traps are, to me, the best solution to mice already in the shop because they kill fast. I like the idea of hardware cloth in the foam. But dislike the idea of broken glass. I think the broken glass would deter the mice by slowly killing them from the cuts they would recieve. That seems cruel to me. Better to kill them fast if they must be killed. Eric I doubt that the mice are so stupid as to continue trying to chew their way through broken glass. That would be counterintuitive. i ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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If traps are used - use peanut button and a tie wrap on the trip plate.
Make sure the peanut butter is over the whole mess - not to much - The mouse/rat will grab the wire and shake its head! - Every time. Martin [ no charge for a good method ] Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Jim & Lil wrote: "Waynemak" wrote in message ... Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. Hi Wayne, Try here http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/...ent.html#rp110 My brother in law swears by the plug in trap that emits a high pitched squeel that can't be heard of by the human ear. He used it in his quonset to keep mice out of his combine and tractor. I also park our motorhome in this building and have has no mice in it since he started using it.( we had a few perviouse years). I respectfully disagree with the other posters saying to use poison as mice will pick some of the damndest places to die...then you have you have the smell and a body to look for. Traps are good as the trap would "Anchor" them so you can at least find them to dispose them. I reccomend a combination of traps and this squeel emitter seen at that link. I see that the link is in the UK as all I did was google searched pest control...I know they can be bought in the States and Canada with a better search... Hope that was of some help....Jim ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Ignoramus26924 wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:26:50 GMT, Ecnerwal wrote: In article , "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A hard-working cat can help, but the best thing for equipment (ie, places to hide from the cat in) is tiny-mesh hardware cloth covering up all the openings. If you also tighten up the building with hardware cloth and polyurethane foam that provides another level of slowing them down, and keeps the building a bit warmer as a side effect. Cleaning up as much other clutter (mouse hiding places and nesting supplies) as possible will also help. mice chewed through my polyurethane foam... i If your welder is as big as Iggy's, maybe you could convert one room to a cat box? Chris |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm,
"Waynemak" quickly quoth: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. Screen over any opening larger than 1/3". For the traps, peanut butter is the top draw, but anything which has been sprinkled with garlic works quite well, too. Put mouse traps next to rat traps to catch both sizes. Toss them after one catch. Rats can catch the scent of death on one and avoid it. They also can smell poison from a dead rat and know to avoid the stuff in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Blessed are those who can * Humorous T-shirts Online * laugh at themselves, for they * Comprehensive Website Dev. * shall never cease to be amused * http://www.diversify.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:25:59 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ignoramus26924 quickly quoth: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:20:49 -0400, Waynemak wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. I have used poison to keep mice out of my shed that houses my hens and their feed. That's damned dangerous, Iggy. Remind me to never accept an omelet from you. ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Blessed are those who can * Humorous T-shirts Online * laugh at themselves, for they * Comprehensive Website Dev. * shall never cease to be amused * http://www.diversify.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:26:50 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ecnerwal quickly quoth: In article , "Waynemak" wrote: Its going to get cold out and that means the mice come in. Any tips on how to keep them out of my welders in the garage? I will set traps but anything else to prevent the little PITAs out of my stuff. A hard-working cat can help, but the best thing for equipment (ie, places to hide from the cat in) is tiny-mesh hardware cloth covering up all the openings. If you also tighten up the building with hardware cloth and polyurethane foam that provides another level of slowing them down, and keeps the building a bit warmer as a side effect. Cleaning up as much other clutter (mouse hiding places and nesting supplies) as possible will also help. Mothballs deter some, don't seem to bother others. Poison gets some, doesn't seem to bother others. Sticky traps and ye-olde mechanical traps nail the ones that get into them. I don't even bother to bait mechanical traps anymore - just set them in the corner of wall and floor where the beasties run. Etc... I had great luck in LoCal with empty traps. I'd face them against the wall so the mouse would accidentally step on the trigger as it ran through and get nailed (a dozen freebies.) Cracked me up, it did. __________________ any wall where they run_________ | ____________ | | __ | | -- | |oo| | --- path of mouse | | | | | | | | | | | /\ | | | | | | |||==++++==||| | | || | || | p || | || | a || | || | t ||_____|____|| | h |_____=|_____| | w a l l | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Blessed are those who can * Humorous T-shirts Online * laugh at themselves, for they * Comprehensive Website Dev. * shall never cease to be amused * http://www.diversify.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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