Dang Varmints!!!
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Topic: Dang Varmints!!!
Posted By: Tbone95
Subject: Dang Varmints!!!
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 9:31am
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And this is the varmint section, so, perfect question. My house is located in a wooded area, plenty of trees and a small creek out back. Squirrels (I assume, could be chipmunks, gophers.....) have gotten under the hood of two of my cars and chewed and shredded the insulation on the hood. Any suggestions on repelling these destructive little a-holes from doing this damage?
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Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 9:39am
| I have a .177 air rifle works great. My cousin had thousands of dollars damage to his truck from squirrels. New wiring covering is vegetable based and not oil based. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 9:44am
Well, that ain't never going to happen. I'm gone from 6a to 9p most every day, come home, eat, crash.
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Wayne180d wrote:Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 10:03am
| Mice maybe?? If the vehicle is in the garage leave the hood up and a light on, they hate light, I heard this years ago from of course a farmer, I leave the hoods up on everything in there and have never had problems. Neighbor thinks I'm pulling his leg and he has had to find chewed wires. I'm thinking it works for mice, chipmunks I don't know about. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 10:35am
| Parked outside. Garage is full of crap! Hahaha |
Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 10:46am
| Back to the drawing board |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 10:49am
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Cats I have plenty of barn cats and don't have any problems with critters getting into where they shouldn't be. most things neve come further than the tree line. The one that do don't survive to go back. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Leesok
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 10:54am
| Wasp and hornet spray. At least two cans. Soak engine compartment with one, underneath vehicle with the other. Will need to redo every year and a half to two years. If you forget, they will remind you. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 12:21pm
If you were closer, I could donate some 
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 12:28pm
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Im with LESS........ Moth balls work on mice... I was thinking tape a few round the inside of hood area.... I was also thinking some SPRAY that would soak into the insulation and dry on the wires would be good.... Wasp spray sounds like a winner ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 12:42pm
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Wasp spray sounds like an interesting idea. I was thinking if peppermint oil or any of that kind of crap worked......We might just give that wasp spray a try. Thought about mothballs, cab fresh, etc., but a good way to make it stay put. Thanks. We'll see what happens.
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Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 12:44pm
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I fix a lot of rat damage, wiring mostly. After I am done with the repair I spray PB Blaster all over. I stinks and stays stinking for awhile. Done it to my own and haven't had any more issues
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 2:44pm
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couple moth balls wadded up in a small section of window screen. Tie wire to anything convenient. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 5:53pm
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Make sure you examine the cabin air filters, under the glove box, on most cars. Fivel and 2 holes often nest there! https://youtu.be/pUO07dPrLIs" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/pUO07dPrLIs ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 8:03pm
Just this early spring, dad had his truck into the Ford dealership for a "non -working" blower motor  . 2 weeks later and the entire console removed, the rodent damage was repaired  . The tech said he's never seen so much carnage in a dash area 
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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 8:41pm
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Sounds like red squirrels to me. They are less than 1/2 the size of a regular gray squirrel and they chew every fricking thing they see. They love wires for sure. The only way I know to rid them is to shoot them as far as I know. They get shot here as soon as they are noticed. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2022 at 9:24pm
Killed Red Squirrels at my Father in laws years ago with Tom Cat cubed rat bait. You can leave it out in the weather. The Squirrels were chewing holes in his barn and hauled nuts into the door track so he couldn't open the doors.
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 5:16am
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I'm with PaulB... Sage is a very territorial huntress, she kills everything that comes across the property line that isn't human. My neighbor up the road trapped three brown tree squirrels living in his spruce windbreak... they were chewing on his front porch (?!!?) Strange, but they're rodents, if they don't chew, their teeth will overgrow, and they'll die... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 5:52am
| We had the same problem at the office parking lot. After they chewed the wiring on my car and another, we started using live traps with sunflower seeds for bait. DNR office with the public, so we couldn't use real traps, shoot or chemical. Got rid of 45 chipmunks in a couple months and the damage stopped. I still have a bunch of acorns rolling around in the hood of my truck that won't come out of there. |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 7:11am
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We never see a live mouse; our two neutered cats get any new squirrel within a few weeks; even though my wife over feeds them. Herb(GA) |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 7:22am
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Well, I sure am not against the idea of shooting them, but like I say, it just ain't never going to happen......UNLESS, I live trap them and shoot them in there. That just might be the ticket. Will try the wasp spray too. Little leery of rat bait, just because I don't want the pets to get into it. Wife's got dang bird feeders out. Seriously, have you ever seen a starved bird? Not helping with the number of squirrels (and yes, the little red SOB's). I was thinking no bird feeders last year when the first car got chewed.....but I think that's wrong, I think there's just more feeders this year. Thankfully, haven't had any wiring damage that I know of. Yet. Just the insulation.
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 7:37am
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As just a side note. I had mice build a nest in the clutch of a Ford Ranger I had. On a chance I turned it into my insurance company under comp. They payed for a new clutch. Maybe I just got lucky. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 9:11am
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Both son and I have suffered wire damage in our trucks from something chewing on them. I recently discovered a ground hog sitting on top of the engine of my truck. Ten, last week, we found a nest in the well casing, and the little scumbags chewed the wires through halfway down the well.....then they met their maker! apparently the ground had settled at the well, and pulled the conduit from the cap, allowing just enough space for the criminals to squeeze past. ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 9:17am
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 9:22am
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I'm thinking C4 molded into the shape of a squirrel......... ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 10:04am
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Good cats and dogs can help keep little critters away, but can create problems as well. Had pair of dogs get a squirrel corner in the engine compartment of a 1960 Chey grain truck.They jurked plug wires so hard they broke a spark plug. Would of been much worse on a newer vehicles. But then not so much room for a dog to get up so far into the engine compartment.
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Posted By: Greg (Hillsboro, OH)
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 1:52pm
Caddyshack comes to mind!!!!
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Posted By: Greg (Hillsboro, OH)
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 1:54pm
Lou, my dad had a pickup that wouldn't start. He had it towed to garage and found the wires going to the tank/fuel pump had been chewed. He had seen more than once a darn groundhog climbing around on/under the truck, so that was the offender. Groundhog was smart and always sat next to something so you could never get a shot at him.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 2:06pm
| I used moth balls or Grandpa Gus's Cinna-mint scented mouse repellent Pouches under the hood of our vehicles cause I can't keep the mice out of our garage. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 5:52pm
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 9:34pm
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Yes, VarmitCong ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 2:08am
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I've used mice n rat bait boxes and the bait for them. We had that issue several times in a back lot that had low use cars & pickups there over the winters. After rewiring 3 or more vehicles every spring it made sense. I don't know if it's squirrels, rabbits, rats or mice and really don't matter. Not sure why but they chewed on Chevy & GMC left the Ford & Dodge alone. 1 of the mechanics said GM used a grain based oil for lube on the wiring ( not sure but ?? ). I fixed some 2x6 scraps to them after 1 got carried over near a fence, looked like raccoon prints. Get some bait boxes and keep them baited. IF your garage is full it may need a box in there also. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 2:10am
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B T W, I use the boxes at farm bldgs starting late summer thru winter. Helps keep critters out of bldgs and away from the bins. I've no dog or cats so bait not any issue. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 7:20am
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There was a 2019 Tahoe that came in the shop a couple of months ago that had an freon leak. 1234YF freon is some expensive stuff. $500 for a recharge just for the freon. Stuffed a little in it and it was coming from the right rear fender well. Took the inner fender out and a rat chewed up about a foot of aluminum line and one little bitty hole in the high side line. Must have gassed his ass because he was still there deader than a hammer. Replacement from the dealer was 4K for the line assembly. I found splice fittings just for AC aluminum lines. Worked really well. Never used them before. I have seen rats chew up a lot of stuff but not aluminum. I have pics on my phone but don't know how to get them on here.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 8:23am
| squirrels got to one of my trucks last year, still trying to get it going, put moth balls, rat/mouse bait, in the engine and cabin areas, frebreeze sprayed in there seemed to work the best! good luck on yours! |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 9:30am
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Have tried all that and the TomCat bait on the tried and true spring mouse trap is the ultimate solution for me. The downside is the regular check on my trap lines. I set them on the floor of the cab Interiors as well as around the building. Caught 6 in the pickup since November |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 12:04pm
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The soy in insulation has been close to 30 years I think. Because that is when critters started looking for wires to chew. The vineyard had a new 45 HP New Holland tractor the pack rats packed the under hood area full 2 years as it sat from Nov to Feb. After the first time there was always rat bait out. Bait helped but did not stop them, but nobody went in the shed for a month or more at time that time of year. So T since you don't have time for in person measures, I think you will need bait and moving the "bird" feeders as far away as you are allowed.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 12:12pm
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I guess if I can secure the bait so it stays put I’ll do that too. Sure don’t want the dogs to chew on it. The one got into it several years ago, caught her right away, and she still barely pulled through. The one car they got to is a daily driver! |