Rodents Nesting In Engine Compartment
Sick 'n Tired
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From: League City, TX
Holy crap. Everything is bigger in Texas.
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The dryer sheets and moth ***** do not work. My tractor guy tells me cayenne pepper mixed with clove oil makes the evacuate. Some folks say add peppermint oil also. Cotton ***** soaked in clove oil and pepper.
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If you want to eliminate rodents around your house & garage all you need is this....
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
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From: Gig Em, Tx
If you want to eliminate rodents around your house & garage all you need is this....
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
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From: Central Illinois
...you don't want to know.
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Or you could
Try to find one of these in Super Duty Size
Seriously, I use a 3 prong defense that has been working. Mothballs around the perimeter where the vehicle is stored, rat/mice poison in bait stations and sticky traps around areas where they travel. After having them eat through a wiring harness on my Kubota tractor, I have become Bill Murray in Caddyshack. "Meet my friend Mr. Squirrel"
Seriously, I use a 3 prong defense that has been working. Mothballs around the perimeter where the vehicle is stored, rat/mice poison in bait stations and sticky traps around areas where they travel. After having them eat through a wiring harness on my Kubota tractor, I have become Bill Murray in Caddyshack. "Meet my friend Mr. Squirrel"
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From: Panama City, FL area
and here I was going to suggest buying a mongouse and sticking him under the hood. it would cure the issue.
however IDK how much more damage a mongose would do.. But thats not the question the op asked... so based soley on that I found the whole mongouse theory pretty soilid.
however IDK how much more damage a mongose would do.. But thats not the question the op asked... so based soley on that I found the whole mongouse theory pretty soilid.
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If you want to eliminate rodents around your house & garage all you need is this....
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
Amazon.com: Tomcat All Weather Bait Chunx, 4 Lb: Everything Else
...and these, spaced 15-30' apart around the perimeter of your house & garage.
Amazon.com: Protecta HEAVY DUTY Rat Bait Station BELL-1063: Patio, Lawn & Garden
I've used this setup for 11 years with zero mouse problems.
This is the key, you must check each station at least twice a year. We check ours in September (just did it), January and April or May. No mice in the camper or the truck.
Many years ago, one day I started my 66 427 SHP vette. (I wish I could fit in it today. It seems that my garage has slipped into a vortex and the vehicles in there have not expanded with the rest of the universe.) It had off road exhaust then, not the side pipes it has now. When I returned there was 2 smashed mice stuck to the wall behind the car. The pipes on a mid year vette exit strait through the rear valance and the special high performance motor has 11.5/1 compression. It loves CAM2. The little basturds somehow crawled into the pipes to nest and were shot out like a cannon ball.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I will have to try that cattle tag idea. I'm heading out again this weekend for 7 days of hunting and I don't want to have to deal with this rodent crap anymore.
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Don't those spikes you put your feet on on the 9N scare the hell out of you. Its amazing the differences between 9N and 8N.
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Go to your local Farm and Ranch store and buy the Cattle ear tags that have the repellent made into them and hang them with zip ties under the hood in 4 or 5 places and that will keep em out.That's what our local vet turned us on to after his 6.0 burned a turbo oil line from a birds nest that caught fire on a long hill pull.
The ear tags are for flies. Do they work on mice too
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From: Billings, Montana
No they don't bother me, I ride a Harley and have about the same thing in it while going a hell of a lot faster.
Mountain Pass
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Patriot Ear Tag's from Vet supply store. They work for mice,birds,cutter bee's ect.. Don't zip tie them to a heated hose or a hot pipe ect... There are pleanty of places ect.. to zip tie them to under the hood.They work great for us.Have installed them in elect boxes to keep the cutter bees out also.
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