Mouse problem
New User
Joined: Nov 2011
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From: S.E. Nebraska
Maybe I should try the Tom Cat. Our whole house generator wires keep getting chewed in the automatic switching box. I know when they got me again when it won't do a weekly exercise. I've tried everything, traps, mothballs, mouse bait/poison even the Fresh Cab that worked so well in the camper. They are still winning!!! Looks like I'll try the Tom Cat.
The mouse takes this stuff back to the nest...what if the nests are in the generater
The mouse takes this stuff back to the nest...what if the nests are in the generater
Won't matter, just keep putting it there for them to feed on. When the blocks quit being chewed on, the mice are dead and gone. This fall I kept throwing a couple around the garage every couple days. Every couple days it would be gone, I kept feeding them. It no longer is being chewed on and I havn't seen evidence of them in a month or so.
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Joined: May 2015
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From: Dallas, TX
Can't vouch for the results, but this is certainly one of the more creative methods I've heard about.
Friend has a Dodge Challenger he put into storage. Put the car up on jackstands, wheels off. Jackstands are set into baking trays which he then filled with oil. His reasoning is the mice won't cross the oil and the only way into the car from their perspective is up the jackstands, so he is safe.
Friend has a Dodge Challenger he put into storage. Put the car up on jackstands, wheels off. Jackstands are set into baking trays which he then filled with oil. His reasoning is the mice won't cross the oil and the only way into the car from their perspective is up the jackstands, so he is safe.
3 ton jackstands would probably work. I think you can pick them up for $25 at the local harbor freight. Less with a coupon. Of course you would need two sets.
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Joined: May 2013
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I would start with a basic trap line around the perimeter, yet to see a mouse yet that turns down a peanut butter mousetrap!
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From: Mi'kma'ki
this is why i didn't store my t-bird in a barn.that and the potential fire hazard.i chose a steel storage unit.no mice.no fire.worry free winter.
you can do all the tricks but your gunna be hard pressed to keep mice out of a vehicle in a barn imo.
you said the same thing when i told my old man i didn't like the idea of storing my bird in a barn he recommended down the street.to which i replied:
it's a barn.it's gunna keep them coming in from outside for the peanut butter.
you can do all the tricks but your gunna be hard pressed to keep mice out of a vehicle in a barn imo.
it's a barn.it's gunna keep them coming in from outside for the peanut butter.
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Joined: Nov 2008
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From: Semper Fi tell I die!
only a dodge dummy would believe if you put your car on jackstands the mice cant climb up onto it, they jump pretty far. unless the jackstands are 6 feet tall and the pans of oil 3 feet deep, then again they might just jump to the edge of pan then to suspension
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Been there done that, dawm mouse.
My truck was sitting 10 years . this year i put it back on the road, guest what.....
Cost me a full clutch kit because they bring ''stuffing'' in the transmission case...
Also the air vent was full, i change the heater core too.
And that smell....
My truck was sitting 10 years . this year i put it back on the road, guest what.....
Cost me a full clutch kit because they bring ''stuffing'' in the transmission case...
Also the air vent was full, i change the heater core too.
And that smell....
Believe Nothing
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 7,516
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From: W. Central FL.
Been there done that, dawm mouse.
My truck was sitting 10 years . this year i put it back on the road, guest what.....
Cost me a full clutch kit because they bring ''stuffing'' in the transmission case...
Also the air vent was full, i change the heater core too.
And that smell....
My truck was sitting 10 years . this year i put it back on the road, guest what.....
Cost me a full clutch kit because they bring ''stuffing'' in the transmission case...
Also the air vent was full, i change the heater core too.
And that smell....
Kinda hard to determine which is mouse and which is filler.......But it doesn't matter, it all stinks.
More Turbo
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 516
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From: Michigan
I hate what they do to my stuff. I'm pulling a trans this week because of the nest they made in the bell housing. I looked in with a flashlight and it looks as if the pressure plate is stuffed to the max around the stamped steel fingers. The stuffing won't let the plate grab the clutch. I was thinking of trying to duct tape the shop vac hose to the vents at the top and hit the compressed air to the pressure plate while I start the engine and press on the clutch pedal. Then I kind of figured it won't all come out and it will still be a problem. Did I tell you I hate what they do to my stuff?
I think I'm going to do the bucket with peanut butter trap. It works on the chippies too.
I can only hope the dead one I found on the passenger side inner fender was the only one,,,,, NOT!
I think I'm going to do the bucket with peanut butter trap. It works on the chippies too.
I can only hope the dead one I found on the passenger side inner fender was the only one,,,,, NOT!
More Turbo
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 516
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From: Michigan
One more thing to add. Back when I was a kid I got a pet white mouse from the pet shop. When I wouldn't let my sister play with my mouse she went up and bought herself one. Then my dad told me I had to let her keep her mouse in my cage. Seven or eight weeks later my dad found out about the babies. When he came out to the cage and saw that it was not the first set of babies he freaked! He ordered them gone that day! When we let them go at the golf course on the green we counted up to 35 mice before they started to disappear into the taller grass. THEY BREED FASTER THAN RABBITS!