Mouse problem
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From: Gilbert, PA
Mouse problem
I store my 94 Lightning basically since I have bought it 10 years ago.
Well I just went to move it out of the barn and I have 4 nests(one on passenger floor, 2 on the engine and one in the bed)
I have never had a mouse problem before. I have very good luck with dryer sheets spread around the truck(I did not change them this year)
Suggestions? I have heard moth *****, dryer sheets, peppermint oil.
I also just ordered one of those wind up resetting mouse boxes that I can empty once a week.
How they hell did they get in the cab?!?!? The fresh air bled door closes when no vacuum is there, correct?
Well I just went to move it out of the barn and I have 4 nests(one on passenger floor, 2 on the engine and one in the bed)
I have never had a mouse problem before. I have very good luck with dryer sheets spread around the truck(I did not change them this year)
Suggestions? I have heard moth *****, dryer sheets, peppermint oil.
I also just ordered one of those wind up resetting mouse boxes that I can empty once a week.
How they hell did they get in the cab?!?!? The fresh air bled door closes when no vacuum is there, correct?
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For keeping mice away i always used a 5gal bucket with 2gal of water in it.. Than got a stiff metal wire and put a beer can on the middle of the wire and had peanut butter on that can then you just add a board for them to walk up they walk out on the wire spin on can and fall into the water. Its a very simple to set up and clean up trap.
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We've had good luck with D-Con in our boat. No way to keep them out of a boat, and the D-Con doesn't keep them from coming in. But they eat it and die before they have a chance to make much of a mess. The exception is that there ends up being a lot of crumbs and some mouse poop around the D-Con box, so we learned to put it on a piece of cardboard rather than right on the carpet.
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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.
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From: Gilbert, PA
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.
Yeah. I have heard of the oil trick. But I dont have access to tools where the truck is parked so that idea is out(nor a set of extra jack stands)
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I stored a 68 Mustang off & on for 20 years (till I sold it, miss that car...), I used moth ***** inside of car, trunk & engine compartment (n bathroom Dixie cups) and tossed some under car along with moth crystals. I also added the dryer sheets in the later years, worked when they existed.
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From: Otto, NC
For keeping mice away i always used a 5gal bucket with 2gal of water in it.. Than got a stiff metal wire and put a beer can on the middle of the wire and had peanut butter on that can then you just add a board for them to walk up they walk out on the wire spin on can and fall into the water. Its a very simple to set up and clean up trap.
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From: Otto, NC
I forgot...RED CAB is a natural non-toxic repeller. It won't kill them just repel them. Used it in our camper for years. Any RV supply should have it and of coarse it's on line. They have a very nice pine scent. Use them with the 5 gal bucket idea!!!
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This the same as Fresh Cab or something different?
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Scatter it around, don't be a tightwad.
They will take it back to the nest and you won't see them anymore.
I don't use the bait stations, I just throw it around loose.
You can buy it anywhere, Walmart, lowes, Menards.
They will take it back to the nest and you won't see them anymore.
I don't use the bait stations, I just throw it around loose.
You can buy it anywhere, Walmart, lowes, Menards.
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From: Sandy Hook, CT
The end all-be all for ridding yourself of mouse problems are the electric traps that you can buy on Amazon, Tractor Supply, etc. They're called Rat Zapper. Cost is steep-maybe 35.00 or so, but they WILL work. This is a case of you truly get what you're paying for. Trust me, I've used everything you can imagine-moth ***** (hope YOU like the smell) Peppermint ***** (they ATE them!) Heavily-scented soap like Irish Spring (They ATE that for dessert) poison, which is ineffective, since they'll ingest it and go somewhere totally inaccessible to die, like behind the dash, in the heater plenum, etc. NOTHING worse than dead mouse smell & it lasts forever!
So try out those Rat Zappers...buy yourself some decent "AA" batteries, since you'll need to change them out after something like 25 kills.
Just remember one thing if you want to use moth ***** & the like-the outgassing of them is poisonous to HUMANS, too! Be careful here!
Roger
So try out those Rat Zappers...buy yourself some decent "AA" batteries, since you'll need to change them out after something like 25 kills.
Just remember one thing if you want to use moth ***** & the like-the outgassing of them is poisonous to HUMANS, too! Be careful here!
Roger