Squrrills

[hanovertom]

How do you keep the tree rats out of sweet corn?
PLEASE!

 

[Jim in rush co]

I don't any trouble with them or coon, deer. Fencer and 1 ground wire on ground, 1 hot 3 up then another 3up and the top one about 30 up. Been doing it that was for the last 25yrs or so. I also use a 5ft copper ground rod.

 

[DoubleO7]

We have a healthy grey squirrel population here. Too many.
So I made a live squirrel trap. Consisting of a hardware cloth barrel shaped cage, four feet of 4" pvc drain pipe and some peanut butter.
Set trap on ground, smear peanut butter on top of pipe down as far as you can reach or 16 inches at least inside pipe.
Wire top of pipe to tree at steep angle down into cage.
I put a couple of dabs on tree and scrape peanut butter off the putty knife onto upper end of the pipe.
The squirrel reaches for the PB down in the pipe and ends up sliding into cage. And to slippery to climb out.

 

[Jim in rush co]

Added a picture to show how close to the woods.

 

[Jim in rush co]

I might have to try that to thin out chipmunks.

 

[hurleyjd]

Plant enough corn for you and the squirrels.

 

[Brown Dirt Cowboy]

(quoted from post at 08:41:17 07/05/23) Plant enough corn for you and the squirrels.

tried that last year and the little EssoBees ate my part also.

 

[Hdonly]

(quoted from post at 11:10:14 07/05/23)
We have a healthy grey squirrel population here. Too many.
So I made a live squirrel trap. Consisting of a hardware cloth barrel shaped cage, four feet of 4" pvc drain pipe and some peanut butter.
Set trap on ground, smear peanut butter on top of pipe down as far as you can reach or 16 inches at least inside pipe.
Wire top of pipe to tree at steep angle down into cage.
I put a couple of dabs on tree and scrape peanut butter off the putty knife onto upper end of the pipe.
The squirrel reaches for the PB down in the pipe and ends up sliding into cage. And to slippery to climb out.

Just enough for a pot of squirrel and dumplings!

 

[Two Dogs]

A twelve or sixteen gauge I have work just fine.

 

[Eagle Beagle]

Zon propane cannon, 20,000 shots of of a BBQ size bottle.

Beagle

Works for deer, coons and neighbors. Ear plugs optional.

 

[HFJ]

(quoted from post at 13:21:51 07/05/23)

(quoted from post at 08:41:17 07/05/23) Plant enough corn for you and the squirrels.

tried that last year and the little EssoBees ate my part also.

:evil: i hope you invoiced them for it.

 

[cleddy]

I live in town and they been chewing my 2018 ford pickup wires off. One disabled a injector and air-conditioner and now another caused an alarm and phone doesn't work. I left them some lunch to munch on??? Hate to do it but hopes it works??? Cleddy

 

[Tony in SD]

Each Great Pyrenees weights 100 lbs. No squirrels in my yard day or night.

 

[Gene Davis (Ga)]

Those long tailed rats AKA squirrels, ate the lead on the battery cable ends on my tractor!

 

[jniolon]

posted this a few months ago...winch battery connectors...

 

[Hdonly]

(quoted from post at 22:38:58 07/05/23) posted this a few months ago...winch battery connectors...

A friend of mine that is a roofer told me that they would chew the tops of lead roof jacks and start them leaking rain water.

 

[showcrop]

I built one of Double07's traps. I caught two the first day, and have yet to have another come near. They must have communicated their predicament.

 

[DoubleO7]

(quoted from post at 09:19:07 07/06/23)

I built one of Double07's traps. I caught two the first day, and have yet to have another come near. They must have communicated their predicament.

I move it around to a new spot when I see squirrels but don't catch them. Seems like after I catch four or five.

 

[dhermesc]

Beagle or rat terrier will terrorize the squirrels. Supposedly a loud recording of a squirrel in pain will drive them out - but you'll probably draw in coyotes.

 

[Phil Tibbetts]

Squirrels and other pests seldom return after a treatment with 22LR. That has been my experience.