So... There was a squirrel that wouldn't leave my basement
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great workout
The last time I had a situation like this, I wore a heavy long sleeve shirt, leather glove and a hand dip-net. It got pretty busy but thankfully, he got tired before I did and managed to catch him and take him outside. I don't want to do that again. I have also used a small HavaHeart trap. ....
Be Safe !!!
The last time I had a situation like this, I wore a heavy long sleeve shirt, leather glove and a hand dip-net. It got pretty busy but thankfully, he got tired before I did and managed to catch him and take him outside. I don't want to do that again. I have also used a small HavaHeart trap. ....
Be Safe !!!
rodwhaincamo
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I've had a squirrel try to kill us. Mean little b@stard!
The wife was driving my truck and began to freak out. Everything seemed fine to me so I asked. We were going about 50 mph and she said she was on the brakes. She let off and it picked up more speed. Idiot me wondered about neutral which just sent the RPM's up and having the transmission berate me for having done that. So I told her I'd do it again and to have her turn off the ignition pulling over to the side, but that she'd really need to be heavy footed on the brakes as we'd lose power braking. Nothing I could think of fixed it so we had a friend with a trailer take it to the mechanic. A squirrel had eaten its way through the air filter and was storing nuts inside the intake. A piece of chewed nut was stuck in there creating this situation. Luckily they cleaned that all out for free but then we also had to replace the rotors/pads and air filter. I also cut a piece of chicken wire and stuffed it down into the fender so it couldn't make its way back in. Been thinking about a pellet gun since as I see them mocking me often enough.
The wife was driving my truck and began to freak out. Everything seemed fine to me so I asked. We were going about 50 mph and she said she was on the brakes. She let off and it picked up more speed. Idiot me wondered about neutral which just sent the RPM's up and having the transmission berate me for having done that. So I told her I'd do it again and to have her turn off the ignition pulling over to the side, but that she'd really need to be heavy footed on the brakes as we'd lose power braking. Nothing I could think of fixed it so we had a friend with a trailer take it to the mechanic. A squirrel had eaten its way through the air filter and was storing nuts inside the intake. A piece of chewed nut was stuck in there creating this situation. Luckily they cleaned that all out for free but then we also had to replace the rotors/pads and air filter. I also cut a piece of chicken wire and stuffed it down into the fender so it couldn't make its way back in. Been thinking about a pellet gun since as I see them mocking me often enough.
I built a small caliber minature machine gun to deal with rodents
This was fun, you can build your own machine gun to deal with rodents too.
I started with 2" PVC pipe as a safety housing / protective shroud.
I decided on very high speed .11 caliber (e-16) projectile with coaxial barrels pointing at each other to give them a 1-2 punch of billions of bullets when they walked between into the line of fire.
The machine gun was set to fire approximately a billion-billion bullets when the rat, mouse or squirrel walked into the line of fire.
Here's the machine gun from the outside:
Here's the coaxial (almost) aligned barrels inside the protective shroud:
Yep, it works. Smoked rodent for Thanksgiving.
Tasty.
Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
(P.S. Blueprints available, please don't tell the ATF I built a ultrafast coaxial machinegun)
This was fun, you can build your own machine gun to deal with rodents too.
I started with 2" PVC pipe as a safety housing / protective shroud.
I decided on very high speed .11 caliber (e-16) projectile with coaxial barrels pointing at each other to give them a 1-2 punch of billions of bullets when they walked between into the line of fire.
The machine gun was set to fire approximately a billion-billion bullets when the rat, mouse or squirrel walked into the line of fire.
Here's the machine gun from the outside:
Here's the coaxial (almost) aligned barrels inside the protective shroud:
Yep, it works. Smoked rodent for Thanksgiving.
Tasty.
Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
(P.S. Blueprints available, please don't tell the ATF I built a ultrafast coaxial machinegun)