Best squirrel catapult3/6/2024 it doesn't stop chipmunks that gnaw their way through the cheap plastic of box fan grates or tunneling in under the edge of a BBQ grate so I do occasionally find clumps of sunflower sprouts in my pots.ĭocwelder> English house sparrows are a huge problem for us. I just stick a rock on top and that stops the squirrels from getting to my seed. Flattened expanded metal would work fine also it's just I'm too cheap to use that what with everything available for free on garbage days. I set the pots of seed I'm growing down into the hole and cover the opening with the grates to broken box fans I pick up from the curb on garbage days but have used grates to old BBQs before too. Something else I've done with seed that requires cold moist stratification is I dig square holes in the ground about 18" deep that are just slightly smaller than a box window fan. It's why I buy pop in 2-liter containers. That creates a cloche that the squirrels can't get into to get at the seed. cut off the very top leaving the equivalent of a vent and cut off the bottom and take a knife and make some slices in the side and slip it over the top of the other pop bottle. Anyway, I then take another 2-liter pop bottle. What's nice is that the 2-liter bottles are deep enough to accommodate the tap roots of oaks and hickories. I fill the "pots" with a medium of my choice then plant the seed. I set the base in the trays they haul the pop into stores and set the tray in another tray of water so it can wick up. Maybe what I do will work for you? I heat up the tines of a fork to create drain holes in the bottom then cut off the top. Roadkillbobb> I have had good luck planting tree seed in 2-liter pop bottles. We've laughed so hard we've had tears running down our cheeks watching them slide down greased shepherds hooks.īD1> those squirrel catapults were hysterical. Mxpapa> That spray on Pam works for us too and definitely provides hours of good clean family entertainment. baffles for bird feeder posts would be pretty easy to make, i wish the hawks around here were as smart as yours seem to be and would thin the cat population. along with feral/stray/hungry cats come rats and pigeons. i have a few of these ladies in my vicinity. they have the 2 wheel rolling shopping cart and industrial size bags of cat food along with stacks of tinfoil trays and jugs of poland spring water. :laugh:ĭsw, here in nyc once a woman get's on in years and loses a husband she buy's a cat route. They know where all the nice fat birds are going to be when they want to have lunch. I figure she's just adding feeding the hawks to the list of animals she feeds. Down swoops this hawk and blasts one of the birds sitting at the feeder, then swoops up to start snacking on it higher up in the tree. Anyways one day I just finished replacing a window in the one room so she could look out at a bunch of her bird feeders and was showing her how the new blinds worked. She puts out salt licks and deer blocks, food for the feral cats, and probably about 20-30 different bird and squirrel feeders. I have a customer who feeds just about everything to the annoyance of her neighbors. it was loud, and scared me, lucky nothing happend to me. it ripped three splits exactly 120 degress aprat from oneanother, splits were about a foot long, and it peeled back. well the next shot, you can guess what happened. well, i didn t realize, a tiny bit of mud, got into the end of the barrel from poking at the possum. i shot a family of possums that i flooded out, and i used the end of the barrel to roll one of the parents over to show my little brother what the gun did to it. what happened was exactly what you see on cartoons, when the barrel bannana peels. Then when i 'd irrigate, theyd come out of there holes and i'd shoot them, until one day i blew the shotgun up. I'd shoot as i drove the tractor, but it only took a day for them to figure out the tractor kills. my squirrels were never afraid of the tractor, so i drilled a hole int the hood for a eye bolt for the barrel of a cheap single shot 12 ga, and a rubber snubber across the hood to hold down the stock. the things catch on real quick about guns. Shooting them pretty much only gives you satisfaction. now would be a good time to do it being they are pregnant ofr have babaies. After you roll them down the hole, you cover up the tops of the holes, and the pellet gives off poisenous gas. you roll them down the hole after you irrigate or when the ground is wet, being they activate from moisture. Its a big pellet about the size of a brussel sprout. you'll have to buy it from a farmer who has a permit to get it. Its been years since i farmed, but when i did, the most effective thing i found was something called phostoxin.
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