On stake-out with woodchip
On stake-out with woodchip
I've got a small mystery out in my barn. I have two cats that live out there and I've got their food in a 5 gal bucket that has a top that snaps very firmly in place. Last week something ( I suspect raccoons) learned how to open it up. So being the savy camper, I got some bailing twine leftover from the bales of hay I got and tied the bucket up to the rafters so the pail hangs about 5 feet off the floor. There are bales of hay by the bucket that a raccoon could stand on and reach the the buckets lid. I figured that the raccoon could not apply any force as the bucket would swing away from him. Secondarily with the handle now verticle as it is tied to the twine, the handle also puts a pinching pressure on the lid making it even harder to remove. Well I thought wrong. This morning I went out to discover that the lid had been removed.
So tonight be ready for one of my patented accounts of a real life event. Turn off your absurd reality program and check in here for a in the raw mystery.
I left the lights on in the barn and from my bedroom window I have a clear view of the bait er... bucket.
So with my Bushnell 16 x 50 spynoc I'll be able to get close up and personal with the little blighters. Just in case it is a yeti I'll have my .45 strapped to my hip.
So tonight be ready for one of my patented accounts of a real life event. Turn off your absurd reality program and check in here for a in the raw mystery.
I left the lights on in the barn and from my bedroom window I have a clear view of the bait er... bucket.
So with my Bushnell 16 x 50 spynoc I'll be able to get close up and personal with the little blighters. Just in case it is a yeti I'll have my .45 strapped to my hip.
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Good Luck Chip, you're going to need it
I remember trying to keep this one racoon out of my damn garbage cans, I even put a 12" 3-core concrete block (about 72lbs) on the lid but the little bastard still got in. In the end it required a #2 Victor coil spring and a .22 long rifle, his final resting place was in that garbage can he was so fond of.
I remember trying to keep this one racoon out of my damn garbage cans, I even put a 12" 3-core concrete block (about 72lbs) on the lid but the little bastard still got in. In the end it required a #2 Victor coil spring and a .22 long rifle, his final resting place was in that garbage can he was so fond of.
Warning! Do not microwave!TheCops wrote:lol!woodchip wrote:Heh...thats why I use tin foil condoms so I don't have to *#^% with them alienated liberals.
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Well It is morning and no visitors. Maybe the 'coons went into hibernation as it's been getting down into the 20's at night. I'll keep watch again tonight.
(me rummages thru old marine footlocker to see if the're any claymores laying about)
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another hint for keeping the critters away.
Go to the local thrift store and buy a cheap radio. Clock radios go for a couple bucks. Tune it to your favorite station and let it run 24/7.
Since doing this the critters have stayed away from our barn.
Leaving the lights on as you have found out is also a good deterant.
Go to the local thrift store and buy a cheap radio. Clock radios go for a couple bucks. Tune it to your favorite station and let it run 24/7.
Since doing this the critters have stayed away from our barn.
Leaving the lights on as you have found out is also a good deterant.
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To hell with the raccoons... What the hell does a possom eat?
My daughter had a little run in with a new resident to our back yard...
We were finishing up some yard work... roughly 8:30PM when I asked my daughter to go in the woodshed (10x20 cinderblock building) and pull out the kerosene cans.
Well, she stepped thru the doorway and promplty screamed, and closed the 10ft gap between us so fast I barely saw her move! Turns out there was a possom in the attic area of the shed. When she entered, it thought she was going after its nest.
So once my ears stopped bleeding (man that kid can scream) I verified it by whacking the ceiling a couple of times with a shovel. Yup... definatley a possum.
Now the question.... What the hell do these things eat... I'm setting up a trap tonight, and plan on using some leftovers from yesterday's dinner - some fine polish sausage - and just wondered if there was something these little beasts would kill for.
Oh yeah... pics to follow after I trap the little monster. (then release it over at Woodchips )
My daughter had a little run in with a new resident to our back yard...
We were finishing up some yard work... roughly 8:30PM when I asked my daughter to go in the woodshed (10x20 cinderblock building) and pull out the kerosene cans.
Well, she stepped thru the doorway and promplty screamed, and closed the 10ft gap between us so fast I barely saw her move! Turns out there was a possom in the attic area of the shed. When she entered, it thought she was going after its nest.
So once my ears stopped bleeding (man that kid can scream) I verified it by whacking the ceiling a couple of times with a shovel. Yup... definatley a possum.
Now the question.... What the hell do these things eat... I'm setting up a trap tonight, and plan on using some leftovers from yesterday's dinner - some fine polish sausage - and just wondered if there was something these little beasts would kill for.
Oh yeah... pics to follow after I trap the little monster. (then release it over at Woodchips )
When the raccoons were raiding the horses sweet feed (which I keep in trash cans) I could turn the lights on and stand 5 feet from them and they didn't seem to care. So even curiousor, why was what ever is pilfering the cat food not going for the sweet feed? hmmmm.KompresZor wrote:Still leaving the barn light on? Maybe that's scaring them off.
Clutch, 'possums are basically scavengers and what Hattrick said is good.
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