From: Buzz (muttman@charter.net)
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 10:10:02 PST
Cats are the way to go..... I encouraged a farow cat to take up residence on my
property and before long there were no rodents, or rabbits in sight.
Buzz
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:22:28 -0700, you wrote:
>(1) "COKE" I've read that they drink it & DIE because they can't FAR*
>(METHANE BUILD-UP & BOOM!) Wive's tale? Sounds too simple.
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>(2) "SKUNKS" A friend of mine is taming a wild skunk which has killed
>"many" rats in an old house. Trapped it, locked it in a building & feeds it.
>No spraying or aggressiveness from the skunk, hangs around & hunts.
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>Really !!
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>Good luck --- MISTYMTN
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark J. Blair, NF6X" <nf6x@nf6x.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:47 AM
>Subject: [MV] Detroit Diesel paint, Gama Goat filters, and rodent killage
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>> Do any of y'all know where I can get some suitable paint for touching up
>> the light blue on my M561 Gama Goat's Detroit 3-53 engine? The local auto
>> parts shop didn't have any engine paints that matched it well. I'm
>> guessing that it's probably a standard color that was common on Detroits
>> of that era.
>>
>> I'll probably want to replace all of my Goat's filters soon, too. If any
>> of y'all have favorite sources, have recommended cross-references, etc.,
>> I'd appreciate hearing about them.
>>
>> After letting it set for a year or two, I'm getting my Gama Goat running
>> again. I live out in a rural area, surrounded by citrus groves and open
>> fields. Various rodents are very common out here, and they love to nest
>> inside vehicles. They make nests out of large sticks, insulation chewed
>> off the insides of the vehicles, dog turds, various greenery, etc. Once
>> they move in, the crap and pee all over everything, and fight off boredom
>> by chewing on any any convenient wires. They chewed up the wiring in my
>> Bobcat badly enough that it was immobilized until I made repairs. Opening
>> the hood on my Goat, I found that the space between the fan and radiator
>> is packed with sticks and greenery. It's gonna take me hours to clean it
>> out enough to even try cranking the engine. Luckily, the only chewed wire
>> I've seen so far is the spark plug wire for the air box heater, and that's
>> not critical here because it never gets cold enough to need it.
>>
>> So, can anybody suggest ways to keep them out of my vehicles and/or die
>> painful deaths? I cannot use poisons, because my dogs would be too likely
>> to catch and eat poisoned rats, nosh on their poisoned corpses, etc.
>> Eradicating the local rat population is an impossibility, because there's
>> just way too much land around here that's very hospitable to them. Thus, I
>> think my only remaining option is to convince them to live somewhere other
>> than inside my vehicles.
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>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x@nf6x.net>
>> Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/
>> GnuPG public key available from my web page.
>>
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