From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 16:22:27 PST
I agree about cats, and also have heard that mesh bags of moth-balls (
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Cats are the way to go..... I encouraged a farow cat to take up residence
Buzz
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:22:28 -0700, you wrote:
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paradichlorobezene ) placed in vehicles will keep them out of cushions etc.
Put moth balls in an open top container not directly on cushions or painted
surfaces. They work better if vehicle is such that cab is such that it can
be closed so that fumes accumulate. However scattered around building they
act as a repellent.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buzz" <muttman@charter.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Eradicating the local rat population
on my
property and before long there were no rodents, or rabbits in sight.
>(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.
>
>(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.
>
>Really !!
>
>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
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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