Closing Down Rodent Highway!

[Msfitoy]

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[KJRR]

How would you attached metal screen material? Others have used HVAC ducting tape, which I am not sure will stand up to moisture like butyl tape.

Short of using metal rivets or screws, I am not sure how one can attach metal screen without some kind of tape. The butyl tape I use is pretty solid stuff. It is used to seal the roofs of RVs.

JB Weld stick epoxy
https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/kjs-ranger.10598/post-554513

 

[got3fords]

I think I may have told this story before on here, but my wife told me she saw where Irish Spring bar soap deters rodents. So I took an entire bar of it and cut it into slivers and put them all over my shed where I store my Harley. A couple of days later I found that rodents said FU by gathering said soap slivers and put them all over my Harley's engine. F*****k! Took me days to get all that soap off the bike.
Luckily, a black snake moved in not long after that and demolished the rodents, so much so he moved on a while later.

 

[ranger-jake]

I think I may have told this story before on here, but my wife told me she saw where Irish Spring bar soap deters rodents. So I took an entire bar of it and cut it into slivers and put them all over my shed where I store my Harley. A couple of days later I found that rodents said FU by gathering said soap slivers and put them all over my Harley's engine. F*****k! Took me days to get all that soap off the bike.
Luckily, a black snake moved in not long after that and demolished the rodents, so much so he moved on a while later.

Heard about the Irish Soap bar thing… turns out rodents love it! Was it a prank all along?!? ?

 

[ranger-jake]

I use all kinds of spray - peppermint oil, cinnamon oil, and cayenne extract. I buy the sprays and then fortify them with pure extracts. They still like to nibble on my battery blanket.

They chewed through my battery tender wiring but no other wires yet. I also place those rodent-repellent pouches all over in the truck and the engine bay.

And, mostly in the summer, I leave to hood open on nice days and then frequently use an air gun to blow around the engine bay and under the engine cover. I've had acorn shells around my battery. =(

I don't think the sonic things work, not from all the reading I've done about them.

Not sure these sprays do much, but Soupie sure smells minty fresh when I go for a drive! =)

I’ve also utilized some essential oil type repellent with no joy

 

[mtbikernate]

anyone tried using coyote piss?

 

[ranger-jake]

I‘m well familiar with butyl tape. I used many rolls of it to attach vapor barrier to the concrete walls of my crawl space when I enclosed it. Great stuff, but no contest for a mouse.

Maybe something like this butyl tape with metal mesh built into it. I don’t know how hard it may be to work with.

https://www.wildlifecontrolsupplies.com/animal/WRAT00X.html

That looks promising. I’d verify the temperature threshold of that adhesive though, engine bay gets hot and after several temperature cycles it may begin to peel… just a thought.
Maybe give the 3m weatherstrip adhesive a go

 

[ranger-jake]

JB Weld stick epoxy
https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/kjs-ranger.10598/post-554513

I also live in a squirrel dense area, who is probably the culprit in my situation. I sympathize with your story. Need to start breakin out the Ruger 10/22

 

[Msfitoy]

Heard about the Irish Soap bar thing… turns out rodents love it! Was it a prank all along?!? ?

I tried that with ground hogs taking residence in my backyard...made their hole smells better...in the end, constant .22lr harassments and filling rocks in their hole eventually persuaded them to leave little Chicago...

 

[airline tech]

I think I may have told this story before on here, but my wife told me she saw where Irish Spring bar soap deters rodents. So I took an entire bar of it and cut it into slivers and put them all over my shed where I store my Harley. A couple of days later I found that rodents said FU by gathering said soap slivers and put them all over my Harley's engine. F*****k! Took me days to get all that soap off the bike.
Luckily, a black snake moved in not long after that and demolished the rodents, so much so he moved on a while later.

When I was a kid, cutting an Irish Spring bar up with a knife got me in trouble.
I was probably 5 or 6, in the old commercial the Irish speaking accent gentleman used a knife and cuts a sliver off the bar of soap.
Well a curious 5 year old and a knife , while taking a bath - imitates the commercial and plugs up the bathtub drain with the slivers.
Childhood Memories

 

[Msfitoy]

When I was a kid, cutting an Irish Spring bar up with a knife got me in trouble.
I was probably 5 or 6, in the old commercial the Irish speaking accent gentleman used a knife and cuts a sliver off the bar of soap.
Well a curious 5 year old and a knife , while taking a bath - imitates the commercial and plugs up the bathtub drain with the slivers.
Childhood Memories

I can relate getting into trouble...

 

[Cmar]

My anti rodent device, also highly effective against snakes, and slow birds.

 

[got3fords]

Heard about the Irish Soap bar thing… turns out rodents love it! Was it a prank all along?!? ?

Could be!

 

[Joeiconic]

anyone tried using coyote piss?

Wonder what the process is to collect and bottle coyote urine?

 

[IdahoRanger]

Wonder what the process is to collect and bottle coyote urine?

Here you go.

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