I used my drill press today after it had sat idle for a while. I opened the door on the top to check the speed setting via the belts. Inside I found a lot of pink insulation. Things like this aren't really unusual since my shop is in a barn. But when I touched the insulation, something skittered out.
Here it is exiting the top of the drill by the hole over the motor:
There were four smaller mice attached to Mommy, and they were pretty big for her to be dragging them around like that:
I sure am glad that I checked the belts before turning on the drill - that would have been messy.
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Might want to check to make sure that they didn't chew on anything. They have a habit of chewing on the most expensive or difficult to replace part. Had a rodent chow down on my car. I noticed the problem when I could no longer use cruise control. Computer told me that the speed sensor was not working so I took it to a mechanic. He said some sort of rodent had chewed through several wires so I had to replace the entire wire harness.
--Nathan, TX. Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.
The only good thing mice have done for me is chew through the packaging of some bread mix and made me throw it out... why good, the used by date was about 3 years overdue... the flour was rancid.
I sure am glad that I checked the belts before turning on the drill - that would have been messy.
In my late teens, when I was 20, I used to have pet snakes that I transported loose in my car, usually snuggled up on the front bench seat next to me... don't believe the hipe, they can be affectionate. However, some passengers got skitty and squirmed around like a dog seeking an open window, so I used to put her into the glovebox. One late night/am I forgot it was in the glovebox and went to be. Next morning when I started the car to go to work I heard a quick sharp faint rumble near the front of the car. On opening the bonnet I was met with a spattering of blood and flesh. The theory was that at night the snake must have detected the warmth from my radiator, crawled out of the glovebox through some hole and snuggled up around the fan... oops... not much left for my traditional 1.5m x 60mm x 60mm grave.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Good thing the wares are not covered with corn based insulation. They would eat that right off the wires, you saved yourself a mess! Set a trap near there and get rid of the critters!!
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Some mothers do have them I remember from years ago my Mom had nipple cream, night be a need after that adventure even the bigger versions tend to visit here (once) that's his baby producing days finished.
The little rotter was eating my chilli plants, no sooner did they fruit they were dissapearing. At first I thought it was a possum so I enclosed them. But it happened again! I busted him climbinging again. So the trap was set, sadly I snared a bird first up. So some re engineering was required. I haven't had and more problems since , so it must have been a Lone ranger. Sadly the plants were damaged beyond recovery, oh well I will have to wait until next planting season.
They cause nothing but problems. I've never had much luck with snap traps. I had one down and the little fucker shit right next to it. My go to is poison now. They seem to love some of them. They chewed through the container I was storing it to get at it. The last few I caught that were still alive they met up with the tail pipe of the car. Doesn't take long before they stop kicking
We used to be able to get the good decon poison here, not any more. Dries them out like kindling… now I use some BS California compliant rat bait…probably full of protein and vitamins to keep them healthy!
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
Corelz125 replied about 6 hours ago new They cause nothing but problems. I've never had much luck with snap traps. I had one down and the little fucker shit right next to it. My go to is poison now. .....
I agree with poison or peanut butter... and plenty of it... peanut butter.
I was old school and and believed in the trusted wood, and lost about 1kg of cheese and no victim. Went new age and invested in one of these plastic ones and I lost about another 1kg of cheese and probably made the mouse fatter. Hate those mices to pices, and surfed the net and found a super sensitive, hair trigger unit, ... still no luck with the bloody cheese. Then one day the little sucker (or one of the family) was spotted and it was tiny and nowhere big enough to any trap.
I set up 4 traps loaded with peanut butter... still no luck for about 4 days, continually re-loading the traps with the peanut butter, until they must have gorged themselves and now were bulging with muscles... reloaded the traps with cheese (bit harder to lick)... snap, snap the next day, snap the day after and another snap the day after that... fifth day onwards it must have been the full litter as the peanut butter fattened the little bastards up enough to wipe out that family... RIP little buggas.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
If you really have a big rodent problem a 5 gallon bucket with a gallon of antifreeze and beer can suspended over it sideways on a dowel so that it rolls easily when a mouse or rat climbs out to lick the peanut butter off of it. Lean something against the bucket to make it easy for them to climb up and smear just enough PB on it to leave a sent trail for them to follow.
--Nathan, TX. Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.
I'm all about those sticky traps. I get them on Amazoo, I have tried all of the different brands, and these don't allow squirmers to "runt off" Since starting to use them I am outpacing their breeding efforts, because I never see the lil f-ers streaking around corners anymore.
We once had two new kittens in the house. I woke up in the middle of the night to lots of noise downstairs. When I got there I found a tangled mass involving a sticky trap, a mouse, and two kittens.
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