Water Traps For Mice
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Topic: Water Traps For Mice
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Water Traps For Mice
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 4:33pm
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I read a few years ago about mouse traps in combines. One guy talked about a 5 gallon pail filled 1/4 full with a dowell rod placed in holes drilled into the top of the pail with peanut butter placed in the center of the rod. I placed the "trap" as close to the open clean grain bucket as possible so the little @#$%^ could get onto the axle of the trap and lo and behold, we are getting 2-5 mice/ day !!
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Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 6:04pm
| How do the mice get to the top of the bucket? does the dowel rotate or do the mice just fall off? More details please. Sounds too simple. Better than conventional traps. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 6:17pm
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Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 6:30pm
Our bucket is the exact height of the open clean grain elevator so the mice can "walk" onto the rim of the bucket and onto the dowell. Yes, the dowell (3/4" PVC pipe so they can't latch onto it) spins and they fall into the water. We also attatched an old shop towel to the outside of the bucket in case they want to climb.
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ac hunter wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 6:34pm
Thanks for the link !! Never thought to look on YT
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2019 at 8:11pm
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I've done that for a couple of years now. I use an empty plastic bottle on a metal rod with a ramp up to the top of the bucket. In the winter here in the frozen tundra I put some anti freeze in the bucket. You need to keep the p-nut butter fresh. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2019 at 12:30am
| I had a rat problem outside near a building, I put a 5 gallon bucket out there and put about 5 inches of water in it, then poured sum oats on top of the water, the oats floated and the rats sank. caught 9 in 2 days. |
Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2019 at 7:35am
| Looks like "a better mouse trap" to me. Looks easy to build too. Thanks. |