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Old 26-03-10, 15:02
Keith Orpin Keith Orpin is offline
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Phil,
Maybe this where the saying "Revving the Nuts out of it " came from !
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Old 26-03-10, 15:45
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Default Our criters maynot be dangerous

As I said before Chipmunks are rodents with racing strips. They may not be dangerous like some of your Australian critters but they are sure annoying.

They really seam to like exhaust pipes, I've had them fill mufflers with acorns, particularly bad if the muffler baffles are such that they can fill the can with acorns, had a muffler fire that way on my HUP. Now I try to remember particularly in the fall to put a soda can over the end of the pipe when I park the truck.

The trucks make such a strange sound when you start with a chipmunk in the pipe.


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Old 27-03-10, 02:49
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Phil, I had a pet chipmunk when I was a kid. Good to hear a story like that. Phil
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Old 27-03-10, 19:50
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Default My problem is that I have a lot of them

Hi Phill

My problem is that we have a lot of them and they all think they are pets. Two of them got on the screened porch and terrorized our 20 lbs cat. He enjoyed watching them run around but when they started coming towards him he didn't want any part of it and when running for cover.

It is great to be working under one of the trucks and have one run across you on his way out of the shop.

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Old 28-03-10, 11:42
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Default Possible solution to the squirrel problem

Have a look at this:

Launch them into space...
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Old 28-03-10, 19:05
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Default Here is one squirrel entertainment we tried

Hi Keith

Here is an squirrel amusement ride that we put in a couple years ago. Squirrels enjoyed it through out the winter until the spring when a bear came along and carried it off.

http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...rrel%20Fun.htm

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Old 30-03-10, 12:45
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Hi Phil ,
This story reminds me of a car which sat in our garage half built for a couple of years , we went to sell it and found
the plenum chamber under the windscreen was almost full of wheat , couldnt figure out how it got there ,
then realized rats or mice must have brought it from the chook shed 50 feet across the yard ,
Then later noticed the fruit on our peach tree was being eaten so we covered it with a net thinking it was birds or bats but the fruit still went missing ,
to the point where a peach seed was left on the stem perfectly clean ?? .
One day I moved a pile of roof sheets laying behind the chook shed and found lots of snail shells , peach seeds and egg shells , how did they steal the eggs ?
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