Getting Rid of Mice in my shop ?

[JerryK]

RatZapper...in the 70's I was working in a pressed metal plant [electrician]..some boring nights as we watched the roaches and mice wander around our crib...we would take plastic wireway scraps and weave bare copper wires zig-zaged across the bottom of them...and attach two 110 to 440 volt transformers [ backfed from the 110 sides to produce about 1700 volts ] to the wires. We put a pushbutton on the cord going to the outlet, and would zap the critters when they tried to walk thru our trap. Amazing how high they can jump, and how fast they can move, but did not kill many...

[sixdogs]

Search ratzapper on the internet and you will be amazed.

I.....

I did search this and they seem to be battery powered.
Anyone know of a plug-in model?

Incidentally, I have occasionally left an empty hydraulic fluid bucket around---with the lid removed--and mice seem to go out of their way to get into it and get stuck. Maybe the sweet smell?

[Gary Fowler]

I dont know if they have the same Ratzapper that was discussed here, but here in our mess hall they have those so called noise generators that rats and roaches are supposed to not stand the sound. One morning a few of us watched a large rat run around all over the back of the dining hall, then finally he crawled up a table, jumped up on a shelf and finally perched on top of the ratzapper, stood on his hind legs and sniffed the air, looked around for a few minutes and then crawled back down and ran into the kitchen. Ratzapper didnt seem to faze him at all. By the way, I havent seen a cat in Nigeria in the 2 years I have been here. I guess the big rats ate them.

[forgeblast]

I think the electronic item is the ultrasonic units that scare the mice. I found that i have to use these items.
1. glue traps, work great caught some big spiders this year too.
2. ultrasonic helps keeping some away.
3. i also throw some mothballs behind some of my workbenches.
I have heard that if you use the wrong type of pepermint, oil vs something else it will attract the mice.
I think im going to try the bucket trap, sounds good and easy and fast to clean.

[LetsRoll]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/o...ml#post2163988

Picture of my mouse trap bucket
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...use-trap-1.jpg

Dead mice in the bucket
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...use-trap-2.jpg

More dead mice in the bucket
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...use-trap-3.jpg

I use green antifreeze to kill the mice and it wont freeze. Plus it controls odor as well.

[JD2720]

This bucket thing sounds like a winner. I think I'll give it a try in my out building.

When mice wanted to live in my little tractor, I used clove oil and peppermint oil. Mice do not like it, and will avoid it. A dozen or so drops of each on a golf ball size wad of cotton rag. I wrapped it with a couple of turns of copper wire, and secured it inside the tractor, behind the belly screen where the rascals would nest. Voila' no more mice and an unusual, but not unpleasant aroma. I just add a few drops of the oils now and then.

Buy the oils at a health food store or some pharmacies.

JD

[hr3]

Sixdogs Go to any hardware store and in the mouse trap section they have them,, Got my at lowes,, It's by Global ind. about 20 bucks,,

[Johnbro]

I did search this and they seem to be battery powered.
Anyone know of a plug-in model?

Incidentally, I have occasionally left an empty hydraulic fluid bucket around---with the lid removed--and mice seem to go out of their way to get into it and get stuck. Maybe the sweet smell?

The Ratzapper costs about $40 and one is all you need per building. It takes 4 D cell batteries, they last months and months. You put 6 pieces of dog kibble at the BACK of the zapper, put it on the floor or wherever you get mice and rats, and turn it on. The light flashes red if you've caught one. They don't even get to eat the bait, so all you have to do is dispose of the corpse and turn it back on. I've caught maybe a dozen mice and one rat in my shop so far. My neighbor has one in his well house and it works great.

the only place I haven't had luck with it was in my chicken coop--the rats were eating the eggs and not going for the kibble in the trap. So we got a sealed poison trap and that did it. It has a sealed lid, you put poison on some posts inside, and the holes to get in and out are too small for a chicken, kid, dog, cat, or whatever. We know it got rid of them because the egg production went way up. Now we don't know what the heck to do with all the fresh eggs!

[jimmer2880]

Get a cat man.

I used to hate them, not anymore.

I live in a hundred year old house........no mice

100% agree. Fought with mice for 10 years. Brought a cat home from the woods where I work. 3 days later was the last time I saw a mouse sign

[sixdogs]

Sixdogs Go to any hardware store and in the mouse trap section they have them,, Got my at lowes,, It's by Global ind. about 20 bucks,,

Thanks---I'm on it.
Great thread.