Getting Rid of Mice in my shop ?

[Hiltz]

Hey Guys, I have a mouse problem in my shop and have an idea of how to get rid of them without messy traps or dangerous poisons. See what you think.
I thought I would simply start up my John Deere 790 and let it run for an hour letting diesel fumes and carbon monoxide kill the litttle critters. Now my shop is well insulated and pretty air tight so the fumes will certainly fill up the shop area. Do you guys think the mouse will suffocate or as they are getting little headaches in their little heads do you think they will try to scamper outdoors. Oh, Im gonna put a timer on the tractor while Im outside the shop. Think it will work?

 

[SandburRanch]

Your tractor may die from a headache before the mice do.:laughing:

 

[YesDeere]

Get a cat man.

I used to hate them, not anymore.

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

 

[Treemonkey1000]

You would just stink up your shop more than anything doing that. It would take gasoline combustion and a lot of it to fill up the shop enough to do any damage to the mice. Your best bet is sticky traps or cats.

 

[sixdogs]

Bad idea.
From an odds of probability standpoint, too many things can accidentally go wrong and all of them have unhappy endings.
Maybe seal up the barn openings, vac up all the mouse nest material and call it good.
After that, consider a cat.

 

[Johnbro]

Ratzapper. It's awesome.

 

[wade simpson]

I have the same problem in my camp. regular traps only get one at a time so not very effective. A fella described a trap that keeps working.
Get a bucket and fill it deeper than a mouse can touch he bottom. use a can or some type of cylinder that you can string a small wire thru. Slide the wire thru a small hole in both ends of the can then string the wire tightly across the mouth odf the bucket. Smear peanut butter in a narrow strip around the middle of the can so the mice have to be fully on the can to get the butter. Make it so the can will easily rotate.

the idea is that the mice will get on the can/cylinder, as they eat the butter on top they will start to move to the edge of the can to get the stuff down the sides. as they move to the edge they will cause the can to rotate and fall in the bucket.

I been using it and it works great

 

[Marveltone]

I have the same problem in my camp. regular traps only get one at a time so not very effective. A fella described a trap that keeps working.
Get a bucket and fill it deeper than a mouse can touch he bottom. use a can or some type of cylinder that you can string a small wire thru. Slide the wire thru a small hole in both ends of the can then string the wire tightly across the mouth odf the bucket. Smear peanut butter in a narrow strip around the middle of the can so the mice have to be fully on the can to get the butter. Make it so the can will easily rotate.

the idea is that the mice will get on the can/cylinder, as they eat the butter on top they will start to move to the edge of the can to get the stuff down the sides. as they move to the edge they will cause the can to rotate and fall in the bucket.

I been using it and it works great

I'll have to agree with this one. I have a friend who uses that same method to keep the rodent population down in his cabin. Works great :thumbsup:!

Joe

 

[sixdogs]

This is simply brilliant. Thank you.

I have the same problem in my camp. regular traps only get one at a time so not very effective. A fella described a trap that keeps working.
Get a bucket and fill it deeper than a mouse can touch he bottom. use a can or some type of cylinder that you can string a small wire thru. Slide the wire thru a small hole in both ends of the can then string the wire tightly across the mouth odf the bucket. Smear peanut butter in a narrow strip around the middle of the can so the mice have to be fully on the can to get the butter. Make it so the can will easily rotate.

the idea is that the mice will get on the can/cylinder, as they eat the butter on top they will start to move to the edge of the can to get the stuff down the sides. as they move to the edge they will cause the can to rotate and fall in the bucket.

I been using it and it works great

 

[David Devuono]

I tried the bucket, It froze and they ate all the peanut butter. I also tried the tractor exhaust thing. Will never know until the place starts to stink of dead mice. Mice won't chew on closed cell foam, So I finally went around my camp and foamed every crack I thought a mouse could crawl through. Then I set my traps as a backup. Been a year without mice.

 

[gdh]

I too have had good results with the spinning peanut butter can on a bucket. To prevent freezing, I use RV winterizing fluid.

 

[Milton Burro]

I used cats after setting 36 of the old style traps and glue pads all over the place and catching only one mouse. They robbed the snap traps and I did find some mouse hair on one of the glue pads. The mice had built a nest under the seat of my motorcycle, chewing up some of the wiring in the process. I made a fence to put around the bike from aluminum flashing, held at the ends by magnets on both sides. Easy to set up and take down for a ride when I want.

 

[PILOON]

5 gallon plastic bucket with 2-3 inches of water and float a handful of unpopped popcorn.
Provide some sort of ramp access or place the bucket against a wall.
A short length of wood leaning on the side of the bucket will do fine.

We did this in our log cabin one year and all night we heard, plop, splash, splash and next AM had half dozen drowned critters in the bucket.
Ar one time I caught 36 in a week!
We then adopted a cat who slept all day and moused all night.
He moved in skinny and left 'one fat cat'! LOL

 

[wrenchturner]

I think this is a good idea. I was actually going to carbon monoxide the mice but my mice disappeared before I took action. A few weeks later I found out why the mice diasppeared. I found a six foot long snake skin in one of my cars.

 

[Sumpter]

Forget the cats. My yellow lab takes care of any mouse problem I got. :thumbsup:

 

[hr3]

Nope won't work,, How did the mice get in there ??? As soon as they smell the stink they will leave the same way and only come back when all is clear,,

Get yourself some of those plug in rodent things,, I have one in the barn,, garage and basement .. Haven't seen a mouse in years..

 

[The Haymaker]

I tried the bucket, It froze and they ate all the peanut butter. I also tried the tractor exhaust thing. Will never know until the place starts to stink of dead mice. Mice won't chew on closed cell foam, So I finally went around my camp and foamed every crack I thought a mouse could crawl through. Then I set my traps as a backup. Been a year without mice.

Fill it with antifreeze. For some reason it keeps the stink down in an application where you don't check it daily.

 

[sixdogs]

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Get yourself some of those plug in rodent things,, I have one in the barn,, garage and basement .. Haven't seen a mouse in years..

What are these plug-in mouse things?

 

[jimmyj]

Search ratzapper on the internet and you will be amazed.

I just heard an old timer trick to soak cotton balls in peppermint liquid. Apparently it chases them away. Now you could get rats, you won't have mice if you have rats. Don't ask me how I know.....

 

[JerryK]

Wire up about 20 or 25 pounds of C-4 military grade plastic explosive around your building, add another 5 or 10 if you have snow in your driveway. This will get rid of all problem critters off your property, and, clean the snow off your driveway at the same time.....