Avoiding mice, not enough snakes up here!

[Farwell]

Tractor damage if left in the rain: If the tractor is covered with a canopy you are probably ok. If the tractor was left out in the rain with out being covered it may not hurt the usability of the tractor for a while but would do a bunch of cosmetic damage. I keep my tractor inside unless I am using it, but I have the room. I cover my brush hog with a tarp and park my disc and drag under evergreen trees during the Winter and that helps slow down the rust. I do leave my rear blade out year round but I smear lots of grease on all the critical parts.
I have tried the mothball thing on Chipmunks with out any luck. I keep 5 or 6 boxes of the rat and mice poison in various areas around the inside of my buildings where other critters can't get to it. I have found the green pellets stored by critters in very weird places, like gloves, PVC pipe fittings and opened tool boxes. The pellets make the critters thirsty so they seek out water. A neighbor found a bunch of the green pellets in the salt container of his water softener so I keep any drinking water things critter proof.
Farwell

 

[53gravely]

get 12 pack and a BB pistol and sit real quiet-like.....

.....you know you're a redneck when.... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[normde2001]

"Forgive my tractor ignorance here, but what damage could be done to the tractor by being left out in the rain? Keeping in mind that it got a canopy that over hangs the hood and rear pretty well. "

The canopy should make a big difference, but you would be amazed at how many posters complain about "mysteriously" finding water in the transmission and front end differential, only to find out, after questioning, that they store their tractor outdoors.

 

[jjcc246]

i use the mothball treatment with good results. I had a mice problem making nests on the engine. I started putting mothballs (old fashion type, not scented ) right on the injector lines and in the little pockets around the starter, battery, radiator, etc. I've been using them about five years now and other that the smell of mothballs i've no problem with the machine as far as corrision. I also use them in my atv's where the mice chewed through the battery terminals. Again no mice and no problems. Good luck

 

[hayden]

I took an old sock and filled it part way with mothballs, tied the end, and put it under to hood. Never saw any mice after that.

 

[RobT]

This is an old post, but since I'm recently new member, I thought I would add my 2 cents worth.

One thing we do in our basement is to put hedge apples out to ward off the mice. Seems to work and I've heard several other people doing this. We put the hedge apples on aluminum or other hard container so when they rot, they don't make too much of a mess. It seems mice don't like hedge apples.

Rob T.

 

[KubotaSteve]

The hedge apples also work with crickets too. I put them all over by the house during the fall and winter. It has worked quite well so far.

 

[wushaw]

"Hedge Apples"??
Are these the green apples from Osage orange/Bodark trees?

 

[cisunix]

Yes they are the things that look like "brains" lots of thorns on the trees

 

[RobT]

I've never used them for crickets. Good idea.