Updated Mouse Trap Bucket

[Ed of all trades]

I have a small blacksmith shop in my back yard and enjoy working in it from time to time and from time to time a mouse will drown in the quench bucket. Let me tell you you have never smelled ambrosia until you smell an almost liquid mouse when you quench a hot piece of steel in it. Trust me it is a smell you will never forget. Ed

 

[Bill Hoffman]

Went to my shop today and found 3 dead mice in my quench bucket. Stank to high heaven.
I hates those meeses to peeces.

 

[jmc]

Anybody have a simple recipe for that camera setup with a motion detector?

Ed and Bill, do the mice smell worse than forgotten nightcrawlers in the back of the fridge?

 

[woodlandfarms]

game cameras can be had for cheap. Probably the cheapest idea.

Next in line is cludging together something with an existing PC and camera

Finall maybe a stand alone IP camera

And then you get into real security camera system that start around $400.

 

[LD1]

I have a used the bucket trap but with a small juice bottle rotating on a thin wire. Took a small plastic juice bottle, drilled a hole in the center of the cap and center of the bottom. Strung the wire thru these drilled holes and secured the wire thru the bucket handle holes very tight. Took a 18" 1x2, and drove thru two nails thru the upper end of the 1x2 about 1'' from the end. This ramp is now hooked on to the bucket. To attract the mouse as they run up the ramp I smeared peanut butter on the entire juice bottle and made sure it was over the center of the bucket. To make sure it the bottle stayed in place but could easily spin I crimped a stop about 1/4" from each end of the juice bottle on the wire. Bottle now spins freely when any weight hops on the bottle to feast on the peanut butter. Since I'm not able to check on this trap daily or monthly I needed something to keep a dead mouse from stinking up my bunk house. Solution; antifreeze. About 2'' deep has done the trick. Pickled mice. Next spring I'll give the critters a proper burial.

idaho2

Dad does the same thing with a bottle and bucket of water. But never a ramp. The mice can climb a bucket just fine.

Same concept for killing yellowjackets in the shed. Only replace the bottle/peanut butter with a piece of rotten meat. Yellowjackets eat so much they cannot fly, fall off, and drowned.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Anybody have a simple recipe for that camera setup with a motion detector?

Ed and Bill, do the mice smell worse than forgotten nightcrawlers in the back of the fridge?

They do when you quench a piece of red hot steel in the mouse. :shocked: Ed

 

[Opti-Mist]

I've used the bucket trap to catch chipmunks. About 6 - 8 inches of water, a round sheet of white plastic bag on water surface, scattered sunflower seeds on the plastic and some on the ramp. The plastic keeps the seeds from sprouting. Caught 7 chipmunks in a little over a month.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I've used the bucket trap to catch chipmunks. About 6 - 8 inches of water, a round sheet of white plastic bag on water surface, scattered sunflower seeds on the plastic and some on the ramp. The plastic keeps the seeds from sprouting. Caught 7 chipmunks in a little over a month.

Good they are worse than rats. Worked on a house that they had pulled every bit of insulation out of the floors. Ed

 

[bcp]

Hang a narrow strip of screen wire over the edge of your quench bucket so the mice can get out.

Bruce

 

[Ed of all trades]

Hang a narrow strip of screen wire over the edge of your quench bucket so the mice can get out.

Bruce

Not a bad idea. Will do something like that. Ed