[AT] mice & coons

[John Grant]

Dynamite will work if you set
> the charge on top of the beavers as well as the dam. Nope. You put it 
> underneath the dam at the base in the water. Concussion kills the builders 
> and the timber goes sky high. You do want to be back a bit from the site. 
> I know this for a fact. !!!! What a sight. Use almost a full case.  Don't 
> do anything 1/2 a**.  Never came back!!!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons


>I knew a guy (who has since died) who owned vast amounts of timber lands.
> He had terrible problems with beaver dams flooding land and destroying
> timber.  He told me once that he paid a guy with a big track excavator a
> bunch of money to tear out a beaver dam.  By the end of the following
> weekend the beavers had the dam rebuilt.
>
> The only way to stop them is to kill them.  Dynamite will work if you set
> the charge on top of the beavers as well as the dam.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Grant" <jfgrant at zoomon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
>
>
>> Don't know Rick. Never had to try it. If we have problems with beavers
>> building dams where they shouldn't and without permits we resort to
>> dynamite. Takes care of the permit process.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Rick Weaver" <Rick_Weaver at hilton.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
>>
>>
>>> Will this technique work on beavers as well?  If so, I'll have a whole
>>> passel of other questions...
>>>
>>> Rick Weaver
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Bill Brueck
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:19 PM
>>> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
>>>
>>> I'll second that technique, indeed I just came in the house from burying
>>> last night's coon.  I usually just take varmits some distance from
>>> civilization and let the other varmits dismantle them, but with this
>>> potent
>>> poison I thought I'd better not do that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Grant
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:40 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: [AT] mice & coons
>>>
>>> Ralph, try "one step". It's called "one step" cause that's about as far
>>> as
>>> they go after consuming the stuff. Get some Yellow fly bait from the
>>> elevator (actually it's blue in color), mix it up with some Coke or oil
>>> from
>>> tuna fish and set it out in tempting locations. It will however also
>>> take
>>> care of dogs. Cats will regurgitate the mix (usually) Keep up where kid
>>> big
>>> and small cannot get into it. I use plastic tools to mix and plastic
>>> containers for service. It works WELL!.  JG
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>>> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:47 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Old vs. New (about TRACTORS!)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Greg Hass" <gkhass at avci.net>
>>>> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:50 PM
>>>> Subject: [AT] Old vs. New (about TRACTORS!)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This is about something that has been discussed recently....mice and
>>>>> old tractors.  It also can relate to new tractors, as we found out at
>>>
>>>>> a party we attended tonight.
>>>>
>>>> Its bad enough when mice damage the simple few wires on an old tractor
>>>
>>>> but when they attack the intricate wiring in today's computer
>>>> controlled farm equipment it can be devastating. Thats why I spend a
>>>> fair bit of money every year on "blue blocks" of mouse and rat poison
>>>> and keep all my sheds well stocked with it so that when mice move in,
>>>> their first meal is also their last.
>>>> Now if I could just find something as effective for racoons!
>>>>
>>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>>
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