[AT] Varmints and farming

Tue Jul 24 09:31:56 PDT 2007

With all of this talk about coons, coyotes, beavers and such, I had to share 
my perspective on coyotes. I have not been shooting them because I keep 
hoping they will help control the millions of ground squirrels, the excess 
of rabbits and the gophers. But I also have learned that without scaring 
them with flying ammunition, they will eat lots of watermelons.... An 
expensive meal from my perspective as the farmer....
      Grant Brians
      Hollister, California
p.s. I am looking for an Oliver rear end still to repair the broken 
transmission/rear end case on our Super 77. It needs to be close for hauling 
costs to be reasonable.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons


>I like your style John!  You and my late uncle Howard would have gotten
> along well.  He loved to shoot dynamite almost as much as he loved to eat
> and deer hunt.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Grant" <jfgrant at zoomon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] mice & coons
>
>
>> 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"
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> 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"
>>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>>> 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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