My bird feeder has a trap door that drops when too much weight gets on the perch. It's called squirrel proof. I've never seen a squirrel get on my feeder, but then I have a 19 lb hemalayan cat that loves rodents, rabbits and squirrels, etc...

 

And all this time I thought you were a hemi Fan!

Um may I add Claymores?

 

They sell a book from this website that should give you some more ideas ...

www.backwoodshome.com

Look in the "general store" under "books" and scroll down. Lots of other info to be had there as well.

PISTOL

 

Hey Pistol is that a good mag? They are based in Gold beach Or where I work and I have wondered about them?

 

I bought the $50 "squirrel proof" bird feeder, which is basically a feeder surrounded by prison bars. Hung it up and within 2 hours I had 2 squirrels inside enjoying dinner.

 

For pole feeders, I use a 5 foot section of 6 or 8 inch galvanized vent pipe. Impossible for them to climb.

For hanging feeders, I loft a length of insulated stranded wire as high as I can over a limb and make a slip knot to secure it. I hang the feeders from a hook at the end of the wire. For some reason, the little beggers won't navigate down a long length of vertical wire.

 

Wasn't it Jeff Foxworthy that thought of using KY Jelly on the poles?

Am I the only one here that likes to watch the fuzzy tailed rats? I don't have bird feeders, but I do have my spinning corn cob wheel. That always makes for some cheap entertainment...

 

Muddin, yeah, i like watchin the squirrels pretty good.

i guess it's different if you are the one paying for the bird feed that should last a week, and they waste it in an hour.


Commatoze, that would work, but now he's got so many, it would be hard to redo them all. he's got a really neat monkey bar, that is arched, set on 2 old cedar trees, just cut limbs and bark off, look really rustic, but it's only 6 feet off ground. they destroy that thing.

 

Yep ... I read it all the time. Now that I am settled again, I will be starting my subscription. I'm into the whole self-sufficient thing and there are volumes of info in their archives.

PISTOL

 

use a deep metal bowl and hookup a propane line with a electric valve up into the botom and a piazo lighter with a long wire to your house put bird seed in bowl wait for tree rat to climb in to bow then turn on gas wait 15 sec. and push lighter ...Flamin squirrel.

 

Just reading the suggestions are funny as hell!

 

Two things:

1) I've always wondered exactly where BFE is. Can you enlighten me??

2) Watch out for those squirrels. They can be wicked evil.

 

I live there... Butt F____ Egypt... It's called New Meadows Idaho with a population number without a comma in it or in other words Less than 1,000 people...

Or... where the dog lays in the street and everyone drives around him....

Or... where there is more dirt roads than pavement...

Or... The town has 1 general store, post foffice, and a gas station.... Wal-Mart? What?

Or... like some of the smaller towns around here don't even have phone yet... Cell-Phone? What?

That's BFE! I live in it and LOVE IT!

 

Okay....I'm pretty sure I know what the F stands for and it still makes no sense. If you live in Egypt why not just say so?? And what does Egypt have to do with such ill-fated sexual tendencies anyway??

I believe what you yankees refer to as BFE is actually what we southern folks would call the "boondocks".

 

Pretty much anything in Texas qualifies.




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