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BARRIE, ONTARIO

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Post is based on my own recent fact finding mission . Results may , or may have all ready varied , for others .

So OK , your sposed to put bouncy sheets in your stuff when you store it too keep mice out . I recently went on a 10 day trip and left the 50 , The Little Gremlin and The Nasty Girl in the back yard . I put 4 bouncy sheets in the 50 , and 6 each in the cars . Last night I hooked up the battery in The 50 , started it an let it run for like 2 minutes . Something caught my eye an it was a mouse he ran literally from one side of the cab to the other ...

 Then in the back of the drag car one bouncy sheet had a mouse turd on it .... Maybe mice have evolved an are no longer affected by bouncy sheets ????..77.



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I use Bounce. I can't stand the smell of moth balls in my car.
Maybe the mouse has become immune to it. ???

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I was working on a lady's '65 T-bird convertible up in Tay yesterday, she had slices of Irish Spring Soap bars scattered throughout the car to keep the mice out!

She claimed it works.

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I have heard that too.

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it would keep me out .. allergies - I hate the soap sections at stores

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I used irish spring in the motor home one year and the fking mice ate the irish spring soap..I have tried bags of charcoal, (was told they don't like the smell..that didn't work either..tried using cedar wood chips, that never worked either, Pepermint works best but not 100% I went to a craft store and got peppermint leaves that worked best so far, I also have got a bottle of perperment oil and put that in small Dixie cups in a couple cupboards ..that seemed to be the best that I have found but I don't think there is anything that is a 100% mouse free..We have been storing cars, boats, motorhomes, and all kinds of things  for more than 50 years nothing seems to deter those little maggot chits.. I found a company in Ontario that makes a product called  mouse free..link.. http://www.mouse-free.com/.. I used it last year for my motor home..It worked as far as I can tell there was no evidence of mice in my motor home this year..but who knows for how long or mice populations seem to run in cycles one year there is a million and the next year there is 10 million..they are like extremist muslims they are all around us but we have yet found a way to eliminate them either..they are slowly but steadily like mice tasking over our country like mice they dirty up our stuff and country.. 





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I wonder if there is anything that would keep racists off our site.

 

Maybe a donut on a stick.



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No need for that comment on a 'Rodders ' site.

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Why don't you guys get a life..furious



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Sigh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i see the full moon is having it's effects again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sad.

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BunkerT wrote:

I wonder if there is anything that would keep racists off our site.

 

 


 I don't think so, cuz you got on didn't you??



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OK...Once again, the silliness ensues......

Chuck.....I know your frustration with what you feel about what is happening to the country, but this really isnt the place.

Bunker T...I just did a bit more investigating, like I did last week and it turns out your IP is the same as a banned member, so it seems to me you are just stirring up sh!t....Like I said last week to the other party last week...Take a flying leap

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Back on the topic of Mice.......

My Dad said that in the house trailer they found that those fly traps that hang from the ceiling, the ones that unravel and are sticky will keep mice away if hung up????? Don't know if it works but I am trying it in the house trailer this winter. It will at the least keep the flys to a minimum. I think moth balls work but my wife Linda can't take the smell either!!

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Harry we will have to change your nick name to "Columbo" . Some of us had a guess at who BunkerT might have been but I guess we will never know....see ya BunkerT!!

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I throw some moth balls around under my cars or the motor home, but it has never been effective ..I have never tried the fly traps but I can't see how they would work..but who knows how sensitive a mouse nose is..One thing I have discovered whilst trying to even mouse proof a house in the country (mine) it's a 165 year old stone house ( more like a money pit)..mice are always looking for a warm spot in the winter and they tend to circle the house So I have removed all shrubs and things of that nature. they are able to sense just a fraction of temperature difference and that's how they usualy find a small crack to get in..I have been told they can get a hole less than a 1/4 in..don't know if it's true or not but I have circled my house with 3/4 crushed stone and that has almost stopped the house mice..So far I am not confident in anything that works in the motor home or any of my cars that mouse free spray has been the best so far and the peppermint oil I have noticed the mouse free spray has peppermint in it ..and I have not had one deer in my motor home....



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I heard a mouse could get in a hole the size of a dime!! So 1/4 inch is probably true. I think I will try the peppermint stuff(thanks for post'n that info) as long as my wife likes the smell...

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My Mom used to say if a mouse can squeeze his head thru , then they can get in .. ..77.

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Small holes
I was in the kitchen and heard something.....here a mouse was sticking its head outta my coffeemate container so I closed the lid on it and outside it went where it was -20C.

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I heard they work good to keep the "skeeters away WRONG after working around them and hearing this I stuffed a few under my hardhat but I think it just attracted them!!! Now I think I will try something stronger than mothballs in my rv.I'll check out that link thanks Fatchuk.

 

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Several years ago when we lived in a house that was built in 1860 I found a bat, basically a flying mouse, and saw it crawl under the quarter round in our daughters bedroom. If I didn't see it myself. I wouldn't have believed it There was less than a 1/4" gap there.

BTW Randy, how did you ever get between the moth's legs to smell his #####??biggrinbiggrin 



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Mice are so damned clever too. I have been having great luck with the spinning can over a bucket of water in my garage. Sometimes found 2 or 3 drowned mice in the water. Then I notice that the Peanut Butter had been cleaned off the top of the can but no mice in the bucket. Happened a couple of nights in a row. One of those damned things had learned how to balance themselves on the can and lick the PB off. I set a trap nearby and the next morning there was a very fat mouse in the trap. Guess he only learned one trick.

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v8deuce wrote:

I heard they work good to keep the "skeeters away WRONG after working around them and hearing this I stuffed a few under my hardhat but I think it just attracted them!!! Now I think I will try something stronger than mothballs in my rv.I'll check out that link thanks Fatchuk.

 

  Randy


 Not that I'm mister safety . but sniffing balls isn't good for you ... posted a long link last year on the same thing. Really moths or mice isn't worth becoming dumber then me .



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what about those sonic noise makers they advertise?

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I heard that if you leave a radio on in your garage or RV it may help to keep the varmints away. I have always thrown mothballs under my oldies in winter when stored inside and have had no mice problems.

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Keep in mind mice are very persistent, and they will adapt to almost anything to get shelter. That includes noise and strong smells.

I use those noise makers, 3 in the car. I also use bounce sheets,(I literally spread the whole box in the car). I also use a couple small fans and a radio (on timers), also in the car...and just for added safety, a few baits and traps in the garage.

I have a friend that jacks the car up on stands, on puts the stands in trays, then tops the trays with oil. You could substitute the oil for antifreeze, if you have no pets or kids.


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that's an interesting idea right there the pans an oil . hmmmm 10 seconds after reading your post I began thinking hmmmmmmmmmm maybe I could trench around the whole garage and make like a moat , and just have little ramps for going in an out . Hmmmmmm. ..77.

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Tried all the ideas and none really work. A buddy fires up one of his cars in his stand alone garage every couple of weeks in the winter and lets the car run for 20 minutes or so with all the doors closed. He then opens the overhead door ,runs in and shuts off the car, runs out and shuts the door. Over the top Yep, but he says nothing is alive after one of his 'treatments'. Don't try this in a garage connected to the house L.O.L.



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the animal shelter here has an adopt a cat push on right now ... always room for another little buddy

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I made a recording of the distorted 50's music they play at the local cruise night and play it 24-7..not even mice can stand that crap for very long wink



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when i was in the marine business we used a product called ropel,it was quite effective, i believe we got it at co-op. cloves seem to work also.



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I used bounce and the little buggers made their nest with them.

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My friend uses bounce sheets in his boat, usually 3 boxes worth, and has never had a mouse problem. He stores the boat in an old barn which is not heated. Maybe he's just been lucky or its too cold in the barn for mice.

I keep a radio on in the garage and never had mice until last winter. Caught 7 in the garage, and 15 in the house. We live in the country. I had left the radio on as deterrent for raccoons, never expected it would work on mice and I guess it doesn't. Or they now appreciate my taste in music.

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One of the very best mouse deterents is the ball bearing mouse trap. Back in the day they were call Tomcats.
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69SS454 wrote:

I made a recording of the distorted 50's music they play at the local cruise night and play it 24-7..not even mice can stand that crap for very long wink


LOL!!!!! Now that's funny....and true! I think some of their speakers have been out in a few rain storms this year. LOL. 



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Ok so to further the discussion . My woman works in a dollar store an a old dude comes in an buys some boxes of moth balls . There is a kind that doesn,t smell to human,s . Ol dude says he has used them for yrs in his 3 cars that he puts in storage . the building he uses gets mice in it . since doing that no mice in his cars .
the 50 an the trans am might be going to storage today . I,m gonna try those balls , and REAL bouncy sheets an see what happens .
Further up dates next april ..77.

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Anyone knows who sells the real round moth balls? All I can find is the moth balls in wrappers. Look like candies. Sell them at dollar store but when they get wet loose their potency. I find the plane round moth balls work great. I use them for skunks around the house. Anyone knows who sells the old style round ones not in packages? thanks in advance

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All the new products coming into the R.V. shop are peppermint based so that seams to be the new discovery this year. If you use bounce sheets you need to use tonnes of them we use per trailer 30-40 sheets.

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fatchuk wrote:

I throw some moth balls around under my cars or the motor home, but it has never been effective ..I have never tried the fly traps but I can't see how they would work..but who knows how sensitive a mouse nose is..One thing I have discovered whilst trying to even mouse proof a house in the country (mine) it's a 165 year old stone house ( more like a money pit)..mice are always looking for a warm spot in the winter and they tend to circle the house So I have removed all shrubs and things of that nature. they are able to sense just a fraction of temperature difference and that's how they usualy find a small crack to get in..I have been told they can get a hole less than a 1/4 in..don't know if it's true or not but I have circled my house with 3/4 crushed stone and that has almost stopped the house mice..So far I am not confident in anything that works in the motor home or any of my cars that mouse free spray has been the best so far and the peppermint oil I have noticed the mouse free spray has peppermint in it ..and I have not had one deer in my motor home....


I tried bounce sheets, mothballs and paid big bucks for the essential peppermint oil none are foolproof in my opinion as much as I don't like cats I believe they work,,, the hungry they are the better they work,,



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I found a few years ago that mice like to use the bounce sheets for bedding.
Sorry guys but I don't know why anyone would put mothballs in their car.
I thought that went out years ago.
Mothballs smell almost ,,,,,,,,,,,no they do smell as bad as mouse pizz.
I guess mothballs don't chew the interior but they still destroy it.
I use to store my stuff at a farm,the guy put down lots of bait/poison,seemed to work.
I just seal the building up as good as possible put down several traps with peanut butter along the walls.
I guess it helps if you are keeping the car at home.
Just IMO
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