Far better dead in the walls or rafters than alive in there
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You are lucky. We had one die in my wife’s car many years ago. The stink was horrible. I could never find the source. Took all the back apart nada. Couple years later I had to replace the brake light bulb and there he was. He had crawled in there. I swear a few years later I could still smell it. We had the car shampooed and the works. Never forgot it.
Also had one die in the basement wall. It was only bad for a month. But didn’t linger.
Use ozone next time. Works well as it gets everywhere.
If you got mouses in your garage, it's because you're feeding them. Find and eliminate the food source and the mouses will move house.
Catch and release doesn't work, they come right back. The "poison" you can buy doesn't work either. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze) works... works on cats and dogs just as well.
Catch and release doesn't work, they come right back. The "poison" you can buy doesn't work either. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze) works... works on cats and dogs just as well.
Or because it's warm and out of the weather. I have killed many mice in places with no food (like my attic and shed).
Some poison works (tomcat). Most don't as they are just cornmeal. The problem with poison is you smoke a lot of owls by accident when they eat the poisoned mice. Traps are the way to go.
I had a mouse in the ceiling of main floor or floor of the 2nd floor. It eventually moved into the attic.
Every night it would chomp at the wood. It sounded like it was a beaver trying to take your house down. Eventually I set up a mouse trap in the attic and the bugger was put to sleep. It was even smaller then a normal mouse size.
Every night it would chomp at the wood. It sounded like it was a beaver trying to take your house down. Eventually I set up a mouse trap in the attic and the bugger was put to sleep. It was even smaller then a normal mouse size.
Mad Mike
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Nothing to eat but wiring and air filters in my garage. I back onto a wooded ravine, small animals assaults my heated garage non stop. Ive had mice, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, skunks, possums and a feral cat. They seek heat and comfortable shelter.
My cat keeps the big ones out, but the endless supply of field mice are hard for him to catch in a garage with lots of stuff.
I get nothing in the summer, but it’s a non stop assault in the cold months.
It could always be worse. We'd just packed up after a night of camping on the Trans Taiga (That an effing long way from home - Google it)
I pull up behind my buddy on the driveway getting ready to head out and see oil puddling under his bike. Luckily it was only his shock.
Oddly with just a big spring under his ass he was the fastest guy on the way back. "It smoothes out after about 100"
That's my thinking. I never see mice but I have no food in the garage for them.
Good point but I can't help thinking of the satisfaction gained from firing one or 2 of the little b#tards across the garage at spring start up.
My garage is a pole barn surrounded by a food source. Soy beans and corn on a yearly rotation.
The rodents tend to store the soy beans wherever they can. Inside a glove left on a bench, an old cup used for pencils, or any other container left open a crack. They don't store the corn.
And as others have said, the corn gluten bait is just their snacks. The blocks seem to work, but I don't want to use outside them because we get hawks, owls including a snowy owl and peregrine falcons.
Just last week I took an injured (hit a wire) falcon to the animal rescue in Napanee.
Mad Mike
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Mice seek heat. I’ve had them destroy a hot tub by chewing thru foam insulation and spa flex pipe, the also nested around the transformer in my pool heater, surviving on wire insulation.
I have a small deck box where I keep my lawnmower gas - I just noticed the little buggers have a taste for premix - I just found a chewed plastic gas can.
There was a bag of large Lego blocks in a bag left in the kids playhouse and mice made a nest in it and ate chunks of the Lego. The cat was with me when we found it and he had fun with the two mice inside. Our cat will chase/kill anything. He’s chased a dozen wild turkeys off the lawn multiple times.
The ST1100 clutch engagement right at the end of travel is normal.
I used to change brake fluid in brakes and clutch every 2 years. Bike is 27 years old, are you the original owner? May a PO neglected fluid changes and that gunk has been there for years?
Another PM thing I did with the ST annually was to pull the wheels, pump out and clean the brake caliper pistons and clean and lube the caliper and pad pins. Another task, done less frequently is to remove the caliper pistons and the seals to clean out the groove the seals fit in. Always amazed at the gunk that collected in there.
Yes, lot's of issue with poison. Rodent die in a wall and stink for weeks. I had no clue about secondary or relay poisoning until a neighbour brought it to be attention. Poisoned rodents take days to die and are easy prey for owls, foxes and other critters. The poison in the mouse then poisons animal that ate it. I stopped using poison and I'm back to snap traps.
Secondary poisoning - Wikipedia
Mad Mike
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I use traps and Warfarin and thisYes, lot's of issue with poison. Rodent die in a wall and stink for weeks. I had no clue about secondary or relay poisoning until a neighbour brought it to be attention. Poisoned rodents take days to die and are easy prey for owls, foxes and other critters. The poison in the mouse then poisons animal that ate it. I stopped using poison and I'm back to snap traps.
Secondary poisoning - Wikipedia
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I’ve had the bike for 16 years now so it is on me. The clutch lever travel has been getting less and less but really noticed this year. While I’m at speed, I just touch the lever and the revs go way up.
Good call on the brake servicing. I managed to do that to the rear brakes 2 years ago as I noticed when I spin the rear wheel after a ride it spins freely with just a bit of pad friction. When it drags then I clean it up. You are right about the stuff in the seal groves, I overhauled them around 6-7 years ago when I used to really out on the mileage in all weather.
Looking a bit more seriously at my daughter's 1976 TY today. Looks like the left footpeg bracket is bent. I'm going to need a big vise to twist it back. Sigh.
