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Sue Unit reminded me that Superman had made a suggestion here a while back and I sort of shot it down, that rat's too smart to accidentally step in the glue traps if I put them outside. Well, what the heck, let's try it for farts and snickers. I still think this absopletely posilutely won't work but I hope to get Rambo Rat's reaction in the movie when he gets to the glue traps. I already know, he'll just fly up on the ledge and make himself a new nuther hole in that big screen to get in. Is anybody still betting on this fracas?
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He's too smart for that set up. I'd fry his filthy little butt. I'd get some metal hardware cloth with 1.5" square holes. And some light gauge sheet metal. Both about 4' x 4'. Lay the sheet metal flat on the floor inside the door. Then lay the mesh on top of it, but spaced up about an inch with some chunks of a non-conductive material like hard plastic. Enuff so it can't droop and short. Then run a 110 volt cord to it, with the neutral (large prong of the outlet) hooked to the sheet metal, and the hot (small prong on the outlet) hooked to the grid. Plug it into a non-GFI outlet. When he comes jumping in thru that hole, he'll be feeling like Ted Bundy!
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He made his rounds early last night, 9:48 p.m. This is as slow as we've seen him move, maybe his thinking module bogs down his warp speed drive. But I guessed wrong, he didn't jump up on the sill and chew a new hole in the big screen to get in. Not that time anyhow. Joel's idea about the electrified grid is tempting but I don't want to melt wires and burn the house down.
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He must smell the glue traps....I'd add a little aromatic bait tonight.Ed, Mary, & 'Earl'
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Originally posted by oletrux4evr View PostHe must smell the glue traps....I'd add a little aromatic bait tonight.Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Rock, a while back we picked out a door at HD and came back home to get Bubba the Truck to haul it. It was a wooden screen door with the tough animal (resistant) grid on the bottom half. Before we went back to get it I actually looked at the project and ohhh man...that door hole is a rhombus, by about an inch and a half. That door that's on there has been carved and butchered all ways to make it fit the Southern Engineered hole. And a door replacement wouldn't stop Rambo's adventures, he'd just jump up on the ledge and come through the big screens.
I'm still thinking about Joel's electrocution ploy and Unit had a novel idea to go with it. What about using 12V instead of AC? I've got the jump starter box, would that do it? What would 12V at a lot of amps do to a rat? I couldn't sleep all night with AC run to two bare panels, not knowing what it would do if the rat actually got stuck in it. But I for sure don't have a clue, that jump box may explode and burn down the house anyhow...Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Originally posted by pdub View PostRock, a while back we picked out a door at HD and came back home to get Bubba the Truck to haul it. It was a wooden screen door with the tough animal (resistant) grid on the bottom half. Before we went back to get it I actually looked at the project and ohhh man...that door hole is a rhombus, by about an inch and a half. That door that's on there has been carved and butchered all ways to make it fit the Southern Engineered hole. And a door replacement wouldn't stop Rambo's adventures, he'd just jump up on the ledge and come through the big screens.
I'm still thinking about Joel's electrocution ploy and Unit had a novel idea to go with it. What about using 12V instead of AC? I've got the jump starter box, would that do it? What would 12V at a lot of amps do to a rat? I couldn't sleep all night with AC run to two bare panels, not knowing what it would do if the rat actually got stuck in it. But I for sure don't have a clue, that jump box may explode and burn down the house anyhow...
You'd be better off with a fricken' laser.Last edited by RockJustRock; November 20, 2019, 02:32 PM.My hobby is needing a hobby.
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Recon Rat Killed in Action
He resisted to the violent bitter end.
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