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Re: [Amps] WD-40, snaked, vermin and puddytats

To: Charlie Young <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>, amps@contesting.com, David H Craig <davidhcraig@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Amps] WD-40, snaked, vermin and puddytats
From: DAVE WHITE <mausoptik@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 05:20:16 +0000 (GMT)
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" In 30 years here, 2 mice in the 
house, and they must have watched Eastwood's "Gauntlet"...  The snakes don't 
bother me or my wife & they rid all rodents post-haste."

we get invaded by mice every autumn.  I catch them in the live traps and 
release them in the next village about 5 miles away, but I swear the bloody 
things are homing mice.

Mybe I need to appoint a Vermin Control Officer.  It doesn't have to hiss, so 
one that goes "meow" would be ok.  We did used to have a cat which did the job 
for us: an adopted stray, black with three legs, one eye and one ear.  Answered 
to the name of "Lucky"....

(OK, so I just made the last bit up :-).  Have a good weekend)

D

--- On Fri, 5/3/10, David H Craig <davidhcraig@verizon.net> wrote:

From: David H Craig <davidhcraig@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Amps] FW:  WD-40 Is Not....
To: "Charlie Young" <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>, amps@contesting.com
Date: Friday, 5 March, 2010, 23:18

    Guess I am lucky- Copperheads don't come near my home & no Eastern 
Diamondbacks within 50 miles.  I do have approximately 30-40 Black Ratsnakes 
that enjoy my crawlspace, attic & loft.  In 30 years here, 2 mice in the 
house, and they must have watched Eastwood's "Gauntlet"...  The snakes don't 
bother me or my wife & they rid all rodents post-haste.  Only episode circa 
1995 was when five 8 footers managed to weigh-out the attic door enough to 
fall into the living area- took 3 days to find them all hidden about the 
house & return them outside.  Now we have latches on the attic ladder 
door...

    Rattlers would get different treatment, however.  Off-subject, but 
couldn't help myself.

    Dave N3DB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Young" <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 5:52 PM
Subject: [Amps] FW: WD-40 Is Not....








Gerald, K5GW asks:

> Say, I have always wondered about snake oil: Is it supposed to attract
> snakes?,repel snakes?, made from snakes? or what?

I don't know about snake oil, but can tell you something
that makes snakes mad.  They don't like paint from an
aerosol can.  Back in the mid 1970's  I lived in a hillside
house that was on a full basement. My shack was in the
basement. Returning from Field Day, my son and I were
unloading equipment. Something moved on top of my back
basement wall, which was made from cider block. There was
a snake up there. I took a 6' long steel bar, which coal miners call a slate 
bar, and prodded the thing trying to crush
it.  The snake slithered down inside the block, but poked its head out and 
was looking at me. I would jab, it would duck
down inside the block.

No way I could leave a snake inside my basement wall.
What to do?  There was a can of red insulating spray paint
on the workbench.  I grabbed the can, and sprayed the paint
inside the block.  Instantly, the snake came out of the block, down the wall 
to the floor, and charged me.  I jumped in a chair which fortunately was 
handy, and killed the snake with
the metal bar while it was on the floor, between legs of the chair. It was a 
big rattlesnake.

I figure WD40 would have had a similar effect.

There is more to this story.

My wife and sons went grocery shopping later that day. I started thinking 
that where there was one snake, there might be another.  While they were 
gone, I checked out the basement carefully again.  Sure enough, on top of 
the block wall about 12' from where the first snake was, there was a second 
one.  This one was coiled up and chose to fight it out with me from his (or 
her) position.  I managed to kill it with the metal bar but with 
considerable difficulty.  Another huge rattlesnake.

I found the snakes had crawled through a gap in the sill plate on top of my 
basement wall.

So, don't spray a snake (especially a rattlesnake) with spray
paint or WD40 unless you have a place to run or something to climb on to get 
away from the thing.

73 Charlie N8RR



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