rat patrol

iowa · Post by **iowa** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:36 pm

what is the best method
to keep mice out of your 170's!!
i use the circular piece of tin
with the square of plywood
(to keep them from crawling up the tin's seam)
it seems to help
any other ideas?
iowa

sphillips · Post by **sphillips** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:10 pm

The guy I bought mine from hung little bags of moth balls on the landing gear legs just up hill from the axles, and on tailwheel spring.

cessna170bdriver · Post by **cessna170bdriver** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:23 pm

Iowa,

Your problem is that that hangar is WAAAAY too clean! You need to put some junk in there to give the mice a low-rent housing option to your 170. If you don't have any junk, I've got several truckloads you can have for shipping costs.

Miles

iowa · Post by **iowa** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:56 pm

miles
this was taken just after the hangar was built!
now it have a decidedly different look!!
dave

thammer · Post by **thammer** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:01 am

Those are two of the biggest mice I've ever seen! They must be tough 'cause they're standing on their hind legs!!

tye

iowa · Post by **iowa** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:13 am

i'll have to tell my mice
after they wake up
(its 5am)
what you called them!!
dave

WWhunter · Post by **WWhunter** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:14 pm

Those aren't mice!!! They're called..Rug Rats!! LOL

Post by **GAHorn** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:17 am

Never let anyone eat any food in your airplane! Never! Water in bottles only!
The slightest crumb will teach them that food is available in there, and they'll find it.
I guess a cat is out of the question?

iowa · Post by **iowa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:12 pm

george
the headliner and padding
is pretty enticing to a cold mouse
in a very cold hangar!!
dave

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:54 am

Those small little sticky pads available at the local hardware are great. Leave one just inside behind the pilots seat on the floor (that way you see it as soon as you open the door and don't fly around till it sticks itself to your interior. Place the other on the floor next to tailwheel. That's the one the usualy get's em

Good Luck ....

Kyle T.

Post by **Bruce Fenstermacher** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:45 am

Kyle I've never figured out how people could use those sticky traps. I'd rather set a good old snapping mouse trap and humanly quickly kill the mouse rather than have it starve to death.

My hanger partner has about 6 traps set in the hanger and uses peanut butter which lasts a while.

Post by **GAHorn** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:17 pm

Not likely found around hangars, but ... Jamie loves to feed the birds. She has several birdfeeders around the place and they scatter the birdseed all over the ground and on the back-porch, etc.
It didn't occur to me for some time that it wasn't until that birdseed was all over the place that we began to see the occasional field mouse around the house. Then I began to notice snakes around the place.
I think I'm going to have to discuss the bird thing with her.

Fortunately I've not yet found any mouse evidence in the hangar even tho' it's at the end of the house. This discussion has me thinking that maybe I'd better remove the baggage bulkhead and take a look, just for good measure.

iowa · Post by **iowa** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:19 pm

does the sticky thing work in cold weather?
iowa

jwmcgu · Post by **jwmcgu** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:20 pm

Bruce, If you need to replace the headliner, you will not feel sorry for the little criters. I replaced mine this month. Kyle, I use the same location for the sticky pads and it works very well. One other point that has not been suggested, I've used the canned foam around the bottom of the hangar walls to prevent the initial entry (I hope).
John N2488D

jrenwick · Post by **jrenwick** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:03 am

In the hangar, there's always the bucket trap, which has several variations. Easy to make, low maintenance. Google for "bucket mouse trap" or start here for an example: http://www.kountrylife.com/content/gal1017.htm