Replies

1. 
   Sphere | Dec 21, 2004 01:13am | #1

   depends on how shiney ya want the finished meeces to be.

    

   Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations. 

    

    

2. 
   DanH | Dec 21, 2004 01:40am | #2

   What's cheapest?

3. 
   JohnSprung | Dec 21, 2004 01:46am | #3

   As a general rule, if no opening is larger than 1/4" square, meeces do not pass thru.  I have had good results using those adhesive tray traps.  Just take care not to step in them yourself.

    

   -- J.S.

    

4. 
   UncleDunc | Dec 21, 2004 03:21am | #4

   You're overfeeding your cats.

1. 
   Luka | Dec 21, 2004 03:52am | #5

   ROFLOLBest response so far, if I wasn't serious.:)I live at the edge of a national forest. My back lot line is the forest line. Downhill about 350 feet, and a drop of nearly 60, is the great big river. All around me is trees, tons and tons of brush, and the absolutely very best soil conditions for all these rodents.I am swamped by moles, voles, river rats, rats, mice, mountain beavers, possums, skunks, chipmunks, squirrels... you name the rodent, they are here in abundace, and they are not going away. My cats DO kill beauceau rodents. They LOVE to hunt. I have already been presented with 5 mountain beavers. Killed by the cats. The mountain beavers are BIGGER than the cats !!!! It is not the dog that kills them. You can see the little cat size bite marks, and outline of blood on the MB's throat.But three cats do not make a dent in the population of rodents here.I am running new electricty. I need to make bigger holes than are needed for the conduit, because of logistics. I want to stuff those holes, and some others with bronze wool. I had heard that if you stuff a hole full of steel wool, the mice will not chew through it because it gives them cuts and splinters. Steel wool will rust out in a heartbeat here. Ergo, bronze wool...I want to be sure that I use the right stuff. I have no idea if the course stuff will cut them, give them splinters, etc. But the fine stuff in bronze may be more like cotton candy to them, compared to steel wool.

   The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow

1. 
   pye | Dec 21, 2004 04:14am | #6

   Had to pull out some feeders from a transformer the other day and found oodles of rodentia.Seems they like the conduit[s] because the feeders keep them warm... occasionally they climb up into the transformers and poof, roast fuzzies. I,too,live in the woods and my favorite occupation is to keep squirrels and mice out of the plumbing vents, they always worry the wire mesh off after it snows, they can scurry up there but I can't...so I sit at night listening to them scritch about.

2. 
   intrepidcat | Dec 21, 2004 04:19am | #7

   But three cats do not make a dent in the population of rodents here.

    

   Sounds like you need more cats .......as well as lots of bronze wool.

    

    "I will never surrender or retreat. " Col. Wm. B. Travis, The Alamo, Feb. 1835

3. 
   UncleDunc | Dec 21, 2004 04:56am | #8

   Well dang. And that would have been the cheapest solution, too.Don't know what to tell you. My intuition is that coarser would be better, but intuition has played me wrong a time or two in the past. Can you get it in assortment packs, several different degrees or coarseness? I'm fairly sure I've seen steel wool packaged that way. The other thought that occurred to me is that stainless steel wool also exists, should be just as rustproof as bronze wool, and might be cheaper.

5. 
   PHILLK | Dec 21, 2004 06:54am | #9

   I think you'll pay a lot less for a box of SOS pads then you would for a bag of bronze wool. Besides it may leave a nasty tast in the little bastards mouths!

   Phil

1. 
   UncleDunc | Dec 21, 2004 07:08am | #11

   SOS pads will rust out in weeks where Luka lives. That's if they're protected from rain. If the rain gets on them, days.

2. 
   Luka | Dec 21, 2004 08:31am | #12

   Unc got it right.As I have stated twice already, steel wool will rust out before you could turn your back and leave.And that is in the relatively dry inside. In the wetter areas, you can't even get the steel wool in there fast enough to keep the hole full from the stuff that rusted out already.

   The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow

6. 
   ponytl | Dec 21, 2004 06:59am | #10

   it's called "chore" around here and it's used to scrub pots, it's pretty pretty cheap i know the crackheads use it in their crack pipes for something because in the hood they sell parts of a scrub pad in the corner stores... don't know if ur mice are smoke'n crack or not... if they are they might just steal it...

   pony