Look what I found in the shop this morning (time for mouse traps?).
shopteacher
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Here’s a picture of how I found my miter saw this morning. It looks like a great place to set a mouse trap tonight.
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Today's mice are smarter than those of yore. You may need to exercise some ingenuity in placement of the trap - an aisleway leading to the business end of the trap, perhaps. You probably know that peanut butter works better than cheese.
The alternatives would include a good cat, or a shop snake.
Come and get it (Jiff).
I'm ready for tonight. The trap is loaded with Jiff Creamy Peanut Butter. I'm guessing that posting a picture of the results is not politically correct so I will refrain.
nice planes
I like your molding planes sitting in the back. Do you use them much?
From the neighbor's auction.
These planes are a group bought recently. A few are parts and pieces but most are a group of "Randall & Cook" planes. I've got about half of them working and in spare time work on the rest. Randall & Cook made planes in Albany, New York between 1835 and 1840. Five of them are complex shapes and in nice shape.
Lennie's closed hand slowly obeyed. George took the mouse and threw it across the pool to the other side, among the brush. "What do you want of a dead mouse, anyways?"
"Of Mice and Men"
John Steinbeck
1937
I got him (her?) with peanut butter last night. To remain politically correct, no pictures will be posted.
Looks like someone's been slicing cheese on the chop saw again!
Cutoff blade
Looks to be armed with a Freud 80 tooth ultimate cutoff blade. Cheese should be no problem ;-) But it sure would put a few new pages in the mouses health record.
If you have one, you probably have several. Took me a couple of months to get rid of a group of invaders to my shop. I had better luck with bird seed and the no kill traps. If you let them live, make sure you take them far away or they will be right back.
There are probably several. Reset the trap a couple of times to make sure.
Night time visitors
Here is a solution that has worked for me: Fall, when it gets colder, starts these dudes looking for a winter home. I found a product called the "Rat Zapper" .
Loaded with 4 "D" cells, it electrocutes the creature that enters the structure. Then just domp them out. May be less traumatic for your students.
To reach the company just phone,1-888-DEAD RAT. Honest, that's the phone number.
Frosty
advertising
Advertising is always good, but the signs need to be written in mouse, a language for which few references exist. ;-)
Beware! could be friendly fire
Have you guys considered that this mouse may be a fellow woodworker and is just checking out your gear? Just imagine if you dispatch him and then discover him in little boilersuit and toolbelt, What then?
wot
I like raisins over peanut butter. Moice love raisins and you can shove a raisin into the trap so the mouse has to haul it out nad in turn, set the trap. Too many times I have come to a trap with PB licked out and the trap not tripped
Need a bigger trap?
Those prints are way too large for a mouse.
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