How can I stop a 2.5mt X 6mm diam steel rod from swaying about like a 'car whip type aeriel?

[not done it yet]

Just leave a pile of nuts on the ground, they will loose all interest in the feeder

Virtually all bird feeders attract grey rats (not squirrels) if feed gets left on the floor. There are more rats about the place than squirrels.

 

[brightspark]

Virtually all bird feeders attract grey rats (not squirrels) if feed gets left on the floor. There are more rats about the place than squirrels.

i get about 10 rats a year feeding the birds i poison live catch shooting and a fentrap sorts it

 

[Erie Fred]

i get about 10 rats a year feeding the birds i poison live catch shooting and a fentrap sorts it

What do rats taste like ?
Is the poison like salt & pepper ?

 

[Eric the chicken]

Ratatouille?

 

[Bravheart]

A wide ish base triangle with the thin poles high enough only you can reach the platform.

But the electric fencer unit on part of the pole insulated from the ground and the platform as mentioned above is the answer.


Edit. It might not be the answer come to think of it as the squirrel would need to complete the circuit to ground to get a shock. An electrified portion close to but not touching the earth might work. Its only you then that would get the kick if the platform wasn't isolated, wouldn't affect the birds

 

[GRW]

A wide ish base triangle with the thin poles high enough only you can reach the platform.

But the electric fencer unit on part of the pole insulated from the ground and the platform as mentioned above is the answer.


Edit. It might not be the answer come to think of it as the squirrel would need to complete the circuit to ground to get a shock. An electrified portion close to but not touching the earth might work. Its only you then that would get the kick if the platform wasn't isolated, wouldn't affect the birds

I was thinking 2-poles close in my post above.... with one +ive the other Earth. Then as squirrel grabs both to climb, it completes the circuit, recieves the belt.

 

[mechman]

make a squirrel trap with a wooden tunnel and a mk 4 fentrap inside. bait it up with bird food . i made one for a guy and he caight about 50 in the year a fresh lot moved in when the others were dispatched and they went the journey up in the sky as well

Caught me finger in one of those Fen traps (Good heavens), or words to that effect.

 

[mart]

Local church group men's cookout, my neighbor attended.
Said they prided themselves on cooking exotic, including snakes, and "Bull balls".

And sometimes the Bull wins......

 

[Farside]

Try this...

 

[MattF]

piece of 6" soil stack they'll perhaps not be able to grip (unless they have VERY long arms),

If his luck's owt like mine, he'd probably find his squirrels resemble gorillas.

 

[outofthefire]

How about 2 more 2.5m rods in a triangular pattern-perhaps 50cm apart - with rods across the top to stabilise them?

This rather than 10mm

 

[Keithmac]

Procull are a good trap if you are that way inclined.

 

[mart]

Try this...

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Has this been staged after death for a photo, OR did the squirel genuinly get it's gonads caught? My money is on it being staged.