Rodents

[Dawgmining]

hang the floats in a tree with a bit of cable

[russau]

I had squirrels tearing up new aluminum gutter until bathed the gutters in WD-40 out of desparation.. Little turds haven't touched it in over a year.

the squirrels got my aluminum gutters also!they chewed the edges untill they got holes in them. pepper spray also works on gutters and on your pontoons .hanging them is also a good idea w/pepper spray cause the squirrels/wood rats climb trees also!

[CalGoldDredger]

hang the floats in a tree with a bit of cable

Yup, hose too.
Bear might smack around the sluice but one bite and he'll leave it. Had a bear rip a gas tank off a motor on a winch once.
Back in '92 left a brand new 5" in the canyon for the winter, to come back in the spring to find that it was scrap, definitely bears and maybe some mice or maybe otters. Lesson learned.

Ain't it kinda strange you find abandonded dredges strewn throughout the canyon, left sittin' for many a years on the banks where the miners quit.
And not one thing wrong with them other than weathering, but dang it, if I should leave something there over the winter.

[Geo-George]

hang the floats in a tree with a bit of cable

Cables won't deter a squirrel. Them goomers can climb like crazy.
If ya run the cable through a large metal funnel they can't get past that, but they might jump from the tree to your floats. They can jump pretty dang far too.

[Hoser John]

Bears and gas cans have been absolutely a mind boggling question to me for years??? I've lost many MANY gas cans(plastic,metal) to them idjets and CANNOT fathom why they eat'm?? Can you imagine anything worse in your life than a face,eyes and mouth fulla gas?? I've lost as many as 3 in a season to them monsters and HOSE!! lets not even go there with bear chew toys . John

[Gold_striker]

I hear rodents are allergic to peppermint. So grow some or put cotton balls with peppermint oil where ever you do not want them to be. My pastor tried it he said they could see the squirrels actually avoiding his entire yard!

[Hoser John]

Moth balls work pretty good and if they eat'm the lilttle mothers die-good for moles,gophers,possum,skunk,cat and dogs but never tried on mice/ ratz personally but a bud a mine swears by it???John

[russau]

John i wonder if it would work on my socalled "representatives" we have around here??

[CalGoldDredger]

Certainly.

Shotgun loaded up with moth balls.

[gremlin]

Certainly.

Shotgun loaded up with moth balls.

how many moths did you catch to load up the shotgun shells