According to the trail-cam, they were feasting for five hours. Either that or different family groups went at it in shifts.
Time to step up my game. I put a skirt around the tree just below the first crotch. I am considering spraying the skirting with cooking spray (vegetable oil) to make it even slipperier.
Number Seven
Woodchuck Number Seven for the season.
I put a skirt around the tree just below the crotch.
ReplyDeleteThat would technically make it a miniskirt, right?
All the women asked why I started laughing.
DeleteI dared not tell them.
Thanks a bunch, buddy
Hopefully you didn't leave any screw heads exposed that they can get a claw on.
ReplyDeleteDang, your wife is getting a fur coat for christmas !!!!
ReplyDeleteCoons are very big on licking their paws.
ReplyDeleteAfter applying the oil, throw some Cayenne powder on the skirts. Lots of negative reinforcement in the two-pronged approach!
Da Perfessor
Your chuck set is interesting and effective. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteWill be watching to see how effective your tree skirt is. Out cherry trees are only a couple years old. We cage and net them to deter coons. Not 100% effective but helps.
John
Slow cooker with taters and onion?
ReplyDeleteOH GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteSaw a video online of guys doing survival stuff and one of them was really good at catching coons. They had a constant pot over the fire they would chuck each catch into and it was a disgusting, fatty slop..........
My bird feeder is on top of a 4x4. I wrapped the 4x4 in metal flashing and applied Vaseline fairly liberally to deter squirrels.
ReplyDeleteWorked great! A year later after many rains and snow and dirt blowing and grass clippings and pollen and dust... Still just as slick as when first applied.
I would think vegetable oil may attract animals.
sam
Dogs free to roam on the immediate property needing protection will fix just about any possum/raccoon/skunk/squirrel/pest problem you may have.
ReplyDeleteIs the perimeter fenced? Why not let your dog(s) handle it? They are notorious carnivores and avoid binging on fruits and veggies last I checked.
They would also solve your woodchuck problem handily Joe.
Not to mention the fact they are a great sentinel for human invaders in the wee hours…
How about mixing some very hot sauce with some Vaseline or Crisco to put on the "mini skirt". That might really get their attention when they lick off their paws. ---ken
ReplyDeleteI moved my bird feeders to shepard hooks from the tree branches this year. I got tired of feeders on the ground daily.
DeleteI had an old jar of Vicks VapoRub I've repurposed in place of the Vasoline on the poles. The odor is the warning to the punishment for attempting the climb.
I'll second the cayenne pepper approach. We have flower pots that the coons like to dig out when we first set them out. The hottest pepper you can find solves that problem.
ReplyDeleteI used to put cayenne on birdseed to keep the tree rats out.
DeleteThey just asked for beer to go with it.