"Toy" Guns.......

[loodvig]

Will that keep the squirrels off my bird feeders? Who is selling them?

[PA BEN]

I thought with the airsoft guns you could play war and shoot each other. Looks like it might hurt the way it hit the box?:rolleyes:

[BigClive]

Will that keep the squirrels off my bird feeders? Who is selling them?

No. THIS will keep them off your bird-feeder. :)

http://www.break.com/index/backyard-skunk-catapult.html

Or the actual squirrel version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6SX3kWQt4

[BigClive]

I tell you what I actually DID do once.

I had got some mixed bird seed and put it out on my window sill on a tray for the little birds, but was annoyed when the pigeons (flying rats) started attacking the smaller birds to get the seed.

I made a contraption that consisted of two metal dishes separated by a short insulator. The bottom dish was large and the upper dish was small. I then made a circuit that charged a low value capacitor up from the mains via a high value limiting resistor and applied two leads across the dishes with the bottom one at ground potential.

For the little birds they could land on either the top or bottom plate and feast on seed without risk, but for the pigeons they could not land and eat from the small upper dish, so would have to stand on the lower dish in order to peck seed from the upper (live) dish. It worked a treat. It was designed to just give them a nip since I didn't want my neighbours wondering why there was a huge mound of dead pigeons below my window. When they took a peck at the upper dish they would suddenly and violently take flight and fly away. It only took a couple of nips to make them think twice and just stand next to the assembly looking ruefully at all the wee birds stuffing themselves with seed. :)

I think squirrels should be so sensitive to shock that you could use nothing more than a high value resistor and single wire to make the plate "hot" at nothing more than about a milliamp. That would be a resistor value of about a 100K resistor on 110V and 220K on 240V. Theoretically you could make a solar or battery powered version that just pulsed a small transformer every second or so like an electric fence energiser. That should deter the squirrells.

[JAKE]

that was frickin awesome!!

[PK270]

Clive, that was just hilarious, a "LITTLE" skunk problem??