Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Rodent mischief seem to escalate last year, I put it down to lack of moister as the number of cars and trucks really went up with screen washer rubber pipes eaten and the filler washer bottle tops, were the little devils hooked on screen washer?, so yours was the first petrol primer seen nibbled until took my strimmer down for the first time this year and found the primer on that had been nibbled. I use ordinary mouse traps, but put them in cages made out of scrap weld mech to keep pups noses from spring them, at the farm we used to bait with mouse bait in the grain store and using the old land drain clay pipes also to keep the pets noses out, as was told mouse bait was worse that rat poison. photos section with copper pipe not to clear.

Chocolate is supposed to work on the traps very well but I just use cheese and works, as for spraying things my father was grumbling to one of the spray people in the early 60’s about the blackbirds getting his currants, spray chap said got the very thing, we still never got any blackcurrant jam ether that year, as although there were huge strings of currants hanging like grapes that year untouched, Mother said if the blackbirds won’t eat them nor will we.

Where do you get hold of Creosote these days??

John E-W