[TowerTalk] Conduit tails

[Mac]

Nope  no deal,  I favor the Lion "droppings"

Now just where did I put that damn Lion, Oh and has anyone seen 
Sylvester the Cat the last few days ??

Here kitty  kitty, Here kitty, come on out kitty

Honey can you drive the car down by the tower base !

Well how did you get it stuck already ? Naw it's ok,  I'll stop by Sam's 
and get 3 each of those new 110' water hoses.

Yup we're gonna have some whole new insight popping up on this Conduit 
Tails SUBJECT

Yup !  let's just see where this topic takes us..

Best:  mac/mc  w5mc

On 3/29/2019 1:34 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
> If you just want them dead exhaust gas will kill them pretty painessly. If
> you just want them out you might try placing some dry cat droppings at one
> end of the runs (in a cloth bag) to chase them out. When my parents lived
> on an acreage and had a big garden they would buy lion droppings from the
> zoo to keep the deer out. Or maybe a radio tuned to obnoxious music and
> turned up loud at one end for a few days.
>
> I used large hammond boxes at each end with "strain reliefs" on every line
> to hermetically seal both ends.
>
> Jim Rhodes
> K0XU
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 00:46 Grant Saviers <grants2 at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> I encountered an interesting problem a couple of days ago when I was
>> showing my tower base shack to visitors.
>>
>> It seems some (3 counted) small mice have taken up residence in the
>> conduits (3x 3" x 115').  They pulled out the fiberglass packing at both
>> ends.  When disturbed by our visit there was a lot of scurrying around,
>> then climbing up the coax and down into the conduits.
>>
>> So, I've placed the "sticky mats" mouse traps of a couple of brands at
>> both ends in the hope of getting them out before sealing up with some
>> bronze wool packing.  I was told mice won't touch using steel wool
>> packing and bronze won't rust.
>>
>> So far got one.  Maybe they saw their brother's ugly demise, but I saw
>> another scurry back into the conduits.
>>
>> I'd rather not fill the conduits with water, been there when an errant
>> pick pocked a hole in a "dry" conduit that had totally filled with
>> condensation.  That conduit was near the infested ones so am a bit
>> surprised there isn't water in these otherwise watertight runs.  It
>> appears the mice can run the full length.
>>
>> Plugging up both ends with them in residence seems like a bad idea.
>> I've sealed up other access holes into the shed and shack end huge
>> junction box.  Rattlesnakes at my CA QTH did love small mice, but one
>> living in the conduit has some downside.  Maybe a conduit cat?  Would a
>> leaf blower would blow them out?
>>
>> Any other ideas or proven solutions?
>>
>> Grant KZ1W
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