Help!!! bandits in my chimney

[Longhair]

I turn every one that I can into a good one.....coyote bait.
Large or small doesn't matter. They are one of the most vile creatures that exist in close proximity to humans. Besides being blatantly destructive, they also spread more disease to more different species than any other warm blooded animal I can think of....along with opossums and skunks.

Think that they're cute? Want to pet one? You'd better call ahead to the ER to reserve your place in line for afterward.


And while you're at it, you might want to make an appointment with a shrink to have your head examined.

 

[Mud-puppy]

Ive been a trapper since I was 13...And I dont mean as a hobby either..I was at it for over 40yrs...In 7 different States, Damage control Beaver/Coyotes year round.....I've caught and skinned and fleshed and stretched easily 1000s of raccoons, yotes, fox, mink, rats, beaver...even a few skunks and opossums...I've trapped 'em, hunted them, jumped out of my truck and chased em down when they were crossing the road and clubbed them even...

As a trapper and a plumber, I've been underneath all sorts of bridges and barns and trailer houses face down in a heavy dusty mat of raccoon/cat/rat turds...

I guess I just got really lucky for not contracting any kind of parasite from my past that I know of...I do not know why?...hands cut up all the time, skinning things, poop everywhere, etc...I looked up that 'Baylisacaris' Brother T-Man mentioned, and Its just remarkable I never got that in my eyes or brain!

I stopped trapping when I got into this Detecting Sport a few years ago, stopped fishing even...Detecting fills the niche in my soul a lot easier and pays about the same... I sometimes still have dreams about trapping though...generally in October...

I picked a dead one off the road a few years back, and brought it home for my Daughter to skin and tan...She remembers having to go with me on the trapline and hanging out in the fur shed when she was just a little girl...playing with all the cute little dead animals like they were bloody beanie babies!

I like raccoons though...and most every other animal...I have no hard feelings towards their nature as if its personal....I am sure they might think otherwise about me though...

 

[metaladdict]

Hmmm,yuck!

 

[ohiochris]

Time to call Billy !!

 

[ohiochris]

I had atleast one family of skunks living under a house I was renting. I could hear them under there and every so often they would stink bomb the area and it could be smelled for weeks. I tried everything I could think of but since we were in city limits , close to a busy street , and close neighbors on both sides , I couldn't do anything possibly dangerous. I called the city and they told me to call the county.....the county told me to call a guy who was licensed to handle those problems but he wanted to charge like $100 per skunk. So I called the county again and they told me if I took care of it myself I had to kill the skunk , cant legally release it somewhere else. By the time I trapped and killed them myself the stink would be worse than just leaving them alone. I missed when I used to live way out in the country and could have blew them up with dynamite if I wanted I could have tried to get the landlord to take care of it possibly , but wound up moving anyway. Let the next guy living there deal with it

 

[amc rulz]

When I was a teen back in the late 70's, we'd pick up every late-fall/early winter fresh roadkill 'coon we could, if there weren't a lot of damage to the hide. The local fur buyer would pay us a $50 bill for a nice big boar. You know what kind of money $50 was years ago, to a kid? One time we passed a fresh roadkill and turned around 15 minutes later to go back and get it...was already gone!

Now that I have a hobby farm, those coon are a pain in the rear. They've wreaked havoc upon my hens at times, but I just make sure nothing can penetrate the fortress my girls live in, hasn't been the easiest thing to do.

 

[Mud-puppy]

When I was a teen back in the late 70's, we'd pick up every late-fall/early winter fresh roadkill 'coon we could, if there weren't a lot of damage to the hide. The local fur buyer would pay us a $50 bill for a nice big boar. You know what kind of money $50 was years ago, to a kid? One time we passed a fresh roadkill and turned around 15 minutes later to go back and get it...was already gone!

Now that I have a hobby farm, those coon are a pain in the rear. They've wreaked havoc upon my hens at times, but I just make sure nothing can penetrate the fortress my girls live in, hasn't been the easiest thing to do.

Yeah! I remember those days as well! Man, theres just no money in trapping anymore...the fur prices have pretty much stayed the same or fallen... inflation hitting to a point where its not even a break even kind of enterprise...Unless you are doing 'damage control' trapping...like one poster mentioned, there are people out there that will pay you $100 to get a bat out of their belfry, squirrel out of their attic, coon out of their chimney, beavers out of their culvert, etc...but for straight fur trapping? no..not to mentioned you cannot find a local small town fur buyer anywhere easy...Even if you did, and had fur in the round, you are at his mercy and he knows it!

You have to skin/flesh/stretch and ship them off to the auction houses to maximize the pay, and hope like hell the market dont crash in the meantime.....yeah, tragic loss of skills...back in the 70's a lot of us farmboys made some money....

 

[T-Man]

Well starting to look like I may need to get agressive with these damn things. Was going to just wait them out and then try to drive them off until I heard some scratching on chewing on the back roof. Looked out the window and the little bugger was chewing up my roofing, Tore a big hole in the rubber roofing over my kids room. Never dealt with repairing that stuff, anyone have any experience with it? Can't imagine it would be too much different then putting a patch on an innertube only bigger. Also it right where it meets the siding on the house so I'll probably need to pull that back some and flash it in or something. I have had a leak in that area for awhile so I guess it's just some extra motivation to get that taken care of. Also kids just got a new kitten that would probably love a coonskin blanket.

 

[Longhair]

Tearing up my house would most certainly sign their death warrant around here.
I don't like them anyway, but costing me time and $ would make them enemy #1, and I wouldn't rest until the issue was handled permanently one way or another.

 

[Mud-puppy]

I was gonna mention that, but decided to wait and see...Sometimes they do go to tearing up the roofing...Yeah...you gotta go get them or run them off or else they will cause you all sorts of trouble...be right down in your attic...Bummer....

 

[amc rulz]

I helped a neighbor catch a roof coon that was entering the attic. I placed a 5 gallon bucket on it's side, piece of ham back of the bucket, #220 Conibear guarding the front. Middle of the night all heck broke loose and the bucket/coon came crashing down to the ground.

Do not make this set on the ground if there are pets that might stick their head in. It's deadly.

 

[T-Man]

So lastnight I got the roof repaired and decided to lower a cellphone down the chimney on a rope. Was only able to catch a pic of one in there. Not sure if it's the mom or the little one. Pic makes it look smallish but definately not a baby. Kind of hard to judge size on a video in a hole swinging on a rope. Did drop the phone right on top of it since I couldn't see what I was doing. Appartently it didn't care. Best pic I could save from the video. Going to try again some evening when I have more time with a better headlight attached.

 

[Mud-puppy]

I suppose a guy could drop a smoke bomb down in there...one of those 4th of July little smoke bombs? Surely, that would work? Then stand back and wallop them with a baseball bat or a golf club as they come out the top? Knock them over the fence into the neighbors yard, and you wont even have to pick them up for disposal!

 

[T-Man]

I suppose a guy could drop a smoke bomb down in there...one of those 4th of July little smoke bombs? Surely, that would work? Then stand back and wallop them with a baseball bat or a golf club as they come out the top? Knock them over the fence into the neighbors yard, and you wont even have to pick them up for disposal!

I have some firecrackers left over from a few years ago, thought about dropping a few down there to scare it out. Also the neighbors house is no more then 10 feet away. A good swing would send it onto his roof and it could find his chimney to live in. Then again I like the guy so wouldn't want to do that to him.

 

[Mud-puppy]

I have some firecrackers left over from a few years ago, thought about dropping a few down there to scare it out. Also the neighbors house is no more then 10 feet away. A good swing would send it onto his roof and it could find his chimney to live in. Then again I like the guy so wouldn't want to do that to him.

I like this Plan Tee! So who cares if you like your neighbor or not? Is he gonna come over and help you patch your torn up roof? Stop dikking around and get this resolved! Its been a week for christsakes! Minor issue! Its not like dealing with a den of grizzley bears living under your back porch!! Or worse, friggin Inlaws moving in with you on account of they lost their house!

Bombs away!

 

[T-Man]

LOL. roof was repaired last night. Main issue is far worse then the den of grizzlies, or a entire pack of hungry lions right now. The most ferocious, terrifying beast on the planet thinks it's cute and just wants a safe place to raise it's babies. I even emailed her a bunch of recipies telling her how they could be cooked and prepared properly for me for when I get home from work and we could enjoy an nice romantic candlelight dinner together, but she was not buying any of it. I'm afraid until it moves out on it's own accord I'm stuck with it. Next thing you know she's going to be sending me on the roof to lower it down MY dinner and a warm cup of milk while I'm busy repairing any new holes it chews in my roof. Need to take out stock in Menards now and maybe get a small return on my investment that way. Either that or a giftcard to a spa for a day to get her away from the house and resolve the issue quitely.

 

[tnsharpshooter]

This is beginning to sound more and more like a massive science project.

Stick a coyote and coon fighting sound with a call down in the bottom of chimney.
See what happens.

 

[Grumpa]

Put some raccoon feed on the ground with a sign that says "Raccoon Feed" and an arrow pointed down. Then put a big boulder overhead with a rope tied to it and hide in the bushes. When the raccoon comes along, he'll read the sign and start eating the food. then you pull the rope and the big boulder with fall on the raccoon.

On second thought, it didn't catch the roadrunner so it probably won't work on raccoons either.

 

[Mud-puppy]

This is beginning to sound more and more like a massive science project.

Stick a coyote and coon fighting sound with a call down in the bottom of chimney.
See what happens.

Along these lines, Hows about this idea? Take a tank of Propane up on the roof, let it freeflow a good amount down inside your chimney, then, go inside and strike a match in your fireplace?

It will be like a potato gun! Holler out, "To The Moon Alice!" and strike that match! Boom! Quickly run outside and start singing..."Its raining coons Hallelujia!" Lets have some fun here for once!

 

[T-Man]

Along these lines, Hows about this idea? Take a tank of Propane up on the roof, let it freeflow a good amount down inside your chimney, then, go inside and strike a match in your fireplace?

It will be like a potato gun! Holler out, "To The Moon Alice!" and strike that match! Boom! Quickly run outside and start singing..."Its raining coons Hallelujia!" Lets have some fun here for once!

That't work. LOL... come to think of it I did used to make pipe bombs back in my teenage years that we used to set off in old abandoned tunnels. Suprised I'm still around to speak of it. Still amazed how a length of pipe and some black power could inbed scrapnel in a concrete wall. Drop one of those down the hole and problem solved. Then again not sure I want the remains of the stack on the floor or my living room.