Ok give me your best, worst ideas for dealing with this rat situation. I might visit some in a future video ;-) Also Tangerines or Tangelos? Some are round, some have a bump on top, I have revisited it so many times over the years on google but still not sure. I'm starting to think maybe Tangelos. Plus - New casual vids coming to my second channel next week ;-) ruclips.net/user/TurnahsShed Arrow Trap Video: ruclips.net/video/mZtNFd2Uteo/видео.html
preform multiple sacrifices on the fruits and when the rats eat your tangerines they will be cursed and their blood will run old and the sacrifice will be done ✅ (they won’t come back)
A friend of mine had a mouse problem. He set up a compressed air tank, a section of PVC pipe, an air valve, and a photosensor. He put some peanut butter inside the tube just last the photosensor. When the mice went for the peanut butter interrupting the photocell released the compressed air launching the mouse about 3 meters head first into a steel plate over a bucket. Local cats learned to recognize the meal-time gong. Rats have more mass than mice but an adaptation of this method may have some value...
The best mouse / rat trap is a large bucket with 6 inches of water in it and either a hinged plank that drops and auto resets or a slippery round rod that spins when unbalanced on it. You could also try adding a barrier or something slippery / not climbable around the tree stump and prevent them from jumping onto the tree from some other surface.
Try wrapping the trunk of the tree with metal garden fence, and connect an electric fence charger to it. Isolate the fence from the tree with pvc pipe or pool noodles
Turnah: has a cat problem. Turnah: also has a rat problem. Cat-owner: "You should be grateful for our cats eating your wildlife and shitting in your flowerbeds. If it wasn't for our cats, you'd be overrun with rats!" Me: gets banned from Gardeners' World forum for pointing out that the cats around here ain't doing diddly squat to keep the rat population down.
Ecologists in Brittain did a study on that: asking locals to keep the rodent bodies their cats brought home. The neighborhood pet cats were definitely keeping the local mice population contained. They were better at it, than any of the wild predators; who were choosing to raid poultry yards, rather than chasing mice for a meal [foxes.] Mice, however, are not the same as rats. Rats tend to be a City problem, not a rural problem. Cats don't eat the mice; they are toys for the cats. Rats are truly a different problem; honestly, I think cats would not be the best answer. What I would question, why aren't there any local predatory birds that would eat the rats? What about the local snakes? That's why rats AREN'T a problem in rural areas in Brittain and the States: we have owls, falcons, hawks, eagles that would much rather eat a big rat, than a small mouse. The same is true of snakes here in the desert southwest of the USA. I have a family of Great Horned Owls in my city neighborhood that we have to keep little pets undercover at night, or those owls will make a meal of them.
@@Objective-Observer I'm in a different part of Australia to Turner but the same principle applies: our native wildlife can't reliably compete with rats OR cats. Sure, the snakes and crocodiles will eat rats, cats, dogs and people, but the possums and other marsupials can't protect themselves. As such, cats, rats, rabbits, cane toads and pigs are an absolute NIGHTMARE for our local wildlife. Not to mention all the introduced fish species. Native predators like the Wedge Tailed Eagle have a great time eating them, but they just don't have the numbers. Finding ways to kill feral cats without harming native wildlife is a surprisingly big industry here. The last one I read about was automated poison sprayers, since cats would lick themselves clean and die from the poison whereas other animals wouldn't.
@@Ninjat126 That seems very creul ,why not take it to a shelter or at least put it down if that is your last option . Poison is so painful ,why make them suffer like that ?
People that say this happened because the cats are gone clearly didn't listen, the cats and the rats coexisted, since cats most of the time perceive rats as dangerous prey. Cats will usualy kill other less dangerous prey like birds,small lizards and others
Speaking for myself, my cat comment was an attempt at humor. Anyone who's dealt with rats before knows it requires a fearless/hungry cat or maybe a bobcat to handle rats.
My acquaintances in the village had a cat mom who knew how to hunt a rat and taught her kittens this. Each time she brought offspring, her fellow villagers immediately dismantled all her kittens.
Muhammad Rizky Naufal I live on a farm here in the USA. I have 4 farm cats. They only eat if they catch it themselves. They eat snakes, rats, field mice, birds, moles and a wide variety of insects. I recently watched the cats team up on a raccoon and chased it off. I assure you that you’re statement is false. Those cats that come around his house are well feed therefore they won’t bother working to get a meal.
A hungry cat is a dangerous cat, a well fed cat is a fat useless ball of fur, I have seen hungry feral cats turn very large rats into Mc Ratty nuggets, a domesticated cat fed on tinned meat is far too lazy, it's far easier to constantly meow at the feeder until they give in
I found a way to make a snap trap bait robbing proof. All you need is: 1: snap trap/traps 2: cheap dog cobble or dog cookies/biscuits. ( the crunchier the better, and you can set multiple traps with one cookie / biscuit.) 3: hot glue. 4: hot glue gun, candle, or if you have a gas stove you can just use the burn. (But I do find the hot glue gun works best) All you do is hot glue either a dog food kibble or a chunk of dog biscuit 2 the trigger of the track. The only time I have seen a mouse or a rat steal the bait is if it was already snapped and most of the time they were crawling over the other rats remains. I have had one rat that was able to get the bait without getting snapped and I have found then he would chew the pain at the back of the trap to trigger it. For best results I have found that if you leave it unset for the first night and leave it unset randomly you will catch more. I had one rat that we nicknamed Einstein figure out how to snap the traps so what I started doing is leaving the traps unset and when I noticed he started going for the bait straight away I started setting the Trap and bye-bye Einstein. That is when I started doing the random unset traps. Or if you take multiple strips of chicken wire and put some kind of rubber between the chicken wire in the tree you can Electrify to wear when the mouse climbs between the two chunks of chicken wire they complete the circuit and get a good job it's more used for squirrels but I'm pretty sure work but I'm pretty sure work on rats as well
Hey Craig, have you ever seen Shawn Woods channel? He's got 500+ videos of traps for varied rodents, including many which you could build yourself or maybe improve upon. I bet some of those designs could help you catch several rats every night. Plus, it would be great content :)
Hey, i realize i'm 2 years late, so the likelihood of you ever seeing this is beyond _miniscule_ but, i figured i'd give it a go anyways. If you've not yet had any success with other conventional (or not so much) traps, i got one for you that's a guaranteed winner, we use em on the wee island i live on, in the barns and generally speaking one trap will catch between 1 - 2 dozen rats a night before their are so many rats in the damn thing that they just climb over each other to escape. Anyways, what you need are some five gallon buckets you don't mind yanking the handles off of, and some long & skinny plastic bottles. Bonus points for a plank of wood and a brick/cinder block for each trap. The Build: Rip the wire handle off the 5-Gal (whatever-many liter, sorry, i think it's like, 13-ish?) bucket, then take your handle and hammer it out into a nice straight line, or use the straight section of an old wire hanger, or just some metal rods if you got em. It's relatively important that the metal bit be nice and straight, as it's going to form your "Axle" for the trap. Now that you've got this straight bit of metal wire, heat up one end to nice orange-y glow with a torch and then poke a hole through the perfect center of the cap of your tall skinny bottle (Smart Water is my preferred brand for this) and then one at the dead center of the bottom of the bottle. At this point, you likely know where i'm going with this. Once your metal rod cools down, thread it through the water bottle and make sure that it's spinning nice and freely on the rod, like a paint roller. Now you're gonna shove that metal rod's ends into the two holes left behind in the bucket from when you yanked the handle off, so now you should have a bucket with a free-spinning balance beam bridging the gap. Setting the Trap: So, now that your trap's built, you gotta bait it, what you wanna use is any brand of creamy Peanut Butter, honest to god, the shit is like crack for rodents, they just can not help themselves. Take your peanut butter and slather a thin strip around the bottle roughly equidistant from both edges of the bucket. Now, bring the trap to wherever you want to set it, put it down, and now finally you know what the plank and brick are for; Lay the plank as a bridge leading up to one of the ends of your spinning balance beam, and tuck the brick/cinderblock behind it so heavier rodents don't cause it skip back and fall, potentially knocking the whole bucket over, as they climb up. Et Voila! You've got the cheapest, easiest to make, most effective rodent trap ever devised by man. If you don't want to catch & release the buggers you catch somewhere in the woods away from any homes, add like 6-10in (I'm gonna guess like 18-24cm) of water at the bottom and the rats/mice/voles/whatever kinda rodents will simply drown eventually leaving you with a no-mess kill, unlike those old-school flipper traps which when they rarely do work will sometimes straight up fucking decapitate the animal, or worse, remove one of it's limbs and end up killing it in a horrifically inhumane way. Extra Credit: If you do find yourself catching hundreds of rats a week like we did in all the barns on the property, you can then take the detainees to your local pet store or reptile sanctuary and sell them for live feed or fresh-never-frozen dead feed and make a frankly ludicrous amount of extra cash on the side. (Seriously, i figured the dude at the Reptile Sanctuary'd offer me like 20cents a head, he offered me 20$ for each bucket that had like a dozen rodents in it, bringing in 5 or 6 of those a day, every day for a month added up quick.) Anyways, cheers, thanks for taking the time to read my TED talk to whoever sees this, and uh, i'd say good luck with the rat problem, but if you follow the steps above luck shouldn't even be a factor, honestly.
@@kleetus92 Turnah always uses ways that won't hurt animals to get rid of them, he obviously wouldn't make a way that most cats in his neighborhood go through dangerous.
@@ohitsrusher842 May need to change his game plan, because rats don't give up as easily as cats. Once you've got them, the only way to get rid of them is kill them. He already put poison out, so he's already crossed that bridge.
Most entertaining. Rats are far craftier and intelligent than many give them credit for. Had a feeling they would get used to the deterrent very quickly. As they can jump quite a distance a tree collar or some such device would be of no use to you. They will also get use to people quite quickly, learn your speed and how much time they have to escape if you come after them, and when they are out of your reach. Glad you got your tangerines in the end.
From the thumbnail, I was expecting some kind of rat sling shot that flings them back over the fence. For future reference though, councils have used sheet metal around the base of trees to successfully keep possums from climbing them, should work for rats too.
Honestly this next solution is 100% gonna work. Aluminum foil tape around the circomferance of the trunk. But with a shocking twist (or wet). HOW TO: 2 lines of foil tape going around the tree trunk, taped close together but not touching. One is positive, one is negative. Rat tries to climb base of trunk touches lines, closes the circuit and explodes, obviously. You can use those popular fly zappers as the circuit. . If thats too cruel for your liking, you can use the 2 lines as a capasitive sensor and set off the plastic explosive detonating the whole tree instead (or 10 of your cat repellant devices).
You can put rollers on the stem so they can't climb the tree in the first place. That's how you prevent pet rats from climbing stuff. Making the climb so slippery that they can't hold on anymore. :)
Use the concrete fidget spinner on the rats. Maybe put it on sideways [im kidding but bring it backs in someway please] or maybe a rat sprayer a cat sprayer but smaller
About the snap spring trap: don't pile the bait on the trigger in one lump. Instead, put a tiny amount UNDER the trigger. The rodent will smell the bait then struggle to get it and it will be the last thing little Mickey does.
Did you think of just stopping them climbing up the tree? Like a climbing barrier? Wrap part of the trunk in smooth plastic so they have no way of climbing up.
1. Smooth metal band wrapped around around tree like the ones used to stop possums climbing tree here in Victoria. Say 30-40cm high. 2. If above doesn't work 12v electric fence gear used to electrify said metal band.
We had sparrows that helped themselves to our apricots. Two trees sharing ½ meter squared space on a 10 acre lot. The nasty feathered ratasauruses would peck two, three, four holes in a just ripe apricot then off to the next one! Dirty buggers! Where was your rat repellant gadget 29-30 years ago! 🤣 Anyway, great video! I feel your pain about those tangelos!
Turnah81 Nothing ever makes me jump, but this video did @ 2:15 I had my earphones🎧 on loud while watching this on my phone. Man my eyes was like😳 . Lol
I think I have the final solution for you, you need some cats in your backyard that come in to patrol all night long and leave cat smell to scare of rats! Eh.. wait a minute...
Never before have I laughed so hard (or at all) at the idea of someone's entire house burning down. LOL. Craig Turner, as usual - you're smart, resourceful AND hilarious!
Shawn woods has a channel about rat traps, one of the best traps is called walk the plank...its a bucket of water with collapsible plank with bait on it... it works well. There is a variation that has a rolling log over the water bucket too.
@Oxnard Darcy to be fair, if I were a cat I wouldn't mess with rats either. I've got scars from rat bites already. Meanwhile, there's native lizards all over the place and those guys don't even bite back.
To prevent them getting used to it over time, I suggest: 1. recording your voice telling the rats to piss off, with multiple variations and have that play in random rotation with varied time periods. 2. Program variations for the crank to turn so it's not the same predictable rhythm every time. 3. To make the lighting easier on the eyes, use a bunch of different directional lights aimed at various parts of the tree, and make the lights move around a bit (while aimed at the tree) when they turn on. Putting them on a bent Axel attached to a small motor would do the trick.
Are you familiar with GoodNature A24 rat trap? Made by a New Zealand company to eliminate invasive rats from an island. Very well regarded although a bit pricey... not sure how you could hook it into your channel... maybe retrofit one with a compressor replacing the CO2 cartridges? Or maybe make your own with pneumatics or a linear actuator? Good luck!
Attach sound transducers to the branches and have them turn on when a rat is detected climbing on the branches. Sound transducers work by sending the vibration into the surface. The rat being attached to the surface would then hear the sound as it travels through their feet, to their inner ear directly. This is the same as the hearing aids that work by sending vibration through your jaw bone rather than sound directly into the ear. The advantage of using this is that it's likely to freak the rat out more than normal sound, and it will also be relatively quiet to people in the house, but loud to the rat attached to the tree.
I made horizontal platform around the trunk of the tree. Rats and other rodents can't climb horizontal surfaces. 25cm from the trunk is wide enough. But it had to be at least 30cm off the ground. I've hung the disk with rope from brances. The clearance around the trunk has to be relatively tight, not more than 2cm. But it's really effective cheap and without a lot of maintenance.
@@gordonlawrence1448 make the rats go flying with the air gun, and dance with electricity trap? (just joking) Honestly I belive he can make many stupid things funny anyway.
@@DinnerForkTongue I used to shoot rats for a local farmer. Pellets cost money and back then Promethius pellets cost a fortune (100 was more than 1000 standard pellets). Therefore I spent a hell of a lot of time with my bolt action air rifle practicing. My grouping was so tight at 25m basically you had one small hole for 10 shots. I was using the targets with 5 individual 1 inch targets on one sheet. When your shooting is that good you can take a head shot every time. I had to use promethius because of the steel body as it was an organic farm. Hence no poisons etc and no lead allowed. I managed to get better kill rates with the rabbits too. Use a shotgun and you'd get one and the buggers would sit underground all day. Shoot them with a supressed air rifle and you could easily get 50 in a day. When the local butchers found out where they were from they paid me near £1 a head. A hell of a lot of money back then for a kid. This was the early 1980's.
@@gordonlawrence1448 People stil do rat/rabbit/squirrel pest control with suppressed air guns to this day, here on RUclips. Squirrel Hunter uploaded every Sunday and was the highlight of my week, but he went quiet, so now I watch Robin Foxer.
I like using chicken wire and electric fence transformer. It's a pretty good deterrent , but I don't know how many access point to the tree you have. It might help you out. Rats also like chicken coops too. Eggs and chicken feed brings them in. Rats don't get use to electricity and much safer then poisoning. I forget - use old garden hose and zip ties by cut down the length of the hose to hold the wire so it will not ground out. You'll figure it out.
There is a guy that put a free spinning paper towel roll in the middle of a 5 Gallon bucket. They walk far enough onto it they roll off into water and die or you can relocate them without using water. By far the best and most clever trap I've seen. Has even worked on squirrels! So you know a rat or mouse can't be to big.
I found instead of putting the bait on a platter that is easily licked clean, put it under the platter. They get a free sample and when the get greedy and move the platter... I bait the underside of my trap bait pans. Flip it up, bait, place more on the floor under the pan, and wait for them to clean the plate on the bottom.
You know a cone on a dog for itchy dog, do the same with sheet metal on the trunk of the tree, and maybe apply something slippery on the sheet metal tree cone.
Awesome, someone gets it. 100% honestly have close to 90 ring doorbell videos of the same group of cats. Every place exactly you mentioned night after night. I absolutely loved each video. Really haven't laughed that hard since " March" here in Florida. A breath of fresh air and understanding how frustrating this is. Going to try the mini water cannon. Thank You its a great distraction during COVID...
Greased upside down bucket, to prevent them from climbing, or, you can do it the Japanese way, which is to take the fruit and encase it in something. They shape everything apples to square melons, which is then sold at a considerably bigger price than the regular stuff, and i'd think that then means that they aren't effin up the taste. So find some tangerine sized molds to square up your problem...
Try peanut butter as bait for a trap. Rats can't resist it. Also a wide collar around the tree might work. Something like the barriers they put on ships moring lines.
Put shock pads all around the base of the tree. You could also block off the entrance at the base and make a shock rat ladder the only way up. Somehow code the rungs of the ladder to be active at different times so they cannot learn which ones are safe
They look like a slightly larger version of what we call a tangerine in the US. I was excited for this to work proper right off the batt. But I'm sure this will become a series. Lol
You could fashion a conical guard halfway up the base of the tree so the rats physically can't climb up the tree. If they use other trees to get to the tangerine tree put guards around those too.
I would put something on all the trunk branches so they cant climb up like some aluminum wrapped around the trunk high enough so they cant get there claws in. We use the same deterrent for squirrels (also called tree rats) here in Canada.
Set up a five gallon bucket with a few inches of water in it and a ramp running up to it, then set up a drop trap or rolling barrel trap, or add some perlite to the water until there’s enough floating to support a handful of sunflower seeds. The rats fall in and drown and can’t jump out due to the water.
Somehow everything is unnecessarily complicated. After all, there is a simple proven method: first of all, it is tedious to exclude access to the tree from everywhere except the trunk, then wrap the trunk with plastic film and spread it with any non-drying gel, and cover the top with a plastic skirt to prevent rain from washing off!
Place 1/4 grid screen firmly around tree base.. Atleast 2-3 ft..Use small rubber or pvc spacers to keep it away from trunk..ceramic work best. About 1/8" to 1/4"... Next, make a skirt of any material rubber, pvc, or tarp..Raise about 3-4" off ground..Attach a dc generator to metal grid and use a motion sensor via 18650 battery to activate metal grid..Anything small that can climb under skirt up tree, will only go so far before 1 million dc volts zaps them..Works! I grow citrus in Texas..safe for cats..
Okay... We have rats and rock squirrels destroying our garden and especially of all things the young Carolina Reaper Pepper plants. My best solution has been a .25 caliber FX Impact Air Rifle. Traps have been a mixed bag for controlling the buggers.
We had a rat problems at our farm, I installed 850nm IR lights around the building and we purchased 2 ATN 5x20 night scopes and mounted them on our Air rifles. We have a blast ridding them. We don’t poison them cause when they die other animals will eat them. Best night ever we scored 24 in under 4 hours. Inside the building we used time-delay electric shock pads when they step on both plates it senses the continuity and gives them a lethal dose of electricity and in the morning we go collect them and feed them to the birds & possums on the back side of our farm.
A bunch of copper tape on the trunk connected to an electric fly circuit. Put a bunch with alternating polarity, make it long enough, so they can't go over it in one step.
I experienced somewhat similar "guest invasions" to my tomatoes while living in the Texas heat and dry conditions. The neighborhood squirrels (cousins of your rat friends) were helping themselves even to the green, unripe fruits and then dropping them to the ground with no more than a few bites. Really frustrating to see all those tomatoes that had been wasted. I found out that the squirrels were seeking moisture wherever they could find it. It wasn't that they suddenly loved bitter-tasting immature fruit, but they were after some badly needed moisture. I changed my growing method over to using hydroponic planting containers (storage tubs, dirt, internal shelf with access and draining holes, PVC tube for adding water to the bottom). The sun was too intense in the previous garden location, so moving the plants close to the shade by the house helped both the plants and also with reducing the squirrel attacks. I did NOT consider adding a free water or lemonade drink stand to keep the furry visitors off the plants as that would have only encouraged the little buggers to stick around the yard more. So, I'm a little confused about your situation, Turnah. I thought you were in the kitty express lane who came in for the dark-hours visits? (INTENDED TEASING HERE!) Why aren't they chasing the rats and keeping your rodent friends away from the garden? (NO need to tell me >> they are well-fed domestics, unlike the feral) Maybe you need to reconsider your kitty situation after all? *poke in the eye* Perhaps this is the way the kitties are getting back at you and they have signed an agreement with the rat kids? *smirk*
You could try adding to contact points around the stump of the tree and running power through them so when the rat steps on the 2 contact points it will give them a little zap
This is definitely different from other traps and deterrents for rats out there. Always good to think differently. Best, worst would be to hook up a barb-wire around the entryways and electrify them.
put a coil around the tree base. connect the wire to the 110V phase. Boom. done. rats fall off the tree and cant climb it. IF you dont want to hudr them use a transformer to step down the voltage. I used 12V DC to avoid snails from climbing on some plants. works like a charm.
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Ok give me your best, worst ideas for dealing with this rat situation. I might visit some in a future video ;-) Also Tangerines or Tangelos? Some are round, some have a bump on top, I have revisited it so many times over the years on google but still not sure. I'm starting to think maybe Tangelos.
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preform multiple sacrifices on the fruits and when the rats eat your tangerines they will be cursed and their blood will run old and the sacrifice will be done ✅ (they won’t come back)
also start a rat farm they are juicy -ps it’s a tangolenotie
@@BurntBac0n It goes up early for patreons ;-)
@@underdog2559 I do have a snake that needs to eat hmmm.
Tasers set up in a carpet like layout like William Osman
A friend of mine had a mouse problem. He set up a compressed air tank, a section of PVC pipe, an air valve, and a photosensor. He put some peanut butter inside the tube just last the photosensor. When the mice went for the peanut butter interrupting the photocell released the compressed air launching the mouse about 3 meters head first into a steel plate over a bucket. Local cats learned to recognize the meal-time gong. Rats have more mass than mice but an adaptation of this method may have some value...
😂 😂 😂
That's genius. Tell your friend we need videos.
Get Shawn Woods on the phone! He knows how to handle this kind of situation. Probably.
I’d watch that collab.
Why does he still have mice!
Humanly ;)
I was looking for this comment
@@kmonnier he spare some for the next trap monday, which you impatiently await.
The best mouse / rat trap is a large bucket with 6 inches of water in it and either a hinged plank that drops and auto resets or a slippery round rod that spins when unbalanced on it.
You could also try adding a barrier or something slippery / not climbable around the tree stump and prevent them from jumping onto the tree from some other surface.
Yeah we've all seen Shawn Woods and mousetrap monday.
yeah, you broke your foot in a "sport accident", nothing to do with falling out of a tree...
"Tree climbing is a sport..... if you call it that enough."
The only sensible solution is to wrap each tangerine in a hollowed out puffer fish.
well apparently plastic foil with a small cut to drain moisture acutally does work and the japanese have been bagging fruits for centuries
Try wrapping the trunk of the tree with metal garden fence, and connect an electric fence charger to it. Isolate the fence from the tree with pvc pipe or pool noodles
Turnah: has a cat problem.
Turnah: also has a rat problem.
Cat-owner: "You should be grateful for our cats eating your wildlife and shitting in your flowerbeds. If it wasn't for our cats, you'd be overrun with rats!"
Me: gets banned from Gardeners' World forum for pointing out that the cats around here ain't doing diddly squat to keep the rat population down.
Ecologists in Brittain did a study on that: asking locals to keep the rodent bodies their cats brought home. The neighborhood pet cats were definitely keeping the local mice population contained. They were better at it, than any of the wild predators; who were choosing to raid poultry yards, rather than chasing mice for a meal [foxes.] Mice, however, are not the same as rats. Rats tend to be a City problem, not a rural problem.
Cats don't eat the mice; they are toys for the cats. Rats are truly a different problem; honestly, I think cats would not be the best answer.
What I would question, why aren't there any local predatory birds that would eat the rats? What about the local snakes? That's why rats AREN'T a problem in rural areas in Brittain and the States: we have owls, falcons, hawks, eagles that would much rather eat a big rat, than a small mouse. The same is true of snakes here in the desert southwest of the USA. I have a family of Great Horned Owls in my city neighborhood that we have to keep little pets undercover at night, or those owls will make a meal of them.
@@Objective-Observer I'm in a different part of Australia to Turner but the same principle applies: our native wildlife can't reliably compete with rats OR cats. Sure, the snakes and crocodiles will eat rats, cats, dogs and people, but the possums and other marsupials can't protect themselves.
As such, cats, rats, rabbits, cane toads and pigs are an absolute NIGHTMARE for our local wildlife. Not to mention all the introduced fish species. Native predators like the Wedge Tailed Eagle have a great time eating them, but they just don't have the numbers.
Finding ways to kill feral cats without harming native wildlife is a surprisingly big industry here. The last one I read about was automated poison sprayers, since cats would lick themselves clean and die from the poison whereas other animals wouldn't.
@@Ninjat126 That seems very creul ,why not take it to a shelter or at least put it down if that is your last option . Poison is so painful ,why make them suffer like that ?
This guy has his own jungle adventure everyday, fighting off the wild.
I have a rat tree that tangerines like to eat on
Where can I find one?
You can find one at your local rat dealer place
I have a cat nest with kitten that I need to protect from bird... with fire
Oh nice me too! How ripe do you like them?
People that say this happened because the cats are gone clearly didn't listen, the cats and the rats coexisted, since cats most of the time perceive rats as dangerous prey. Cats will usualy kill other less dangerous prey like birds,small lizards and others
Speaking for myself, my cat comment was an attempt at humor. Anyone who's dealt with rats before knows it requires a fearless/hungry cat or maybe a bobcat to handle rats.
My acquaintances in the village had a cat mom who knew how to hunt a rat and taught her kittens this. Each time she brought offspring, her fellow villagers immediately dismantled all her kittens.
Muhammad Rizky Naufal I live on a farm here in the USA. I have 4 farm cats. They only eat if they catch it themselves. They eat snakes, rats, field mice, birds, moles and a wide variety of insects. I recently watched the cats team up on a raccoon and chased it off.
I assure you that you’re statement is false. Those cats that come around his house are well feed therefore they won’t bother working to get a meal.
A hungry cat is a dangerous cat, a well fed cat is a fat useless ball of fur,
I have seen hungry feral cats turn very large rats into Mc Ratty nuggets, a domesticated cat fed on tinned meat is far too lazy, it's far easier to constantly meow at the feeder until they give in
Cats are just rats that eat grapefruits.
I found a way to make a snap trap bait robbing proof.
All you need is:
1: snap trap/traps
2: cheap dog cobble or dog cookies/biscuits. ( the crunchier the better, and you can set multiple traps with one cookie / biscuit.)
3: hot glue.
4: hot glue gun, candle, or if you have a gas stove you can just use the burn. (But I do find the hot glue gun works best)
All you do is hot glue either a dog food kibble or a chunk of dog biscuit 2 the trigger of the track. The only time I have seen a mouse or a rat steal the bait is if it was already snapped and most of the time they were crawling over the other rats remains.
I have had one rat that was able to get the bait without getting snapped and I have found then he would chew the pain at the back of the trap to trigger it.
For best results I have found that if you leave it unset for the first night and leave it unset randomly you will catch more.
I had one rat that we nicknamed Einstein figure out how to snap the traps so what I started doing is leaving the traps unset and when I noticed he started going for the bait straight away I started setting the Trap and bye-bye Einstein. That is when I started doing the random unset traps.
Or if you take multiple strips of chicken wire and put some kind of rubber between the chicken wire in the tree you can Electrify to wear when the mouse climbs between the two chunks of chicken wire they complete the circuit and get a good job it's more used for squirrels but I'm pretty sure work but I'm pretty sure work on rats as well
What you need is a bunch of cats to scare the rats away...
Yeah, I was gonna say if only there was another invasive species that was known for killing indiscriminately.
Ah i see what you did there 😆 you are a long time channel sub 🤭
Irony
dude he has some videos about getting rid of cats in his yard. i dont think he would want cats again pissing all over his car rims
:-D
Hey Craig, have you ever seen Shawn Woods channel? He's got 500+ videos of traps for varied rodents, including many which you could build yourself or maybe improve upon.
I bet some of those designs could help you catch several rats every night. Plus, it would be great content :)
over 600 in fact.................
Hey, i realize i'm 2 years late, so the likelihood of you ever seeing this is beyond _miniscule_ but, i figured i'd give it a go anyways.
If you've not yet had any success with other conventional (or not so much) traps, i got one for you that's a guaranteed winner, we use em on the wee island i live on, in the barns and generally speaking one trap will catch between 1 - 2 dozen rats a night before their are so many rats in the damn thing that they just climb over each other to escape.
Anyways, what you need are some five gallon buckets you don't mind yanking the handles off of, and some long & skinny plastic bottles. Bonus points for a plank of wood and a brick/cinder block for each trap.
The Build:
Rip the wire handle off the 5-Gal (whatever-many liter, sorry, i think it's like, 13-ish?) bucket, then take your handle and hammer it out into a nice straight line, or use the straight section of an old wire hanger, or just some metal rods if you got em. It's relatively important that the metal bit be nice and straight, as it's going to form your "Axle" for the trap.
Now that you've got this straight bit of metal wire, heat up one end to nice orange-y glow with a torch and then poke a hole through the perfect center of the cap of your tall skinny bottle (Smart Water is my preferred brand for this) and then one at the dead center of the bottom of the bottle. At this point, you likely know where i'm going with this.
Once your metal rod cools down, thread it through the water bottle and make sure that it's spinning nice and freely on the rod, like a paint roller. Now you're gonna shove that metal rod's ends into the two holes left behind in the bucket from when you yanked the handle off, so now you should have a bucket with a free-spinning balance beam bridging the gap.
Setting the Trap:
So, now that your trap's built, you gotta bait it, what you wanna use is any brand of creamy Peanut Butter, honest to god, the shit is like crack for rodents, they just can not help themselves.
Take your peanut butter and slather a thin strip around the bottle roughly equidistant from both edges of the bucket. Now, bring the trap to wherever you want to set it, put it down, and now finally you know what the plank and brick are for; Lay the plank as a bridge leading up to one of the ends of your spinning balance beam, and tuck the brick/cinderblock behind it so heavier rodents don't cause it skip back and fall, potentially knocking the whole bucket over, as they climb up. Et Voila! You've got the cheapest, easiest to make, most effective rodent trap ever devised by man.
If you don't want to catch & release the buggers you catch somewhere in the woods away from any homes, add like 6-10in (I'm gonna guess like 18-24cm) of water at the bottom and the rats/mice/voles/whatever kinda rodents will simply drown eventually leaving you with a no-mess kill, unlike those old-school flipper traps which when they rarely do work will sometimes straight up fucking decapitate the animal, or worse, remove one of it's limbs and end up killing it in a horrifically inhumane way.
Extra Credit: If you do find yourself catching hundreds of rats a week like we did in all the barns on the property, you can then take the detainees to your local pet store or reptile sanctuary and sell them for live feed or fresh-never-frozen dead feed and make a frankly ludicrous amount of extra cash on the side. (Seriously, i figured the dude at the Reptile Sanctuary'd offer me like 20cents a head, he offered me 20$ for each bucket that had like a dozen rodents in it, bringing in 5 or 6 of those a day, every day for a month added up quick.)
Anyways, cheers, thanks for taking the time to read my TED talk to whoever sees this, and uh, i'd say good luck with the rat problem, but if you follow the steps above luck shouldn't even be a factor, honestly.
Disappointing use of the brick😂😂
Why didn’t you just put a large ring around the trunk of the tree so they couldn’t climb up? Like the possum metal plates that people use
@@dialupdude Electrify the top of the fence.
Oh I do on do nooo? :€ why didn't I think
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kleetus92 they would jump off trees or the roofs. They can always find a way
@@kleetus92 Turnah always uses ways that won't hurt animals to get rid of them, he obviously wouldn't make a way that most cats in his neighborhood go through dangerous.
@@ohitsrusher842 May need to change his game plan, because rats don't give up as easily as cats. Once you've got them, the only way to get rid of them is kill them. He already put poison out, so he's already crossed that bridge.
Most entertaining. Rats are far craftier and intelligent than many give them credit for. Had a feeling they would get used to the deterrent very quickly. As they can jump quite a distance a tree collar or some such device would be of no use to you. They will also get use to people quite quickly, learn your speed and how much time they have to escape if you come after them, and when they are out of your reach.
Glad you got your tangerines in the end.
From the thumbnail, I was expecting some kind of rat sling shot that flings them back over the fence.
For future reference though, councils have used sheet metal around the base of trees to successfully keep possums from climbing them, should work for rats too.
2:00 CUTE!!! :)
At this point it looks like the tree is taking a dump with some diamonds in the end - I can't stop laughing
Honestly this next solution is 100% gonna work.
Aluminum foil tape around the circomferance of the trunk.
But with a shocking twist (or wet).
HOW TO:
2 lines of foil tape going around the tree trunk, taped close together but not touching. One is positive, one is negative.
Rat tries to climb base of trunk touches lines, closes the circuit and explodes, obviously.
You can use those popular fly zappers as the circuit.
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If thats too cruel for your liking, you can use the 2 lines as a capasitive sensor and set off the plastic explosive detonating the whole tree instead (or 10 of your cat repellant devices).
Keep up the comedy creativity, enjoy your vids a lot
You can put rollers on the stem so they can't climb the tree in the first place.
That's how you prevent pet rats from climbing stuff. Making the climb so slippery that they can't hold on anymore. :)
Use the concrete fidget spinner on the rats. Maybe put it on sideways [im kidding but bring it backs in someway please] or maybe a rat sprayer a cat sprayer but smaller
Haha. Never thought to try it sideways.🤙
It doesn’t need to be smaller if you use the same size that would blow the little suckers out of the tree that would be great entertainment
Special, thanks. I like films where you put stuff in trees Craig.
You're pretty funny mate! cheers documenting your shenanigans with them pesky rats and yes one of my top favourite fruits tangerines.. well worth it.
About the snap spring trap: don't pile the bait on the trigger in one lump.
Instead, put a tiny amount UNDER the trigger. The rodent will smell the bait then struggle to get it and it will be the last thing little Mickey does.
Did you think of just stopping them climbing up the tree? Like a climbing barrier? Wrap part of the trunk in smooth plastic so they have no way of climbing up.
We just want some tangerines :(
We just want some rats :(
My freind apsoulutly loves ratssss his name is mr richards.
Hahahahahaha
You've had enough
Awz 💖
1. Smooth metal band wrapped around around tree like the ones used to stop possums climbing tree here in Victoria. Say 30-40cm high.
2. If above doesn't work 12v electric fence gear used to electrify said metal band.
The youtuber Shawn Woods has loads of rat trap videos, maybe one of them will help!
A collab might be fun.
The whole point is the solutions are always humerous and "Heath Robinson".
mousetrap monday
50 arrows per second....🤔🤔🤔
Joergsprave: please show me the features......hahahaha
Have a bell and a sprinkler so when the rat is in the tree it will get sprayed and the bell scar the white out of them
"times were hard before gopros were invented" 04:59
love it XD
We have pet rats. When my wife and I see the rats being active (rat activities) we call it Rat-tivities
Shock wires around the trunk, farmers use it out here. They don't burn, they pop loke flies on an electric fly swatter with an extra battery
"We tried to help you deal with the rats, but you kept spraying us with water! :("
-neighborhood cats
I swear this dude is a Aussie Mcguyver FRL FRL ❕❕❕❕❕ Hey mate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
after kicking out all the cats from his garden, chris realized he made a mistake
the movie
We had sparrows that helped themselves to our apricots. Two trees sharing ½ meter squared space on a 10 acre lot. The nasty feathered ratasauruses would peck two, three, four holes in a just ripe apricot then off to the next one! Dirty buggers! Where was your rat repellant gadget 29-30 years ago! 🤣
Anyway, great video! I feel your pain about those tangelos!
Hmm, guy scares cats away, now has rats.
Turnah81 Nothing ever makes me jump, but this video did @ 2:15 I had my earphones🎧 on loud while watching this on my phone. Man my eyes was like😳 . Lol
I think I have the final solution for you, you need some cats in your backyard that come in to patrol all night long and leave cat smell to scare of rats! Eh.. wait a minute...
Never before have I laughed so hard (or at all) at the idea of someone's entire house burning down. LOL. Craig Turner, as usual - you're smart, resourceful AND hilarious!
Shawn woods has a channel about rat traps, one of the best traps is called walk the plank...its a bucket of water with collapsible plank with bait on it... it works well. There is a variation that has a rolling log over the water bucket too.
The last WTP Shawn reviewed was pure elegance. No magnets, no electronics, no adjustments. It just worked flawlessly
@@hughbrackett343 mousetrap monday
Drowning is kinda cruel if you ask me
I could hear and even feel the anger at the rats when you said "burning rats". It's almost like a flamethrower rat repeller is a good idea..
just get more snakes. you'll never have another rat problem
quick n cheap n easy:
1) buy clear plastic sheeting (used by painters)
2) wrap around tree trunks to prevent pests from climbing up
That happens when you scare off the cats in the neighborhood. Now you have to deal with the rats infestation lol
@Oxnard Darcy to be fair, if I were a cat I wouldn't mess with rats either. I've got scars from rat bites already. Meanwhile, there's native lizards all over the place and those guys don't even bite back.
I'm glad you are back with your inventions.
you could redirect the cat highway to the tree so that they can scare off Or eat the rats.
Lol you crack me up 😂 such an awesome sense of humour, I have tears in my eyes. Bloody brilliant Craigo 😂
Hey mate hope your leg is better! Love the brows post 50arrow chaos lul cheers from Bengaluru India
To prevent them getting used to it over time, I suggest:
1. recording your voice telling the rats to piss off, with multiple variations and have that play in random rotation with varied time periods.
2. Program variations for the crank to turn so it's not the same predictable rhythm every time.
3. To make the lighting easier on the eyes, use a bunch of different directional lights aimed at various parts of the tree, and make the lights move around a bit (while aimed at the tree) when they turn on. Putting them on a bent Axel attached to a small motor would do the trick.
Are you familiar with GoodNature A24 rat trap? Made by a New Zealand company to eliminate invasive rats from an island. Very well regarded although a bit pricey... not sure how you could hook it into your channel... maybe retrofit one with a compressor replacing the CO2 cartridges? Or maybe make your own with pneumatics or a linear actuator? Good luck!
Attach sound transducers to the branches and have them turn on when a rat is detected climbing on the branches. Sound transducers work by sending the vibration into the surface. The rat being attached to the surface would then hear the sound as it travels through their feet, to their inner ear directly.
This is the same as the hearing aids that work by sending vibration through your jaw bone rather than sound directly into the ear.
The advantage of using this is that it's likely to freak the rat out more than normal sound, and it will also be relatively quiet to people in the house, but loud to the rat attached to the tree.
My solution: agent Orange
No rats in your tree if there is no tree
I made horizontal platform around the trunk of the tree. Rats and other rodents can't climb horizontal surfaces. 25cm from the trunk is wide enough. But it had to be at least 30cm off the ground. I've hung the disk with rope from brances. The clearance around the trunk has to be relatively tight, not more than 2cm.
But it's really effective cheap and without a lot of maintenance.
my two solutions are: air gun or electricity trap
Yep but where is the humour or challenge in that?
@@gordonlawrence1448 make the rats go flying with the air gun, and dance with electricity trap? (just joking) Honestly I belive he can make many stupid things funny anyway.
@@gordonlawrence1448
Have you never seen a rat get shot? It does a neat little display of acrobatics!
@@DinnerForkTongue I used to shoot rats for a local farmer. Pellets cost money and back then Promethius pellets cost a fortune (100 was more than 1000 standard pellets). Therefore I spent a hell of a lot of time with my bolt action air rifle practicing. My grouping was so tight at 25m basically you had one small hole for 10 shots. I was using the targets with 5 individual 1 inch targets on one sheet. When your shooting is that good you can take a head shot every time. I had to use promethius because of the steel body as it was an organic farm. Hence no poisons etc and no lead allowed. I managed to get better kill rates with the rabbits too. Use a shotgun and you'd get one and the buggers would sit underground all day. Shoot them with a supressed air rifle and you could easily get 50 in a day. When the local butchers found out where they were from they paid me near £1 a head. A hell of a lot of money back then for a kid. This was the early 1980's.
@@gordonlawrence1448
People stil do rat/rabbit/squirrel pest control with suppressed air guns to this day, here on RUclips. Squirrel Hunter uploaded every Sunday and was the highlight of my week, but he went quiet, so now I watch Robin Foxer.
oh man, its interesting but with humor LOL
Can't stop laughing throughout !
Shawn Woods, mouse trap Monday & also, " mink man" on you tube. Looks like you need a terrier rat dog. .also good a cat culling.,.
I like using chicken wire and electric fence transformer. It's a pretty good deterrent , but I don't know how many access point to the tree you have. It might help you out. Rats also like chicken coops too. Eggs and chicken feed brings them in. Rats don't get use to electricity and much safer then poisoning. I forget - use old garden hose and zip ties by cut down the length of the hose to hold the wire so it will not ground out. You'll figure it out.
Idk if you saw the channel Shawn Woods, but he has hundreds of rat traps tested that you might want to look into
There is a guy that put a free spinning paper towel roll in the middle of a 5 Gallon bucket. They walk far enough onto it they roll off into water and die or you can relocate them without using water. By far the best and most clever trap I've seen. Has even worked on squirrels! So you know a rat or mouse can't be to big.
I guess we probably know why WA was on fire in January.
I found instead of putting the bait on a platter that is easily licked clean, put it under the platter. They get a free sample and when the get greedy and move the platter... I bait the underside of my trap bait pans. Flip it up, bait, place more on the floor under the pan, and wait for them to clean the plate on the bottom.
Why not just put a big slippery cone around the trunk of the tree?
Oh! Cool))) make a slippery sleeve around the trunk of the tree, so they can’t get on board 😂
God I love this guy he's so damn funny I love his videos PS no homo
People that need to emphasize they aren’t...
Place a metal band around the trunk will keep them out. I love your idea!
your backyard is a bloody zoo
Business as usual in Australia
You know a cone on a dog for itchy dog, do the same with sheet metal on the trunk of the tree, and maybe apply something slippery on the sheet metal tree cone.
Bro you should see how many rats we got in England, they just keep pouring over on planes!
Silvio Nunez lots of fruits and vegetable deliveries, spiders ants snakes everything.......
Awesome, someone gets it. 100% honestly have close to 90 ring doorbell videos of the same group of cats. Every place exactly you mentioned night after night. I absolutely loved each video. Really haven't laughed that hard since " March" here in Florida. A breath of fresh air and understanding how frustrating this is. Going to try the mini water cannon. Thank You its a great distraction during COVID...
You need more cats mate. Problem solved.
Greased upside down bucket, to prevent them from climbing, or, you can do it the Japanese way, which is to take the fruit and encase it in something. They shape everything apples to square melons, which is then sold at a considerably bigger price than the regular stuff, and i'd think that then means that they aren't effin up the taste. So find some tangerine sized molds to square up your problem...
Off brand mark rober.
No offence
Try peanut butter as bait for a trap. Rats can't resist it. Also a wide collar around the tree might work. Something like the barriers they put on ships moring lines.
Machine starts,
Rat : "Again ? Lets check what is this guy inventing this time !"
Put shock pads all around the base of the tree. You could also block off the entrance at the base and make a shock rat ladder the only way up. Somehow code the rungs of the ladder to be active at different times so they cannot learn which ones are safe
Please put a eletric fence around trunk of tree and shock the rats that be funny as hell to watch... Ps tangerine are awesome
They look like a slightly larger version of what we call a tangerine in the US. I was excited for this to work proper right off the batt. But I'm sure this will become a series. Lol
You could fashion a conical guard halfway up the base of the tree so the rats physically can't climb up the tree. If they use other trees to get to the tangerine tree put guards around those too.
I would put something on all the trunk branches so they cant climb up like some aluminum wrapped around the trunk high enough so they cant get there claws in. We use the same deterrent for squirrels (also called tree rats) here in Canada.
the arrow trap actually startled me! such deadly efficiency
You are hilarious and creative and humane and I love your accent 🤪 makes the comedic buts even sweeter for me ha
Shawn Woods taught me that peanut butter makes really great bait for mice and rats.
Mixed with baking soda,rodents can't burp.
Set up a five gallon bucket with a few inches of water in it and a ramp running up to it, then set up a drop trap or rolling barrel trap, or add some perlite to the water until there’s enough floating to support a handful of sunflower seeds. The rats fall in and drown and can’t jump out due to the water.
Nice that the rats have a disco light in the dining room and something spinning that they don’t need to be driven to Disneyland.
Somehow everything is unnecessarily complicated. After all, there is a simple proven method: first of all, it is tedious to exclude access to the tree from everywhere except the trunk, then wrap the trunk with plastic film and spread it with any non-drying gel, and cover the top with a plastic skirt to prevent rain from washing off!
Place 1/4 grid screen firmly around tree base.. Atleast 2-3 ft..Use small rubber or pvc spacers to keep it away from trunk..ceramic work best. About 1/8" to 1/4"... Next, make a skirt of any material rubber, pvc, or tarp..Raise about 3-4" off ground..Attach a dc generator to metal grid and use a motion sensor via 18650 battery to activate metal grid..Anything small that can climb under skirt up tree, will only go so far before 1 million dc volts zaps them..Works! I grow citrus in Texas..safe for cats..
Okay... We have rats and rock squirrels destroying our garden and especially of all things the young Carolina Reaper Pepper plants. My best solution has been a .25 caliber FX Impact Air Rifle. Traps have been a mixed bag for controlling the buggers.
i REALLY hope this is a joke
We had a rat problems at our farm, I installed 850nm IR lights around the building and we purchased 2 ATN 5x20 night scopes and mounted them on our Air rifles. We have a blast ridding them. We don’t poison them cause when they die other animals will eat them. Best night ever we scored 24 in under 4 hours. Inside the building we used time-delay electric shock pads when they step on both plates it senses the continuity and gives them a lethal dose of electricity and in the morning we go collect them and feed them to the birds & possums on the back side of our farm.
A bunch of copper tape on the trunk connected to an electric fly circuit. Put a bunch with alternating polarity, make it long enough, so they can't go over it in one step.
I experienced somewhat similar "guest invasions" to my tomatoes while living in the Texas heat and dry conditions. The neighborhood squirrels (cousins of your rat friends) were helping themselves even to the green, unripe fruits and then dropping them to the ground with no more than a few bites. Really frustrating to see all those tomatoes that had been wasted. I found out that the squirrels were seeking moisture wherever they could find it. It wasn't that they suddenly loved bitter-tasting immature fruit, but they were after some badly needed moisture.
I changed my growing method over to using hydroponic planting containers (storage tubs, dirt, internal shelf with access and draining holes, PVC tube for adding water to the bottom). The sun was too intense in the previous garden location, so moving the plants close to the shade by the house helped both the plants and also with reducing the squirrel attacks. I did NOT consider adding a free water or lemonade drink stand to keep the furry visitors off the plants as that would have only encouraged the little buggers to stick around the yard more.
So, I'm a little confused about your situation, Turnah. I thought you were in the kitty express lane who came in for the dark-hours visits? (INTENDED TEASING HERE!) Why aren't they chasing the rats and keeping your rodent friends away from the garden? (NO need to tell me >> they are well-fed domestics, unlike the feral) Maybe you need to reconsider your kitty situation after all? *poke in the eye* Perhaps this is the way the kitties are getting back at you and they have signed an agreement with the rat kids? *smirk*
You could try adding to contact points around the stump of the tree and running power through them so when the rat steps on the 2 contact points it will give them a little zap
for someone that has a cat pissing problem and you got rats as well lol such a nice area you live in
This is definitely different from other traps and deterrents for rats out there. Always good to think differently. Best, worst would be to hook up a barb-wire around the entryways and electrify them.
Bro I love this guy, he’s funny as hell and also smart like damn, underrated
put a coil around the tree base. connect the wire to the 110V phase. Boom. done. rats fall off the tree and cant climb it. IF you dont want to hudr them use a transformer to step down the voltage.
I used 12V DC to avoid snails from climbing on some plants. works like a charm.
I bet the rats wont be fazed without a human running through the yard