Aerohead
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So, you're done using your electrolysis tank, in my case a freely acquired used water butt that was finished de-rusting an engine block. Wife said it had to go, but I had a plan.
Let sit a week, everything settles to bottom of tank.
Tip most water out, flush down driveway with lots of water, unless you have a fancy driveway, in which case you shouldn't read any further cause the next part your neighbours may not like either.
Now wheel the tank to the back of the garden with the sludge in the bottom. Optional, pour sludge on compost heap. Position tank along a fence, ideally out of sight from the house so she will think it is in fact gone.
Fill part way with water. Add a dash of used crankcase oil.
Using two bricks, bit of rope, off cut of plastic pipe (take a minute with a saw to ruff-up the surface of the pipe a bit) and some scrap wood to act as a ramp.
basic setup, should cost nothing
Add some sort of nut butter to the pipe. I've had great results with some Turkish sesame seed peanut butter I got from Lidls, none of the kids would eat it, rats love it!
baited
Add nut butter in the evening for rats and mice, any time if you want to give the squirrels something to play with, you will catch the odd clumsy one.
Cheap, no random carcasses discovered throughout the garden, just add bleach and or pound of soda ash as the trap does its work. Additional oil keeps the bug count low. Cheap method we used on the farm as a boy, hundreds of Kent rats have been fooled by mine in the last two years...
My son added a life raft, so far he has only seen floaters.
Let sit a week, everything settles to bottom of tank.
Tip most water out, flush down driveway with lots of water, unless you have a fancy driveway, in which case you shouldn't read any further cause the next part your neighbours may not like either.
Now wheel the tank to the back of the garden with the sludge in the bottom. Optional, pour sludge on compost heap. Position tank along a fence, ideally out of sight from the house so she will think it is in fact gone.
Fill part way with water. Add a dash of used crankcase oil.
Using two bricks, bit of rope, off cut of plastic pipe (take a minute with a saw to ruff-up the surface of the pipe a bit) and some scrap wood to act as a ramp.
basic setup, should cost nothing
Add some sort of nut butter to the pipe. I've had great results with some Turkish sesame seed peanut butter I got from Lidls, none of the kids would eat it, rats love it!
baited
Add nut butter in the evening for rats and mice, any time if you want to give the squirrels something to play with, you will catch the odd clumsy one.
Cheap, no random carcasses discovered throughout the garden, just add bleach and or pound of soda ash as the trap does its work. Additional oil keeps the bug count low. Cheap method we used on the farm as a boy, hundreds of Kent rats have been fooled by mine in the last two years...
My son added a life raft, so far he has only seen floaters.
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