On 12/12/24 4:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Try a pellet gun.
Squirrels love eating from bird feeders. If you can find any any more, and you have few or no local seed eating birds around, put some rat poison in a feeder near that pole, or on the pole.
Chuckling..., I currently have a Gammo .177 cal (900 fps), a Springfield .22, a Daisy Red-Rider and a bat leaning in the corner next to the sliding glass door. Only problem is where the pole is sits a good 200 ft from the back door and it's hard to catch the squirrel activity in that corner. (north corner is worse, it's 435 feet from the door). The only time I catch activity at that pole is when you hear a sharp electrical "pop" and then a "thump" a few seconds later. I've had more than one squirrel manage to touch the transmission-line and ground (lightning) wire at the same time. Too late for me to do anything with it then -- but he won't be chewing anymore either. Best we can do is keep an eye on the throughput and call BS when the cable co. tries to tell me everything is good on their end. There are probably 50 trees (pines, oaks, maples, walnut, etc...) within 100 feet of that pole. Squirrels can get to the cable box with a short jump from any one of them. But, if I catch them up there, the pellet gun will come into play. (and while we are on that subject, Crossman Premier Hollow-Points are a good plinking pellet that you can actually find in-stock :) I'm just glad I can finally update TW in a sane period of time now. This has been a very slow deterioration in throughput and not consistent. No rhyme or reason, but some address blocks came though at their full upload speed. (usually 15-20 MBs). I don't have any download sites that serve at the full 300 MIbs (40 MBs) -- except speedtest.net will show the full 300 MIbs. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.