Large Scale Central

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General Discussion
#1

In all the years I have worked on the layout I never had this happen…

Today I am lowering a trestle on one end by about an inch along with about 10 feet of track. If a train is pulling uphill it’s fine but if it’s descending it sometimes derails.

I am digging under the trestle to lower it and happened to look at one side only to see a ground squirrel looking back! He was about six inches from my leg and apparently comes under the trestle when he’s headed for the pine trees. I think he was as startled as I was!

#2

They don’t taste to bad, with a lot of B-B-Q sauce on them, Grill until slightly crispy. 4-5 per serving.

#3

Tastes like chicken?

#4

Since the red tailed hawk relocated to a different neighborhood, my yard has been infested with gray squirrels and chipmunks. So Dave, if you could provide me with a good recipe for them.

:wink:

#5

Just like chicken wings man…just like chicken wings…

#6

And remember DO NOT feed them or they will never leave!! Mine are in the trees and the feeder is broken! Maybe I’ll rebuild it! Paul

#7

Are you planning an open house? My offer still stands to come by the weekend prior and help get track/ballast etc squared away.

#8

That would be a lot of fun. Since Sara is recovering so well with her two new knees I figure we’ll plan the open house for October.
You are right about Sullivan’s curve being just below 138 on old 66 near the Cleghorn off-ramp. It’s popular with train watchers.

#9

I can’t use anything to kill the squirrels because I don’t want to kill the cat.
My wife’s sister is a great shot. Maybe she’ll come for a visit!

#10

Doug, Brian had a device he called a squirrel vacuum. It was a length of PVC pipe with some kind of bait at the bottom. I think it was peanut butter. anyway the critters would get into it for the bait and then couldn’t get back out. I don’t know what you do with a torqued off squirrel inside of a PVC pipe.

#11

David Maynard said:

Since the red tailed hawk relocated to a different neighborhood, my yard has been infested with gray squirrels and chipmunks. So Dave, if you could provide me with a good recipe for them.

:wink:

I spent an entire summer trapping greys and transporting them 5 miles away for release. Didn’t help much. Then neighbors on bot side got multiple outdoor cats. Haven’t seen a chipmunk (too bad, I like them) and greys are scarce. The cats don’t need BBQ sauce to eat the greys!

#12

David Maynard said:

I don’t know what you do with a torqued off squirrel inside of a PVC pipe.

Modify the design using plans for a potato cannon - then fire him off to oblivion!

#13

Jon Radder said:

David Maynard said:

I don’t know what you do with a torqued off squirrel inside of a PVC pipe.

Modify the design using plans for a potato cannon - then fire him off to oblivion!

Ah, ha. should I at least provide the little guy with a crash helmet?

Jon, when the red tailed hawk lived in my neighbor’s yard, I didn’t have any squirrels, chipmunks nor rabbits in my yard. But the hawk relocated a few years back, and the critter population has rebounded. I like all them critters, but they have been doing damage to stuff, and that I do not like.

#14

What to do with Squirrels?

The best remedy/recipe I’ve found is the slow cooker pot & BBQ sauce method courtesy of an old boy in Mississippi.

"Get you a good mess o’tree rats, clean 'em good & fill your slow cooker with 'em.

Take however many bottles of your favorite BBQ sauce & fill the pot till they’re covered.

Put the lid on & cook 'em till the meat is ready to fall off the bone.

Get you a mess of biskits & commence to enjoying yourself some of the best BBQ’d Squirrel you’ve 'et."

Worked for me.

I’m partial to Stubbs Spicy BBQ Sauce.

Dave

#15

What we need is more raptors. :slight_smile:

#16

Jon, I like your train of thought with the spud cannon, I wish that I had thought of that, As Kids we (In So Cal, used un ripe green limes) the lime skin oil lubed the 1 1/2 steel barrow. Those limes would disappear straight up. A gray tree rat, would be some sight at 1200 feet and 40 miles an hour. The mind goes to strange places when the humor is tossed in.

#17

1200 feet?! Oh that would go over real well here. I am under the approach path, or departure path, of the Allegheny County Airport. I can just see the FAA charging me with trying to down a corporate jet with a squirrel projectile. And then PETA would get involved, and then I would be famous. My name appearing in headlines as the squirrel bomber or some such thing.

#18

Same here Boomer!

#19

Boomer K. said:

My squirrels and rabbits are treated with hot lead injections (resulting in fatal amounts of death)…getting them to hold still for the treatments is not a problem however insuring that no serum reaches unintentional items such as the neighbors dogs or my train buildings is a matter of good planning.

New Mexico has an open season on both varmints…living in a third world country does have some advantages, just have to get used to reading by candle light and that short walk down the hill to use the toilet.

:wink:

#20

You guys all know how to make figures for the layout, right? Just make yourself a couple of GI-Joe types and equip them with suitable 1:20.3 scale weapons.

Bob