"Mouse Wall" Protects Stored Equipment
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Mice can do thousands of dollars of damage to combines, tractors, trucks and other stored equipment. Kansas farmer Bill Morris found a simple way to protect equipment. The idea worked so well he decided to patent it and put it on the market.
Morris's idea is simply to encircle each piece of equipment with an 18-in. high wall of rigid plastic. The plastic wall must be set up on a solid, flat surface. It's sold in 32 or 64 ft. rolls.
"It eliminates the need for poisons and traps and you don't have dead mice around all the time smelling the place up," says Morris. "It takes just 2 minutes to set up each mouse wall. You can put it up in the fall around your combine, and the following spring there will be nothing to clean up when you get ready to move the combine out. It also works great for protecting leftover seed bags.
"The plastic is rigid enough to stand up by itself but we do supply slotted wooden sup-ports with the kit in case extra strength is needed.
"I haven't tried using it on a dirt floor, but I think mice would probably tunnel under. A mouse can jump about 12 to 14 in. high which is why we went 18 in. high. A 64-ft. roll will fit around most trucks, tractors, and combines. A 32-ft. roll will fit around planes."
A 32-ft. roll sells for $34.95 plus S&H; a 64-ft. roll sells for $59.95 plus S&H. Custom lengths are available.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, B & K Co., 19624 Four Corners Rd., Bunker Hill, Kan. 67626 (ph 785 666-4488).
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"Mouse Wall" Protects Stored Equipment MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 22-4-20 Mice can do thousands of dollars of damage to combines, tractors, trucks and other stored equipment. Kansas farmer Bill Morris found a simple way to protect equipment. The idea worked so well he decided to patent it and put it on the market.
Morris's idea is simply to encircle each piece of equipment with an 18-in. high wall of rigid plastic. The plastic wall must be set up on a solid, flat surface. It's sold in 32 or 64 ft. rolls.
"It eliminates the need for poisons and traps and you don't have dead mice around all the time smelling the place up," says Morris. "It takes just 2 minutes to set up each mouse wall. You can put it up in the fall around your combine, and the following spring there will be nothing to clean up when you get ready to move the combine out. It also works great for protecting leftover seed bags.
"The plastic is rigid enough to stand up by itself but we do supply slotted wooden sup-ports with the kit in case extra strength is needed.
"I haven't tried using it on a dirt floor, but I think mice would probably tunnel under. A mouse can jump about 12 to 14 in. high which is why we went 18 in. high. A 64-ft. roll will fit around most trucks, tractors, and combines. A 32-ft. roll will fit around planes."
A 32-ft. roll sells for $34.95 plus S&H; a 64-ft. roll sells for $59.95 plus S&H. Custom lengths are available.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, B & K Co., 19624 Four Corners Rd., Bunker Hill, Kan. 67626 (ph 785 666-4488).
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