Squirrels, chipmunks I eliminate. Until recently I also eliminated Opossums, until I became more educated. If you have chickens they are bad, otherwise they eat a ton of ticks, so now they get a pass. They don't bother me and I let them live, and chomp away at the ticks. Weasels also eat a lot of vermin like mice and rats, so they also get a pass.
Whats living in your stacks ?
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Squirrels, chipmunks I eliminate. Until recently I also eliminated Opossums, until I became more educated. If you have chickens they are bad, otherwise they eat a ton of ticks, so now they get a pass. They don't bother me and I let them live, and chomp away at the ticks. Weasels also eat a lot of vermin like mice and rats, so they also get a pass.
Caw
Minister of Fire
I ran into a mouse condo in a year old stack of ash I was moving. This stack was kind of in the woods but it was teeming. I counted 10 of them. Thankfully it was pretty far from the house!
My dog could probably get all 10 in his mouth at once if he could catch them lol.
My dog could probably get all 10 in his mouth at once if he could catch them lol.
mpaul
Burning Hunk
I found a couple 12’+ long snake skins right at the beginning of this burning season. Likely just a harmless black snakes. I’m not much of a fan of snakes though.
No chickens, and when I checked again this afternoon they were gone. Probably moved one stack further into the next silo, but oh well. If they really eat ticks, they're welcome.
Squirrels . . . probably mice . . . maybe a feral cat under the woodshed. I have a live and let live philosophy though . . . indoor cats seem to be enamored by the smells on the wood when I bring it inside. When I find a nest I just dispose of it. No harm, no foul.
We get the occasional possum, coon, skunk or fox in the barn after the hayburners sweet feed and the cat food. When our daughter was about 5 a coon came into the back yard in the middle of the day. It didn't look good and my wife and the dogs couldn't get it to leave.
She kilt it with a shovel.
I can send her down if you need help.
Not quite. She wanted it for a pet. My wife whacked the $#!t out of it with a shovel.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Spiders, and many, many acorn hulls. As in buckets. Not sure if that's mice or squirrel. These stacks are on 2*4s on cinder blocks on my driveway, tarped. And under an oak tree...
NorthernFireplaceFool
Member
Last spring I was moving a partial stack behind the shed and throwing splits off of it and uncovered a bat that was less than thrilled I was moving his home.
Grizzerbear
Minister of Fire
I get a lot of chipmunks in my stacks. It doesn't help I have a squirrel feeder 10ft from my stacks that is full of corn. I also get a lot of wood rats and mice which I despise as the scourge of the earth and have devoted all my resources to wage a genocide on them lol. I find a lot of bird nests as well but I don't mind them. I figure they help with any bugs living amongst my wood piles.
i get a lot of mice and chipmunks but two cats i have get at least 1 or 2 a day when the weather does not have snow flying. i always thought that garter snakes were at max 3 to 4 feet long in the wood stacks i found a 6 foot skin
