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[deezler]

Do you have problems with critters living in the wood stack in the totes? Mice, snakes, etc.

Since I also use IBC totes in Michigan, I won't necessarily answer for Don, but:
No snakes. Snakes like to stay at ground level here in MI, and they need to burrow down for winter. Might get some passing through to feast on critters though, in the summer, sure.

Mice, yes. I stack my totes with two rows of 16" firewood, trying to leave a big air channel between them. The colder the wind blows through, the less the mice want to reside there. I still get a nest in about every other filled tote or so. Chipmunks like them too.

 

[aeblank]

Since I also use IBC totes in Michigan, I won't necessarily answer for Don, but:
No snakes. Snakes like to stay at ground level here in MI, and they need to burrow down for winter. Might get some passing through to feast on critters though, in the summer, sure.

Mice, yes. I stack my totes with two rows of 16" firewood, trying to leave a big air channel between them. The colder the wind blows through, the less the mice want to reside there. I still get a nest in about every other filled tote or so. Chipmunks like them too.

I am in MI too, and I get less than that. Maybe one every 8 or 10 totes. Always abandoned.

Thought a double door and a pallet jack would be awesome in the basement, but filtering through it first is probably good.

I had a wagon with some construction debris in it and a cover over it for most of the summer. Dumped that sucker out and half a dozen of the little bastards ran about. Glad I emptied it outside.... I have multiple traps in my garage to hunt them down, too.....

 

[deezler]

^ yeah good point, maybe not quite as much as a nest in every other tote, and most of the ones I find are already empty also. Picking up the tote with the tractor and bouncing it around to drive it over to the house probably scares and shakes them out, if they were even still there.

I park my totes right outside the screen porch and hand empty them into a nicer firewood rack right outside my french doors (5 feet from the woodstove). I would be very nervous about critters if bringing them indoors directly.

 

[Oldpath05]

Mice chipmunks and ants is the un-mention problem that no one seems to mention about with these outside totes and wood boxes that sit out side for weeks on end. I was thinking about this the other day when I was thinking of going that route, then I shot another chipmunk and got more mice in a trap. Now I'm thinking that a woodshed that have air vents with screens might be better.

I cant have anything that sits outside for a few weeks that rodents dont get into, my Rhino was under my deck last May for a few weeks cost Flo $1,300.00.....

 

[Oldpath05]

Cut some more sawmill slabs today, I get down to the last two cuts and noticed the cuts will be to close to the steel stake pockets so had lift and reset.......

 

[goeduck]

Mice chipmunks and ants is the un-mention problem that no one seems to mention about with these outside totes and wood boxes that sit out side for weeks on end. I was thinking about this the other day when I was thinking of going that route, then I shot another chipmunk and got more mice in a trap. Now I'm thinking that a woodshed that have air vents with screens might be better.

I cant have anything that sits outside for a few weeks that rodents dont get into, my Rhino was under my deck last May for a few weeks cost Flo $1,300.00.....
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Maybe not applicable to something that sits outside, but as much as possible leave your hood up when not in use. Mice like hiding spots and with the hood open they do not nest/chew as much. Courtesy member oosik who enlightened me on this trick.

 

[Oldpath05]

Ummmmm I'm getting the feeling everyone is gone............. Don Edwards Coyotes - YouTube

 

[Oldpath05]

Maybe not applicable to something that sits outside, but as much as possible leave your hood up when not in use. Mice like hiding spots and with the hood open they do not nest/chew as much. Courtesy member oosik who enlightened me on this trick.

I decided when I got the Rhino back to leave it in the garage, dont want Flo to get upset might cost me.......

 

[goeduck]

I decided when I got the Rhino back to leave it in the garage, dont want Flo to get upset might cost me.......

Sounds good. Hood up?

I assume Flo is your Kubota and not your....

 

[hunt4570]

Sounds good. Hood up?

I assume Flo is your Kubota and not your....

You know to assume is to make..... well ah, nevermind!!:laughing: