What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

Vince said:
Try adding apple and peanut butter, they seem to like that stuff.
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They already seem to like the Ratsak, Vince ... I'm not gonna put icing on it with apple and peanut butter for them! Gotta find something a tad stronger!
 
Yeah, peanut butter attracts them. I found that they could carefully eat it off without tripping the trap  but a hazelnut had them biting harder and worked great. Poison can kill predators higher up the chain.
 
Vince said:
The red velvet pad is impressive
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hahahaha

Im pretty extravagant, but the red pads, are just felt carpet not velvet, its what they use in the shipyard, where my office is, it gets used for wrapping the slings on the travel lift for lifting boats in and out of the water, or I use it on mast padding if Im doing work on a mast. I don't pull many masts these days, unless its a really interesting job. You can see the red carpet here too!
 

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Piranha Brother 2 said:
They already seem to like the Ratsak, Vince ... I'm not gonna put icing on it with apple and peanut butter for them! Gotta find something a tad stronger!
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Put out some pans with an inch or 2 of Ammonia. They will move out. Had some squirrels in my attic and this worked instantly.
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
They already seem to like the Ratsak, Vince ... I'm not gonna put icing on it with apple and peanut butter for them! Gotta find something a tad stronger!
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When you say ?The Rat? you make it sound like there?s only one... I?m pretty sure the are no bachelor rats!
Keep reloading the bait stations and you?ll get them all eventually. But they?re like ants, as soon as you get rid of one family another one will move in to the empty ecospace you?ve created...
 
Andy said:
When you say ?The Rat? you make it sound like there?s only one... I?m pretty sure the are no bachelor rats!
Keep reloading the bait stations and you?ll get them all eventually. But they?re like ants, as soon as you get rid of one family another one will move in to the empty ecospace you?ve created...
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'The Rat' was just the one I saw going for a little trot on the rafters, cheeky mongrel!! Charlie the dingo look-alike was also interested in another out of sight at the other end of the garage - ammonia, hmmm Might have to be a lot of pans, as it's big shed, with far too much crap in it and far too many hiding/living spaces. Today I need to go under the actual house and investigate where the gnawing sound in what sounds like the wall cavity b/w our bedroom and the bathroom. I HATE going under there!

When we bait, I make it pretty much accessible only to the rats. The prob of course is our wonderful open compost compound, which is so efficient it breaks down food scraps in a week or so - loads of worms and other critters, really quite incredible. The biggy rats do get some of the morsels but not that much. They love the apricots that fall from the tree uneaten, consuming the kernels (which I think are poisonous to humans -cyanide?).
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
They love the apricots that fall from the tree uneaten, consuming the kernels (which I think are poisonous to humans -cyanide?).
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The stuff in apricot kernels is amygdalin, which is converted to cyanide by the intestinal flora in the gut when ingested. It's just as toxic for rats as it is for humans, but maybe they're not getting a big enough dose. Next time your apricots are in season, save the pips after eating the fruit and bust them open to get the kernels, then try using them as rat poison. If the rats don't fill up on the apricot fruit, they may be tempted to eat more of the kernels.

Commercial rat poison is brodifacoum (a super anticoagulant - makes them leak blood internally). Cyanide works differently, so maybe a combination of the two will be more effective than rat bait alone.

Actually, if you use rat bait and have small children or pets, it's worth knowing that vitamin K is the antidote to rat poison. It might be advisable to keep some tablets on hand in case of emergency. A bottle of pills is only a few bucks and they last a long time in the fridge.

A couple of days after we moved into the house I now live in, my dog got quite ill. She became very lethargic and her gums were quite pale. We had no idea what was wrong at the time so we took her to the vet. He declared that she'd been poisoned, probably by rat bait. We later found rat bait in the wood shed (left there by the previous owners of the house). The dog evidently found it before we did and ate some. Vet gave her a vitamin K injection followed up with daily vitamin K tablets for a couple of weeks. She recovered OK.

 
Dellortoman said:
The stuff in apricot kernels is amygdalin, which is converted to cyanide by the intestinal flora in the gut when ingested. It's just as toxic for rats as it is for humans, but maybe they're not getting a big enough dose. Next time your apricots are in season, save the pips after eating the fruit and bust them open to get the kernels, then try using them as rat poison. If the rats don't fill up on the apricot fruit, they may be tempted to eat more of the kernels.

Commercial rat poison is brodifacoum (a super anticoagulant - makes them leak blood internally). Cyanide works differently, so maybe a combination of the two will be more effective than rat bait alone.

Actually, if you use rat bait and have small children or pets, it's worth knowing that vitamin K is the antidote to rat poison. It might be advisable to keep some tablets on hand in case of emergency. A bottle of pills is only a few bucks and they last a long time in the fridge.

A couple of days after we moved into the house I now live in, my dog got quite ill. She became very lethargic and her gums were quite pale. We had no idea what was wrong at the time so we took her to the vet. He declared that she'd been poisoned, probably by rat bait. We later found rat bait in the wood shed (left there by the previous owners of the house). The dog evidently found it before we did and ate some. Vet gave her a vitamin K injection followed up with daily vitamin K tablets for a couple of weeks. She recovered OK.
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If you want to use Vit. K to counteract your anti-vit K poison, you'd better follow Mr. Trumps advice and inject it because if it gets to the bleeding stage, death will occur a long time before the body has assimilated the pills.

Paul
 
sideshow said:
hahahaha

Im pretty extravagant, but the red pads, are just felt carpet not velvet, its what they use in the shipyard, where my office is, it gets used for wrapping the slings on the travel lift for lifting boats in and out of the water, or I use it on mast padding if Im doing work on a mast. I don't pull many masts these days, unless its a really interesting job. You can see the red carpet here too!
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I was going to ask why you were going to Harken, but these photos explain it.  I used to maintain and crew on a J Class called Cambria.  Went to UK for 150th anniversary of America?s Cup in 2001(?) and worked with Harry, Rafe and Mark Spencer on making a new 90? main boom, whilst also arranging the new silicon bronze boom fittings.  Working at Spencer Thetis is Cowes was the highlight of my time there.  They gave me one of their beautiful pulleys as a memento.
 
Yogi said:
I was going to ask why you were going to Harken, but these photos explain it.  I used to maintain and crew on a J Class called Cambria.  Went to UK for 150th anniversary of America?s Cup in 2001(?) and worked with Harry, Rafe and Mark Spencer on making a new 90? main boom, whilst also arranging the new silicon bronze boom fittings.  Working at Spencer Thetis is Cowes was the highlight of my time there.  They gave me one of their beautiful pulleys as a memento.
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thats a great story! Spencers was a great place to visit, probably one of the most non pc places you could ever enter, with some of the pictures they had on the walls. In 2000, I was sailing on the Soren Larsen, she used to be in the tv series the Onedin line, We sailed her from NZ via the south pacific, east coast of the states to europe, doing tall ships races along the way, finally ending up in London, thats when I managed to get to visit the legendary Spencers. Now I count myself lucky to do work for several J classes including Velsheda, Hanuman, Shamrock and Svea.
Thats a really nice highlight you got to work on Cambria, any people would be very envious of you
 
Hi Paul if that's the sleeve you are talking about on the end of the crankshaft its not a repair that's the inner part of the needle race that the crankshaft runs in the primary case it will pull off the shaft with an appropriate puller the centre punches are there to swell the end of the crank enough to stop that inner race moving longitudinally.
 
maurice turner said:
Hi Paul if that's the sleeve you are talking about on the end of the crankshaft its not a repair that's the inner part of the needle race that the crankshaft runs in the primary case it will pull off the shaft with an appropriate puller the centre punches are there to swell the end of the crank enough to stop that inner race moving longitudinally.
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Thanks Maurice.. I should have spotted that..a bit of good news then.
 
Paul, I hope it's not too late, but when you're pounding on that end of the crank, be very sure to support the end of the crank with suitable big blocks of wood etc. It's very easy to knock the crank out of alignment, it looks a lot more robust than it really is.
I know your crank is probably toast, but when you get it rebuilt and put the motor back together that's when you have to be very careful at that end of the crank. if it gets just a few thou out you find out about it when that bearing race appears on the outside of the primary case, having bored a nice neat round hole. Can be repaired but a hassle. Guess how I know?

Ken
 
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