Damn coons!

[Treeman587]

I have to estimate a tree that is hollowed and is the home to a family of coons. As I would hate to hit one with a saw(that could be messy) or get my a** bit, and it is in a neighborhood(so I cant shoot em) What should I do?

 

[Jumper]

Catch em alive with a trap and relocate.

 

[Blinky]

If you can pump smoke into the nest somehow and persuade them to climb down instead of up (a man with a chainsaw in the next crotch up should do it), they'll bail out.

 

[treevet]

Could tell coon stories for hours like most tree guys. One memorable onewas when I was living in a condo complex years ago and came home to find my nbor standing guard over a racoon w a rifle. He was waiting for the cops to come as he was told not to discharge his rifle. The cop showed up and missed 3 times before killing it. The racoon had been inadvertently cornered in the patio by his wife and it jumped on her, biting her on the neck and arms many times. She threw it off and ran to the back door. It chased her and jumped back on her repeatedly biting her on the neck while clinging on her back. The husband finally came out and got it off and called the cops. She went away in an ambulance and had alot of stitches. She had nightmares all the time and eventually sold and moved away.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

...a man with a chainsaw in the next crotch up should do it...

Uh huh...

Be sure to get video. It will make things much easier for the pathologist and lawyers.

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[Blinky]

Uh huh...

Be sure to get video. It will make things much easier for the pathologist and lawyers.

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Well I don't have video... is a picture OK?

I have to admit, the guy didn't have a chainsaw, only a pike. Picture could be a lot better... but I wasn't expecting the coon to actually jump.

 

[kevinj]

A havahart trap to live trap them.
Cheap canned catfood (fish flavor) works real good.
Placed on a small white paper plate at the rear of the trap.
Set trap in early evening.

 

[lawson's tree s]

some one once told me moth balls would make them leave .

 

[Treeman587]

If I trap em I will probally take them to the hunt club and cut em loose. Give some of the boys up there something to do:hmm3grin2orange:

Great pic BTW

 

[Ed Roland]

Great Scott, man! Koons in the ole crotch, huh? I once had crotch krickets.
seriously, for what its worth. The nasty multinational conglomerate that owns tree work has a policy (at least from my experience) to wire over the hole and perform the work. Try to block that section down with them in it, yeah right, or they just drop the section and watch a bunch of shell shocked carnivores stumble around aimlessly attacking anything they can get their rabid paws on.

 

[John Ellison]

:hmm3grin2orange: That is some picture Blinky.
You could twist them out. Make knife cuts on the end of a long thin sapling (or use barbed wire) Insert in hole, twist and pull out coon on a stick. He will be upset. Probably not a good idea though, Bob Barker could live next door.

 

[SRT-Tech]

people, better living thru modern chemicals. Grab a canister of bear spray, climb up, put in the hole and press the trigger. Immediatley back off and retreat, rappel down etc. You'll see those bastards running out the tree and down to the ground.

SRT-Tech, has coons on his patio, disperses em with bear spray!

 

[elmnut]

" when coons used to get up on our porch, momma chased 'em off with a broom" - Forrest Gump

 

[treevet]

Was out running on horse trails in the park last week. Got back to the parking lot and scared a coon out of the brush. He ran away from me and into a hole 40 feet up in a maple. All hell broke out. Tearing and screaming and growling amplified by the cavity and the hole like a speaker box in the quiet woods. After about a minute a coon was hanging on a skinny branch looking ass whipped. Don t know if it was one that went in or one already in there. Stick your arm down in there might be like putting it in a garbage disposal and turning it on.

 

[woodchux]

A pack of firecrackers ought to get them up and moving.

 

[scottr]

I have to estimate a tree that is hollowed and is the home to a family of coons. As I would hate to hit one with a saw(that could be messy) or get my a** bit, and it is in a neighborhood(so I cant shoot em) What should I do?

When I lived in the city my neighbor would spray his trash bags with ammonia to keep the coons away .