Homemade Electric Rat and Mouse Killer

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5 жыл бұрын

Keeping livestock in a barn attracts a never ending stream of rodents such as rats and mice, that carry disease and ruin your feed.
Rats and mice are not only a nuisance, but they are also a hazard to all the animals in your barn, because they chew wires that can start a fire.
This is a homemade electric rat and mouse killer that you can make yourself, just using hardware cloth and a simple electric fence charger.
This way you do not have to use poison, that could harm your livestock and pets.
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@p.melvinshyturtle3722 Жыл бұрын

This might make a nifty way to repel catalytic converter thieves.

@brobb5767 Жыл бұрын

Just throwing an idea in for you. With the bottom wire layer, shape it into an upside down dome so after contact hopefully the body will roll away from the side mesh 🤔

@edwardsmith4353 Жыл бұрын

Do you ground the box with a rod or don't bother grounding?

@2755kansas 3 ай бұрын

I see you ran a separate wire to a grounding rod and a neutral to the cage; but since the 3 prong wire has a ground is running a separate wire to a grounding rod necessary? Can you just run a neutral wire from the ground node to one of the mesh components and a hot wire to the other mesh component? I'm struggling with either needing the ground wire through the box as opposed to either relying on the house ground or running a grounding wire from the mesh plate directly to a ground rod and bypassing the box all together. Great idea/video and I'd appreciate your response.

@jameslivingston8301 5 жыл бұрын

Great idea! Thank for sharing your videos! I had a huge rat problem in my yard too. Then I watched Shawn Woods Mousetrap Monday. Now I manageable rat problem now. I have learned a lot to kill rodents. I been subbed to you for a while maybe KZfaq messing with me. I haven't watch your videos for a while. I think last video on you was like 6 months ago. I will check your page.

@mattfowler7892 7 ай бұрын

Nice setup for that particular situation, i like the cage idea. In my garage i noticed they were coming in through a small hole at the bottom of a door where it meets the jamb. So i took a short piece of black 2" ABS plastic pipe and drilled two 1/8" holes and fed the hot through one hole and the neutral through the other then spread them apart about an inch and a half so when they crawl through and both wires contact their back......zap!!! I have it plugged into a dedicated circuit that trips immediately and i used some thin aluminum flashing to protect the wall and door about 2 feet up from the floor in case they catch fire. My results are: as soon as one got fried i left it there for a week and havnt had a single rodent come in that way since. Effective.

@ChrisMak1 2 жыл бұрын

How many joules is this charger? I'm wondering if I can get away with the smallest one I see online (0.1 Joule) or if that won't be enough to kill a rat but simply annoy it.

@jenniferspeers2453 3 жыл бұрын

That's clever. thanks for sharing

@sbusc60421 Жыл бұрын

is the neutral side connected to a ground rod laying on the ground as well as well and the white wire to the trap ? Hard to tell by video?

@SurvivalistGardener Жыл бұрын

Yes...Sorry about that... in the first 3 seconds of the video you can see that the green cap on the charger has the white wire going to the trap and a black (insulated) wire going to the grounding rod.

@utuber13x Жыл бұрын

nice, im trying to find how to make one shut off when the rat is zapped, some rats found a small hole in the hard to reach low angle area of the roof, dont want to poison then die under the roof and smell. would like to zap what ever comes in or out, but dont want to burn the house down. I wonder what kind of THING would trip off a system?

@SurvivalistGardener Жыл бұрын

Good question. That's why we did ours on (fireproof) cement board...in a barn there is lots of straw so flammable material are everywhere.

@DLexEdition 4 ай бұрын

There isn't a positive and negative wire in AC power lines, that's only DC power. The white wire is the Neutral and the Black is the Hot wire.

@SurvivalistGardener 3 ай бұрын

You must have a wire go to ground from the green terminal block so that the fence charger will work. Since the negative in the trap was insulated because it was glued to Hardy Board, I used the second wire wrapped around the grounding rod next to the trap.

@DLexEdition 3 ай бұрын

@@SurvivalistGardener Oh, okay I see what you were doing.

@nathanieludel226 2 жыл бұрын

I need to make this!))

@jamestregler1584 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😇

@rkeenan2415 Жыл бұрын

I am interested in building one of these. I was just going to use the 110v from the wall but I believe it won't kill them. Can you share with me the model # of that unit you got. I would be discouraging to buy one under powered. This unit looks like a Gallagher , but has a different name and thanks for this video ahead of time.

@SurvivalistGardener Жыл бұрын

It is made by Gallagher... it seems that they all are. This is some private label that I think I got from Tractor Supply. In any case, if you set it up right, it will supply about 10,000 volts, but the amps are low so it won't kill you, but it will kill a rat/mouse...Don't use 110V directly... the amps could kill you.

@tonio909 Жыл бұрын

110v from the wall wont do anything, you need high voltage, if you are handy you could use a taser gun or a mosquito killer and wire it in the same manner.

@scottcroft86 7 ай бұрын

How many joules is that unit?

@chrisandrewbosch5005 2 жыл бұрын

Best idea ever, thanks I can't wait to see how many of them I can fry

@mihaipopa9414 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, very cool!

@redwood1957 9 ай бұрын

Do you have the information on the electric fence charger. Will it kill a rat? Thank you

@SurvivalistGardener 9 ай бұрын

I use chargers that put out between 7,000 and 10,000 volts. The amps are low, and you could get zapped by it and not like it, but it wouldn't kill you. But if a rat is stuck in a space and cannot escape it, he will have a heart attack.

@g00dl00kinb0i Жыл бұрын

Brilliant👍 I'm thinking about building a hardware cloth mesh mat I'll park my car on with insulating tape running in ridges and a positive aluminum fence wire glued on top every 5 rows to discourage then from hanging out under it and leaving a mess. Did you guys ground this innovative contraption into the soil, I see a 2nd black cable from the fence controller ? Btw, that's a smart wife you have👌

@lansingadventist 11 ай бұрын

that 2nd black wire from the charger is the AC cord that goes to a power outlet.

@brianharris1573 7 ай бұрын

I was thinking a lamp cord plugged into a ground fault circuit interrupting multi outlet with some hardware cloth in strips on some old vinyl tile. Very dangerous for kids and pets and I have neither. Soon as the mouse shorts it the GFCI switch goes to off. Might literally blow the mouse up though. I'll know by tomorrow.

@riflebear1711 7 ай бұрын

How it turn out?

@deanlogic8595 5 жыл бұрын

Where there's one mouse, there are probably 2 more.

@edwardsmith4353 Жыл бұрын

How many volts is the fence box'?

@SurvivalistGardener Жыл бұрын

The fence charger uses 110 volt house current. It converts that to between 7000 and 10,000 volts for an electric fence (although the amperage is very small) so it hurts when a big animal (or human) touches it, but it won't kill them. A mouse or a rat? That's another story.

@ethan_lin 2 жыл бұрын

Awwww!!! I love the kids!(baby goats)

@PermacultureHomestead 5 жыл бұрын

i like it, you need a game camera now to see how long it takes em' to die. might make for some good footage, mouse riding the lightning

@Right.to.handle 4 жыл бұрын

How many voltage you apply their

@SurvivalistGardener 4 жыл бұрын

We used an electric fence charger that is plugged into 120v outlet. The electric fence charger sends out an intermittent pulse of about 10,000 volts.

@zarakshakeel8001 2 жыл бұрын

So basically we can connect fence charger directly? No need of any thing like high ratings capacitor or taser etc?

@richedwards1243 2 жыл бұрын

What brand electric fence? I want it for rats and also put it on a switch for starlings at my feeder I can turn on from house when they land…will that brand kill them rats and starlings?

@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane 2 жыл бұрын

@@richedwards1243 This is exactly what I was thinking for House Sparrows and Starlings! Were you able to make it work? If so, how please!

@christophermartin3618 2 жыл бұрын

Have you caught any more?

@SurvivalistGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. We caught a couple more, and then haven't had a problem with mice since.

@hotdogmanisafunnyname 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen enough I’m satisfied

@user-ci8sc7yq4k 5 ай бұрын

Im thinking bout using a microwave rectorfirer

@yavinklein-katz7719 20 күн бұрын

It’s asbestos, not “non-flammable concrete board” 😂

@SurvivalistGardener 20 күн бұрын

It is NOT asbestos! It is Hardie board. Look it up. www.jameshardie.com/

@guymiller9212 4 ай бұрын

How dose it work if your still using the larger ones .are very smart. They sent these little guys to test it out. So once they know it's danger they will stay away

@anenlightenedmisfit6262 10 ай бұрын

Wish i could set a big electric trap all around my bed. Those nasty rats bite my toes while I'm in sleep 😭

@Nas_Atlas 6 ай бұрын

WHAT THE FUCK

@Aardrijk1 5 жыл бұрын

Clever idea. I'll bet a nickel you get a lot of complaints though.. Hope you get the rat soon. They're bad news.

@SurvivalistGardener 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim! Yup... and this rat has avoided every conventional trap I have set, so hopefully this will be the trick. I saw him once, when I went to investigate the goats who I heard were upset at night. I had my flashlight and he stopped and looked right at me... unfortunately, I didn't have any means of dispatching him at the time, and by the time I got back with an air rifle, he was gone--- of course.

@jameslivingston8301 5 жыл бұрын

@@SurvivalistGardener 22 or 177 air rifle?

@SurvivalistGardener 5 жыл бұрын

@@jameslivingston8301 177

@deanlogic8595 5 жыл бұрын

@@SurvivalistGardener And I'm not there to plink it.

@Saba_000.2 Жыл бұрын

Mady vedio

@chriscampbellcampbell2505 9 ай бұрын

I'm thinking about hooking one up to a 15 Amp breaker. This is smart the rollers on a 5 gallon bucket. What a joke. He weighs almost 3 pounds, and he walks the rim around the top of the bucket, so I was just thinking about 110 volts thinking maybe since he has out amrted me a few times your design on top the bucket because rats are nowhere in the range of mice and chipmunks it is hooked to a breaker may drop it down too ten Amp or the Victor shield traps well yesterday and today spent to much time and there are two for sure laughing at me that's why I came across your video. I like it. But fire is a factor for me.thanks guys