![]() ![]() The better that humans collectively get at permaculture the more animals that will want to be our friends, as there becomes a mutualistic benefit to our interactions. there is a string release in the video just kind of hard to see probably could make a mechanical release but it may be hard to do, way more squirrel catapults on you tube than I ever imagined. This is likely how we started the domestication process that got some wolves to become dogs. We could theoretically put our skills towards other animals well being effectively recruiting certain wild animals to guard our food for us. Permaculture is basically engineering the most ideal possible natural habitat for humans. Bald Eagles return to the same nesting area for life if the nest remains undisturbed, and if the tree falls, they will rebuild in the same area if the environment is healthy enough to support them.Ī wonderful indicator for ecological health is stable and healthy populations of apex predators like eagles, falcons, wolves, bears, and humans. Prune and train the highest branches as the ideal "welcome sign" for a new mating pair of native predatory raptors. The most ecological way to deal with the squirrel problem is to set-up the ideal nesting habitat/situation in the nearest largest species compatible tree. In less than 20 minutes, a squirrel stole over 200 black walnuts that we intended to plant strategically as part of an attempted food forest project. If you could scale this up to launch groundhogs, and somehow incorporate a self-resetting mechanism this could become something big! Of course, I should think about owls, considering the raccoon population of the city I live in. It will offer them a spectacular view of my raised bed garden in the back yard, and all the squirrels they can pluck from the mulberry trees and garage roof peaks. ![]() I am also building a perch for the local hawks on a pole about six to eight feet above my third-floor bedroom window balcony garden, with an appropriate perch profile and wrapping. I am currently trying to brainstorm a way to cast a moving hawk shadow, probably a silhouette pinned to a motorised clothesline activated by motion sensor, but first I think I am going to try an outdoor speaker and motion sensor setup, with the speaker playing a hawk shriek any time the sensor is triggered. On a serious note, are there any guardian animals that squirrels do take seriously? I mean, they disappear whenever the Red-Tailed Hawks soar by, and I know that they are preyed upon, as I have seen, on many occasions, Red-Tailed Hawks munching on squirrel perched atop electrical poles. I learned a lot about squirrels and a little about physics.Is it bad that I want to see video of the Squirrel Electric Slide? Those little fuckers just won't leave my bean seedlings alone. I don't think they would have done that if they were scared of the thing.Īnd after the squirrels demonstraed a mastery of the catapult - he disabled it. Plus the squirrels, after they were catapulted would just run around and reenter the course. Even putting a manual abort switch on the catapult.Īs far as the squirrel-a-pult goes, he had already captured video of squirrels making much longer leaps. Eli & I broke out the ole squirrel catapult / launcher a couple weeks ago.weve launched over 100 times and havent. ![]() ![]() It got annoying after a while, which is why you see me chasing the squirrels away in the video. I would wake up in the morning, several times, and there would be two squirrels stuffed inside the catapult waiting. In the design, he purposely and deliberately made the obstacles so that it could not hurt the squirrels. 93K views 3 years ago squirrel catapult squirrellaunch. Beyond that after we had flung them they would literally run back up and into the catapult. I did not show this step but you will also need to add the horizontal (stopper) support - this is 14' wide. If the squirrels couldn't beat it both the squirrels and I would have lost interest. Most catapults use a triangular support for their uprights but since I just wanted to make a functional (not pretty) catapult I just opted for easy horizontal blocks. IMHO his squirrel obstacle course was deliberately designed to be beaten. He was mostly creating a squirrel obstacle course. It seems like in his final design - the bird feeder was almost an afterthought. This guy has real respect and appreciation for nature and squirrels.įor a fraction of the effort and cost he probably could have made a truly squirrel proof bird feeder. ![]()
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