"beav" <BEAVITH1@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote in message
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> the tractor was a hangar queen

8^D I've heard that term used as regards Jags, but never a lowly garden
tractor.


> frankly, i'd go for the moth balls, and when i get back from this
> weekend, i think i'm going that way.

I assume you are implying that you prefer the smell of mothballs to that of
dryer sheets. That may be the case after short-term exposure, but the
mothball smell really hangs around and gets into things, and quickly becomes
irritating. Have you read the (probably apocryphal) story about the guy
that thought he would outsmart a squirrel by using mothballs to drive it
away? The story goes that the squirrel got the last laugh by taking all the
mothballs and stashing them in the wall of this guy's house. The smell was
so into intolerable that he had to tear down the wall and clean it out.
Like I said, probably an urban legend, but certainly the purported effect is
plausible.


> of course, last night, i ran out and covered my new tractor with dryer
> sheets...

I wonder if it's the chemicals or the perfumes in the dryer sheets that
repel rodents? If it's the chemicals, than odorless dryer sheets might be
just the ticket.

Eric Lucas