Second mothballs: they seem to keep cats out of the flower beds.
Good plan… except I’d probably topple the can over as I popped out and then all I’d have is a raccoon laughing at me!
Well, the ammonia seems to be working. I didn’t have a chance to go out and get mothballs or Pine Sol yet. Today’s pickup day so the cans went out to the curb last night. Everything looked fine as I drove past them to work today.
We use a cedar locker bin like this one. The doors to the bin can’t open unless the lid is lifted. Raccoons and their ilk can’t get to anything inside. The other reason we got this storage locker is because the blue bins and garbage cans are ugly, and the cedar storage locker is less so.
I like that! Where did you get it?
Your cans don’t have a lip in the front for the garbage truck to grab?
You could also screw an eye hook into the plastic, and attach one end of the bungee to that.
Yeah, one does, actually. The other we got ourselves from Lowe’s and there’s nothing on the lid to attach anything to.
Sorry, to be late in my reply. I can’t access the Dope from work. This bin came from a Canada-based company. It would be stupidly expensive to ship it. They are also way more expensive than they ought to be if you’re a half-apt carpenter. We bought this one because timing was bad for us and we didn’t have time to build one from scratch. So between lumber costs (cedar) and then having to sort out the carpentry, we just paid for the bin. It comes in components and is roughly as easy as putting together Ikea furniture, but power tools are recommended.
We are thinking of building a similar one from scratch to use as a bike locker.
I just looked at the site. It’s only $55 to ship it to the US or Canada. I’d say that’s not to bad considering how much it’s got to weigh.
That’s all? Wow, I would have thought it would be a lot more. We have zero raccoon issues with the bin locker. A lot of our neighbours use one too because there are a few row houses where they don’t have a walkway to their back yard, so they have to keep the cans in the front. As I mentioned upthread, the cedar bins are far better looking than ugly cans on your front lawn. There’s a lot of raccoon activity in our neighbourhood, but no one has been able to bust into the bins.