On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:53:20 -0600, Pennyaline
> wrote:

>On 6/25/2012 8:17 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>
>> Years ago my father made chicken wire chimneys to protect his tom,atos
>> from maurading squirrels and it worked wonderfully! He made hooks out
>> of the chicken wire to keep the cylindrical chimneys closed and he'd
>> unhook then to open the chimney abnd harvest the tomatos. We had a
>> prodigeous amount of non-squirrel-eaten-on tomatoes that year!
>
>
>I have yet to meet a squirrel that couldn't get most if not all of
>itself through the relatively large openings of chicken wire.

No way. Those hex openings in chicken wire are too small to admit
even a young squirrels head... maybe you're talking turkey wire.