On 6/25/2012 11:23 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

No, I was talking about 2" chicken wire, but I'd forgotten about the
smaller sizes. My bad.