What is the best way to keep squirrels out of pecan trees?

no smart cracks pleaseWhat is the best way to keep squirrels out of pecan trees?
The best way that I can think of is the same way that you keep them off of your bird feeders. If you wrap the tree in a piece of metal (like a stove pipe) they can't get their claws into it and they can't get past it on the trunk. Just make sure that the peice is long enough so they cant jump over it. Another thing you can do is make a cone out of plastic with the wide part facing down and wrap that around the tree as long as you put it far enough off the ground they shouldn't be able to get past that either. Of course if the pecan trees are close to other trees and the branches touch there is not much you can do.What is the best way to keep squirrels out of pecan trees?
I don't know if this will work, but, I've seen in Caribbean countries where people put a metal band or a strip of metal at a certain level off the ground around the coconut tree to prevent rats from climbing up (yes, rats DO climb using their nails) to gnaw at the coconuts and eat the fleshy part of the inside of the coconuts; rats have been known to devastate a whole crop of coconut trees (coconuts are sold for manufacturing oils for many products including but not limited to hair products, skin products, pharmaceuticals, beauty products, soft drinks and candies and other products). Have you considered putting a strip of about 12'; of metal around the trunk of the tree about 4 1/2 feet off the ground? It would help if the same squirrels can't jump from another tree onto that particular tree (put similar strips around the other trees, too).





Or, you might want to tie some burlap material (twisted around itself first) and soak it with ammonia periodically to repel the squirrels.
I have read a book on ';All about squirrels'; love 'em or hate 'em.


I suppose they are eating the nuts?Squirrels are extremely smart rodents.They have a gift of finding any way to get at a food source.There probably is NO way to keep them out of the tree.If they are eating the nuts,and you do not want them to,you can give them an ALTERNATIVE source of food that they may enjoy,even better.The squirrels that I fed,LOVE peanut butter.If you can provide a CONSTANT source of ALTERNATIVE food,they will eventually move on to your source of food.
An electric fencer works well for me. Place some insulators on the tree trunk and wrap 2';X4'; welded wire around it and hook a fencer to it. Here is a better description with a photo.





http://www.pecanworld.com/SQUIRREL.htm
I guess it would be a smart crack to say kill them. So other than that then get a cat or better still a bird of prey they will soon go with a preditor in their mist.





I also wonder if they are preditorial animals, in which case spreading the urine of a stronger squirell might do the trick. How you obtain that will be another question.
Sorry, but smart cracks are going to be unavoidable. Kill the squirrels or put up with it. You could post a hawk nearby, but that might prove to be somewhat difficult.
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You could place a rat guard partway up the trunk, but that would


not keep them from jumping from one tree to another.


You would have to put guards on every tree in close proximity.


Or you could be a nice guy and just let them have some of your pecans.