Thread: Things that go bump in your Shed at night

I feel totally comfortable in my shed at night.
Even when machines are turned off I still have quite a few things that still emit light so I can sort of see a little.
Battery charger LEDs
Theres a blue V/I panel meter on the breaker box and several others on other machinery which still operate when the machine is off.
A CO2 monitor on the ceiling shows a number and small blinking light.
There is also have a low wattage sign that said "Warning X-rays on" but I now turn that off unless we are away.
It might look a bit spooky to someone that doesn't know what is going on but that's fine with me.

Nothing inside the shed worries me, I've had 2.5m python and heaps of live and dead rats (neighbours have birds so I bait often), but outside is a different matter. Nothing like a possum jumping down on the roof from a tree high above . Forumites coming to visit and think it is funny to see me jump as they creep up . Then there is the neighbour's dog that sneaks in and licks the back of my knees

Hey Goggo,

Don't keep us in suspense! What was it?

Cheers, Redbog

Apart from the "Possy Family" there is also 2 or 3 Skinks that give me heart failure when I see an inch or so of head or tail. Its amasing just how I am on "Snake Alert" subconsciously. From time to time the shed has been the place to raise a number of Willi Wagtails, Swallows, a Chat. It has also been the place of visitation for Brown Snakes and a Tiger Snake once. The rats come and go. I bated 2 weeks ago and now there is a very "juicy" smell of rotting Rattus.
My timber stash is in need of inspection due to White Ants around.
Sometimes at night there are some noises but nothing is really scary even though it is very dark out.

What scares me is all the unfinished projects and work still to be done. Oh and a bat scared the crap out of me when I first moved in. It was fluttering about in the dark and I'd switch the lights on and there is nothing to be seen, look everywhere. Turn lights off to walk out,there is again, Lights on nothing there , another search, nanda. Repeat several times get more creeped out and irritated. Finally I spot the bugger hanging on the side of one of the roof beams. Opened all the doors and chased him out with a long soft bristled broom.

Light off it is feeding time, lights on he went to bed, I guess I was confusing hims as much as he was me.

I walked out the shed to see some lurking in the dark near the back door the orher night. Got the old ticket pumping. It was justy reflection in the window lol

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

It was the middle of the afternoon and the new cat had been out boundary riding. I hear a guttural gurgling meow enter the shed and I look around to find said cat with a pleased as punch look on his face and a whip snake neatly coiled around his lower jaw. A live trophy, not dead.

By the time I chased him out and got the snake off him, the Fuzzette wouldn't believe me, until a week or two later when he presented her with the same present in the living room.

A few screws went in the cat door after that!

Hi all

sorry I didn't get back to the post on the weekend. Got caught up welding the Goggo chassis ... 🚕

Ok ... To cut a short story long .... Yes it was a rat .🐭.. A very smart rat. As I pulled the shed apart I found the strangest thing. With in the braces of the shed are hidden channels. There were millions of bones .. Organised in sequence ... In order ... Small highly chewed bones organised in order right thru to large fresh bones .... Each brace had the same order of bones right to the roof ..... 🙈 I cleared them out ....

End of story ... Not quite ... Then to catch the rat ... I decided if I caught it I would call it Rat Face and make it a pet ....

I tried baiting, an expensive rat trap, peanut paste ... Na .. Too smart .. I'd leave it a month ..no bones .. Then the smell and bones would start again ...

I only ever saw Rat Face once ... Poking his head over the fence ... A coloured rat ... Domestic I'm thinking ..

Then one day nothing ... just disappeared ... No more Rat Face ...

i know this sounds a bit strange but I became fond of Rat Face ... End

🐭 Randal 🐭

Fellow Shedders

ok for the second in the series ..

I originally come from Bribie Is ... My mum had the worlds best shed .. Post war materials cobbled together .... A long skinny shed with benches and hidden compartment ...

one night i was was welding and I heard this noise .. scapping .. Like a piece of hose being pulled thru boxes ....

I turned and saw 👀 the body of aw hat I thought was a large snake .... i crapped myself ....

The next day I mentioned it to my mum .. She said as a matter of factly..... Oh that's Bossy my pet Blue Tongue he lives in the shed 😫

Randal