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Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
 
I built a sandblasted redwood sign and installed it on a post in my client's front yard. Sometime later, I drive by and notice holes in it, four to be exact, in a neat row across the front face. A woodpecker had attacked it and one of the holes was clean through the 1.5'' thick sign. So I figured it was after carpenter bees, which I have found in a redwood sign on one occasion.

So, I built him a sign out of HDU....
My wife drove by this weekend and noticed the wood....HDUpeckers are attacking that too.
 

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Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
 
Hah-Hah-HAh-Hah!!!
Woodpeckers don't seem to be worried about the materialas much as how the material looks. A month or so back, I opened my garage early one Saturday morning and heard a woodpecker at work. The sound was very lound and clear. That sucker was working on the Hardi-Board facia on a neighbors house. It wasn't long before he had a good size audience.
 

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Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
 
Wayne....those poor little fellers have probably have probably knocked something loose in their head with all that hammerin'...maybe they keep returning to an old nesting site, and are too cross-eyed to tell it ain't there no more. I bet they can't even walk a straight line !
 

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Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
 
Posted September 24th by Wayne Webb
"Kelly,
I have built seven signs from Everwood so far and no complaints yet........ And, so far, the woodpeckers have left it alone."

You had to invoke their wrath , didn't ya!

[ October 07, 2003, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: Kelly Thorson ]
 

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Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
 
Santo,
As a matter of fact, the sign has a pictorial of two oak trees on it. Maybe they look too realistic?

Jeff, They do look a bit blank and spaced out don't they.

Guess I spoke too soon Kelly.
Should have taken a BB gun along on the installation.

[ October 07, 2003, 10:15 AM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
 

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Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
 
Years ago my wife and I had a RV at a campground.
One morning I woke up to a DING DING DING! Like a fire alarm...

Getting dressed and walking out side to see were the noise was coming from.
Low and behold a Utility pole behind us had a Metal cap on it!

This poor little bastard was banging his head so hard against the cap...I laugh to myself until I almost burst a gut.

 

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