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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.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7405 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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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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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 !
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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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!
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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