On Jul 20, 3:54*pm, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:58:28 -0400, "Stubby"

wrote:
I have some small fruit trees. * The apples look *very good but squirrels
are climbing up the trees to get them. * Any ideas on preventing this? *How
do the large orchards cope with this problem?

Nothing but a *guess here, but metal flashing around the trunk (old
stove pipe, aluminum foil, grease the trunks ).

they can jump 8-10 feet up. i've had a bird feeder hanging from a
metal clotheline pole, high enough that i can't reach it without a
boathook kind of thing to get it down from the hanger for refill. it's
been squirrelproof for a few years, but this summer for the first time
some squirrel got to it, somehow, and now it's a daily raid.