first time this ever happened to me...
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Topic: first time this ever happened to me...
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: first time this ever happened to me...
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 1:23am
| went out to move the flatbed pickup back to the big shed out back and bring the big boy truck up front. the battery was dead on the flatbed truck...weird...cuz I just drove it the other day. opened the hood and right there in the front drivers side area was a MASSIVE squirrel nest. PffffT! it had chewed thru a whole wiring loom, the serpentine belt and other wires on the engine! %&#($!^#@&*! cleaned it all out, and jump started it, it started, but I don't have any lights. laid a pack of moth balls in there, dunno if that will help any now. I never had that happen before! |
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Posted By: marion
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 6:38am
| have same problem here with squirrels, everything that gets parked for a while gets a pie pan full of mothballs on motor |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 8:37am
| Too bad them squirrels don't do that in the snow machine. Darrel |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 8:48am
Darrel  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 8:51am
| Whats cooking on the grill today?? |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 12 May 2019 at 9:09pm
It could of been worse  had a pair of dogs trap a squrrel in the engine compartment of the old 1960 C60 truck. By pulling on anything they could get there teeth in they broke spark plugs and all the wires where pulled apart. And the squrrel got away in the end anyway. Most of a day job patching thing back up.
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 5:29am
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We had a squirrel here... ONE squirrel... living in the trees on the west side of the lot... for oh, mebbie three seasons. I don't think he made it thorugh the winter- no sign of him. Probably fed an owl or an eagle. The problem I DO have here, is mice and raccoons... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: trace
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 11:07am
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what the dogs doin?? their job to chase them varmits off the property. my lab makes sure of that.
------------- 1955 WD-45 WIDE FRONT W/ TRIP LOADER |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 11:18am
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Fuzzy tail rat dumplins!!! Mmmmmmm good ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 1:36pm
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Seems the wiring insulation now used is a soy based material and a favorite of red Squirrles - neighbors car parked in the garage became lunch while he was gone for a month . Out in his shed the red squirrels were a problem also so has that loaded with traps for both them and mouse traps - water buckets baited with peanut butter on a hanging disc . ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 7:21pm
| In mhavnt had the darn pests since the old gal gots bunch of outside cats. But all my vehicals set close to the house. Good luck with the truck. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 9:22pm
| that truck is my fifth wheel puller. may hafta change the hitch over to the big boy truck! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 10:37pm
HMmmmmm,,,I'm see'in a maybe chance to do a little horse tradin here,,,,,I'm pretty good a wiring jobs,,,,what you gots to "trade",,,,???
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 13 May 2019 at 10:43pm
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Probably just a Jeep. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 12:05am
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Turn them dogs loose once in a while..... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 14 May 2019 at 2:51pm
| He's got a AC with a V8 |