A vole et me Vauxhall....
Posted on 10/10/2019 11:07:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
See post #41...................
See Post #41....................
Interesting, where I live, suburb outside of Detroit, we had many rabbits in my subdivision in past years and my house cat at the time caught a couple babies hiding in the flowers off my back deck.
Now there is a population of about 5 or 6 feral cats that I caught on my trail camera one night that have totally taken care of the rabbits since I haven't seen a one this year......
“Seems to me that all they have to do is add an ingredient that is repulsive to the pests.”
Maybe they could stencil little pictures of Hillary! or Helen Thomas on it.
I chased a wiring problem in a school years ago where the thing would go into trouble in the summer at a about the same time and clear up at about the same time. Rats had chewed off several feet of insulation and the heat let the wire stretch enough to ground out and clear with temperature change.
It smelled like French fries near where the problem was. Never figured that out.
“Rat now in Rat heaven.”
Lawsuit from PETA soon to follow.
What happens to rodents who eat cannabis? Do they get the munchies? :P
I had a craftsman large rider mower with a v-twin engine that kept bending pushrods. I would remove the valve cover, straigten the rod with a hammer, pound on the end of the valve to unstick it, and slap it back together to finish the yard. I did that about 20 times.
Then I saw a youtube video that said that is caused by overheating and a mouse may have built a nest in the shroud around the air cooled cylinder. I took the shroud off and, yep. That cylinder was completely caked in dry mud and straw. I had to chizel it out of the fins with a slot screwdriver. And the other side had a nest too, but it was all feathers and straw - no mud.
It ran great after that.
“It worked pretty well. Later, I found that human urine (much cheaper) worked almost as well.”
Problem is that you can never find human urine when you need it
I’d hate to see what our Florida palmetto bugs can do to edible wire sheathing and foam seats...one can chew a deep golf ball sized hole in a cantaloupe overnight.
However, if fluid has alcohol, then machine dries out.
Wow. Never heard of this problem before.
Now I’m glad I drive an old clunker.
One of the reasons we allowed our 2015 Corvette Stingray to go back at the end of the 3year lease was that rodents were eating the wiring harness in the garage. . . And that was the ONLY thing that was attracting the pests into the garage. We were doing everything we could to keep them out, but it was an attractive nuisance to them. They also seemed to love the air hoses . It was still under factory warranty and the damage was being picked up by GM, but it was getting ridiculous.
The Rodents LOVED that car. . . We had taken to putting poison on the wires, but they still came and dined down. They’d chew through any blockade we put on the garage structure to get to it. So, Bye Bye ‘Vette.
Most likely............Or they fall out of the trees and get eaten by cats......................
We keep our hoods propped up out here in the boonies if the car’s going to be sitting for days. The light getting in there helps. We use a 1 1/2 foot long stick and if it’s going to get real windy we close the hood. Definitely helps prevent them nesting in there. Doesn’t mean they won’t get up there and chew a little but we haven’t had a problem since we started propping the hood.
the good news is you can run the cars on soy sauce if you are in a jam.
check it out. it is on the internet.
Now you got me thinking. We also have a Murray Select rider w/a 46” deck. Put a good bit of money into it - two tires and rims, new blades, new headlight lenses, new battery, plugs, seat cover, the whole Magilla. Ran great for a quarter acre, then stopped cold. The starter motor cranks independently, the engine turns freely, and I replaced the starter relay. Still nothing. I even hotwired the seat safety override. I have a new ignition switch and throttle relay to install, but now I wonder if one of those little pests maybe got in the garage and chewed on some wiring I can’t see. I mean, there’s only so many parts you can replace on the thing that could cause it to stop like that.
As you would well know, 128% of those substitutes cause cancer in any animal ever tested.
Not by my cats. They’re pampered so stoopid, they’d get their ears slap-boxed right up the tree the squirrel fell out of. *chuckle*
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