I put the JD X530 up in the back shed in early March and brought it down today to do spring maintenance. When I hopped on I saw a mouse run away from the front of the tractor. This is what I found when I got down to the shop and opened the hood. I had already cleaned the flywheel off. I started at the top and kept pulling parts off and vacuuming. At the end a long screwdriver and the blow gun got rid of the rest. Fortunately the only thing they chewed was the outer foam air filter and I had a spare. When I put it back I put several dryer sheets on it to hopefully keep them out. I also added a bucket trap with peanut butter.
Little bastards. Hate mice with a passion. I’m sure they’ve cause much trouble in my shed as well Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Had a mouse make a nest once, and it chewed the insulation from around the plug wire near the magneto. Was able to tape it as a temp fix till a new one was shipped. Yeah, mice suck
Ugh! Me hates them little b@st@rds, too. I just spent $600 to repair electrical damage to my car from them. I've had many instances of them getting into my cars and F'ing up all sorts of stuff. Some of it was just cosmetic, but other time, like the last episode, super important and expensive to fix. We got a cat a couple of years ago, but he is mostly useless in trying to keep up with the mice. We really need a ratter/mouser dog to supplement my multiple mouse traps.
I have field mice by me, basement, attic, etc. I find that the glue traps work well for them. I never tell the bride they get in the house.
Until this year I've never had a mouse in any of my cars, I trapped one in the trunk with a mousetrap, and one ironically got out of the car, and got run over in the parking lot at work.
I feel your pain Maina . Had that happen a couple different times and they had some fun chewing through the coil wires. More than one got a bit uh....."toasty" from the engine heat before I realized they had made a nest.
Good job on catching that. Most people would have ran it like that. Then they would have blown a head gasket or worse.
Mice...they don't bother me, but rats now that is a different story. Sadly when you have livestock, you have rats. It may not be right, but I use poison (on the rats, not on the livestock). We got a cat just for mice and rats, but he is a sissy. He even came off a dairy farm just for being a mouser, but he just does not have it in him. The girls love him and he is a pet. I cannot say a house cat because all day he is inside sleeping on the beds, and all night he is living up to his name; that is Thomas is "Tom'ing" with his lady friends. He is a perfect cat though, well trained and easy. My ex-wife and I had a mini-schnauzer and that was the best mouser I ever had. It killed mice, rats and snakes. Today my "snakers" are my ducks. Since having ducks I have yet to see snakes in my yard where they roam. They also take care of ticks in the yard, and serve triple duty by keeping the insects down around the sheep barns. Sadly they only work during daylight hours and insects low to the ground. Bats keep the insect population down around the sheep barns at night and up higher. It is not ideal as I do not have a way to protect the sheep from insects up high during the day, nor low at night, but overall I use no insecticides for my sheep.
This morning was the 4th this hunting season outta the civic. They don't get into the other vehicles? Mothballs and poison don't do much in the car. So when I get the first whif of them spring or fall I just put traps in.
I put one of these in the garage after we found chewed tissue in the wife’s car and caught 2 the first night and 2 more the second night. No problem for a couple weeks after so I moved it up to the back shed. I’m just gonna build another one and make it a permanent addition. They can’t resist. It works better than any trap I’ve tried before. I used an empty beer can and wired it around the handle on both sides so no holes to drill. It’s a 5 minute job and super cheap.
My visula kept after the mice and snakes, Most snakes I like having around as they eat mice. Also have cats so that keeps the mice down a lot. if they don't seem to hunt them trap some and feed them to the cats once they get a taste for them they hunt. Friend of mine driving to work in his power stroke diesel and it starts doing some weird stuff like showing fuel as being empth and truck quitting a mile from the fuel station. After nearly a week athr dealer they found mice had gotten under the manifold and raised holy **** with the wireing running thru there. the parts and labor not warranty covered was over 2000.00. It was also his daily driver. He is a firm beliver in DeCon and Victor and skippy. Al
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even with my wife driving her suv everyday when i went to change the air filter they had a little condo complex built in there, well I guess actually a mobile home...............
My wife’s last Subaru was a daily driver too and mice got in through the heater. One morning she said she heard a weird noise and then after that she complained of a bed smell and said that the heater wasn’t working very well. I found a dried mouse plastered to the inside of the heater fan. That must have been a heck of a ride! I had to put wire mesh over the intake on the firewall to keep them out. It took awhile to get rid of the smell too.
