A couple years back I fired up my motorcycle to have a decent load of cracked feed corn blast out of the exhaust pipe. It was a lot, enough to fill a coffee can.
What got me was the mouse that hid the corn in the bikes exhaust stole it from a feed sack that was about twenty feet away. How many trips did that little bugger make to assemble that winter cache?
The mice have also built nests my motorcycles air box and in every tractor I own, in fact right now I have to find the time to disassemble the top of my neighbors lawn tractor thats stored in my barn to clear a mouse nest from it.
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- Lt.Mike
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Quote by Gary Pickeral I like
"If it can cast a shadow, it can be restored"
"If it can cast a shadow, it can be restored"
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My dad was cleaning the steering clutch compartments of a Cat D4D of crud when he uncovered a 10" crescent wrench.
I was pressure washing a D8 2u's engine and discovered the huge lump of dirt behind the injection pump was actually an empty micky bottle.
We had a 1974 Yamaha snowmobile that had spent decades in a barn. While trying to get it going for the first time, it had absolutely no power and would stall out at anything above idle. It turned out the muffler was plugged solid with a mouse nest. We should have suspected something when, during the five-hour trip home with it, we saw a mouse scurrying around the truck box!
I was pressure washing a D8 2u's engine and discovered the huge lump of dirt behind the injection pump was actually an empty micky bottle.
We had a 1974 Yamaha snowmobile that had spent decades in a barn. While trying to get it going for the first time, it had absolutely no power and would stall out at anything above idle. It turned out the muffler was plugged solid with a mouse nest. We should have suspected something when, during the five-hour trip home with it, we saw a mouse scurrying around the truck box!
- Dusty B
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Mud dobber nests are common in any openings available!
Grandpa's '41 B
'56,,'57,'59, Cu'b
'45 C
'55 Case S
Dad's DB garden tractor
'48 DeSoto
'31 "A Coup
'79 Lincoln TC
God looks out for those of us who don't know how to look out for ourselves!
'56,,'57,'59, Cu'b
'45 C
'55 Case S
Dad's DB garden tractor
'48 DeSoto
'31 "A Coup
'79 Lincoln TC
God looks out for those of us who don't know how to look out for ourselves!
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Have a 1/10 yard cement mixer. Stored inside, seldom gets used, electric motor. Wanted to pour some sidewalk. Motor wouldn't move. Motor was full of mud dobber nests. Had to disassemble the motor, wash it out, then let dry a couple of days.
Started my WD Allis Chalmer. A mouse jumped out of the opening in the bottom of the housing going between the transmission and the finals. How a mouse got into the housing is a question. The housing is cast iron and about 3 feet off the ground.
Started my WD Allis Chalmer. A mouse jumped out of the opening in the bottom of the housing going between the transmission and the finals. How a mouse got into the housing is a question. The housing is cast iron and about 3 feet off the ground.
I have an excuse. CRS.
- AgTires4295
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On my A, I dropped the oil pan and found hundreds of stinkbugs. About 50 were all sucked up to and clogging the oil screen. I'm guessing at some point, they crawled down the oil fill, through the engine and settled down there (why?). My oil pressure was low and I thought there was another underlying issue. Afterwards, my oil pressure was through the roof and the engine ran healthy again. I've never seen anything like that before.
I've also cleaned a mouse nest out of the final drive on the A, as well as the bell housing. Amazing.
I've also cleaned a mouse nest out of the final drive on the A, as well as the bell housing. Amazing.
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Perhaps not the correct forum for this, but the timing is perfect.
According to my mother in law the big news this morning at the gym (they don't really work out, just gossip for an hour) was that a local chiropractors receptionist was eating a salad from a large grocery store chain. She bit into something hard only to discover it was a whole dead frog. Her screams could be heard outside the office, and she was reportedly still throwing up 3 hours later.
They took the frog and some pictures they had taken back to the store where purchased. At first, they offered to give her a refund for the salad, but then decided on a $100 gift card. I wont mention the stores name but it rhymes with tall cart.
I guess when its called a "mixed salad" eat carefully.
According to my mother in law the big news this morning at the gym (they don't really work out, just gossip for an hour) was that a local chiropractors receptionist was eating a salad from a large grocery store chain. She bit into something hard only to discover it was a whole dead frog. Her screams could be heard outside the office, and she was reportedly still throwing up 3 hours later.
They took the frog and some pictures they had taken back to the store where purchased. At first, they offered to give her a refund for the salad, but then decided on a $100 gift card. I wont mention the stores name but it rhymes with tall cart.
I guess when its called a "mixed salad" eat carefully.
- Don McCombs
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Free protein.
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I found a wooden gas gauge stick in the gas tank of my 49 Ford 8n. It had factory paint emblems on it. It took me forever to fish it out of those baffles but I also tore it up in the process. Would be made a nice keepsake.
I had my 99 Mustang sitting over a winter so I could repair the front clip after hitting a deer. In the spring, I went to clean it out to start working and found a 5 foot copperhead that had nested under the spare tire.
I had my 99 Mustang sitting over a winter so I could repair the front clip after hitting a deer. In the spring, I went to clean it out to start working and found a 5 foot copperhead that had nested under the spare tire.
Tractors are like watermelons: the RED is good and you throw away the GREEN.
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