Joined: Jan 07, 2011 Posts: 63 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 8:05 am Post subject: Another use for your jeep
If you've ever decided that your military jeep, despite being a multi-purpose vehicle, still doesn't do enough for you, I found the solution. This works especially well for those non-operational projects that are sitting around waiting for attention.
The solution: open a rat breeding house!
And yes, those pink things behind the big rat are two baby rats... She gathered up some stuffing from what looks like a pillow (hopefully not from another old vehicle in the driveway ), made a comfy nest between a wooden toolbox and the tailgate, and was raising her young.
Who knew rodent extermination was part of the old vehicle restoration hobby? _________________ 1952 M38 - restoration in process, 1000 miles away...
I had the same problem. Mice used all my paper seals for house building under the hood, just underneath the carb and ruined my rubber oil seals, too!
But your rat looks like a pretty mama. Did you kill here or had her leave for another apartment?
Joined: Feb 26, 2011 Posts: 81 Location: Spanish in Venezuela
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:16 am Post subject:
It's funny, but it seems that not only are elected military jeep for some animals to raise their puppies.
In my civilian jeep G.CH. I found this.
Parked the car in the garage of my house and heard meowing ... without knowing where they came from.
Later in the parking lot of my work again listened to ...
This was for two days
-I'll be going crazy?
I decided to pay more attention to see where ...., came to discover I remembered seeing a pregnant cat in the vicinity of the factory.
I do not think she gave birth there, but at some point moved to protect them, and came and disappeared ..
Joined: Jan 07, 2011 Posts: 63 Location: Idaho Falls, ID
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 2:45 pm Post subject:
maxEmilian wrote:
But your rat looks like a pretty mama. Did you kill here or had her leave for another apartment?
We killed 'em. It appears the same rat made a nest in the engine compartment of my mom's car as well. No sense waiting for them to destroy something... _________________ 1952 M38 - restoration in process, 1000 miles away...
They can cost you a pretty bundle on a modern car when they start chewing into that elaborate computer controlled harness under the hood. _________________ Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100
We brought a Jeep pickup home last summer and were unloading it off the trailer. My son opened the drivers door ,reached down to take it out of gear and a snake slithered across the seat. I didn't know he could move so far so fast!!
Joined: Jul 18, 2008 Posts: 639 Location: Melrose, MA and Santa Fe, NM
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:29 am Post subject:
Last Summer I was in New Mexico with my Dad working on an antique car we have out there, a 1964 Apollo. It hadn't been touched since I had been there in 2006. Inside the engine compart I found a mix of desicated field mice/pack rats. In the trunk under the tire there was a stinkier and juicier batch. I was there three weeks and never did quite get the smell out fo the trunk. We have traps, sticky pads, and snakes all of the place out there but they still get in.
Joined: Feb 28, 2011 Posts: 148 Location: Escondido, CA
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:47 pm Post subject:
wesk wrote:
They can cost you a pretty bundle on a modern car when they start chewing into that elaborate computer controlled harness under the hood.
We've come close to that, but escaped with only a damaged plug wire on my F-150 in the same driveway a few years ago. That one didn't surprise me too much as the truck hadn't been in daily use at the time, but nesting in the Subaru ("mom's car") was a surprise because that car gets used almost every day. In both cases there were oak acorn shells in the nooks and crannies of the intake manifolds on top the engines. We have a lot of coast live oaks around the yard, which look nice but don't help in the rodent department. I wonder if putting a camphor (moth) ball or two on top the engine would help ward off the rats?
-"mckim's" dad and mama rat murderer _________________ Jim M.
1952 M38 son-father project
Discovering more worn out parts, one assembly at a time
Joined: Jul 18, 2008 Posts: 639 Location: Melrose, MA and Santa Fe, NM
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:39 am Post subject:
When we close up the family summer house we use a lot of moth balls, moth ball flakes, etc to help keep the critters and bugs out. The more we put down the better the results, but they still get in somewhere. Screens would help to cover ingress points and lots of those moth balls help, but they still find ways around if they really want to.
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), made a comfy nest between a wooden toolbox and the tailgate, and was raising her young.
