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Mice and mower

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I hate mice that want to make a nest in a mower engine. I stored the mower in a shed with decon. Mouse started on nest, never finished.

I worked on an engine that overheated because of mouse nest. Ruined the head, dropped a valve.
George
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many years ago we raised some sunflowers, for the birds. Hung the heads (of the sunflowers) in the shed. I went to start a garden tractor later, and it spit out sunflower seeds from the muffler! Mice had packed the muffler and everything under the engine shroud full on sunflower seeds! Those were the LAST sunflower's we saved. To bad for the songbirds. joe
 
a old machinery dealer had a pickup used just for hay baler calls. this was before big bales and almost every farmer had some cattle.
one year when was about hay making season one of his mechanics went to get truck ready for hay season it wouldn't turn over it was pulled into shop and had head taken off one cylinder was full of shelled corn also corn in muffler and exhaust pipes. mouse had found its way into engine exhaust value was open ans made a good place to store corn.
 
My boy bought a used honda magna v65 when he was in HS. It was a screaming 4 cylinder, 4 valves per cylinder. Only problem it was only running on 3 cylinders when he got it. One carb was full of mouse crap from a mouse nest inside the breather. It was next to impossible to clean the carb. Once I did, it was scary to twist the throttle. I was worried I wasn't strong enough to hang on. That was one fast production bike back it it's time.
 
A fan screen would prevent the mice from doing this. My brother started my dad's cub cadet 2 yrs ago and it made a heck of a noise. he raised the hood and found a black snake that got caught in the flywheel.
 
mice nest in my dozer turbocharger. Start it & mice & nesting blown over a quarter acre. One mouse even survived...briefly.
 

I was almost done assembling a motor and put a wrench on the front nut to turn it over a few times and it wouldn't. It would get to the same spot and come to a soft but firm stop. I removed the plugs to check it out and found one cylinder nearly full of Decon. It had been just one day since I had put the head and manifolds on.
 
Used to store our rider in the hay barn during the winter. Mice had built a nest between the cooling fins and the sheet metal. First mow and the engine dropped a valve seat. Now the mower is stored in the shop. I usually pull the sheet metal and do an inspection anyway just to make sure.

On a similar note, the wife went horse camping last week in Central Oregon. She and everyone else at the horse camp had to leave the hoods up on all the trucks. The local rodents will climb up and make a mess of the wiring harness in the engine compartment if you don't. She said it looked like a massive breakdown.

OTJ
 

When I lived near Lansing, MI I used to check out the Sears scratch and dent store weekly. One day they had a nearly new 18 hp Garden tractor setting there, I asked what they wanted for it and they said it had engine problems. I offered them $200 (tractor listed for around $3000), and they took it. I hauled it home and took off the engine cover and it has a mouse nest in it. Cleaned it all out and it ran fine. Used it for 2 years and sold it for $2500 when I moved.
 
(quoted from post at 18:50:47 05/22/17) My boy bought a used honda magna v65 when he was in HS. It was a screaming 4 cylinder, 4 valves per cylinder. Only problem it was only running on 3 cylinders when he got it. One carb was full of mouse crap from a mouse nest inside the breather. It was next to impossible to clean the carb. Once I did, it was scary to twist the throttle. I was worried I wasn't strong enough to hang on. That was one fast production bike back it it's time.
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I've owned 3 V45 Sabres over the years...wanted to buy a V65, but after checking on what the insurance would be I decided not to.
 
We paid cash for the V65 and only had liability insurance.
Boy started out riding a Honda 125, them my old triumph 650 before graduating
to the V65. He never got a road rash. Sold the bike when he bought his first
house. Never did get another bike.

Happy in a way he got rid of it. There weren't many bikes that could keep up
with it.
 
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