Mice in Equipment

[Wlmedley]

Not sure about equipment but I bet that there won't be any mice nests in my wood shed before long.

[Rhodemont]

I hate snakes but if you can train them I want one.

[YellowHammer]

Two episodes yesterday. 
 
A chewed through speed sensor wire in my 480V 3 phase generator.  We use it everyday, and I was NOT HAPPY.

After fixing that, we are going on vacation next week, and I noticed a nest being built in the anchor locker of our boat.  Luckily no damage.  It's a very specialized and long, no kink, Lewmar Windlass rope, $300, but no chew marks.  Maybe it was the start of bird nest.  I don't know, but I would have been really unhappy if there had been damage.  





  

[barbender]

The mice cause me some issues, we've had vehicles totaled from them getting into the vent systems and dying. They like to get in the control console on my LT40. But outside of that, nothing too horrible. Definitely nothing like Robert and Jake are fighting with!

Maybe it has something to do with those guys having top shelf, well organized operations? I mean, my place is a mess. The mice can't tell much difference between outside, and inside a control box. I've left them lots of natural habitat and places to hide😁

[doc henderson]

I do not like mice in my shop and set snap traps (victor 4 for 2 dollars) with peanut butter.  Squirrels cause the most damage.    they chew up phone lines (back when everyone had land lines) and chewed the corner off my timber king fuel tank.

[Ljohnsaw]

My center main floor support beam takes the joists from both sides. I installed blocking even with both side of the beam to support the floor boards where they meet. This leaves about a 6" x 20" void that I covered with a screwed down plank. When I removed it on Monday, there was a mouse nest with 6 mice. I dispatched them and put them on a boulder for the ravens on the west side of my cabin. Never saw any ravens but they were gone by morning.

Yesterday I look in my cabinet in the truck shed and some beady little eyes are looking back at me. I snag the one with one of those claw parts grabbers and smack him on a board. I pull out a bankers box where I stored a lot of DWV fittings for the cabin. 

I look in there and there's a bunch of them. Snagged a few, smacked a few. One adult escaped. I put the 6 bodies out on a timber cutoff by my mill. No ravens again. Later in the day at the top of my property, I see two black cats (with collars) looking at me from under my truck. All the mice were gone and I think they wanted more!

Maybe they'll keep hunting my place!