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steve fischer 
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 9:10am |
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I have had two d17 tractors come in my shop for foot clutch problems pulled both apart and found mouse nests , wow , gets in p/ plate so bad they do not release , anyone else is this ,not fun to work on smells bad
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 9:19am |
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Nope I gots Cats. I sometimes get mad at them for leaving paw prints all over my freshly washed windshields and knocking stuff of the shelves in the tractor shed. But I haven't had mouse chewed interiors in a long time. there is usually a cat sleeping in the tractor seat that needs evicting before I can take the tractor out.
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steve fischer
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 9:24am |
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I have cats to, these tractors are customers, should I be putting something in bell housing
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 9:25am |
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When I bought my first D-14, Troy, in 2000..the bell housing was FULL of 'mouse house'. I mean JAMMED packed !! The starter was so full it wouldn't spin by hand !!!
I'm thinking the missing bottom, circular cover plate 'might' have had something to do with it.....
get a LOT of mouse traps and make them more inviting than you tractors. I hear Bounce sheets are good mouse repellants,can you stick a few in there?
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 10:47am |
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The mice nested in the box of bounce sheets in my camper. Moth balls didn't work. Those electronic pest repellents didn't work. If your customers tractor comes in full of mouse house nothing you do at your shop is going to help. If used Tom Cat bait stations it kills them then you windup finding dead mice in the hardest place to remove them from. Lots of mouse traps or cats are them only way. At the farm we put several traps in each piece of equipment in the fall when we store them. One of the other guys spread an hour every day emptying and resetting traps. The farm cats can't get in the tractors,trucks or combines so the mice get in to hide. It usually takes a month of trapping mice every day till we don't catch any more. Since doing that we haven't had to rewrre or recover any seats.
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mdm1
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 4:00pm |
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Had that happen to a truck one time. My insurance covered the replace under comp!
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Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK!
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ac fleet
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 4:05pm |
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Got a 96 F-150 here right now with same problem.--Still can't see where they got in!--Did it in early Dec. last year, --truck still not fixed! thanks; ac fleet
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mdm1
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 4:57pm |
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mine was a Ford Ranger and there was a small inspection hole where they got in.
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Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK!
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SLB
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 6:26pm |
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My son left for the Air Force last summer. Moved his Ranger yesterday and discovered a smell when I turned on the blower. Found a nest pooled with urine and what not under the air filter......
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DiyDave
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 6:33pm |
And it seems like mouse whizz is a better corrosive, than battry acid! Instant rust, where it hits! One time I was splittin a MF turf 20, that hadda tranny input seal leakin. Hadn't been run in a while, and them stingin bumbly bees had moved into the mouse nest, only found them, when I split her! 
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Posted: 28 Mar 2018 at 9:38pm |
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They also like to go thru the 2 clutch housing vents in top of housing. About 3/4" x 1 1/2" holes just above flywheel, I use a bit of steel wool held in with super glue to plug them when fixing the starter or clutch problems.
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Posted: 31 Mar 2018 at 10:08pm |
Give em a key hole and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 Dakota Dave wrote:
The mice nested in the box of bounce sheets in my
camper. Moth balls didn't work. Those electronic pest repellents didn't
work. If your customers tractor comes in full of mouse house nothing you
do at your shop is going to help. If used Tom Cat bait stations it
kills them then you windup finding dead mice in the hardest place to
remove them from. Lots of mouse traps or cats are them only way. At the
farm we put several traps in each piece of equipment in the fall when we
store them. One of the other guys spread an hour every day emptying and
resetting traps. The farm cats can't get in the tractors,trucks or
combines so the mice get in to hide. It usually takes a month of
trapping mice every day till we don't catch any more. Since doing that
we haven't had to rewrre or recover any seats. |
DAVE,,,,,WHERE in ND is there a place to get out of the snow and cold?? If YOU were a mouse, where would YOU GO??
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