RATS

[dixie306]

Put in some seat time today, the tractor was running rough, engine stalling and quiting, restarted fine every time tho, I cked the fuel filter it was OK, no water, that was my first thought, bad fuel, the tractor as never run rich but thats what it was acting like. Got back to the barn after many stalls, thought to ck the air filter, it needed changing but nothing major, thats when I noticed something in the bottom of the canister, on closer look it was 5 pellets of dog food! That puzzled me for a minute, then I started digging, a rat/mouse had filled the breather tube up and it was completely blocked with dog food, my major problem was nothing more than a clogged air filter and busy mouse with a huge appetite

[PaulChristenson]

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[N80]

I had a mouse die on the manifold. When the tractor got hot it would start to cook this rotting mouse. It took me quite a while to figure out what the smell was and where it was coming from. It was nasty!

[4720 OWNER]

Could be why the dog was losing so much weight?

[Ken Cunningham]

You definetly need to kill that rat or the next post is gonna be about how he chewed up the wires on the tractor.

[Ridgewalker]

I agree re killing the rat. I just spent $350.00 having a $16 wire on my 05 F-150 replaced because of a mouse.

[woodchuckie]

Cats in the yard really work. No problem in a year. I use to have dog food in car air filters. Mouse head in the heater blower making it off balance. Fuel gauge wires chewed into on tractor. Ingnition wires chewed on the truck and trooper. I will have to have the cat nutered because I know he'll spray everything in sight.

[peterc38]

Originally Posted by woodchuckie

Cats in the yard really work. No problem in a year. I use to have dog food in car air filters. Mouse head in the heater blower making it off balance. Fuel gauge wires chewed into on tractor. Ingnition wires chewed on the truck and trooper. I will have to have the cat nutered because I know he'll spray everything in sight.

I agree. I'm not even a cat person (the wife is) but I have come to appreciate their usefulness in keeping the vermin population down. A while back a member posted about being bothered by a cat walking accross his tractor hood and leaving paw prints. To each his own but I'd rather have that than be fixing hundreds of dollars of damaged wires.

[tallyho8]

I've noticed that if you leave your tractor wires all dirty and covered in grease that the rats don't eat them.

[dixie306]

Originally Posted by Ken Cunningham

You definitely need to kill that rat or the next post is gonna be about how he chewed up the wires on the tractor.

They haven't done any real damage yet, but its coming if I don't handle it quick, I was talking to the JD dealer here and he echoed the same as some of the post here. I'm going to take Sat morning and pull the whole air system off and make sure its clear before I use the tractor again. The dealer told me a woman here who bought a Gator and rats, mice have chewed the wires off three years straight, she says its JD's problem because they know rats like to chew and should use a insulation they won't eat!!