Vermin ! [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

Joel, Graham, and Bob!

I thought "I" was the one with the Kitty Nougat patent! Oh well. I'll just
have to shelve that with the ultra-mini razor wire.

Actually I try to get my customers with enough $$ to build combo
battery/generator bunkers out of chew-proof
concrete, cinder block or rammed earth, with steel clad doors. That with
liberal use of tightly cut hardware cloth in those "special" places works
quite nicely. Then they come in thought the conduit!

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Vermin ! [RE-wrenches]


> Matt, Please don't kill the kitty! Mice, rats, squirrels, civets, skunks,
cats,
> other furry critters and birds and opossums and reptiles and amphibians
and
> insects and arthropods and arachnids and just about every living thing
likes to
> nest in PV system equipment. PV is good for living things. It is hard to
keep
> critters out. I inspect equipment at least twice a year. Tip: rodents do
not
> like to nest in places that smell from cats.
>
> matthew tritt wrote:
>
> > Joel,
> >
> > Holy Hanta Virus! No "blood or guts" eh? I wonder about that wonderful
> > scorched hair smell. What if your favorite kitty krawls in there?!
> >
> > Has anyone else had mice make nests on top of battery banks? This seems
to
> > be a pretty popular activity with many area rodents. I've also had them
> > actually get inside the cooling slots in Onan  and other generators and
> > chew-up output wires from the windings! I had a call recently where one
got
> > in and made a swell nest inside the remote start relay box with wire
> > insulation stripped from the generator sound pads. They took a leak in
their
> > bitchin little pad which shorted out the remote! I now suggest covering
all
> > possible ingress/egress with hardware cloth (or concertina wire).
> >
> > Matt
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
> > To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: Vermin ! [RE-wrenches]
> >
> > > Nick, Timely rat karma. Today your email arrived and so did an email
from
> > one
> > > of our customer who uses http://www.ratzapper.com/ I'm not familiar
with
> > this
> > > device, but our customer's photos look pretty convincing.
> > >
> > > Nick Houser wrote:
> > >
> > > > Journal entry, September 3rd.  9:00 AM  Service call to troubleshoot
> > > > non-working remote DVM to C-40.  Wiring problem: rat chewed
through..
> > Since
> > > > I can't now use the old cable to pull the new one, have to go into
tight
> > > > crawlspace.  Fished new wire through, killed rat with lineman's
> > > > pliers------Billing note: one hour carpentry, one hour rat-killing.
How
> > > > much for bad rat karma?. Ugh----------this job sometimes.  Hope all
you
> > > > sensitive wrenches (pliers) out there had a better day than I did!
> > Struggle
> > > > on. Nick Houser--Off Grid Power. P.S Pagan , it was your old rat
shack!
> > > >
> > >
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