Squirrels...
How squirrely 🐿️
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SlamDunk said:A friend has a ford truck and squirrels chewed thru two wire harnesses. He found out that the wiring had environmentally safe insulation made, in part, with soy beans.1
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Not a big fan of squirrels. Especially, Red Squirrels...very mean, nasty, extremely violent and aggressive. They eat and attack EVERYTHING, including 🐿 Chipmunks (My favorites). Maine is full of them! Mad Dog
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I had to rewire in an attic that had become the home of squirrels.
They enjoyed chewing the thermoplastic outer sheath of "Romex" cables, even the individual wire insulation under that, down to the bare copper. This was Romex from about 1980.
The knob and tube wire insulation was not touched nor the early non plastic Romex cables.
They are rats with a cute tail.4 -
Are you sure it's not rats?0
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Not the first I've heard this. Didn't know if it was true or not. Im going to look into screen that goes around the perimeter.JakeCK said:SlamDunk said:A friend has a ford truck and squirrels chewed thru two wire harnesses. He found out that the wiring had environmentally safe insulation made, in part, with soy beans.
If this is true, you'd think Ford would have learnt from the first time they used soy based plastics. They were making steering wheels from soy, before the petroleum based plastics started getting off the ground, and they were eaten in the open air cars. As Frank says, "You can't fix stupid" and that's how it seems most of the big corporations are run these days.To learn more about this professional, click here to visit their ad in Find A Contractor.0 -
This was on a steam shower control wire last month. Rats love nibbling on wire. On this one, I think they were trying to open up the hole to gain access to the house.
8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour
Two btu per sq ft for degree difference for a slab0 -
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As Jamie said, MC, AC, BX is much safer.
As I slowly rewire in our main museum building it is all in MC or EMT.
The building and contents are truly irreplaceable. And it is closed up for the winter with plenty of small creatures looking for a place to live with books, papers, and clothing etc.0 -
A museum being a commercial space wouldn't MC or EMT be required by code?JUGHNE said:As Jamie said, MC, AC, BX is much safer.
As I slowly rewire in our main museum building it is all in MC or EMT.
The building and contents are truly irreplaceable. And it is closed up for the winter with plenty of small creatures looking for a place to live with books, papers, and clothing etc.
Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.
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It has to do with the category of the building which has to do with height and size which has to do with how hard it would be to fight a fire in it.ChrisJ said:
A museum being a commercial space wouldn't MC or EMT be required by code?JUGHNE said:As Jamie said, MC, AC, BX is much safer.
As I slowly rewire in our main museum building it is all in MC or EMT.
The building and contents are truly irreplaceable. And it is closed up for the winter with plenty of small creatures looking for a place to live with books, papers, and clothing etc.0 -
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Mad Dog_2 said:Not a big fan of squirrels. Especially, Red Squirrels...very mean, nasty, extremely violent and aggressive. They eat and attack EVERYTHING, including 🐿 Chipmunks (My favorites). Maine is full of them! Mad Dog
They also destroy my pumpkins every year, and bird feeders.
My grandmother actually won that battle using vaseline on the pole of her bird feeder. She laughed while sipping her coffee everytime she got to watch a squirrel run up the pole and then slide right on back down.3 -
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I have a Squirrelinator trap that works very well except one day, I left it out overnight and caught a skunk and he let loose on me.
I take the squirrels to a regional park near me and let the coyotes deal with them, but have always wondered what squirrel tastes like. Chicken?8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour
Two btu per sq ft for degree difference for a slab2 -
While preparing my grandmother's house for sale I found an entire family of squirrels on the smoke shelf in the fireplace. Four long deceased and one recently deceased, which accounted for the smell…😵 I had to dismantle the damper mechanism to get them out. They had pulled open a corner of the wire guard at the top of the flue.—
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While doing utility line work about 30+ years ago, I came across a suicidal squirrel.
We have the 3 wire secondary on separate insulators at each pole, top wire is neutral/ground with the 2 hots below.
The squirrel has back legs locked on lower hot phase, front legs on upper hot phase (middle wire) and then his teeth on a bare #6 copper ground wire connected to the top neutral.
He must have been there quite a while, only bones and hide intact, dry as a bone.
He must have just grabbed all wires at the same time and was mad and bit the ground wire.
This was only 240/120 volts. The higher voltages of 2400/4160 might have burst him into flames.
And the event might trip out a fuse or breaker.
That happens and then the flaming body torch falls down to the dry grass below starting a prairie fire.
Many utilities install bird/squirrel guards in critical locations on the system to prevent this.
It makes the Peta people happy, but the main advantage is for the utility.3 -
I got this from a local utility buddy. This guy blew the 10A fuse and opened the cutout for a few blocks in town. 7200 volts.
I left it as a thumbnail if anyone is sensitive to seeing it.Serving Northern Maine HVAC & Controls. I burn wood, it smells good!6 -
This little guy chewed the insulation off the hot wire and then hopped over it onto the (grounded) water service, his belly and paws closing the circuit. I wonder if it blew the circuit breaker or fuse.
8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour
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With the cooked squirrel picture, the lower right plastic cap is a bird/squirrel guard as that is the 7200 connected to the lighting arrestor. Keeps them from direct contact with hot bolts. Probably still kill them but not shorting or fire involved.
Alan's little guy must have liked the insulation on the knob & tube wires, which my squirrels did not chew on in my situation.
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Better rip it all out and install heavy conduit
Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.
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sensitive . . . i love seeing that. a dead squirrel is a good squirrel. although i though that was 7.5 amp squirrel so it shouldn't have taken down the 10A fuse, although that's a slow blow . . .Solid_Fuel_Man said:I got this from a local utility buddy. This guy blew the 10A fuse and opened the cutout for a few blocks in town. 7200 volts.
I left it as a thumbnail if anyone is sensitive to seeing it.2 -
A caution about D-Con. It works, but not immediately. Unfortunately, if another animal, such is it might be your dog or cat, chances upon an animal, such as it might be a squirrel or rat or mouse, which is dying of D-Con and eats it, they may get enough of it themselves to kill them, or at least make them very ill. So do be careful where and how you use it That said, it is safer than some of the other rodenticides available.Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England2 -
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Is that legal in New York?Long Beach Ed said:We trap them in Have-a-heart traps and bring them to a neighboring community which needs more of them. It's a part time job for me.
Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.
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Sounds like another species we all know quite well...Mad Dog_2 said:Not a big fan of squirrels. Especially, Red Squirrels...very mean, nasty, extremely violent and aggressive. They eat and attack EVERYTHING
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SlamDunk said:A friend has a ford truck and squirrels chewed thru two wire harnesses. He found out that the wiring had environmentally safe insulation made, in part, with soy beans.0
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My Friend's Father is an old Irish Farmer with electrical skills...and he spends his early morning hours zapping the squirrels that try to get up to the bird 🐦 feeder on a piece of 3/4" EMT that he can electrify with a switch he has at his desk overlooking the yard. People are strange....Mad Dog4
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