Raining dog food

the mick · Jan 3, 2016

Went out and fired up the tractor, when all of a sudden I'm being pelted by something falling out of the sky. Sounded like hail but was wrong color and not cold enough, got to looking and what did I see? Dog food! What the heck!! Some how some animal has opened the rain cap and stored their winter forage in the exhaust. Don't know how they think their going to retrieve it? So now I guess I'll have to add a can over the rain cap. Have you ever seen anything like that?

old popper · Jan 3, 2016

Years ago my Dad had his JD H in his garage. We had raised some popcorn the season before and it was hanging from the rafters in gunny sacks. He started the H one summer day, and said it started snowing (he was blind in one eye). The mice had stored popcorn in the muffler of the tractor, and when started the heat popped the corn.

RBoots · Jan 3, 2016

Yep, when I was about 5 or 6, my twin brother and I filled the muffler on dad's Farmall A with soybeans. He used it to cut wood and had built a platform that went from the front cultivator mount to underneath the tractor platform where he could set his saws and gas. This allowed us to reach the raincap on the short muffler, which we then proceeded to fill with soybeans for some unknown reason. When he started it up, soybeans were going everywhere, which probably wasn't going to hurt anything, but there were a few that had gotten stuck in the baffles for quite some time and would come out when he hit a bump,and they would leave little burns or welts. He was not a happy camper, and we never did it again.

Ross

Billy NY · Jan 3, 2016

I have seen a mouse nest come through a caterpillar D7 engine, after getting sucked in and forced through, and it was burning, ends of the materials, bits of decayed canvas and such, red embers on the ends. Not sure where you are or what critters you have to deal with, but mice will load things up with any kind of food like that, seeds, grain, even D-Con(which I hate) That's hard to figure out if its a small rodent, going in from the top, did you look for tracks around and on the tractor, has to be signs of something if it was filling your stack like a grain silo.

Determined · Jan 3, 2016

Had a radiator out of a 78 Ford 1-ton I had parted out sitting by a fence, a good 300 feet from the hayshed where the dog food bowls were kept.
Someone wanted to buy the radiator about a year after I had set it there, it was so full of dog food you could not have gotten one more piece into it if you tried, even the lower hose that was still on it was full to the end.
Guessing that mice would be the only thing small enough to drag dog food inside the radiator tanks.
If you figure it carried one piece at a time and travelled 600 feet round trip times hundreds of pieces that critter must have put on 20+ miles stocking up.

Cory Schmidt · Jan 3, 2016

When we replaced the engine in the Deere, something moved right or the light was right, we discovered that the thermostat housing(on the replacement engine) was full of seeds. Took a piece of 1/2in copper tube and duct taped it to the end of the 2" vacuum hose to get as much as we could out.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 3, 2016

So that's where you got your handle!!!! HeHe.
Loren

JF in MI · Jan 3, 2016

Back when I was in the auto business a customer brought in a car with the heater fan not working. Pulled the motor out and the fan was clogged with smelly dog food. After cleaning it out the technician was asking about how to get rid of the smell. I suggested try scrubbing it out with baking soda and forgot about it. He poured some in and to test it turned the fan on high and promptly wound up looking like a ghost along with the car's interior.
On an opposite note; we had an aerial crop seeder work out of our airport. They filled the hopper with seed and when he started the engine and tested the "air induction" spreader it sprayed mice, instead of seed, all over the place.

dr sportster · Jan 3, 2016

Once all the little blue mouse poison pellets came out my motorcycle exhaust. All least it pointed down.

jon f mn · Jan 3, 2016

I had my 400d torn apart for an overhaul. I was as far going back together as setting on the heads, but not bolted down, then left it sit for a few years. When I got back to it the mice or chipmunk has filled the entire block and one head completely full of a mix of dog food and insulation. They even filled the water journal that runs down the side of the block. Must have been 50lbs of dog food plus the insulation in there. Took a couple hours just to clean the head out and had to completely disassemble the engine again to get it cleaned out. The only place they could have gotten in is through the water pump.

farmboy48 · Jan 3, 2016

I started the old 930 Case a few years ago in the spring, and it rained baby mice and burning mouse nest. another time the mice filled the number 2 cylinder with wheat, thought the engine was seized up. Took off exhaust manifold and managed to suck out most of the wheat, replaced bent push rod and it has been running great ever since.

Tom OConnor · Jan 3, 2016

I have never had a problem with dog food before but I forgot to change the distributor on the grain system this fall and started to unload a semi load of soybeans and instead of them going into the overhead holding bin they came down a spout to a forty eight foot bin that had the cap on it. Spread about fifty bushel all over the yard before I could get it shut off. Of course it also plugged the leg shutting it off full. Don't know how many bushels of beans a 100 foot seven thousand bushels per hour leg holds but it was about an hour of shoveling before it would restart.

in-too-deep · Jan 3, 2016

Yep, and burning dog food smells terrible.

David G · Jan 3, 2016

I got a couple of mice in my shop a couple of years ago that got into a box of unshelled hickory nuts, they packed those nuts into everything that was open. The power steering pump I bought for the MH had a rattle in it, turned it over and nuts fell out.

Janicholson · Jan 3, 2016

SP125 IH combine (nasty machine) would not start for wheat harvest. Fired a couple of pops then nothing but spin the starter. We hooked the 350 to it (me driving it)and pulled the 12 footer down the blacktop. 350 in 2 combine in 3. The 350 was leaving rubber marks with the effort. About 100 feet into this, with dad operating the throttle and choke, BBLLAAMM. Something shot out of the angled exhaust pipe and shot 100 feet into the hay field. The 125 was running like it had never been sitting over winter. We made sure the combine was stable, and I told dad that something had blasted out. I went and looked. It was a 7 inch rat that had crawled down the pipe and could not back out. It to was nasty and decayed from the rump to about 1/2 of the body. Jim

redtom · Jan 3, 2016

Every time I open the hood on my parents Buick LeSabre dog food rolls down the insides of the hood. Mice put it in there while eating the wiring harness. Its in between the panels now so no real way to get it out.

730virgil · Jan 3, 2016

an old new holland dealer in mt carroll il parked his hay baler truck in a shed for the winter .
hay season was coming around so he had his baler man get the truck stocked up with parts and ready to go for the season.
the truck wouldn't start so they pulled it in the shop a critter of of some kind had got in the tail pipe thru the muffler pass an open valve stuffed some cylinders full of corn. that critter must have had a road map or gps

Jim Naden · Jan 3, 2016

Back in the late '70s I pulled the cylinder head on an IH 715 combine to clean out the soybeans that had been loaded into the engine through the muffler. The vermin found a path through the muffler and every cylinder that had an exhaust valve open had soybeans in it

Patsdeere · Jan 3, 2016

I don't have mice, nor do I have the barn they like to live in, but based on these stories, I will never have soy beans, cotton, corn, nuts or dog food laying around.

Thanks for the chuckles.

wvfarmboy · Jan 3, 2016

had a good customer brought me a david brown 990 one day wouldnt run .pulled the head remover all the clover seed it ran fine. coupel teares later i bought a really nice 200 farmall to cultivate corn with it ran hott some how a rat got some old carpet in the radiator anything is possible.

JRSutton · Jan 3, 2016

ha. Nope, but I did just fix my spare pickup truck that had a stuck throttle.

I opened the air cleaner and found a big mouse nest. Not much of a surprise there, the truck sits a lot.

But then I got into the throttle plate and found a rotting mouse body stuck in the butterfly valves.

Pain in the butt taking all that apart to clean out, but it had to be done. The mess was pretty impressive from just one mouse.

Nasty.

NEKS · Jan 3, 2016

Had C-60 and a C-70 trucks parked in the machine shed. Also had a bag of cattle cubes laying on top of a turned up side down 5 gallon bucket. Drove one truck to town and it smelled like something burning. You could not get another range cube to lay on that motor. When got home checked the other truck and it was the same way. Hole was on under side of sack and 3/4 empty. Any thing parked in shed has hood up now.

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