birds in tractor exhaust

Anonymous-0 · May 16, 2014

every time this year I start my CaseIH 190 or the Steiger 400 a bird nest blows out the exhaust. next morning the same thing happens, some times twice in the same day. Ive farmed for 40 years never had this problem before. Im afraid they go down to far and build a nest in the turbo !!

Bruce SEKs · May 16, 2014

Couldn't you just put a rain cap on and eliminate the problem

Anonymous-0 · May 16, 2014

No, they come from the factory with a 90 degree elbo, no rain cap

DeltaRed · May 16, 2014

Then maybe you should cut off the '90' and add a longer pipe and rain cap.The open 'hole' is an 'open' invitation to a bird.I,ve seen that happen before like that

Fergienewbee · May 16, 2014

Will a soup can or vegetable can fit over the pipe?

Larry

rustyfarmall · May 16, 2014

(quoted from post at 06:47:22 05/16/14) every time this year I start my CaseIH 190 or the Steiger 400 a bird nest blows out the exhaust. next morning the same thing happens, some times twice in the same day. Ive farmed for 40 years never had this problem before. Im afraid they go down to far and build a nest in the turbo !!

Put a 5 gallon bucket over it.

JRSutton · May 16, 2014

or bolt one of those big plastic owls next to it.

Trkr · May 16, 2014

Have same problem with birds in my semi exhaust.Made it down through the muffler,could hear it pecking around at the 90% at the bottom.

JRSutton · May 16, 2014

The only bad thing about using a can is when it hits you on the head after dropping 30 feet out of the sky...

Ted in NE-OH · May 16, 2014

I"ve had trouble with birds chitten on my show tractors in the barn. I saw an electronic device the puts out a sound of predator birds to scare the birds away. Seems to work , if nothing else it will give the birds insomnia and maybe they will leave.

TimnVa · May 16, 2014

Ha! forget that owl I have 2 of them in my barn and the birds have crapped on them too

Bob · May 16, 2014

That tractor has a CAB so no beaning of the cranium will occur.

Janicholson · May 16, 2014

1/2" mesh hardware cloth 4 screws and a few wires left long to wrap on the screws. Jim

Richard from SE AZ · May 16, 2014

We have a bird here called Curved Bill Thrusher. They are very persistent when they pick a spot to build a nest. I have a Big Horn rams head over my shop door and this bird INSISTS on building a nest there. After tearing it down 2 or 3 times daily for a couple of weeks I finally had to resort to drastic measures. We also have a type of wasp that builds a mud nest in ANY hole it finds, fills it with eggs and spiders as food and seals it with a cap of mud. I have had to dig them out of tools, equipment, trailer electrical plugs, wall plugs,fuel couplers on boat motors, stud holes in engine blocks, etc,etc,etc.

2x4 · May 16, 2014

turbo blows'em right out too. 6 dead mice & a half acre cover with mouse nest proves that.

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2014

Aint dat tweet!

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