|
Farmall & IHC Tractors Discussion Board |
Mouse nest in Torque Tube
[ Expand ] [ View Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Return to Forum ]
Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 07, 2003 at 15:42:36 from (209.226.247.132):
Last weekend I decided to start my tractors and give them a good warm up. In my Super A, I encountered a mouse building a nest in torque tube . He was using material from an old sofa cushion I find quite comfortable on SA seat for and old backside. Since I had the other tractors running and SA was last, I started it and immediately closed doors on shed, and left the tractors running. My thinking was that fumes and carbon monoxide would cause the mouse to rethink this location as a winter home. Corn and beans around me have all been harvested in past month. Lo, I went to shed today and his home building continues. The little devil ran down the drawbar, me swiping at him with steel bar. He managed to avoid me. Using heavy wire and a screwdriver I removed about 2 quarts of his nest material. I then for want of a better material sprayed an ample supply of penetrating oil in torque tube from both ends. Just so he wouldn't decide to move I did the 130 and 140 as well. Does anyone have some better suggestions? Mouse has got to go. A friend had this happen with Super C and started tractor without realizing mouse nest was there. It wound up in release bearing and presure plate fingers, breaking the fingers off presure plate as well as bending the activation lever to the release bearing. Costs a lot of time and money. I guess I haven't been using tractor enough, and mouse decided some creature may as well use them.
Follow Ups:
Home
| Forums
| Order Support
Today's Featured Article -
Gettin My Old Tractor Home - by Clayton Sweeney. My name is Clayton Sweeney. I am from Southern Maryland in a small town called Lothian. I am 20 and my father and I are the proud owner of a 1954 Allis Chalmers WD-45. When I was 18, I dated a girl in the next county over. Her family are tobacco farmers. It was a cold Thanksgiving evening, and we were going up to her Grandparents house. As we passed one of their barns, I noticed something orange in the corner of my eye in this old shed. It was pretty dark and I asked what it was
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1965 International Harvester McCormick Farmall cub tractor 2,500. Two owner tractor. My grandfather bought new in 1966, then we inherited it. Have all the paperwork original manual and all maintenance records. It starts and moves. Comes with underbelly mower, plough, and some other attachments.
[More Ads]
Copyright © 1997-2026 Yesterday's Tractor Co.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V. Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor HeadquartersWebsite Accessibility Policy |
|
