[AT] Mouse Condo

[Len Rugen]

Well, I wet it down with a hose for awhile to control the dust and maybe loosen the gunk, scooped out the big parts.  About half of the cups were blocked with a substance about the consistency of peat pots.  Took the power washer to it.  One discovery, when you spray down in a cup, the water hits the round bottom and ejects violently to the rear, at groin level.  I washed for about 20 minutes, then took a shower.  I think it salvageable, nothing looks rusted thru, very little surface damage.  I don't know if it will turn yet, I think it will.  I must have rattled off a nut on the way over, I've got a disk dragging.  Of course, I didn't see that until I turned the area into a mud pit....  
I wonder if it would be better to leave the boxes open?  It's in a shed, a very old shed, but the dirt under the drill was as dry as a pop-corn fart.  (Things grampa said....) 

Len Rugen

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    On Sunday, August 14, 2016 6:08 PM, Carl Gogol <cgogol at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
 

 Mike,
I'm with you on the N-95 mask, but the chlorine bleach will rust anything
that has not yet rusted. Oil might be the best option to contain the small
particles.
Carl

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Len, John and Charlie bring up a a good point about trying to contain the
dust. Mice nests are filled with all kinds of nasty that you want to keep
out of your lungs. I would buy one of those disposable N95 dust masks, and
saturate everything with a bleach and water solution to kill the viruses.

Mike M



On 8/13/2016 11:46 AM, Len Rugen wrote:
> I had to move my old steel-wheel grain drill to get to something parked
behind it and several mice scurried away.  I opened the grain box and the
middle of it is about half full of mouse nest, poop and urine.  Do you think
it's salvageable?  I wonder if the cups are rusted solid?  It won't be
pleasant scooping this mess out, then the power wash back splatter will be
hazmat quality....
> I put a full brick of poison, went back a few days later to part the other
implement and pull the drill home.  Still mice, but all the poison was
gone....
>
> Len Rugen
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