[AT] Mouse Condo

Mon Aug 15 10:45:34 PDT 2016

Cecil, the logging company I worked for in the late 70's was
hired by Weyerhaeuser to cut a tract of pine in which they
had identified some "perfect" trees that they wanted left for
seed trees.  The company man tied ribbon around all of the
trees that were to be left for seed collection.  He and my boss
and the guy who stumped big trees with a big ole bow chainsaw
went out into the tract and they told David "cut all these trees
EXCEPT the ones with flagging, Do NOT cut the trees with flagging.
Do you understand".   David says he understands and they leave him to
do his work.  .............  You can guess what happened.  He cut every tree
with the flagging and quit.

It was an honest mistake.  He was a very good worker but functionally 
illiterate
and he just didn't understand even though he thought he did.  The company 
man
just had to find some slightly less "perfect" trees and reflag them.  David 
didn't get
fired or anything.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil Bearden
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 10:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Mouse Condo

Dick:
reminds me of the time my Dad & I spent an entire weekend digging tree
holes with the post hole digger on the tractor and Dad broke his glasses
leaning over the digger arm to put pressure on the auger.  Then a month
later, the big farmer neighbor had his Latino hired hand spray the fence
rows and he sprayed every tree we put out.    We put out over 200 ash
trees from the forestry dept, and only 8 lived.  Those were near the
house...
Cecil in OKla

On 8/14/2016 8:42 PM, Dick Day wrote:
> Years ago, Roger (Welsch) gave me an old 500 gallon tank wagon that he and
> Linda used to water trees on their tree farm.  It was an old heating fuel
> tank that had been mounted on a truck frame.  It had been sitting in the
> woods for years and it was not covered, so it too became a mouse condo.  I
> flushed it was a garden hose until the water coming out was semi clear,
> then took it to a commercial truck wash and used steam to clean it out. It
> eventually was clean enough to use.  (tractor ref here) I used my '52 JD60
> to pull it and we used it faithfully to water dozens of trees we got from
> the local NRD.  Once they were big enough that they did not need constant
> watering, deer came through one night and destroyed them all :)
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> rugenl at yahoo.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>      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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mike M
>> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 12:50 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Mouse Condo
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> rugenl at yahoo.com
>>>
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