[AT] Some background to your tire/ rim issue. (Deer Whistles)

[Mark Johnson]

The only wild pig whistles I know of are designed to attract them, not 
chase them off. :-)

That 300# boar would make for a pretty solid impact, although not nearly 
as bad as the Duroc boar we had when I was in HS - he weighed about 900 
lbs and was as gentle as a puppy. [Gained 150# of that after we 
contracted to sell him to my uncle, down the road...by the pound, of 
course. Ol' Red figured out how to get his front feet into the calf 
feeder and really packed on the pounds in a couple of months. Uncle Pete 
kicked himself over not coming to get the boar until he gained all that 
weight!]

Mark J / Columbia, MO

On 1/9/2019 1:46 PM, Grant Brians wrote:
> I have had a slightly different experience. One of the places I farm 
> is over a mountain pass road and in a high valley. My employees drive 
> back and forth on that road essentially every day. Our 2014 F150 (that 
> was totaled by a teenage driver hitting it when driving on the wrong 
> side of the road on the shoulder partly at excessive speed and we 
> think on a cell phone) had the deer whistles and had four encounters 
> with deer. The only reason neither the deer encounters nor the wild 
> pigs destroyed the pickup truck was that I had mounted on the truck a 
> very sturdy grille guard that protected the grille, headlights and 
> fenders - it weighed about 100# and was all steel with mesh type metal 
> between the bars to assure no damage from animals. We had to repair 
> the grille guard three times, but not the truck! One of the wild pigs 
> was a middle weight boar about 300# and one of the deer was full grown.
>      I don't think there is such a thing as a wild pig whistle, lol.
>             Grant Brians - Hollister,California vegetable, herb, 
> edible flowers and other crops farmer
> On 1/9/2019 5:58 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>>
>> Spencer:
>>
>> We have deer as thick as ticks on a country dog here. Knock on Wood, 
>> we have had may near misses, but our vehicles have those "Deer 
>> Whistles"on the bumpers.    We get them at Wal Mart, they look like 
>> little horns that stick on the front bumper.  About $3 for a set.  So 
>> far, in 25 years we have not hit one.   Saying that, probably jinxed 
>> my luck......
>> here they are on 
>> Amazon....https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Automotive-22-1-01000-8-Black-Warning/dp/B000CC4O58/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_263_bs_tr_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=H023FJ2DS1C4FVJ6DB31
>>
>> Cecil
>>
>> On 1/8/2019 10:27 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>> Thanks Joe!
>>>
>>> I did get the wheel off the hub tonight. It did require the use of 
>>> my Harbor Freight “porta -a-power”(small hydraulic ram).  That wheel 
>>> was rusted pretty tight against the hub.  I did not have much 
>>> trouble with the lug nuts. But I had been soaking them with 
>>> penetrant. They came out pretty well.  Now if I could only find the 
>>> right size taps and dies to chase out and clean the bolts and hub 
>>> I’d be good. :-). I won’t know where any of this stuff goes.  I 
>>> could have sworn I knew right where they were....
>>>
>>> A deer decided to jump out in front of us Sunday night, so my wife’s 
>>> vehicle is in the body shop. Which means she is using my truck (yes 
>>> I somehow overlooked/forgot the rental car rider for the insurance 
>>> policy). Hopefully I can get to the  tire shop on Thursday at lunch 
>>> when she doesn’t need to use the truck to get the tire switched 
>>> between the wheel that is bad, and the new wheel.  Should be done by 
>>> next week.
>>>
>>> Spencer Yost
>
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