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

[Grant Brians]

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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