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Post by toiv0 on Sept 27, 2017 17:07:41 GMT -5
Last week I burned up the motor on my 14 in HP so I rigged an old maytag wringer washing machine motor on it for a temporary for ever fix. It isn't an enclosed motor and has these big holes in it for cooling I imagine. Well I shut the saw off this afternoon and heard this sizzing and then there was this smell. I thought what the heck the power is off I made double sure. I put my ear down by the motor and yep sizzing. When I looked a little closer there was a mouse with his head hanging half way out, had been electrified and was sizzling on something. I put the mouse extractor on him and couldn't see anything wrong, it wasn't hot, ran the motor and I guess I am off and cutting again. Was going to take a pic of his little beady eyes inside the motor but I spared him the embarassment.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 18:27:00 GMT -5
Last week I burned up the motor on my 14 in HP so I rigged an old maytag wringer washing machine motor on it for a temporary for ever fix. It isn't an enclosed motor and has these big holes in it for cooling I imagine. Well I shut the saw off this afternoon and heard this sizzing and then there was this smell. I thought what the heck the power is off I made double sure. I put my ear down by the motor and yep sizzing. When I looked a little closer there was a mouse with his head hanging half way out, had been electrified and was sizzling on something. I put the mouse extractor on him and couldn't see anything wrong, it wasn't hot, ran the motor and I guess I am off and cutting again. Was going to take a pic of his little beady eyes inside the motor but I spared him the embarassment. Dude! You have an amazing tool selection! Even I don't have a mouse extractor and I have been around more mice in my day than most hundred people. Did you taste the cooked flesh? I'm told it tastes like... Wait for it........ Wait for it........ Squirrel!
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Post by inbtb on Sept 27, 2017 18:37:43 GMT -5
That's funny.
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Post by HankRocks on Sept 27, 2017 18:43:03 GMT -5
....chicken!!
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Post by gmitch067 on Sept 27, 2017 20:33:49 GMT -5
At least he didn't have a heart of STONE! Poor mousy... Heee...Heee... Heee
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Post by toiv0 on Sept 27, 2017 20:47:24 GMT -5
yep rat burger, wheres a snake when you need it.
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Post by Rockoonz on Sept 27, 2017 20:49:44 GMT -5
They're attracted to copper, not sure why.
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Post by orrum on Sept 27, 2017 21:02:18 GMT -5
I use to manage a big feed manufactoring mill in Maryland. We had a mill pit under the floor where the big hammer grinder and fans were located. It was also where the 200 hp 3 phase motor was that ran the mill. The motor had these huge air vent cooling holes on both ends. A feed mill has wharf rats, big uns because they are very healthy. They eat wormer, antibiotics, vitamin mixes etc. Very healthy rats. You put out poison etc to control them. Anyway the millman would have the assistant go down in the pit and bang on the motor with a old 2x4 and run the rats out and then they started the motor. It was cool you pulled back on a lever and the motor started real slow snd they hammers rang on the mill screen very lightly then it gradually picked up sped and those hammers started banging like no end!!! When that happened you shoved the lever fast the other way and it grabbed another gear and was a pure constant roar! Well every once in a while a rat got fried. Also every once in a while a rat fried the motor too! You had to take up the mill floor, set up a crane, get a big humongous forklift outside to hoist this motor out from the crane and put it onto a 10 wheel truck, haul it to Baltimore to be rewound. Expensive and for 2-3 weeks you didn't sell any feed either and had to truck it in from Winchester Va for your customers. I took over the operation and didn't know about the rat problem with the motor, as luck goes we almost immediately fried a motor! When it came back I had my mill wright cut expanded metal to fit the holes and we used hi temperature gasket silicone to glue them in. Problem fixed forever! My millman had been there for about 10 or 12 years and he had seen the motor blown a bunch of times! Folks just are not able to work a problem anymore.
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Post by toiv0 on Sept 27, 2017 21:06:26 GMT -5
Last week I burned up the motor on my 14 in HP so I rigged an old maytag wringer washing machine motor on it for a temporary for ever fix. It isn't an enclosed motor and has these big holes in it for cooling I imagine. Well I shut the saw off this afternoon and heard this sizzing and then there was this smell. I thought what the heck the power is off I made double sure. I put my ear down by the motor and yep sizzing. When I looked a little closer there was a mouse with his head hanging half way out, had been electrified and was sizzling on something. I put the mouse extractor on him and couldn't see anything wrong, it wasn't hot, ran the motor and I guess I am off and cutting again. Was going to take a pic of his little beady eyes inside the motor but I spared him the embarassment. Dude! You have an amazing tool selection! Even I don't have a mouse extractor and I have been around more mice in my day than most hundred people. Did you taste the cooked flesh? I'm told it tastes like... Wait for it........ Wait for it........ Squirrel! Mouse extractor = needle nose pliers
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Post by toiv0 on Sept 27, 2017 21:10:02 GMT -5
I use to manage a big feed manufactoring mill in Maryland. We had a mill pit under the floor where the big hammer grinder and fans were located. It was also where the 200 hp 3 phase motor was that ran the mill. The motor had these huge air vent cooling holes on both ends. A feed mill has wharf rats, big uns because they are very healthy. They eat wormer, antibiotics, vitamin mixes etc. Very healthy rats. You put out poison etc to control them. Anyway the millman would have the assistant go down in the pit and bang on the motor with a old 2x4 and run the rats out and then they started the motor. It was cool you pulled back on a lever and the motor started real slow snd they hammers rang on the mill screen very lightly then it gradually picked up sped and those hammers started banging like no end!!! When that happened you shoved the lever fast the other way and it grabbed another gear and was a pure constant roar! Well every once in a while a rat got fried. Also every once in a while a rat fried the motor too! You had to take up the mill floor, set up a crane, get a big humongous forklift outside to hoist this motor out from the crane and put it onto a 10 wheel truck, haul it to Baltimore to be rewound. Expensive and for 2-3 weeks you didn't sell any feed either and had to truck it in from Winchester Va for your customers. I took over the operation and didn't know about the rat problem with the motor, as luck goes we almost immediately fried a motor! When it came back I had my mill wright cut expanded metal to fit the holes and we used hi temperature gasket silicone to glue them in. Problem fixed forever! My millman had been there for about 10 or 12 years and he had seen the motor blown a bunch of times! Folks just are not able to work a problem anymore. Yah why didn't I think of that....already trying engineer a screen over it. It might be more temporary than originally planned.
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Post by youp50 on Oct 3, 2017 2:54:20 GMT -5
I had an old style service station sometime ago. A lady came in with a belt just squealing. I laughed when I saw a rat stuck in the pulley. The fun was soon over as I extracted cooked rat. The fine rat fur floating about and tickling my nose was a bit too much.
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