Generator woes

[Cammalu]

&@x!?&$ mice

Generator quit and I had to take it to Camping World because nobody else was open. $550 later and some hours I find out that mice have been up under there and chewed wires. I find no turds inside the camper and no signs of mice at all.

I'm out and about now and move daily but am afraid when I go back home and am laid up after knee surgery I may have trouble again.

Any advice?

 

[GotSmart]

1.  Keep it running all the time.

2.  You have a hundred lazy Racoons that mooch off of you.  Put tem to work.

3.  Buy a`little yappy dog and put its bed under the RV.

4.  https://vanlivingforum.com/showthread.php?tid=20562&pid=238839&highlight=chewed+wires#pid238839

 

[Cammalu]

Thanks for the superb advise you [emoji90]. Go stand in the corner. Maybe I should tie YOU under my camper and make YOU bark at the mice.

You AND your little cat!

Also my raccoons eat better things than mice. Marshmallows are more to their liking.

 

[highdesertranger]

I had a trailer on a mining claim that the critters got in. I took tin snips and tin cans, I cut the cans up and covered all the holes in the floor where they could get in. it's amazing how sloppy they are when they build RV's the pass though holes are way oversize. I even found a couple holes that didn't have anything passing through. I also caulked all the cans and holes, cut the drafts way down. anyhoo problem solved, never had a problem after that. highdesertranger

BTW I got the tin can idea from studying old miner shacks. they did the same thing. some even used the cans for siding and roofing shingles.

 

[tx2sturgis]

D-Con.

If it works, you will smell the results.

 

[Cammalu]

The mice aren't inside the camper. They are under the camper eating wires


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[jonsun]

one more reason not to buy a honda. and one more reason to have one in a quiet box.

 

[Cammalu]

Mine is an Onan and part of the RV. Really isn't very loud


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[gapper2]

If I had to guess, I would think it was raccoons under there looking for marsh mellows.

They like honey buns too!

 

[rvpopeye]

I can't remember where I saw it but there is some stuff that is sprayed under the rv and is supposed to repel mice ......
I would think on the farm you could have some barn cats with no major problem though ???

 

[tx2sturgis]

They are under the camper eating wires

You don't need those dang pesky wires anyway...

:dodgy:

 

[Cammalu]

I can't remember where I saw it but there is some stuff that is sprayed under the rv and is supposed to repel mice ......
I would think on the farm you could have some barn cats with no major problem though ???

I feed everything that comes up my driveway. If it's a cat it gets trapped and fixed and let go or forced to not be feral anymore and kept in the house in a very large cage until its moderately tame. Then it's let out and free to use the doggy door. I have one feral like that now that comes and goes.

I park the RV near a shed and also near the bird feeders which I'm sure get visited at night by all forms of rodents. One house cat brings in moles as presents and leaves the half chewed remains in the kitchen on a daily basis. Once in a while it's a mouse or frog but generally a mole.

It could be that shed is harboring a bunch of mice. It's pretty full and really needs to be cleaned out but I can't seem to stay home long enough to do anything. A couple days and I'm a wreck trying to get on the road again. I don't even like to go inside the house anymore and thank goodness I moved my niece and her hubby in with me a few years ago. I'd hate to have to do all the purging of stuff like some of you have to do in order to leave. I really don't care what happens to the stuff I leave behind. A shed and a barn full just makes me ill to think about.

Why I'm rambling at 3:30 in the morning I dunno. Back to bed in the Home Depot parking lot where I'm spending the night!

 

[gapper2]

Cammalu,
  You keep some "ain't right" hours. Lol 

I've tried the scent repel stuff. Didn't work for me. I spent lots of time on the farm as a child and going out daily to the feed bins and exterminate mice and their nests was part of the chores.  I have a couple of king snakes in my garage that do wonders for rodent population.  Keeping feral cats at your shed seems best option so far to me. But keeping so many raccoons fat and sassy might discourage the cats.

 

[Cammalu]

Oh gapper, feeding critters and anything else hungry is a problem with me alright. I feed tons of birds too and can go thru 50 lbs of birdseed in a couple days in the winter. That starts adding up quickly.
Thankfully I don't plan to be there anymore in winter!

The raccoons and possums and various other night critters that come to feed surely are eating a few mice. I think I need to open up the shed door and let the larger ones go in and see if they can catch anything. I'm only surmising that the mice happened since I bought the RV in January but really it could have happened before that and jostling down the road could have finished those half eaten wires.

I do have a few black rat snakes around I see once in a while but I don't think they'll be hanging out under the RV for the weeks I'm rehabilitating from knee surgery. Just the second I can swing my way back into the RV I'm gone again.

I get carried away where animals are concerned for sure. My pond has way too many bass and I wish could get a bunch out of there but I can't get anyone to fish them out and I don't have the heart to do it myself after feeding them so long. I never had kids and I guess, somewhere down the line, I became the mom of all the animals in the universe. It's a curse I tell ya.


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[Scott7022]

This worked for us in Africa.

well, not with mice....

Probably, to violent so perhaps a sticker

Or we could get really PC


Pepper Mint oil is what my Mom would use and the back shed always smelled like candy canes.

 

[Cammalu]

You're a nut Scott!


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[Scott7022]

Soak some sponges in peppermint oil and keep it away from anything that gets warm and it should work. Mom kept her birdfeeder seed and suet and dog food and a bunch of other stuff. Fixed the mouse issues as she didn't like killing the cute little *******s. Rats on the other hand, she wack and stack them like cordwood.

 

[gapper2]

Also move your bird feeders faaar from your rv.  You're ringing the dinner bell if not.  Open shed doors.  Keep open foods out of rv while you're healing.  Scott's suggestion was first funny as hell and second was smart with the oil.  Good travels.  Glad to read this thread.  Seems to be a widespread problem.

 

[highdesertranger]

ah, DR. Doolittle, is a new award in order. highdesertranger

 

[tx2sturgis]

Soak some sponges in peppermint oil and keep it away from anything that gets warm and it should work.

Mice (rodents) survived (or arose during and after) the enormous Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, ie: The BIG comet.

They flourished in a toxic, dangerous world that even killed most of the dinosaurs.



I doubt that some peppermint oil will do much to keep the little *******s at bay.