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01-24-2022, 08:26 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Columbus, IN
Posts: 211
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Got a dryer?
Last spring, saw birds hanging out around my dryer vent. There is no screen; just a flapper that doesn’t seal tightly. Fished out some grass and twigs but used the situation as excuse to buy a Harbor Freight inspection camera. This is what I found. After removing the vent cover, the plug of grass, twigs, and feathers turned out to be about 6” long.
Lesson learned: this spring I will tape or wedge the flapper shut tightly before nesting season.
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2016 Newmar Ventana 4002, Freightliner
2013 Honda CRV
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01-24-2022, 10:29 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 760
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good thing you checked
that was a fire waiting to happen
I'll check mine tomorrow
Thanks
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01-26-2022, 08:48 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club American Coach Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 6,754
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Two years ago, I had a broken dryer belt. When looking around, I found a mud daubers nest on the outside of the dryer flapper that went against the outside of the coach....so the flapper would not open. Now when I park for a while in my barn, I put Walmart bags over the generator, AH and main exhaust pipes, and stuff two or three in the dryer opening.
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2014 American Eagle 45T
DD 13, 500 HP
Pulling a Honda CRV
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01-26-2022, 09:03 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,578
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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01-26-2022, 09:25 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,283
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Put metal window screening over all openings. Texan here. Check underneath before each trip.
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Full Timers.
2015 Fleetwood Discovery 40E on a Freightliner XCS chassis with a Cummins ISL9 pulling 1 and/or 2 motorcycles, '07 Honda Accord OR a 17' Runabout Boat.
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01-26-2022, 09:40 PM
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Senior Member
Foretravel Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Home is Where WE PARK IT...
Posts: 6,007
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Only thing I've found (Other than the mud daubers) Was an industrious squirrel who tried to set up house keeping in the Diesel exhaust pipe.
Pissed Him/Her right off when I fired up the Cummins.
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Retired truckdriver,
'02 Foretravel... "This Shack will do"
being pushed by an '06 Scion xB
SKP's of Box Elder, South Dakota
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01-28-2022, 08:39 AM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Where we park it!
Posts: 13,145
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WE also use a screen over the vent.
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momdoc
2018 Tiffin Allegro RED 37PA
2020 JEEP Trailhawk
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01-28-2022, 08:57 PM
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"Formerly Diplomat Don"
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Moorpark, Ca.
Posts: 23,914
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Not the same, but I have the SS trim along the bottom edge of my coach. While parked at home, I had a small black bird that kept jumping up and pecking the SS. I'm sure he thought it was another bird. At first, I thought it was funny until I looked at the SS. He scratched it up pretty good over a few days.
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Don & Mary
2019 Newmar Dutch Star 4018 (Freightliner)
2019 Ford Raptor
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01-28-2022, 10:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Metamora, MI
Posts: 5,518
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch Star Don
Not the same, but I have the SS trim along the bottom edge of my coach. While parked at home, I had a small black bird that kept jumping up and pecking the SS. I'm sure he thought it was another bird. At first, I thought it was funny until I looked at the SS. He scratched it up pretty good over a few days.
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That's the thank you for keeping it so bright and shiny.
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2002 Newmar Mountain Aire Limited 4370 w/ Spartan K2 and Cummins 500hp
ASE Master Certified (a long.....time ago...)
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01-29-2022, 12:27 AM
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Community Moderator
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Posts: 31,248
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch Star Don
Not the same, but I have the SS trim along the bottom edge of my coach. While parked at home, I had a small black bird that kept jumping up and pecking the SS. I'm sure he thought it was another bird. At first, I thought it was funny until I looked at the SS. He scratched it up pretty good over a few days.
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I had a similar problem in Florida two years ago. Lizards would see reflections of themselves and start "fighting" with their images.
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Tony & Ruth........... FMCA#F416727
2016 London Aire 4519, Freightliner chassis, Cummins ISX, 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, Blue Ox Avail with AF1. TST 507 TPMS
No amount of money can buy you an extra second of time.
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