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Old 07-20-2023, 07:01 PM   #1
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Mouse proofing!

I can not understand why there is no screening on and around RV generators or at the intake end of the air box under the hood! 2nd time they got into my generator, this time the ate through a wire and popped a few strands and ate my foam Pre- air filter!

Someone please come up with a solution! Conventional preventive measures just don’t work!
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If you find a solution that works - you’ll be a rich person!

Just like the Armadillos in Texas that tear up the yards digging for grubs - you spray for grubs, the Armadillo's will go elsewhere.
I have found that making rodent delicacies (slightly modified with a lethal additive) more easily available around the wheels of my coach tends to minimize their desire to move higher up in search of something to quell their desire to munch.

Also make sure the only thing touch the ground from your coach (put deflection shields on any hoses or cables that might remain connected) are your tires. And if you use your levelers to take the weight off your tires, make sure they are shielded from rodents as well.
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Also found out that wire manufacturers use soy in the wire casings! Great attractant to mice !
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Also found out that wire manufacturers use soy in the wire casings! Great attractant to mice !
Used to. But TBH - they would climb up onto the engine in my ‘66 Chevy pickup and do the same thing.
Rodents have to chew. Keep the grass cut around your coach. Don’t store food of any sort (except maybe canned food) in your coach.

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You'll never mouse proof. Work with their instincts and get traps, check them daily.
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a very timely subject. went to trailer to get ready for out trip and we have mouse damage.
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After I went over everything, I went back to storage every other day and started up generator and chassis for 30 min. No sign of them, however, I did find one of the mouse poison boxes was eaten. I left one behind the rear dully tire, just behind the generator, which I suspect is where they might be getting a leg up! But the box I put in the generator and front of my engine had not been touched!

I then drove my rig over to my mechanic to give it a once over, incase I missed anything. He repaired the chewed up wire, cleaned out the generator for me and change the oil, (It was time for an oil change anyway). He found no other damage, that he could see! So now it’s off to the indoor storage place I use to keep it at. They are pretty diligent in protecting their building from rodents. And they happen to move around my rig once in a while because the place stores boats and school busses also, so that’s a big help in scaring them away! We came up north earlier than usual and indoor was full of boats, so I did outdoor storage at another place which is kinda in the middle of the woods! Serves me right for becoming complacent and not moving to indoor storage sooner!

Everyone has gave me some good advice, and I greatly appreciate it. Now my rig smells like lemon seed, peppermint, mothballs, Irish spring and dryer sheets! Lol
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If you find a solution that works - you’ll be a rich person!

Just like the Armadillos in Texas that tear up the yards digging for grubs - you spray for grubs, the Armadillo's will go elsewhere.
I have found that making rodent delicacies (slightly modified with a lethal additive) more easily available around the wheels of my coach tends to minimize their desire to move higher up in search of something to quell their desire to munch.

Also make sure the only thing touch the ground from your coach (put deflection shields on any hoses or cables that might remain connected) are your tires. And if you use your levelers to take the weight off your tires, make sure they are shielded from rodents as well.

We get Armadillo's in south florida also. Never know them to be destructive other than the holes in the ground.

We also get roof rats in south Florida, big, shoe size rats that get on to your roof and find a way in to your attic by digging through the stucco styrofoam. Very destructive! I had them 2 times. The exterminator used tubes with farm feed and molasses, then puts poison powder in the tubes, once he sees them eating the bait. They lick the poison off their feet, get sick, eventually die. He said once they relate getting sick at a location they don’t come back. Don’t know how true this is but it worked! They came back a few years later after my neighbor had issues, he treated his house and they found their way back on my roof. I had to get rid of them again and seal off any vulnerable spots with wire mesh and concrete, so they couldn’t get in again. (The first guy missed a few spots)

Never ending!
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