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Rodents a Potential Field Work Hazard for Certain Vehicles? + Some Field Stories


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This might seem off-topic, but this could be a problem with using certain

vehicles for off road rock and fossil hunting.

 

Why Rodents are Chewing up Car Wires and What You Can Do to Prevent it.

https://www.wheels.ca/news/rodent-damage/

 

"Every farmer knows that vermin nesting in a warm engine bay is yesterday’s

news. What is troubling is the growing volume of online stories about

rodents chewing up expensive wiring looms that keep Audis, Hondas,

Toyotas and Volvos running."

 

I am curious if this has happened to anyone in the field?

 

The worst that happened to me was the stearing assembly and key locked

up on our four-wheel drive vehicle, while the archaeological survey crew,

whom I was working for, were about 20 - 30 miles away from any help. The

foothills of North Park, Colorado, were beautiful, but it was gettting dark

for such a long walk. We had to  gently rock the vehicle, which was in

four-wheel drive, back and forth until we could turn the key and get going.

 

The most embarassing was driving onto a sand wash thinking it was a road

while geological mapping in the Peason Ridge Military Reservation, Louisiana.

It was so stuck that, the other geologist and I partially melted the battery

clamps in unsuccessful attempts to winch the four-wheel drive out out of the

sand. Finally, we had to swallow our pride and walk to the local guard post

and drive back with a couple of soldiers, who winched us out with a Humvee.

It was fun getting to ride in real military Humvee.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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 Not while fossil hunting but i did get a rodent nest in my tractor one year and after a few minutes of tractoring it started to smoke, but luckily we put it out in seconds adn everything was fine.

 

RB

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