Cooking Mice

[Tpondel]

Seems nearly every time I start the Deere 3033R I get grass, fur, lots of smoke and a burnt mouse smell coming from the exhaust stack.
The lid has a grate on it but there is definitely room in-between the actual pipe and the lid for vermin to climb down.

Does a mouse in the exhaust create potential engine issues? is there some sort of high temp grate that I can attach on the pipe itself to keep them out.

Thanks for your ideas and comments.

 

[DaBear3428]

Seems nearly every time I start the Deere 3033R I get grass, fur, lots of smoke and a burnt mouse smell coming from the exhaust stack.
The lid has a grate on it but there is definitely room in-between the actual pipe and the lid for vermin to climb down.

Does a mouse in the exhaust create potential engine issues? is there some sort of high temp grate that I can attach on the pipe itself to keep them out.

Thanks for your ideas and comments.

start it more often, kill 2 birds with one stone. the mice are not the problem it is what they bring in to make a nest (in the exhaust under the hood is a different story) that is the issue.

 

[zzvyb6]

Trim the top to install a flapper cap. Or go back to using a wired mouse so you can pull it out before starting it.

 

[Richard]

I'd say stuff a cat down the exhaust to greet the mouse BUT, I like cats and nobody likes a sooty cat to jump on their lap.

 

[3gunr]

Put a bucket over the top , Been doing that for 20 yrs on the old massey

 

[oosik]

I leave the hood open on my vehicles - tractor, pickup, riding mower. Mice seem to not like the open area. Keeps them out of the engine compartment, passenger compartment and exhaust.

 

[Thomas]

Might want to check engine area for mouse may have nest.

 

[big bubba]

Might want to check engine area for mouse may have nest.

yes, address the infestation before it consumes the wiring, good point. bucket over stack is no brainer

 

[Tpondel]

Might want to check engine area for mouse may have nest.

I check it often and so far no issue.

seems they like to come up the tires. Put the big sticky pads down today at each wheel and hopefully that helps.

 

[WranglerX]

I deflated a mouse in air cleaner of my tractor.... Now have screen across air intake of tractor (and PU and Jeep)....

 

[IndyJay]

I've heard they taste like chicken...

 

[jyoutz]

I've heard they taste like chicken...

KFM

 

[Williy]

check these out just might find what you
need:

Amazon.com : tractor exhaust flapper 2 inch

willy

 

[Smokeydog]

Little buggers once packed my exhaust with pin oak acorns a few years ago. About the size of a marble. Upon startup they shot out like a blunder bust, ricocheting and bouncing about inside the metal equipment building. Quite lively entertainment for a moment figuring out what was going on. Fortunately no damage and a one time event so far. All evidence of the acorn massacre gone the next day.

 

[mcfarmall]

For all the bucket and flapper guys, the exhaust on the OP's tractor is a very short open pipe that terminates under the hood. There is a small gap between the pipe and a "floor drain grate" that is fastened into a hole in the hood.

 

[DaBear3428]

For all the bucket and flapper guys, the exhaust on the OP's tractor is a very short open pipe that terminates under the hood. There is a small gap between the pipe and a "floor drain grate" that is fastened into a hole in the hood.

steel wool wrapped around the end of the exhaust so that the wool forms a seal against the bottom of the grate. Mice cannot deal with coarse steel wool.

 

[Tpondel]

You guys got me thinking. How about stainless bird spikes? The kind you use in a barn. If flexible, wrap near the top of the pipe and secure with clamps.

even stuff some of that steel wool in between the spikes.

 

[dstig1]

Hardware cloth, bend over end of exhaust pipe, secure with SS hose clamp. Same thing I do on vehicles to keep them out of the intake.

 

[Beaver Cove Deere]

Mouse piss and exhaust valves protecting shiny cast iron cylinder walls and piston rings.

What could go wrong?

 

[mo1]

Little buggers once packed my exhaust with pin oak acorns a few years ago. About the size of a marble. Upon startup they shot out like a blunder bust, ricocheting and bouncing about inside the metal equipment building. Quite lively entertainment for a moment figuring out what was going on. Fortunately no damage and a one time event so far. All evidence of the acorn massacre gone the next day.

I had a similar experience with mice and the side-exit exhaust of my old JD 110 lawn mower. It had been in a shed at my parents' house for many years before I got it. They had put mouse poison in the shed, and at some point the mice collected the poison and rolled it into balls about the size of grapes and hid them in the 110's muffler unbeknownst to everybody. I wanted to see if the old 110 would run, so I put some fresh gas in it and jumped it. When it eventually started, it made a huge cloud of the stinkiest smoke I've ever smelled and blew half-burned long-dead mice and poison balls everywhere. It then ran like a champ.

I also shot a big old mouse nest out of the unload auger on a combine once too. That was a bit of a mess since those mice were still alive before the auger was engaged.