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I have a question for you guys, just to see if there are any clever ideas I have not considered.
We own some ~30 acres of mountain land where we have built a large open side pole barn. I would like to switch out our Ford Transit van for our Ford F150 4x4 for the winter season because we will be driving a lot in the snow (we ride snowmobiles on trails in the mountains from Jan to March and use the truck to get them to the trailheads).
I would like to park the van in our pole barn but we have had a serious mouse issue up there where they started eating the tofu wiring in the F150 after just a week or so. They have also built a nest twice on top of the engine in our Kubota excavator which DID NOT make me happy at all. I killed a bunch of the suckers but it is impossible to get them all.
So....what clever way could I keep them out of the Ford Transit's engine compartment? Moth balls and dryer sheets don't work, tried that with the excavator.
I was thinking about elevating the van on jack stands (the barn is 16 feet tall) but that is a lot of work and the floor is dirt so not really comfortable with the idea. I was also thinking about driving the van onto some wire mesh and then kind of folding it up around the tires, thinking that the mice are jumping onto the tire and then into the engine compartment and they don't like metal wire. For all I know that is a myth though.
It may be that all of the mice and animals have hunkered down for the winter and we would not actually have a problem right now (it is 20 degrees overnight already). I don't want to go check on the van in a few weeks though and find $3,000 worth of damage to the wiring harness...
The local storage facility is sold out of units that have a tall enough roof for the van.
We own some ~30 acres of mountain land where we have built a large open side pole barn. I would like to switch out our Ford Transit van for our Ford F150 4x4 for the winter season because we will be driving a lot in the snow (we ride snowmobiles on trails in the mountains from Jan to March and use the truck to get them to the trailheads).
I would like to park the van in our pole barn but we have had a serious mouse issue up there where they started eating the tofu wiring in the F150 after just a week or so. They have also built a nest twice on top of the engine in our Kubota excavator which DID NOT make me happy at all. I killed a bunch of the suckers but it is impossible to get them all.
So....what clever way could I keep them out of the Ford Transit's engine compartment? Moth balls and dryer sheets don't work, tried that with the excavator.
I was thinking about elevating the van on jack stands (the barn is 16 feet tall) but that is a lot of work and the floor is dirt so not really comfortable with the idea. I was also thinking about driving the van onto some wire mesh and then kind of folding it up around the tires, thinking that the mice are jumping onto the tire and then into the engine compartment and they don't like metal wire. For all I know that is a myth though.
It may be that all of the mice and animals have hunkered down for the winter and we would not actually have a problem right now (it is 20 degrees overnight already). I don't want to go check on the van in a few weeks though and find $3,000 worth of damage to the wiring harness...
The local storage facility is sold out of units that have a tall enough roof for the van.