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Maybe the best one yet

SCWorm

SCWorm

hillbilly born-n-bred
City
Fort Mill
State
sc
Gosh, I just can't understand why my heater won't work.....the vents won't open and close, and the motor/fan won't run. Well, guess I'll pull the heater core and see if I can figure out what's going on.


Holy critter's nest batman! :eek: This may be the best one I've gotten so far. Anybody ever seen this before? How in the world could this happen ......anybody got an ideas?
 
Pretty common. If a vehicle sets for any length of time the critters move in.

Don
 
right. it's just puzzling to me that all they (squirrels, mice, whatever) carried into the vents were pine cones. No needles, or straw or other type nesting material, just cones. Not the normal type nest you would find - but hey, the jeep was from Minnesota - Maybe the squirrels up there have different taste than the ones here in Dixie.
 
SCWorm said:
right. it's just puzzling to me that all they (squirrels, mice, whatever) carried into the vents were pine cones. No needles, or straw or other type nesting material, just cones. Not the normal type nest you would find - but hey, the jeep was from Minnesota - Maybe the squirrels up there have different taste than the ones here in Dixie.
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It's the nuts within the leaves of the cones they like, & are stock piling for a 'rainy' day...at our property, we watch them run up pine trees, going from branch to branch, trimming all the cones right off the branch (& tossing them onto the ground), before moving onto the next branch. First time we were there for it, we woke up to the sound of someone throwing rocks at the trailer, went outside & found a squirrel up above, going about his business...

Once they have trimmed a tree, we find piles of cones 'squirrled' away in all kinds of places; stashes underneath the trailer, at the foot of trees snuggled between roots....we even have sunflowers, growing in flower pots that they have seeded, from bird feeders they have raided...
 
Geez, all I found in mine was a few leaves and a AA size mini Maglight. The thing would roll back and forth with every time I'd stop and go, drove me nuts until I found it.
 
ok, well the food answer makes plenty of sense then. didn't know there was anything edible about a pine cone to a squirrel.
 
Holy flock! I can't even fathom how they'd get those in there- provided the vent cover was on the cowl vent, the only way I can think they'd get in there would be by chewing thru the defroster tube.

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Hang on...


MY Scrambler has no fan.
AND the vent doors won't close.
AND the neighbor has a pine tree.
AND the Scrambler's been sitting for 3 years.



:eek:



I gotta get that heater box out! If nothing else, I can put in that Blazer fan that's been sitting on the shelf for 4 years now. :D
 
126 pine cones in all

Finally got around to putting heat system back together today, still don't have it bolted back into the firewall, gotta get a buddy to help me line the holes up.

Anyway pictures in this thread are of the pine cones I found in the ducts. Dumped them out today and counted them as I was throwing them in the trash - 126 of 'em. I kept a few, for keepsakes. Might have to chrome them and install them somehow as part of the interior.:p
 
I think you're "funnin' us", SC. You playin' round with the "shine" again? Momma gonna whup you upside the haid soon!:D :D
 
SCWorm said:
I kept a few, for keepsakes. Might have to chrome them and install them somehow as part of the interior.:p
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man, just run some string between two of them and use them instead of fuzzy dice :D
 
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