[Leica] IMG: Squirrels Crave Aluminum

[Don Dory]

Well, I have a crew of busy tuxedo clad rats beating me to my tomatoes.  I
might have to clean out my pellet gun and dissuade the creatures from
tomatoes and encourage them to go back to acorns of which there is a
multitude.  I don't have a problem with sharing but when all the just
ripening tomatoes get 1/3 chewed up I have a problem.  If only there was a
rent a terrier program...

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 7:34 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> One thing I have learned the hard way is that you never allow a squirrel
> a place to rest near a power or data cable run.  I don't like to cut
> trees, but I have trimmed branches if they grow toward a pole-to-house
> 3-wire bundle.  Twice I have had low 120-volt power because the aluminum
> neutral was severely chewed up.  But, the damage is not limited to
> aluminum.  Our good friends at Lighttube had to replace 100 ft of
> overhead fiber optic cable because the holly trees that THEY planted to
> replace my white pines grew tall enough to give the fuzzy-tailed rodents
> a place to sit and chew.  They were really unhappy about that.
>
> On 6/7/20 6:49 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
> > Wow.
> > There is a maxim in the high reliability data center industry (at
> > least among publicists) "Always keep a dead squirrel in the freezer."
> > When things go wrong and reporters converge, you can hold it up and
> > say "We found this inside the main transfer switch."
> >
> > On 2020-06-07 1:42 pm, Jim Nichols wrote:
> >> Squirrels cause more damage to power distribution lines than any other
> >> single cause.  But, my pole-to-house service line is not the only
> >> thing that gets chewed up.  My 50-yr old Sears chain link fence and
> >> gate have also been attacked over the years. Apparently, squirrels
> >> crave aluminum.  The fence wire is tied to the top rail with a fairly
> >> stiff aluminum tie.  This close-up photo shows the results of numerous
> >> squirrel teeth working on the aluminum.
> >>
> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200607-P6071690.JPG.html
> >
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