Squirrels you can usually find their nest, I find them and piss in them and they leave
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 10:34 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I guess we’re saying they’re party poopers? > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Kurt Fankhauser > *Sent:* Friday, May 8, 2020 10:23 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Towers and Chewed Cat5 > > > > Racoon parties? lol. Usually I when they gather you know it because they > leave poop-parties all over. haha > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:17 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > Raccoons tend to leave distinctive poop. I’m not sure I’ve ever had > problems with them chewing cable. Usually it’s rodents, birds or dogs. > I’ve seen squirrels climb 165 ft grain elevator ladders to chew on cables > at the top, even with piles of corn and soybeans all over the ground. Go > figure. I’ve seen raccoon poop on top of a 70 ft concrete silo but no > chewed cables. I think they just have raccoon parties up there. > > > > How high off the ground is the damage? Could it be deer? I’ve seen that. > > > > Raccoons supposedly have sensitive paws. Maybe you could install some > spike strips to dissuade them. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, May 8, 2020 9:29 AM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Towers and Chewed Cat5 > > > > Conduit is your friend, but you do have to exit the conduit at some > point. It certainly reduces the number of places where an animal can get > at it. > > For radios with cable glands, you can replace the gland with the right > fittings to bring conduit all the way to the device. We did that once, but > it's very difficult to work with. Wouldn't try that again. You'd need a > way to slide the conduit back several inches separately from the cable so > you can access the plug. Like some kind of sliding union. > > > > On 5/8/2020 10:14 AM, Sean Heskett wrote: > > Yup all kinds of critters love cabling, I think it has a soy based product > in it or something. > > > > Solution is to put the cable in armored liquidtight conduit. > > > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=liquidtight&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari > > > > -Sean > > > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 8:06 AM Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have a tower and a bundle of cat5's going up. Seems raccoons(I > assume) climb up occasionally and chew on cat5 wires. Had one other > tower this happened. Anyone else have this happen? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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