[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

Fri Mar 25 13:47:13 EDT 2016

Richard, if your comment refers to the blue jay, I just left him on as a
scarecrow until it was time to drop the antenna for a little refurbishing.
He was looking pretty ratty by then, but it really did seem to deter the
birds in general while he was on display.  They refused to sit anywhere on
the wires.

As for the "how" part of removal.....dikes.

Dennis AE6C

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Chris Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I think you are referring to the blue jay on the other posters dipole.  I
> had to replace the ant farm outlet box.  What a mess. Didn't want to deal
> with cleaning it out.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 25, 2016, at 13:01, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>     How did you get him off?
>
> On 3/25/2016 9:49 AM, Chris Bowne wrote:
>
> What cartoon character said that anyway?  Tom from Tom and Jerry?
>
> We have a pots lamp in the garden with an outlet box about 18 inches above
> grade. Usually keep the circuit off during the winter.  Last spring when I
> tried to turn it in the GFCI in the circuit tripped.  Ant nest in the
> outlet box.  Gross!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 21:57, Dennis Monticelli <
> <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>dennis.monticelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK.  My turn.
>
> Back when I was a 15 yr old novice my antenna was a low 40M dipole.  A
> large blue jay liked to crap on my center insulator making a mess of it.
> One day I noticed the jay sitting astride the insulator, one foot on each
> leg of the dipole.  I ran inside turned on my Viking II, loaded it to full
> suds on a dummy load, switched it over to the dipole, and then pounded down
> on my navy key.  I heard a single loud blood-curdling squawk and then
> silence.  Did the jay fly away?  I couldn't see from my window.  I ran back
> outside and found him hanging under the insulator, both feet still gripping
> the wires, with feathers orthogonal to his body. Such a satisfying sight :-)
>
> Dennis AE6C
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
> <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24 Mar 2016 at 18:49, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>>
>> > The weirdest mouse electrocution I ever saw was in an antique VT
>> electronic
>> > organ.This particular design ran all of the Ac and DC voltage
>> requirements on
>> > bare bussbars horizontally across the back. The mouse was stuck
>> perfectly
>> > vertical to the rails like a third rail electric train electrocution.
>> he popped
>> > off pretty easy, though...;)
>>
>> In my case, it was a small squirrel or chip-munk. It had gotten into the
>> main
>> cage of our mountain-top 25KW TV transmitter, had crawled directly under
>> the single insulated lead from the center-tap of the HV transformer which
>> was about 2" from the bottom of the cage, and had received a good jolt
>> through its skull, killing it instantly.
>>
>> We experienced several intermittant shut-downs of the transmitter at odd
>> times over the next several weeks, and couldn't figure out what was
>> happening.
>>
>> We finally discovered the decomposing corpse which was swelling up as it
>> decomposed, shorting out the lead, blowing the main breaker, the shot of
>> HV
>> would open up the corpse so that it leaked all the gas, then it would do
>> it
>> again in a few days.
>>
>> Since the cage had a 25 HP blower in it blowing all the heat, and the
>> stink,
>> out side, we never suspected it until we just happened to find it after
>> finally
>> doing a very diligent search inside the HV cage.
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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