Rodents and Wiring topic

[Johnny44]

I’m being told that John Deere stuff uses a wiring with PVC insulation instead of the soy based wiring.

Is there any truth to this? Do any other manufacturers use this?

I can attest to Polaris, Can Am, and others getting eat up but the John Deeres I’ve seen with rodents living on them still keep running.

More specifically UTV side by sides and such

[gonehuntin]

I cant attest that rats love to eat the wiring on my John Deere tractors. I have to keep the hoods open to keep them from living in the engine compartment. After last chewing I wrapped all the wiring in aluminum tape and 1/8 metal screen. Had the dash out on my 5210 this past weekend checking why my fuel gauge quit. Thankfully, it was just the sending unit that went out. Good thing about my tractors is all the wiring harnesses are numberd ever few inches. Now they may have changed the compound on the wiring in the newer tractors, that I do not know, newest tractor I have was made in 2010 and rats eat that wiring.

[Johnny44]

Thanks

[Bard]

I know guys that had their Mules wiring completely eaten by rats/mice because of the soy. I had a rat living in my 2020 Gator in the engine compartment for about a week as far as I could tell, I checked for eaten wiring but found none. He did eat through my Dewalt tool bag and in the bag ate through the plastic bottle that contained gopher bait and that was his demise. I use that bag for trapping supplies and had cat food and marshmallows and other goodies in there but he ate through plastic to get to poisonous pellets, crazy. So now you know what to use for rats, fish flavored gopher pellets.

[Quackerbox]

Pretty sure it changed at some point. That said we have a deere that's 15 years old and a 2021. One ranger that's a 2009, one 2007 and a 2020 that get left throughout the week during deer season covered by tarps under a shed.

No issues. The older deere stays there 365

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[Tbar]

They sure like the wiring in my 1999 F250.

[MadHatter]

I’m being told that John Deere stuff uses a wiring with PVC insulation instead of the soy based wiring.

Is there any truth to this? Do any other manufacturers use this?

I can attest to Polaris, Can Am, and others getting eat up but the John Deeres I’ve seen with rodents living on them still keep running.

More specifically UTV side by sides and such

100% truth.
They use vegetable oils to make the plastics, and vermin love it.
Lot of cat-5e is made this way.
Buy some direct burial cat-5e that was made this way, and bury it in the ground without pvc, it's like laying a line of corn down through the woods for hogs.
Every mole, and gopher in the area will head for it, and chew it in a million places.
If you could encase some primer core in the same plastic, you could probably start a new way of pest control.
CHINA & the cheapest bidder phenoma.
Edit - it's used for everything, not just wiring, but there's a chance any wire you buy could be sheathed in it.

[RifleBowPistol]

When I worked in dealers 20 plus years ago, they always went after the foil covered injector wires first, that and the plastic vacuum hoses. They would usually not eat up any other wires. Most of the time it was either trucks left on hunting leases or RVs, or pickups, in RV parks for the winter. Then when the snow birds went to leave, to go home in the spring, their trucks would have a bad miss. Usually injector wires under the plenum, but sometimes injector wiring that was out in the open.

Recently we have cleared a lot of brush on our property, seemed to have displaced some mice. One got into my wife's new Toyota RAV 4 engine bay. All it ate, was the washer hose, she thought the washer bottle was empty. It got up inside the hood and ate the hose. There was only room for a field mouse up inside the hood, could not have been a squirrel or rat.

[Johnny44]

I do keep them fed with Tomcat and Cornbread/Baking soda mixture

[powderburner]

Feed them Just one Bite

buy this

https://www.amazon.com/Farnam-Just-Bite-Chunks-chuncks/dp/B005WKE2HA/ref=asc_df_B005WKE2HA/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198092304429&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11478138836703468119&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027837&hvtargid=pla-377849253787&psc=1

and put it everywhere you think they will or might be. This will wipe them out. I keep it in my deer stands. I put it in our feed shed, I have it in and around every spot in my trailer. I have no issues any more. I keep it on the back side of my fence to keep them away from my chickens.

It kills every rat mouse that eats it. and it is just one bite.

I put out 15 lbs of it the first year I was so mad. My ranch owner called me a week later because we had buzzards all over the feed shed. I had killed so many that they were everywhere. Dead.

[gonehuntin]

Feed them Just one Bite

buy this

https://www.amazon.com/Farnam-Just-Bite-Chunks-chuncks/dp/B005WKE2HA/ref=asc_df_B005WKE2HA/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198092304429&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11478138836703468119&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027837&hvtargid=pla-377849253787&psc=1

and put it everywhere you think they will or might be. This will wipe them out. I keep it in my deer stands. I put it in our feed shed, I have it in and around every spot in my trailer. I have no issues any more. I keep it on the back side of my fence to keep them away from my chickens.

It kills every rat mouse that eats it. and it is just one bite.

I put out 15 lbs of it the first year I was so mad. My ranch owner called me a week later because we had buzzards all over the feed shed. I had killed so many that they were everywhere. Dead.

This is the only block bait that reliably kills rats and mice, expensive but does its job. The other green, red and purple blocks are just snacks for them.

[PondPopper]

Spray your engine compartment down with diesel every couple of months or more, wiring and all, and rodents won’t touch it.. Spray your entire tractor for that matter. It prevents rust. This is an old school trick my family members have been using for MANY years.
The lighter components in diesel evaporate leaving a slight oily residue.. It works on hunting vehicles also.
If you barn has a dirt floor spray with a 10-1 diesel/burnt engine oil mix and you will never see a rat or mouse or snake in that barn.

[Mudslinger]

Spray your engine compartment down with diesel every couple of months or more, wiring and all, and rodents won’t touch it.. Spray your entire tractor for that matter. It prevents rust. This is an old school trick my family members have been using for MANY years.
The lighter components in diesel evaporate leaving a slight oily residue.. It works on hunting vehicles also.
If you barn has a dirt floor spray with a 10-1 diesel/burnt engine oil mix and you will never see a rat or mouse or snake in that barn.

Just do not let the EPA know you are spraying that on the dirt. They would probably hang you! LOL!