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A local community theater used restaurant sized vegetable cans for PAR lighting fixtures in their early years when they were strapped for cash.
 
Fred B said:
Wonder, did the bees get the mouse or the fault across the mains.
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I opened up a disconnect once that was feeding a residential well pump. It was 240V .

There was a perfectly intact skeleton of a snake that was lying across both poles .

I showed it to the owner. He said that he’d lived there 20+ years and had never opened the switch.

There was a 1/2” KO in the bottom that had been removed at some point and never sealed.
 
nizak said:
I opened up a disconnect once that was feeding a residential well pump. It was 240V .

There was a perfectly intact skeleton of a snake that was lying across both poles .

I showed it to the owner. He said that he’d lived there 20+ years and had never opened the switch.

There was a 1/2” KO in the bottom that had been removed at some point and never sealed.
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I had the same experience except there was also a mouse next to the snake. I assume the snake was chasing the mouse and they both got fried.
 
Around here workers need to be careful when they are opening outdoor enclosures, especially in warmer times of the year. I have seen massive wasp and hornets' nests in switches and breaker boxes. Bang on it with a hammer and step back.
 
nizak said:
I opened up a disconnect once that was feeding a residential well pump. It was 240V .

There was a perfectly intact skeleton of a snake that was lying across both poles .
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Crispy Critters. I have seen photos from our guys in the field of snakes, lizards, and mice that bridged the service conductors.
 
We had a strip mall with roof top Heat and AC units . It was near a river (not that that has anything to do with the problem) All the units would get totally infested with yellow jackets.

They used to love to make a nest in the gas heat exhaust. We would fire the units on gas and they would come out in a hurry. May times we covered units with tarps and then sprayed bee killer under the tarp.
The ac supply house used to sell tons of Bee killer, and it was good stuff. If you got one drop on a bee or wasp they dropped immediately. Probably not good stuff to breathe.
 
electrofelon said:
I've seen a few throughout my career. Left a KO seal off my meter main and the mice moved in. Built a big nest and filled it the cabinet up to the feed thru lugs. Can't believe none got zapped.
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Opened a wall once and found a squirrel skeleton with jaw still clamped around the old rag wire. Think they couldn't figure out why the breaker tripped so just ran a new wire.
 
While the tuna can is obviously not code compliant, I think it will probably work just fine if it had a cover.
 
electrofelon said:
I've seen a few throughout my career. Left a KO seal off my meter main and the mice moved in. Built a big nest and filled it the cabinet up to the feed thru lugs. Can't believe none got zapped.
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In one of my former lives maintaining 2-way equipment, it was not unusual to have a service call mid-winter and find a Community Repeater that was housed in a decrepit unheated shack filled bottom to top with mouse nest...........and their 'by-products'......WHEW

We kept a total spare unit in the shop, we'd pull the crystals and user cards in the field and leave the carcass, tune up the spare and go back, install, and hire somebody with a pick-up to haul the old one to the scrap yard. And call Big M in Chicago and get a new spare shipped.

No way would we touch it any more than necessary, even with rubber gloves.

Then there were the rattlesnakes in the big old GE base station....kept a 20-pound CO-2 extinguisher and long handled shovel for them......freeze 'em and toss 'em down the hill.

And mice in broadcast transmitters..a 4000 V supply makes a h*ll of a rodent exterminator.
 

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Years ago my AC stopped working, so I called in a service request. Shortly after he arrived, the tech came and got me. He showed me that he had taken the cover off the relay to the compressor, and inside it was a solid brick of fire ants.
 
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