Mouse nest almost caught fire!
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Just a quick clip of this call I was on... It was a triple whammy of problems!🙈🙈
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If you ever happen to find an electrician who would be up for it, it would be really cool to have a pair of videos, showing the fixes to a problem from the electrician's perspective after you turn it over to them.
This was someone’s lucky night. Good thing they were home.
That's one lucky home owner. That looks like they were pretty darn close to a structure fire.
I'd wear a mask dealing with mice nests. Don't want to breathe in dust as it could contain hantavirus leading to severe lung disease.
Something I didn't think of at all!! 😮
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Keep up the good work, brother. But can we have a moment of silence for that poor mummified mouse, whose ignorance of technology caused his downfall. A sober lesson for us all.
Mouse pro tip: never try to bypass the meter, not only is it illegal, but you might die.
Working as a network engineer in rural NH i used to see this kind of thing occasionally at our tower sites, mice would get into the ground equipment cabinets because it was warm and dark in there and then start chewing wires.
Same with phone lines. They cause all sorts of weird issues. Shorts, grounds, crossed pairs. I don't miss it.
I'd actually say the root cause here was the corrosion opening a hole for the mouse to get in. But I am also in New Hampshire and mice are a real problem - this is the time of year when they are moving into warm places so it's a good time to do some mouse proofing and trapping!
You should name that mouse Steve 🤣👊 Keep up the great content!
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The orange stuff looks like automotive grade RTV sealant and the cheap RTV that reeks of vinegar as it cures too!
Back in the day, we would often encounter deer mice nests in our equipment. They’re different from field mice in that they have pointy snouts and bulging eyes. They’re known to carry the bacteria causing Lyme’s disease. Be careful, Bob.
Great video!
Looks like water (salt water) has been wicking through those cables. That would explain why someone put "fire block" on the ends.
That red stuff looks like fire caulk. Or maybe some variation of Penatrox? Weird. R.I.P. Steve!
Why is it always the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere? That seems to be a disadvantage of digital meters. No one comes to read them, so that damage gets missed. Ours do get periodic inspection, but not often. Stay safe.
You need to practice your Steve Irwin voice when you find critters
Rusty bottom of the power meter 😮 but it happens when you are near the ocean
Incredibly rusty! One of the worst I've seen
@@Bobsdecline I saw that
Should just remove the ocean to fix the problem.
@@Bobsdecline I came across one during my short time as a meter tech - the ENTIRE bottom of the socket was rusted out to where the cover simply fell off. Back then, I had been keeping a log of locations where I knew the troubleman for whichever utility we were at should at least follow up, but my supervisor at the contractor outfit I was working for was actually filtering out my notes - he insisted we are there to work on the meter - nothing else! That left me pretty frustrated - I was logging things like split pole tops, burned polymer dead-ends, etc. I can still remember one customer complaining he had low voltage to his house - well, yeah, I looked up and counted no less than FIFTEEN splices in all three wires in the single open-wire span from the house mast to the meter pole in the yard!!!
@@Tathanicinstead of removing the ocean, you could just remove the salt from the ocean. Imagine all the advantages of having a freshwater ocean.
I wonder if that red crap is someone’s idea of corrosion protection.
That looks like fire block silicone not sure why they used it on the connections
R.I.P STEVE 2024
Wow that could have been a disaster, that meter base has seen better days for sure.
Nice catch Aaron. Loose connections all the time!
The only way there would hve been any live mice in there, is if they were newborns. Once the nest started burning, any mouse that could escape would have been out of there!
God Bless You !
We're going to have to go through the process of replacing that box given the degradation and the wire and everything else because of the Salt Air rust I would just go through and replace everything up including the mast
If a mfr. makes it, it'd be a good idea to use a stainless steel meter box and conduits for corrosion resistance near the ocean. I do know pad mount transformers mfrs. make stainless steel transformers for corrosive environments like near the ocean, so other electrical equipment might be available in stainless steel.
I do know that this equipment is not your's, so any decision to use SS would be up to the customer and their electrician.
Good content.
Nice mice.
the only good thing is that this was a easy overtime call out...!
How did the mouse not get up on top of lugs and get fried??
0:53 Do you have an IR camera? I'm guessing that would show up on one 😮
Also curious if decades of ground settling pulls buried service drops down enough to pull them out of the lugs? I've seen direct entry phone & cable lines that didn't have any slack get kinked from it. My power's working fine, just wondering if I should have it checked to be safe.
You wouldn't want a doctor to prescribe something based on a layman's description over the Internet. You probably don't want to take advice from some random person over the internet about your power based on a description. You may have missed describing something. Call a professional and have them take a look.
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My friend, are you self-employed or do you work for a company?
Ow gross! Not so nice meter can!
corroded from mouse piss?
My snowblower magneto and ignition housing were obliterated by crusty corrosion, all solidly bedded with a moist mouse nest. The ignorant little blighters know nothing about machinery.