| Author | Message | ||
| Peg Unregistered guest Posted From: 170.215.213.9 Rating: N/A |
Yes, just thought I'd post this to warn that you never can tell who may try to stow away under the bus! A harmless yet aggressive water snake shocked my husband when he went to flip a tripped breaker down below. He removed the snake and set him free. I thought that snakes return to their "nests" and sure enough, by the end of the day, it had come home to roost on top of the breaker box where it had been before. You can guess what we did to it after that! | ||
| John MC9 Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.217.105.171 Rating: N/A |
It's after the warmth. The snakes eat roaches, mice and other problems! Too bad for you; much too bad for the snake! | ||
| Joebus (Joebus)
Registered Member Username: Joebus Post Number: 16 Registered: 1-2001 Posted From: 204.225.67.17 Rating: N/A |
Is the breaker panel in a bay? We will be fulltiming shortly, and I need to do everything possible to eliminate any chance of snakes getting in the coach (MC8)It is an issue I have with snakes | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.233.94.205 Rating: N/A |
altho I haven't ever heard of 'em eating roaches,they do like mice,but mostly it was after heat from breaker box,work on your fobia joebus,snakes are benefical | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.233.94.205 Rating: N/A |
I have a friend that you can toss a fanbelt at & he will go thru a wall,  never gets old | ||
| fredd Unregistered guest Posted From: 207.109.1.73 Rating: N/A |
I'll bet it does with your friend  If you did that to me, it'd be the last fan belt you ever tossed. | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.232.214.74 Rating: N/A |
ANOTHER fan belt fobia,I'm trying to find somebody that will wet their pants,could you do that for everybody,what bus events are you going to go to attend ? | ||
| John MC9 Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.217.108.93 Rating: N/A |
U is a pissa, Bob! (HAR) | ||
| John MC9 Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.217.108.93 Rating: N/A |
We had a phone installer that was deathly afraid of dogs. Sooooo.... if you were with him on the job, and walking behind him towards a house.... you'd say loudly: "Hey... Who's dog is this?" while shaking and rattling your keys. It was worth the walk back to the garage. Every frikkin' time. | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 65.150.47.23 Rating: N/A |
or my shop teacher in high school,he was shell shocked in WWII,if ya' came up behind him & poked him in the back, he would hit anybody that was in front of him | ||
| Peg Unregistered guest Posted From: 170.215.211.120 Rating: N/A |
Heh, yes the box was in a bay. It seems like a good place to store all that electrical jazz. Once I found a tarantula in our trailer (we leave it on site) at the AZ renaissance fair site. Same thing happened. My husband walked it out into the desert and let it go, but they also have a tracking ability and it crawled back the same day. I caught the spider all on my own, but I feel a little less confident about snakes. Well, it's gone now, even if they do eat mice. | ||
| Mike (Busone)
Registered Member Username: Busone Post Number: 306 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 71.33.24.110 Rating: N/A |
When we moved into our house we had a little water snake that lived in the pond in the front yard. My wife was pulling some weeds in the garden and he popped his head out to see what she was doing. I was in the basement and heard the screams. I grabbed him and took him out to the irrigation ditch. He appeared to swim down stream off our property. Two weeks later my wife started screaming again. Sure enough the little guy found his way back. He must have worked up an appitite on his way back because he was in the process of eating the gold fish in the pond. Now the pond is filled in and the snake is gone. Maybe he went back to the irrigation ditch. | ||
| herman Unregistered guest Posted From: 69.181.162.81 Rating: N/A |
I thought snakes were used in plumbing... Yes, that was pretty lame; you can groan now. | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.233.110.98 Rating: N/A |
two fishermen were out on the lake,about noon they ran out of bait,so,they just continued drinking,a snake comes by with a frog in his mouth,one fisherman grabs the frog & empties a jigger in the snakes mouth,puts the frog on a hook & catches a big fish,about 10 minutes go by & the snake brings the guy another frog... | ||
| John MC9 Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.217.105.118 Rating: N/A |
Oh Gawd... Snake jokes.  | ||
| Mark & Michele (Busnut_pd4106)
Registered Member Username: Busnut_pd4106 Post Number: 62 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.213.16.189 Rating: N/A |
lol I am sitting here at work reading this thread and just dying with laughter. I’ll be honest, I hate (scared of) snakes, it’s so difficult to tell the poisonous ones from those that are not. OK here is my critter story. Yesterday I went to check on our two old buses parked in storage. When I opened the battery compartment I notice the first wasp (hornet) zoomed pass me, then another like a bat out of hell, after the 4th wasp came out, I knew it was time, so I just dropped the door and ran as fast as I could, jumped in my truck and I was out of there. Ever got stung by one of these? Anyways I’ll be back with spray in hand this evening. | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.232.215.36 Rating: N/A |
get the very expencive kind,about 6 or 7 dollars a can & it shoots 20 to 30 feet,you can knock them out of the air,please be sure you are not alergic to their stings,soak the nest after no more flying. | ||
| H3-40 Unregistered guest Posted From: 70.197.98.245 Rating: N/A |
Well speaking of wasp and hornets... I went in the bus the other evening just to get away from recent issues and since we have a lot of plywood ceiling now (waiting for vinyl to arrive) it appears wasp and hornets like the wood. Don't know how they keep getting in but they do. Anyway, there was one on the NEW vinyl ceiling in the BR and I swatted at it with my hat. I thought I got him but you would think there would be some sort of dead facimile on the hat or on the floor. After looking all around the area of attack, Nothing found! THEN all of sudden and to my surprise I felt it! Evidently, I swatted it onto my shirt tail and it stung me right on the tender portion of my belly. OUCH! Well this time I hit it good (without hurting myself further from dancing in small places) but only good enough to see it on the wall. You remember that cartoon of Elmer Fudd trying to shoot daffy duck in the house with a shotgun and he missed sooo many times? That was me! Anyway, I finally got him and I found him DEAD! Needless to say, I had, and still have a swollen red spot that itches like hell on my belly. Yea those wasp and hornets are some mean critters for being so small! After that episode, I did go out and sprayed in and under the coach but most of the nest I saw were old mud dobbers nest with no live action! My advice, be careful or make damn sure you hit him good the FIRST time! Ae | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.232.213.19 Rating: N/A |
mud dobbers are non-agressive, years ago,about midnight,my wife & I were naked,in bed,& you could hear a wasp flying around,bumping on the ceiling,(kinda breaks your concentration ),so, I discovered the best way for a naked man to get rid of a wasp & get back to important things, ,a five gallon shop vac | ||
| H3-40 Unregistered guest Posted From: 70.197.32.94 Rating: N/A |
Gosh Bob MIDNIGHT???? | ||
| John MC9 Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.217.105.67 Rating: N/A |
Bob - Uhhh.... soooo... (and I hate to ask), what role did that shop vac actually play? errrr.. what was it used for... I mean... Oh noooo.... never mind.. (I think I read about this once, in the Playboy forum) (aren't those articles great?) | ||
| Bob Greenwood Unregistered guest Posted From: 63.233.5.132 Rating: N/A |
yep, used it to get hard boiled eggs out of boiling water,wait, that was the next night, I carry it with me always | ||
| Steve N. (N4rsn)
Registered Member Username: N4rsn Post Number: 89 Registered: 2-2005 Posted From: 70.253.169.39 Rating: N/A |
Just carry a can of PB Blaster, It is a spray can of penatrating oil, and it will knock a wasp, hornet, or any other bug, right out of the air. We would keep cans of it around just for that purpose, in the orange grove, in Florida. Sometimes we would even spray some rust.! Steve | ||
| Ted 4108A
Unregistered guest Posted From: 66.248.87.29 Rating: N/A |
Im looking for Information on getting a 740 Allison Auto installed in my 1975 GMC 4108-A I have a detroit 8v92 in it. | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 458 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 207.30.189.46 Rating: N/A |
If your engine still sets crosswise in the bus, it gonna happen. The Allison 740 is a inline transmission. The GMC buses use an angle drive transmission. To install the Allison 740 you would have to make MAJOR structural modifications redesign the cooling system, and change the entire read end housing including the gears. hope this helps, Jack | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces)
Registered Member Username: Pvcces Post Number: 969 Registered: 5-2001 Posted From: 65.74.70.16 Rating: N/A |
Ted, many people report two mpg lower fuel mileage, loss of top end speed and overheating problems when converting to V730. It's an expensive conversion and involves cutting and reinforcing bulkheads. Vee drive transits can be inexpensive donors. I don't know if the V730 is rated for your size of engine; lots of units use them with the 6V92TA. Some of those problems are reduced or eliminated by using the discontinued Allison VS-2. Some people have reported good mileage with the VS-2. You might try the search function to locate older posts for more information. Good luck. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher Ketchikan, Alaska |