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cmonSTART
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 11:50 am Post subject: Acorn Season! |
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Acorns are falling from the Oak trees right now - sounds like I'm being shot at when one hits the flat front of my bus! It makes me want to wear a flak jacket.
Anyone ever incur any damage from these things?
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SGKent 
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Location: Citrus Heights CA (Near Sacramento)
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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only when the squirrels accompany them. The hard helmets they wear can damage a windshield. Usually though the acorns aren't falling from trees - they are being thrown by the squirrels. In my neighborhood they throw apples.
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grandpa pete
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alaskadan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| Doing a suby conversion on a 74 westy and when removing the main air duct an acorn fell out amongst other stuff. Thing is we are in ak. That van sat in a field for 10 to 15 years before current owners bought it 3 years ago. When and where did it come from?! |
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SGKent
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| alaskadan wrote: |
| Doing a suby conversion on a 74 westy and when removing the main air duct an acorn fell out amongst other stuff. Thing is we are in ak. That van sat in a field for 10 to 15 years before current owners bought it 3 years ago. When and where did it come from?! |
an Oak tree 
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vwwestyman
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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The town I go to every Wednesday for work, Marysville, KS, is one of the homes of a population of black squirrels. Some have tufts of hair on their ears that look like horns. Kinda freaky.
[img]http://ywguiding.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/aberts-squirrel-on-the-ground.jpg?w=500[/img]
Look at this guy, just waiting to attack my Bus.
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alaskadan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| SGKent wrote: |
| alaskadan wrote: |
| Doing a suby conversion on a 74 westy and when removing the main air duct an acorn fell out amongst other stuff. Thing is we are in ak. That van sat in a field for 10 to 15 years before current owners bought it 3 years ago. When and where did it come from?! |
an Oak tree |
 Oh you mean that one with the leaves and bark and stuff, ya i know the one..... |
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Wasted youth
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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Guess where else all this crap was found? Yep! Under the tin and fouling the cooling fins of the cylinder heads.
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poptop tom
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 6:02 am Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| vwwestyman wrote: |
The town I go to every Wednesday for work, Marysville, KS, is one of the homes of a population of black squirrels. Some have tufts of hair on their ears that look like horns. Kinda freaky.
[img]http://ywguiding.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/aberts-squirrel-on-the-ground.jpg?w=500[/img]
Look at this guy, just waiting to attack my Bus.
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Black squirrel lives matter! 
Lots of them around my area of NW Indiana as well.
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jtauxe
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 6:59 am Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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We have the coolest looking squirrels at our nearby Bandelier National Monument: the Abert's Squirrel. Here's a link:
https://www.nps.gov/band/learn/nature/aberts-squirrel.htm
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SGKent
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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Bad-Ass squirrel John. Those little guys are known for carrying samurai swords and knowing how to use them.
The acorns on the trans are a rat problem. Squirrels would know better than take that kind of ambush risk.
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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we just have drunk redneck ones
then they just get smooshed. but I will bear you that pic
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SGKent
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
we just have drunk redneck ones
then they just get smooshed. but I will bear you that pic |
Yeah - real problem sometimes. My uncle has the same problem with his dog. Dog is supposed to be a watch dog and Dil comes home to find this more often than not. I think the dogs drinking problem started because the squirrels were throwing beer cans and he acquired a taste.
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jtauxe
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| SGKent wrote: |
My uncle has the same problem with his dog. Dog is supposed to be a watch dog and Dil comes home to find this more often than not. I think the dogs drinking problem started because the squirrels were throwing beer cans and he acquired a taste.
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So, did the dog get that Thai newspaper from a Siamese?
(OK, maybe that is Sinhalese or something, but calling it Thai made the joke work.)
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SGKent
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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John he has friends all over. Weird dogs coming at all hours. You'd think he was running a gambling parlor or something.
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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These are like roaches in my area. I've always called the the Rocky Mountain Black Squirral for fun. Thanks for the name.  |
We have roaches in Hawaii too.
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SGKent
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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| Tom Powell wrote: |
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These are like roaches in my area. I've always called the the Rocky Mountain Black Squirral for fun. Thanks for the name. |
We have roaches in Hawaii too.
Aloha
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we had them in Puerto Rico when I was a kid. Usually the natives were the first to run unless they had a baseball bat with them. Of course in your case you have the centipedes with the seems like 1" log fangs that get whatever they want to eat.
Is that a railroad track you are putting that roach onto to stop the train?
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jakokombi
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 7:50 am Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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We have Fat Squirrels in Wisconsin.
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andrewtf
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Acorn Season! |
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FYI - I'll take acorns over walnuts any day.
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