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[Dave Mellor NJ]

Love that old technology

 

 

[keiser31]

1 hour ago, Dave Mellor NJ said:

Love that old technology

 

 

"This job REALLY sucks."

 

[Crusty Trucker]

3 hours ago, keiser31 said:

"This job REALLY sucks."

 

 

The hose is connected to the coupe's exhaust pipe. I think they are trying to gas the rodents. It works for gophers, but some rats live in more open areas where gassing wouldn't be as effective. 

There is an estimated 7 billion [4 legged] rats in the world, so I don't think this method was very successful.

[pkhammer]

Now we finally learn why Chevrolet developed the mouse and rat motors!

[R Walling]

 Thats an old method. The modern cars have cats on them!

[60FlatTop]

"Do you really think this Mickey Mouse thing will work?"

[TAKerry]

I like how all of the adults are outside watching the process with the little girl locked inside!

[8E45E]

A ratty neighborhood, even before the war!

 

Craig

[60FlatTop]

"My name is Beatrix Potter and I do not approve of thing activity."

 

[JMAV8FORD]

Back to old cars:  the vehicle is a 1936 Ford standard five window coupe.

[tcslr]

We did that on farm I grew up on. Put on tractor exhaust. Station around and kill the rodents as they staggered out. Worked though brutal. 

[Walt G]

Look beyond the immediate subject at hand. see the building in the back ground and note the neat "bump" out in the facade above the windows and door covered in the same shingles. Pretty cool indeed - and a feature I have not seen on any "modern" buildings with that subtle affect.  All the small details in the period photos in all aspects of what is seen really are important to me and tell the broad story well beyond the focus of what may be going on.

Edited December 17, 2023 by Walt G (see edit history)

[Rusty_OToole]

You couldn't do that with a new car, they don't have enough pollution in the exhaust to kill anything.

[f.f.jones]

 

1 hour ago, Rusty_OToole said:

You couldn't do that with a new car, they don't have enough pollution in the exhaust to kill anything.

 

Maybe Musk will develop a gizmo to attach to his electric cars that will electrocute rats

----and save the world once again!

[Xander Wildeisen]

This is the first State run emissions testing station. If your car gassed a rodent, you failed and would be denied registration.😮‍💨

[Mike "Hubbie" Stearns]

I’ve done something similar when I was helping a friend hook up the irrigation pump. It had a skunk in it that didn’t want to leave. Mike

[KVP]

My great uncle used a version of this to rid his cattle pasture of woodchucks.  His tired 1953 Chevy emitted a blue has haze from its exhaust.  He piped the exhasust down the woodchuck's entry hole, opened the trunk lid, had a seat and waited for the blue haze to exit the woodchuck tunnel's backdoor.  His long tom shotgun eliminated his rodent problem.  

[Porsche 68]

We used to put a pipe into a running truck into another truck that wouldn’t start when it was below zero out heat from the running truck would warm the cold engine and start easily worked every time. John 

[Dave Mellor NJ]

Wonder if that Ford has a Williard battery

[8E45E]

22 hours ago, Walt G said:

Look beyond the immediate subject at hand. see the building in the back ground and note the neat "bump" out in the facade above the windows and door covered in the same shingles. Pretty cool indeed - and a feature I have not seen on any "modern" buildings with that subtle affect.  All the small details in the period photos in all aspects of what is seen really are important to me and tell the broad story well beyond the focus of what may be going on.

As I study that building, it appears to be a very low-budget housing development that used the cheapest materials and methods-of-construction available at the time.  The windows and door appear to be very low grade items, and the use of what I believe are creosote shingles for the siding, which was not uncommon at the time.  I can bet those 'bulges' above the windows and doors which I can honestly say, I don't find that attractive were a water retention measure to keep some of the rain away from the door and window openings in the structure.  It was less expensive to use cheap window and door hardware without lintels and build those bulges out of wood and cover it with those flexible creosote shingles than to use better materials and/or extra labor to construct a proper window frame wide enough that could accommodate sash balances.  One would also expect a mini-eaves on the one above the door, for example.

 

Craig

[Leif in Calif]

1 hour ago, 8E45E said:

As I study that building, it appears to be a very low-budget housing development that used the cheapest materials and methods-of-construction available at the time.  The windows and door appear to be very low grade items, and the use of what I believe are creosote shingles for the siding, which was not uncommon at the time.  I can bet those 'bulges' above the windows and doors which I can honestly say, I don't find that attractive were a water retention measure to keep some of the rain away from the door and window openings in the structure.  It was less expensive to use cheap window and door hardware without lintels and build those bulges out of wood and cover it with those flexible creosote shingles than to use better materials and/or extra labor to construct a proper window frame wide enough that could accommodate sash balances.  One would also expect a mini-eaves on the one above the door, for example.

 

Craig

Or possibly this is an older building which was shingled to cover deteriorating siding, and those bulges are covering a Victorian architectural element. 

It's interesting no matter which!