Dang Birds Finally Got Me in the Arse

sj · May 25, 2017

I have been very lucky these fifteen or so years with this plane of not having any birds in the tail, well, that luck ran out this week. I really appreciated the metal belly under the tail now (it is where the battery used to be for amphib CG) for the clean out. Going to have to add plugs for the jackscrew holes... anybody have any special tricks for this?

The first clue...

Yay for metal belly in the rear

These ambitious (dumb) birds filled up the entire tail of the plane...

Dave Calkins · May 25, 2017

'Tis the season!

Tim · May 25, 2017

Close the door on the hangar

behindpropellers · May 25, 2017

Perhaps they are smart Birds. They don't have to fly to their nest...their nest occasionally flies around.

Cub Special Ed · May 25, 2017

Put a fake owl on a post in the hanger. One of those bobble head ones will work well. Use them in hangers and gardens here. I would be real cautious about making plugs for the jack screw area unless they are extremely noticable during a preflight.

sj · May 25, 2017

Cub Special Ed said:
Put a fake owl on a post in the hanger. One of those bobble head ones will work well. Use them in hangers and gardens here. I would be real cautious about making plugs for the jack screw area unless they are extremely noticable during a preflight.

Not having trim would not be the worst thing in the world. Regarding plastic owls, our birds are so dumb (or smart) they sit on top of them in all the hangars.

sj

Carey Gray · May 25, 2017

I put a fake owl on my prop when I had an open hangar. It wasn't long before it had bird poop all over it.

Cub Special Ed · May 25, 2017

O.k. then. Forget I said anything. Fyi, it helps to move the owl once and a while to look real.

cubpilot2 · May 25, 2017

One of these might be fun...

https://www.birdbgone.com/sonic-shi...k=g&device=c&gclid=CLyAiIyYjNQCFUtNfgodojsKWw

jr.hammack · May 25, 2017

dang steve,thought ya said ya had a shotgun???

jr. :smile:

Bill Watson · May 25, 2017

On my gas pump hose reel birds like to nest so I just put a rubber snake there and they don't come back. Maybe you could lay one on the horizontal stabilizer? Don't scare Cafi.

SteveE · May 25, 2017

How about some poison milo. Works real well [emoji41]

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flylowslow · May 25, 2017

Shotgun!

12Geezer2 · May 25, 2017

Fill fuel tanks---fly more often ;-)

skipster · May 25, 2017

I tried one of those electronic bird devices years ago, waste of money, didn't work at all. What has worked perfectly is a Wilson Bi Fold door.

Ruffair · May 25, 2017

Better be careful. That looks like habit right there.......

Steve Pierce · May 26, 2017

They don't usually build nests like that in actively flying airplanes.

OLDCROWE · May 26, 2017

Steve Pierce said:
They don't usually build nests like that in actively flying airplanes.

Molly would be glad to help with that problem, she gets to KC Sunday...

sj · May 26, 2017

Steve Pierce said:
They don't usually build nests like that in actively flying airplanes.

Not all of us are wealthy airplane mechanics with lots of time on their hands.

sj

Steve Pierce · May 26, 2017

SJ said:
Not all of us are wealthy airplane mechanics with lots of time on their hands.

sj

Pretty funny coming from you.

Jon Delamarter · May 26, 2017

I had a Cirrus customer in NC several years ago complain of erratic oil temp. He'd been on an overnight trip and the plane sat outside for ONE DAY. In that one day, a bird built a massive nest between the rear baffle and the oil cooler.

Steve Pierce · May 26, 2017

Jon Delamarter said:
I had a Cirrus customer in NC several years ago complain of erratic oil temp. He'd been on an overnight trip and the plane sat outside for ONE DAY. In that one day, a bird built a massive nest between the rear baffle and the oil cooler.

Quit giving SJ excuses Jon, he has at least three ready at all times anyway.

n40ff · May 26, 2017

I was told a fake snake would work, put a coiled rattlesnake on top of the cowling.

You guessed it, 3 days later nest was started inside the coiled snake.

BINGO! at least it wasn't inside the cowling.:lol:

JohnnyR · May 26, 2017

flylowslow said:
Shotgun!

Right....

This would be SJ after we give him a shotgun to remedy the situation

C130jake · May 27, 2017

12 yr old kid and a BB gun....or an Army CWO3, a case of beer and his trusty sergeant, and a pellet gun. That's how my brother dealt with hangar visitors as the building custodian at Ft Campbell.

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Cappt · May 27, 2017

Company hired a guy with a hawk one time to come get the birds out of the big hangars, hawk tried like heck but the little birds just out maneuvered him in the rafters.

Wife was pissed about the sparrows building on my elk antlers above the garage door, I put up a small box house for them and problem solved, for now...

I tried shooting all the rabbits out once, two weeks later twice as many moved in. Now I just throw them some scratch in the driveway in hopes of keeping them out of the flowers.

Guess Im just getting soft!

hotrod180 · May 28, 2017

JohnnyR said:
This would be SJ after we give him a shotgun to remedy the situation

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Funny thing is that this would be SJ looking up at the still-alive bird, sneering at him.

sj · May 28, 2017

hotrod180 said:
Funny thing is that this would be SJ looking up at the still-alive bird, sneering at him.

Tough crowd! :lol:

cubdrvr · May 28, 2017

SJ said:
Tough crowd! :lol:

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I think he stole Wilbur's beer...........that porch looks familiar.

hotrod180 · May 28, 2017

"Where's that wascally wabbit......"

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