Just sold my 2006 RTV 900 which had 1000 plus flawless trouble free hours on the meter.Purchased a new 2021 RTV 1100c & I noticed the air in take has a round 2 inch rubber hose which is wide open.Would this not be a critter getter for mice and such?I an thinking about using a hose clamp and some screen to protect from this.Any better thoughts ??
2021 Kubota RTV 1100 c
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Both our 2016 and 2020 1100c's have the same setup. No issues at all. It's real easy to check the filter if you think there might be an issue.
I vote for the screen. Reason follows ....The vent on the gas /electric heater (which is under the house) exits thru an upper pvc pipe sticking out of a panel thats between piers . House is 4 ft off the ground. Several years ago a mouse somehow got in there and got whacked by the squirrel cage blower. The smell lasted and lasted. I found his dehydrated corpse when we got a new unit put in years later. I made a shop fan out of the blower after I used pliers to remove his last revenge. We now have a piece of hardware cloth/screen clamped on all exterior vent pipes. Rats also chewed on all of the telephone wires under there. I had to clean all of that up and will tell that tell in another post in the future.
edit: We have also had birds build nests in anything resembling an opening.
edit: We have also had birds build nests in anything resembling an opening.
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I took a piece of 1/4" hardware cloth and bent it to fit around the intake tube. I think secured it with heavy duty zip ties. While it is real easy to check for an obstruction, it only took a few minutes and might save the life of a field mouse some day. Congratulations on the new rig. Hope you will be real happy with it.
That’s why there’s TWO filters inside the canister.... a primary and a secondary. A hardware-cloth screen on the entry of the rubber duct will become totally blocked by a rag, piece of board, or any other large inflexible object. A mouse might get in there...but if he does he won’t get past the primary nor will he be large enough to block air flow.
Kubota diesels do not have olfactory-glands and do not object to the smell of dead mice.
Kubota diesels do not have olfactory-glands and do not object to the smell of dead mice.
My concern is not a mouse blocking the air intake if they build a mouse nest inside the air intake.I think that would create problems.