hey again everybody Eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing well from
Chile Show Low Arizona we haven't even begun winter yet and already the wind chill factor
here is uh is brutal uh last night it got down to 23 was the lowest uh when I woke up about 8
A.M to make coffee I did still have running water inside the RV however how much of that
can it take it wasn't it wasn't a deep freeze it was definitely very very cold last night and I
think I'm I'm lucky I think I was lucky this time uh the lowest I've ever gone is 22 in in Miranda
it's also very very windy still I'm like hugging the side of my RV just to keep from feeling the
full force of of the wind uh today's video we got to talk about something else that is a very
common problem out here in the Arizona desert and that is rodents we're gonna talk rodents
thanks for joining me guys I will be uploading this video with some
Nomad internet link below in the video description
um this is a topic that oftentimes on my channel I have purposely not talked about
um because it's not really controversy it's just some people don't like the way you treat rodents
um I'm more of a I love all animals but there are some pests out there that don't serve any
other purpose except to destroy your property and uh as you've probably noticed uh in Arizona a lot
of people pop open the hood of their vehicles in fact Kevin has over here I'm sure you've seen this
from uh plenty of other RVs the hood open uh some lights probably shining at night some some solar
lights on the ground that shine up uh because it's said that uh mice and rodents and rats they
they only like dark cold places so if you give it lots of light and air they might not go in
there Kevin's also got this stuff anti-rat Pro so he'll spray that on on the wires now I'll just let
you know I have had lots of friends have damage to their vehicles most of the time it's when they're
not using those vehicles but they can get into your car they can get into your RV they can get
into your buildings and they can chew wires and nest and they'll just stay happy all winter in
the warmth of your property and you don't want to have problems with them chewing on the wires under
your hood and I especially do not want them in the shed getting into all of my collectibles and stuff
in there so I have never never had a problem with mice chewing on any of the the wires of any of my
vehicles or RVs in my entire life which is strange because so many of my friends have however this
RV moves every single day and the engine starts up and you go down the road uh when you sit like this
that's when the mice may come over and find a nice place to live and for the whole winter inside your
RV so I have two ways I'm going to try to keep mice away while I'm gone and while I'm driving
one of them is something that I have used in the past that has worked really well so we'll start
with that one it's uh it's a mouse trap believe it or not um it is the absolute best mouse trap ever
invented in my opinion it is the only thing that worked when I got back to my house in Carbondale
after being gone six months this was full with 19 mice or rats or whatever you want to call
it this is made by Ryan traps and I'm going to put a link below in the video description
although I purchased this with my own money it it works and it's an American-made company
it consists of this plate that goes on top of any five gallon bucket and a little swivel thing
there inside we've also got the little ladder let me pull that out uh you have some options
um you could just leave nothing in there and you could just every day open this up take it
out take it out to the field and let them play in somebody else's yard or if you really have a pest
problem if they're getting into your chicken coop um if they're chewing wires and you're done with
them you can add a little bit of water to this and once they fall in there they won't be able
to swim so they'll go to mousy Heaven yeah oh boy all right so you put the little ramp guy on there
like that and then up in here you smear a little bit of peanut butter and some bird seed or peanuts
or something on the top of this yellow part what happens is little mouses go what's up here what's
up here they get on this little platform right here and everything's fine oh hey let's smoke
peanut butter let's go over here as soon as they get past this point that's why they call
this the let me see flip and slide Ryan traps flip and slide they plop in there I'll uh show
you a video on YouTube oh it's windy I'm losing everything here I'll show you a video on YouTube
foreign
let me tell you guys it works it's not a gimmick it flat out works and it works better
than anything I've ever tried for keeping mice away so I liked it so much that I went back on
Amazon and I bought a two pack and got two more so I'm gonna have one in the trailer I'm gonna have
one in that trailer over there for the motorcycle I'm also going to put one in my storage unit here
in Show Low and you know no matter how I think about it I don't know how they're going to be
able to get in because well actually if you look I do see some light right there interesting yeah
so in the meantime I'm going to set it up right here with the little ramp right there near that
wall right there and hopefully when we come back we'll be disposing of some uh now see mouses and
it'll keep all of my stuff in here safe all right like I say there's no guesswork to that
um I know that those work and I pretty much know that all of my stuff here in Arizona is going to
be okay while we get on the road but what about the RV and the car why am I try something new
that's why I'm letting you know I'm gonna update you about this later on but I am going to try
something new that I've not seen anybody talk about or review I went on Amazon after watching a
YouTube video I watched a YouTube video or someone said they installed these and never had any mice I
don't know about the effectiveness but I bought a two pack of this ultrasonic rodent repellent
for automobiles it's a 12 volt I guess it emits a light and an audible sound under your hood
that mice don't like rats don't like so rodents will come into your engine bay here
this one sounds like a gimmick however the beautiful thing about Amazon is that you can
leave reviews and you can hear from people who say these stupid things work okay I'll try it oh look
at my two kitties in the window there's Tara and there's Opie in the Christmas tree don't you bite
my tree Opie you you leave my tree alone Opie and we pop the hood Opie hit the button's back there
we pop it thank you all right so there's the device in my hand so you can see how big it is
it comes with all the wiring and some zip ties to attach it all you need to power this on is
12 volt so if there's positive there's negative I just gotta splice into those and then find a nice
place to zip tie it too like maybe right there and then the other only other thing is to consider is
that you will obviously have a power drop on this it's I don't think it's going to be that much uh
but if you are going to store your RV for for six months out here in the desert and not touch it and
this is going to be on uh I still believe you'd probably have a dead battery so combined with this
you might also need something like one of those trickle charger solar panels you could hook that
up at the same exact time time with positive and negative there and then your solar panel can go in
in the dash of the RV and then it'll just kind of maintain the battery while you're gone as well but
um I'm definitely going to be giving an update about this it's just this is a hard
one to compare to anything because again I don't pop my hood up I don't put lights on
it I just I just drive and I'm going south this winter anyway I'm not going to be here now next
summer when I'm here in the RV possibly might not be moving as much we'll be able to tell if
this is doing a difference Uh Kevin camper van Kevin also raised another concern and that was
with that frequency that it's letting out that that keeps mice away
is that going to bother the kitties is that going to bother the puppies
how far does it really go and all those kinds of questions and it is something I'm
concerned about so I'm going to get this installed and then I'm gonna see how the
kitties are doing I'm gonna make sure and if it if I will update you in in a few days if
this is not working or if it's too much for the kitties and they seem stressed out or something
um but I did search and it says that it's safe for pets it says it that I don't know
for sure all right it's installed it's zip tied it's plugged in I don't hear anything
I guess that's the whole point it's a frequency that humans aren't supposed to hear
and then go grab Opie all right I know it's windy do you hear anything
your ears aren't twitching are you okay yeah do you hear something
no you can't explore I'm gonna hold you it's right there you don't hear it
he seems okay let me know what you guys think in the uh video comments
below let me know if you think it's bad for pets he doesn't seem to be bothered
let me know do you think we even need that I think we'll be okay he's a good boy he's a good
boy Doterra Tara let's see what else we got going on oh uh I mean uh it's it's a slight upgrade okay
I I probably would have been just fine for the rest of my life there with that 19 inch TV but
you know I had two of these from the shop two of these 32 inchers and so uh I I swapped out
the 19 inch for the 32 and it's secured there on the back really really well I just got to
find a place to put the other security monitor at least it's not another 65 incher that takes
up the whole window right this way I I still have access to the outside I haven't blocked anything
um it also will not affect my my driving because in the driver's seat I can easily just look out
that side the problem that I had with Miranda was that I blocked basically this window here
which made it really hard to see that blind spot and that was not a good thing here in Frida if I
wanted to I could put a 65 incher back back here and then when I sit down I just don't need it
so I'm not going to do it Opie why is the RV so messy yeah it's your fault Dad it's totally your
fault man it is that's my fault I need to get on top of it so uh I'm happy with that I think
32 inch from at least from this seat is is really practical and comfortable and uh yeah I'm digging
it I had also had two basically really really hot summers back to back uh although it wasn't quite
as humid where I was at here this time um I'm really enjoying the cold right now I don't want
it to last much longer but but for right now this is it's actually a really nice reset here
to have some very cold weather where I get to enjoy my hoodies and my long jeans you know
yeah this was a Carolyn's spot she just left yesterday I tell you what I have not seen a
harder working woman than she had worked here while she was enjoying this spot look at this
incredible walkway she built out here in the desert digging up old rocks and putting in these
flat ones and then putting little rocks in between them and a wall and a little walkway to her RV
the cold uh chased her out so she didn't quite finish but I believe she's going to come back next
summer and work on it as well it's just really cool what what she did here with her spot she also
put together this part over here you know that that was an old Rat Pack area that had
a bunch of mice and stuff in there and now there's a nice little bed of roses we're uh
we're on we're on day three here trying to catch a kitty we uh the gang and I we had we had heard and
seen a black cat around here that was crying sounded like they were lost and hungry and
that had happened three nights in a row and then we all went out to raise barbecue the
other night and there was a sign on the front door lost cat a picture of a black cat and I
went uh I think I need to call this lady and see how close she is she's about seven minutes away
she brought the Trap herself she came out with the flashlight one night and tried to find the
kitty we couldn't we couldn't locate the kitty and uh doesn't seem like he or she is hungry
don't know where that kitty's at I haven't I haven't heard the meowing in a little while
kind of sad but Kevin says that we've got like like a mountain lion or cougar out here
so he had some on one of his videos there's some pretty big paw prints right in here so that's
why he's got a trail cam there he's got lots of cameras on the property but specifically trying
to catch that mountain lion large large Kitty with with that camera right there we'll see but yeah oh
sunshine that feels good oh uh yeah I'm gonna get back to projects guys I'm gonna take tomorrow off
I will see you in two days so y'all be well uh Tara and Opie and I will see you soon bye