Haven’t used the gas blower yet this year, been using the electric one. This one had been left in the shed and I brought it into the garage to see if it would start up but wasn’t planning on getting to it for a day or two. Someone (not me!) left gas in it.

Well. I’m minding my own business putting up some shelves in the garage and I start hearing a noise. I’ve had issues with wildlife getting trapped in the garage when I close it for the night a couple times recently, so I start moving and tapping on things and muttering to myself about no nature being allowed in the garage without prior permission. Finally I figure out the sound is coming from the leaf blower, and also that it smells a little like mammal excrement.

Set it in the driveway for a little while and lo and behold a lil field mouse popped out of it. Wasn’t fast enough to get a pic of the perpetrator. It has subsequently gone back in when I wasn’t looking!

I’m taking a poll. Do I:

  • put it straight back in the shed and ignore it for another year
  • post it for free on Craigslist without backstory
  • tear it down, clean it up, put it back into service
  • just fire it up and let ‘er rip (I wouldn’t)
  • leave it in the driveway for a few days and see if the problem conveniently solves itself

My fellow dull dudes, what do?

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    5 days ago

    I vote you forget about it for another year since you have another leaf blower.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        A less dull but still pretty dull would be to get a no kill trap and put it squarely at the end of the blower in the garage on the floor.

        Something like: https://a.co/d/01IjNrTD

        I have one in the garage for the same reason. Of course my wife makes me drive down the road to a cow pasture to let him go. She figures he’d just get right back in the garage again. She’s likely right.