Bloody mice! They like chainsaw oil, apparently.

[David]

The Florabest chainsaw on a stick was stored outside under cover over winter.

Mice have climbed into the box and eaten the small bottle of chainsaw oil and also the plastic reservoir which feeds oil to the chain.

Searching for spares at the moment, but the trees are safe from that particular implement for the next few days.

I'm not sure that it would have been any safer in a garden shed with a locked door, mind. Little buggers can get in anywhere.

They also nibbled the shoulder pad on the shoulder strap but that is easily patched.

Cheers

Dave R

[Brian Gaff]

You would have thought it might have killed them. Brian

[David]

Probably eco friendly vegetable based.

[GB]

The oil sprays all over the place when the saw is running, and you're inhaling a fine mist, so it's tested against toxicity.

[GB]

Hopefully!!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Mine isn't at the moment, Sigh. Blocked oilway? f***ed oil pump? ...ANOTHER problem.

[Max Demian]

Oil is oil. Rape oil was originally developed to lubricate steam engines, before the Texas oil rush.

[The Natural Philosopher]

oil is not oil.

even gack in the 60s when I visited BP's reaserch facility there were over 300 different sorts of oil with contrasing properties on the market

[Rob Morley]

On mine the flexible tube from the pump to the bar was pinched in the casing /from new/. Bloody Screwfix cheap crap. Easy fix of course, not worth taking it back.

[Martin Brown]

It is the plastic that they enjoy nibbling.

They will fit through the tiniest of gaps. They nibble anything with the texture of cable insulation including the handle of one of my hand forks. The most annoying was when they nibbled a rubberised block that holds my best selection of hex socket screwdriver bits of all varieties.

Leave them some toxic bait in a mouse trap to nibble in your shed. They won't nibble too many more things after that.

In my greenhouse the datura seeds act as natural rodent bait.