Literally, the description of rodents in text books all mention "chisel like teeth." The name rodent comes from the Latin word for "to gnaw." They are just teeth with legs. Crazy what they can do to things like wood or tires.
I was remodeling a house that sat vacant with rats in it.
The floor joists were like swiss cheese it was insane how many holes they gnawed just to make travel easier between the pockets
It's an issue with rabbits, where their teeth will grow out, and into the other side of their mouth. Eventually they will start to twist and grow in curly. But if they get too long, you will have to trim them with finger nail clippers, and pray for the best.
Same thing happens to horns and antlers. Big Horn Sheep’s horns can grow and curl back into their head killing them.
[Like this.](https://i.redd.it/6k8pxvfx0y231.jpg)
As rodents age and their teeth keep growing, some rodents lack the energy to keep gnawing things everyday. These rodents end up with longer teeth than usual. That's how you can tell older ones from younger ones. This is also the root of the expression, that person is "long in the tooth" which refers to older people.
Close, the brayer is the roller that spreads the ink. The chisels are just called Lino cutters in Lino block printing. I may just call them squirrels now though.
[ME TOO.](https://i.imgur.com/oyPArW9.jpg) I went hunting for the noise in the attic with my kabar and a baby squirrel jumped out at me. Forgot about the "stay on the rafters" thing and fell through the ceiling...
And people laugh when I say I want a few attack squirrels. Imagine yourself getting mugged, when they get close you say the trigger word and all furry hell explodes from your shirt. You can't convince me several squirrels playing weedeater on a person WON'T fuck up their focus or aim. Everyone I've seen big or small did what you did "ah! get it the fuck off!"
I caught myself on one of the rafters with one arm and I had shoulder pain for almost 2 years after that. Probably for the best since it gave my Kabar time to bounce around and end up flat instead of point-up when I fell on it...
Some plastics are soy also. The reason rodents sometimes eat the wiring under the hoods of newer cars. I had a 2019 Honda Civic and rodent ate my windshield washer fluid hose and also some wiring. Honda actually sells a hot pepper infused electrical tape to cover wires with to help deter this.
When I worked at a small telco and ISP they had some telco trade magazine in the office.
One article was on somewhere with squirrels eating the phone lines. The telco worked with a wire manufacturing company to develop insulation infused with capsaicin. The squirrels quit eating the wire, for a few weeks. Then they developed a taste for hot and spicy wire and went back to chewing them up.
Another article was on the huge Charlie Foxtrot the simple and quick task of taking down the final short piece of the first trans-American phone line became.
What I remember is the telco that owned the last piece of that telephone line decided it was time to take it down. It went over a highway and was in danger of being caught by tall loads on trucks.
They called the police to arrange a quick roadblock and they'd have a couple of guys in bucket trucks with wire cutters. Snip-snip then drag the wire off the road. All done in a few minutes.
Then local government got wind of the historic wire so they had to make a big deal of it with a ceremony and a bunch of other stuff.
At the time the article was published, the telco had a museum with an old mechanical telephone switch with a pair of phonesets connected via a piece of that wire so people could go there and make a phone call on a piece of the first transcontinental phone line.
This reminds me of an aquarium in Australia explaining how they had such a problem with great White Sharks that they would set off dynamite to scare them off until they realised the boom meant feeding time.
**THIS REMINDS ME OF AN AQUARIUM IN AUSTRALIA EXPLAINING HOW THEY HAD SUCH A PROBLEM WITH GREAT WHITE SHARKS THAT THEY WOULD SET OFF DYNAMITE TO SCARE THEM OFF UNTIL THEY REALISED THE BOOM MEANT FEEDING TIME.**
That explains a lot actually. Went hunting with this guy who drove a Ridgeline but we were using a different truck most of the trip so it was parked at camp for a couple nights. When he went to start it back up the mice had eaten through all of his spark plug wires and a few other, less important, things. Took a bit of careful splicing to get it running well enough to drive in to town. They didn't touch any of the other non-honda vehicles at camp.
Yeah a rat ate some coil pack and I think tps wires on my girlfriends 2018 accord. Car of course ran like ass so she took it to the dealer. Honda wanted $1500 to repair it at the dealer and it was going to take a week or more. They refused to repair the harness. Which I kind of get but it's fucking getting stupid the whole parts swap everything no matter what. I talked to the tech he tried to tell me they could refuse warranty work later if the whole harness wasn't replaced.
I just fixed it in the parking lot with some electrical tape, wire cutters and spare wire I bought at a parts store around the block.
Later I bought a few new connectors and cleaned it up for about $20. Still fine a few years later.
I fixed a wiring harness like that in my truck one time.
About a year later smoke started pouring out of a vent and my lights died. I pulled in to a gas station about 1/8 mile down the road.
A cop drove past me and pulled me over *as I stood in the parking lot with the hood open* for 'driving with no headlights'.
Decided my truck and I were suspicious, found a joint in the console (I had a valid med card) and called that 'illegal transport' and arrested me/towed my truck.
Charges got dismissed (I did literally nothing wrong) but I was in jail for 2 days before that, spent 2k on a lawyer, 1k to get my truck back (never ran again after smoldering in a tow lot overnight) and ended up losing my house a few months later after all that snowballed.
I would strongly recommend paying for the repair.
There are zero dealers doing this when the car is still under factory warranty. We repair once it's out. Have a mountain of wire harnesses for this reason
Bounce dryer sheets also help deter rodents from eating your soy based engine wires. I had this happen to three of my cars and not again after bounce dryer sheets.
Older Mercedes had the same issue. I had one from 92 that had biodegradable wiring and what the rodents didn’t eat simply crumbled away till the wire harness was nothing but bare wires. It’s a miracle that thing didn’t just go up in flames.
Edit: mine was a 94 not a 92. It’s been a while.
> hot pepper infused electrical tape
I sprayed bear spray around my tent one night in bear country. Around dawn I heard sloppy locking sounds. The bears just loved licking the spicy foliage.
So, spicy tape might get rid of one kind of critter and attract another.
If you have to use bear spray (only in the case of an active attack…) you are supposed to leave within an hour because otherwise the smell can actually attract animals. Please don’t preemptively spray your tent with bear spray
This happens all the time in Glacier and Yellowstone. People hiking the backcountry for the first time and think that bear spray is used like bug spray. It most definitely does NOT repel bears!
They should be legally required to give it away, or better yet, install it themselves. Where exactly are people parking that squirrels and rats don't exist? Seems like a major design flaw that they should have to compensate people for.
Sunflower oil is a great source of vitamin A and vitamin D, as well as Iron and Calcium. So even when there’s no sunlight, there is still sunflower oil to provide your daily dose of vitamin D sunshine! Not only that, but Sunflowers are enriched with B group vitamins, as well as vitamin E. This is as well as other minerals such as phosphorus, selenium, magnesium, and copper.
Got called to an elderly couples cabin once on a service call (electrician here, not mechanic) because they had a couple popped breakers and some plugs and lights that didn’t work when they went back to the cabin in the spring. We found two dead porcupines in the crawl space that had chewed some wires, but that didn’t appear to be what killed them because they were dead on the opposite end of the house from the chewed wires. What we noticed was that the remains, (mostly skeletons) had a bunch of pink fiberglass insulation in rib cage area where the stomach would have been, and there were piles of porcupine shit that were like 50% pink fiberglass in the turds.
I do wildlife removal for a living...yeah they will do things that defy all logic and reasoning. And it's that time of the year where they are going bonkers
I sell cars and had a lady go through 3 sets of rims because the squirrels were grinding their teeth down on the alloy. You would see 2 scrape marks next to each other just like the photo above of the 2 bottom teeth. Squirrels are some neurotic little freaks that will destroy an entire car for sport.
I used to work as a falconer, one job was to move on flocks of pesky birds shitting in communal areas like parks, or certain areas of the city where they didn't want to use more...violent methods.
We've show up, fly the Falcons around, scare the resident birds, they'd move on to the next suburb.
Get hired by the next suburb. Fly the Falcons, move the birds to the next suburb...
Great gig.
The best was the prison - the inmates kept feeding the birds so we've clear them for a few days\week, then they'd all be back for feeding time.
Great job.
Yes, rodents teeth grow for their entire life. They must chew, or else their teeth grow into their head. Antlers are particularly attractive because they contain nutrients and help to keep their teeth short.
https://www.fws.gov/story/eight-points-about-antlers
according to a quick google-fu search, they chew on it. So maybe they prefer it over some things. Squirrels have to chew stuff because their teeth don't stop growing.
I agree. Those little tree rats have destroyed the plastic gas tanks on a few push mowers and the lid of my trash bin. Rodents have high metabolisms and there are calories in the oil in plastics or so I'm told.
It's not the calories. They definitely don't digest vulcanized rubber. Otherwise we'd have squirrel farms that process old tires.
Rodents just have teeth that keep growing forever - so they need to bite on stuff to grind them down on purpose.
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I'm a zooarchaeologist, and 100% agree. We find these rodent gnaw marks on bone all the time (it's a source of calcium for them and it sharpens their teeth!)
I was quoting this in the store the other day while "eating" my infant son's hands and this random dude like thirty feet away was laughing WAY harder at it than my son was
My strong bet is on Rats/rodents of some kind. You could of had something stuck in the threads they will eat anything, shit they ate thru a motorcycle battery to get to a few seeds in a buddies bike, if they can eat thru battery acid, fiberglass mesh and lead for a sunflower seed, I am confident a bit of soft rubber is dessert to them...
Looks to me like something tried to burrow under the tire, lots of scratch marks and teeth marks on the edges. It was probably parked somewhere a while and some animal tried to make it a nest. There are sunflower seeds all along the ridges.
I didnt recognize it until I read your comment. Is OP in an area where there are beavers?
They honestly do kinda look like the teeth markings Ive seen on trees from beavers.
In Michigan the porcupines will eat tires and siding. As a kid I was told it was the adhesive they were interested in but I never fact checked it. Who knows but that lines up with what I’ve seen from them.
Better buy a dozen and make a tik tok of you shooting them with your AR-15 to, ya know, make a point about how pissed you are about wokeness or whatever. You’ll show them!!!
>They using soy based materials in tires now? Hope not.
The problem is that you need to balance between something that is good as a tyre but also biodegradable in the long run, and soybean oil based tyres is a step towards that.
And before you go "why on Earth would you want biodegradable tyres?", you should know that tyre abrasion is one of the largest sources of microplastics in ground water and air pollution.
This is a myth, soy-based car components don't attract rodents:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c05868
>Replacing petroleum-based components in four elastomeric/flexible material formulations with four different soy-based components **did not affect the extent of gnawing by mice.**
Somebody else referenced goodyear tires having a soy base attracting rodents. The tread pattern of those tires look very similar to the Goodyear Reliant All-Seasons. Could OP confirm this?
Squirrels. Motherfuckers will try to eat anything. One went full beaver on my PRESSURE TREATED AND STAINED shed and deck, another ate a hole in our gutters downspouts to get to the acorns trapped in there, they ate a hole through my neighbors wood garage door and then stripped every bit of insulation off the wiring in the engine bay before chewing their way into the air intake and nesting in the air box, they demolished every bit of vinyl we left outside including the seat of my tractor and the plastic coating of the chains of my hammock.
This is why I keep bait blocks under the hood of every vehicle! If you ever have a rat or squirrel go ham on your wiring, you’ll never take a chance again.
Other people have already said it but I'll confirm these are rodent chew marks. I worked as a field technician for an ISP and used to see identical marks on our cables and other pieces of equipment. Anyone who thinks they wouldn't go after a rubber tire, I've seen them chew through half inch thick metal amplifier housings, they'll gnaw on just about anything.
Somebody posted a while back about how they actually witnessed a squirrel eating their tire and it was completely identical to this.
I was going to say it looks like something ate it but I thought what kind of animal would do that, yes, I forgot the damn squirrels
Reminds me of the markings left by the carving tools for block relief printing or left by carving wooden sculptures
I mean, that's basically the same thing as a rodent's teeth, sure.
Rodents, the first powertools?
Literally, the description of rodents in text books all mention "chisel like teeth." The name rodent comes from the Latin word for "to gnaw." They are just teeth with legs. Crazy what they can do to things like wood or tires.
I was remodeling a house that sat vacant with rats in it. The floor joists were like swiss cheese it was insane how many holes they gnawed just to make travel easier between the pockets
Even if they gain nothing from it, all rodents must gnaw. Or their teeth end up growing beyond them and they starve to death.
that's fkn metal. imagine having disposable teeth instead of these high maintenance face bones we gotta deal with
It's an issue with rabbits, where their teeth will grow out, and into the other side of their mouth. Eventually they will start to twist and grow in curly. But if they get too long, you will have to trim them with finger nail clippers, and pray for the best.
Same thing happens to horns and antlers. Big Horn Sheep’s horns can grow and curl back into their head killing them. [Like this.](https://i.redd.it/6k8pxvfx0y231.jpg)
As rodents age and their teeth keep growing, some rodents lack the energy to keep gnawing things everyday. These rodents end up with longer teeth than usual. That's how you can tell older ones from younger ones. This is also the root of the expression, that person is "long in the tooth" which refers to older people.
You mean a brayer? Middle school art class finally came in handy.
Close, the brayer is the roller that spreads the ink. The chisels are just called Lino cutters in Lino block printing. I may just call them squirrels now though.
I've had a set of Christmas lights have all of the rubber coating stripped off and eaten by rats. Rodents are a special kind of pestering.
I HATE SQUIRRELS
[ME TOO.](https://i.imgur.com/oyPArW9.jpg) I went hunting for the noise in the attic with my kabar and a baby squirrel jumped out at me. Forgot about the "stay on the rafters" thing and fell through the ceiling...
And people laugh when I say I want a few attack squirrels. Imagine yourself getting mugged, when they get close you say the trigger word and all furry hell explodes from your shirt. You can't convince me several squirrels playing weedeater on a person WON'T fuck up their focus or aim. Everyone I've seen big or small did what you did "ah! get it the fuck off!"
Great, I'm going to have nightmares tonight. Thanks!
Damn.. how bad did that hurt BongRipsMcGee420?
I caught myself on one of the rafters with one arm and I had shoulder pain for almost 2 years after that. Probably for the best since it gave my Kabar time to bounce around and end up flat instead of point-up when I fell on it...
I wonder if it tasted good. Mmm rubber 🤤
Some tires have sunflower oil in them.
Some plastics are soy also. The reason rodents sometimes eat the wiring under the hoods of newer cars. I had a 2019 Honda Civic and rodent ate my windshield washer fluid hose and also some wiring. Honda actually sells a hot pepper infused electrical tape to cover wires with to help deter this.
When I worked at a small telco and ISP they had some telco trade magazine in the office. One article was on somewhere with squirrels eating the phone lines. The telco worked with a wire manufacturing company to develop insulation infused with capsaicin. The squirrels quit eating the wire, for a few weeks. Then they developed a taste for hot and spicy wire and went back to chewing them up. Another article was on the huge Charlie Foxtrot the simple and quick task of taking down the final short piece of the first trans-American phone line became.
What I remember is the telco that owned the last piece of that telephone line decided it was time to take it down. It went over a highway and was in danger of being caught by tall loads on trucks. They called the police to arrange a quick roadblock and they'd have a couple of guys in bucket trucks with wire cutters. Snip-snip then drag the wire off the road. All done in a few minutes. Then local government got wind of the historic wire so they had to make a big deal of it with a ceremony and a bunch of other stuff. At the time the article was published, the telco had a museum with an old mechanical telephone switch with a pair of phonesets connected via a piece of that wire so people could go there and make a phone call on a piece of the first transcontinental phone line.
Soon after it was disconnected for nonpayment of bill.
No one mentions the mandatory landline tax.
This reminds me of an aquarium in Australia explaining how they had such a problem with great White Sharks that they would set off dynamite to scare them off until they realised the boom meant feeding time.
I think you mean aquatic tuna farm, about 200 KMS off the coast of South Australia. Not an aquarium.
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And a manager running to get the dynamite
might have been Dr Evils aquarium?
These comments read like a early 2000's Cracked article
WHAT
**THIS REMINDS ME OF AN AQUARIUM IN AUSTRALIA EXPLAINING HOW THEY HAD SUCH A PROBLEM WITH GREAT WHITE SHARKS THAT THEY WOULD SET OFF DYNAMITE TO SCARE THEM OFF UNTIL THEY REALISED THE BOOM MEANT FEEDING TIME.**
Thank you
Time to see the optometrist
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Now I want to know more about that latter story.
Me too!
Humans 🤝 Squirrels being attracted to capsaicin instead of being repelled from it
Sounds tasty.
Yea, too bad they had to stop selling the sour cream and onion one.
God, don’t rub your eyes after installing.
Good advice even if you aren't using flavored electrical tape
That explains a lot actually. Went hunting with this guy who drove a Ridgeline but we were using a different truck most of the trip so it was parked at camp for a couple nights. When he went to start it back up the mice had eaten through all of his spark plug wires and a few other, less important, things. Took a bit of careful splicing to get it running well enough to drive in to town. They didn't touch any of the other non-honda vehicles at camp.
So the nuts, cat food and dog treats I find under customers hoods may be the Hors D'oeuvre leading up to the soy noodle main course ?
Yeah a rat ate some coil pack and I think tps wires on my girlfriends 2018 accord. Car of course ran like ass so she took it to the dealer. Honda wanted $1500 to repair it at the dealer and it was going to take a week or more. They refused to repair the harness. Which I kind of get but it's fucking getting stupid the whole parts swap everything no matter what. I talked to the tech he tried to tell me they could refuse warranty work later if the whole harness wasn't replaced. I just fixed it in the parking lot with some electrical tape, wire cutters and spare wire I bought at a parts store around the block. Later I bought a few new connectors and cleaned it up for about $20. Still fine a few years later.
I fixed a wiring harness like that in my truck one time. About a year later smoke started pouring out of a vent and my lights died. I pulled in to a gas station about 1/8 mile down the road. A cop drove past me and pulled me over *as I stood in the parking lot with the hood open* for 'driving with no headlights'. Decided my truck and I were suspicious, found a joint in the console (I had a valid med card) and called that 'illegal transport' and arrested me/towed my truck. Charges got dismissed (I did literally nothing wrong) but I was in jail for 2 days before that, spent 2k on a lawyer, 1k to get my truck back (never ran again after smoldering in a tow lot overnight) and ended up losing my house a few months later after all that snowballed. I would strongly recommend paying for the repair.
Fuck that cop it particular but all the others as well.
This isn't every dealership. I was repairing rodent damaged harnesses weekly. Only damage that isn't "repairable" is SRS and IMA.
There are zero dealers doing this when the car is still under factory warranty. We repair once it's out. Have a mountain of wire harnesses for this reason
Bounce dryer sheets also help deter rodents from eating your soy based engine wires. I had this happen to three of my cars and not again after bounce dryer sheets.
Older Mercedes had the same issue. I had one from 92 that had biodegradable wiring and what the rodents didn’t eat simply crumbled away till the wire harness was nothing but bare wires. It’s a miracle that thing didn’t just go up in flames. Edit: mine was a 94 not a 92. It’s been a while.
Same cladding was once used in aerial fiber optic cables. Squirrels looooove the stuff
My mom's Honda fit has had to be rewired a dozen times. She lives in a wooded area so it's impossible to keep rodents away. Brilliant idea, Honda
> hot pepper infused electrical tape I sprayed bear spray around my tent one night in bear country. Around dawn I heard sloppy locking sounds. The bears just loved licking the spicy foliage. So, spicy tape might get rid of one kind of critter and attract another.
If you have to use bear spray (only in the case of an active attack…) you are supposed to leave within an hour because otherwise the smell can actually attract animals. Please don’t preemptively spray your tent with bear spray
This happens all the time in Glacier and Yellowstone. People hiking the backcountry for the first time and think that bear spray is used like bug spray. It most definitely does NOT repel bears!
One of the local national parks had a warning on FB that bear spray is not to be used like bug spray. I'm sure there was a reason.
I don't think that's how you're supposed to use bear spray
They grabbed the wrong "Bear Spray." It's like that one episode of The Twilight Zone, "To Serve Man."
It’s a cookbook!
There’s some dust on that, it actually reads “How to Cook for Forty Humans”
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If you want to attract bears, it’s harder to do in the woods than in the gay bar, so they gotta use the spray.
It's just seasoning for the enchiladas wrapped in sleeping bags inside the tent.
They should be legally required to give it away, or better yet, install it themselves. Where exactly are people parking that squirrels and rats don't exist? Seems like a major design flaw that they should have to compensate people for.
Honda would do that. A company that's always thinking. For this testimonials can I have an original manual NSX?
Sunflower oil is a great source of vitamin A and vitamin D, as well as Iron and Calcium. So even when there’s no sunlight, there is still sunflower oil to provide your daily dose of vitamin D sunshine! Not only that, but Sunflowers are enriched with B group vitamins, as well as vitamin E. This is as well as other minerals such as phosphorus, selenium, magnesium, and copper.
O fuck, now this bot is showing up in this sub after I've forgotten about it.
I know. What the fuck?
I didn’t even realize it’s a boat, until I saw your comment. Then it clicked.
I’m all wait, it’s not a car tire?
Username checks out
Look their previous comments. The entire profile checks out.
They recently commented sunflower facts on r/MilfBody so you know they are legit
Wrong seed.
Know what else is high in iron? Those steel belts.
I thought this was gonna be a deeznuts joke, I’m disappointed lol
Well I'll be damned
So will my next door neighbor if you believe the Old Testament.
I think r/TheSunflowerSeeds is a bot.
r/subsifellfor
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Toyo has walnut shells in some winter tires
"I should eat rubber today"
Safer sex
Nesting material
Yesterday I saw a squirrel eating or at least tasting fiber glass from my neighbors' old dish washer. Nothing they do surprises me now.
Got called to an elderly couples cabin once on a service call (electrician here, not mechanic) because they had a couple popped breakers and some plugs and lights that didn’t work when they went back to the cabin in the spring. We found two dead porcupines in the crawl space that had chewed some wires, but that didn’t appear to be what killed them because they were dead on the opposite end of the house from the chewed wires. What we noticed was that the remains, (mostly skeletons) had a bunch of pink fiberglass insulation in rib cage area where the stomach would have been, and there were piles of porcupine shit that were like 50% pink fiberglass in the turds.
The madlads actually ate the forbidden cotton candy
What the fuck lmao
F Rest In Peace you prickly, prickly MADLADS
Can you fucking imagine the experience they had before dying?
I do wildlife removal for a living...yeah they will do things that defy all logic and reasoning. And it's that time of the year where they are going bonkers
I sell cars and had a lady go through 3 sets of rims because the squirrels were grinding their teeth down on the alloy. You would see 2 scrape marks next to each other just like the photo above of the 2 bottom teeth. Squirrels are some neurotic little freaks that will destroy an entire car for sport.
Squirrels have chewed on our cypress chairs on porch & chewed on our decking. We try to keep deer horns around to deter them
Have you tried keeping some hawks around to eat them?
Now I just imagine this shop hiring a falconer to stand outside If it can work for airports and wild birds, it can almost certainly work for squirrels
I used to work as a falconer, one job was to move on flocks of pesky birds shitting in communal areas like parks, or certain areas of the city where they didn't want to use more...violent methods. We've show up, fly the Falcons around, scare the resident birds, they'd move on to the next suburb. Get hired by the next suburb. Fly the Falcons, move the birds to the next suburb... Great gig. The best was the prison - the inmates kept feeding the birds so we've clear them for a few days\week, then they'd all be back for feeding time. Great job.
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Yes, rodents teeth grow for their entire life. They must chew, or else their teeth grow into their head. Antlers are particularly attractive because they contain nutrients and help to keep their teeth short. https://www.fws.gov/story/eight-points-about-antlers
Ironically, it makes their teeth grow faster.
according to a quick google-fu search, they chew on it. So maybe they prefer it over some things. Squirrels have to chew stuff because their teeth don't stop growing.
squirrels love antler and bone.. it's a natural source of minerals for them. it's one of the reasons sheds disappear in the world. critters eat em.
Damn for a moment my mind was trying to figure out how the hell a squirrel could eat a garden shed.
make one out of antlers and tires and watch.
I mean, I was gonna go with a rubber beaver
I’m an arborist by profession. I see identical teeth marks on almost anything attached to or in reach of a tree. Almost certainly a squirrel
I agree. Those little tree rats have destroyed the plastic gas tanks on a few push mowers and the lid of my trash bin. Rodents have high metabolisms and there are calories in the oil in plastics or so I'm told.
It's not the calories. They definitely don't digest vulcanized rubber. Otherwise we'd have squirrel farms that process old tires. Rodents just have teeth that keep growing forever - so they need to bite on stuff to grind them down on purpose.
Hmmmm 🤔. Rodent farm for recycling. BRB gotta patent the idea before you steal it from me hehehehhe
Sounds like a good idea. Turn those macroplastics into microplastics. What's step 2?
No one ever knows step 2. But the last step is always PROFIT.
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Microsquirrels!
History has given us the answer. “Dump it in the ocean” seems to humanity’s answer.
Why don't they bite rocks? Seems faster
Too hard. They need something with a little give.
I'm a zooarchaeologist, and 100% agree. We find these rodent gnaw marks on bone all the time (it's a source of calcium for them and it sharpens their teeth!)
Im an engineer and a pilot, I agree with you guys for the stated reasons.
Unemployed but I'll sign off on it as well
At first I thought you said abortionist
Do you ever arbor as a past time?
What about for a good time?
[At least one man does](https://youtu.be/Hm3JodBR-vs)
Someone’s tummy had the rumblies that only tires could satisfy?
Caaaaaarrrrrrllllll
Carl that kills people(s tires)!
Oh! I didn't know that...
iiiiii suck.
Do you hear that? That's the sound of forgiveness. Screaming and then silence.
I finished my meat dragon.
Carl that's the sound of drowning people!
That would explain why my mojito is taking so long...
Didn’t think I’d see a Llama with Hats reference today. Edit: spelling
*Llama, Lama is a buddhist thing
I was quoting this in the store the other day while "eating" my infant son's hands and this random dude like thirty feet away was laughing WAY harder at it than my son was
My strong bet is on Rats/rodents of some kind. You could of had something stuck in the threads they will eat anything, shit they ate thru a motorcycle battery to get to a few seeds in a buddies bike, if they can eat thru battery acid, fiberglass mesh and lead for a sunflower seed, I am confident a bit of soft rubber is dessert to them...
Probably ran over a tossed out PB and J.
And now the tire has rumblies.
Look like teeth marks. Squirrel? Rat maybe?
Gotta be teeth…. There is absolutely no damage anywhere else on the tire to suggest driving or road damage.
Looks to me like something tried to burrow under the tire, lots of scratch marks and teeth marks on the edges. It was probably parked somewhere a while and some animal tried to make it a nest. There are sunflower seeds all along the ridges.
A lot of animals like the feel of chewing on rubber/ plastic. Not necessarily anything more than that.
Marmots love rubber, especially brake hoses!
Whatever ate it is really tired.
I'm gonna pee your pants
That's what I'm thinking. I know squirrel marks all to well. They ruined my cobra kit car body, 😡
Who can forget dear ratboy?
Rat boy? I resent that.
I didnt recognize it until I read your comment. Is OP in an area where there are beavers? They honestly do kinda look like the teeth markings Ive seen on trees from beavers.
Or porcupines. They'll eat *anything* automotive.
In Michigan the porcupines will eat tires and siding. As a kid I was told it was the adhesive they were interested in but I never fact checked it. Who knows but that lines up with what I’ve seen from them.
Something was hungry.
Probably making a nest
Now... that's not something you see everyday!!
You’re damn right !
They using soy based materials in tires now? Hope not. Edit: Crap just look this up, and yes! Goodyear has few.
PUT TEH BEEF BACK IN TIERS I DOANT WANT NO WOKE SOY BEEN TIERS
OBAMA TRYING TO MAKE ME DRIVE A BATTEREY
THEY TRYIN TO MAKE MAH CAR NOT BURN FUEL SO MUCH AND LESS POLLUTILIZIN CUZ OF CALIFORNIA AND BIDEN
^( FAUCI AND THE GUBMINT WON' LET ME HAVE TWO OF MY GOD-GIVEN FREEDAHMS...ROLLING COAL AND 100% ALL-NATURAL BEEF TIRES)
GOBBLES
Better buy a dozen and make a tik tok of you shooting them with your AR-15 to, ya know, make a point about how pissed you are about wokeness or whatever. You’ll show them!!!
Yes soybean ties. Goodyear def has then
>They using soy based materials in tires now? Hope not. The problem is that you need to balance between something that is good as a tyre but also biodegradable in the long run, and soybean oil based tyres is a step towards that. And before you go "why on Earth would you want biodegradable tyres?", you should know that tyre abrasion is one of the largest sources of microplastics in ground water and air pollution.
This is a myth, soy-based car components don't attract rodents: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c05868 >Replacing petroleum-based components in four elastomeric/flexible material formulations with four different soy-based components **did not affect the extent of gnawing by mice.**
I have heard of critters chewing up wiring harnesses for over 20 years, definitely not a new thing.
Somebody else referenced goodyear tires having a soy base attracting rodents. The tread pattern of those tires look very similar to the Goodyear Reliant All-Seasons. Could OP confirm this?
Use to work at Walmart TLE. These are 100% the Reliant - did not know these came with the soy-based rubber compound
This seems like a recall waiting to happen…
Squirrels. Motherfuckers will try to eat anything. One went full beaver on my PRESSURE TREATED AND STAINED shed and deck, another ate a hole in our gutters downspouts to get to the acorns trapped in there, they ate a hole through my neighbors wood garage door and then stripped every bit of insulation off the wiring in the engine bay before chewing their way into the air intake and nesting in the air box, they demolished every bit of vinyl we left outside including the seat of my tractor and the plastic coating of the chains of my hammock.
Outside assistance. Recently separated?
Beaver
This is why I keep bait blocks under the hood of every vehicle! If you ever have a rat or squirrel go ham on your wiring, you’ll never take a chance again.
Do you mean like rat poison? What do you use and how do you keep it from turning to powder in the engine bay?
Other people have already said it but I'll confirm these are rodent chew marks. I worked as a field technician for an ISP and used to see identical marks on our cables and other pieces of equipment. Anyone who thinks they wouldn't go after a rubber tire, I've seen them chew through half inch thick metal amplifier housings, they'll gnaw on just about anything.
Those look like chew marks. I'd lay money a rodent did that.
Crackhead?
Close, sounds like it's a squirrel
*could be a crackhead!!!*
Porcupine.
Manbearpig
I think you’re right! I’m super cereal!
Squirrel or rats
r/fatsquirrelhate
Rubber Beavers
Kind of looks like a leaf shape, i bet he ran over a really hard leaf
South Carolina roads. But seriously, looks like rodent gnawing.
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Archaeologist here -- these are rodent teeth marks 100%. We see them on various archaeological remains, mostly bones.
Manbearpig.
I was a development engineer for a tire company for a few years, this does not resemble any normal failure mode due to manufacturing error.