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Help! A vixen ate my test leads.

Chris Pearson

A bit of light relief for you, if not me.

So, whilst making progress towards being PV ready, I was checking the PSCC and PEFC i.a.w. 643.7.3.201 (and Ze) at the origin. Whilst I was exposing the innards of DB1, which is in a corner of the garage, my MFT was sitting on a pile of logs nearby. I popped indoors to get a tool and found the young vixen looking not in the slightest bit guilty.

I can cope with the foxes using the lawn as a latrine. I can just about cope with them (and worse, badgers) digging holes in it. Worse still is digging up spuds. What takes the biscuit is eating my MFT leads! Rage

  • Sorry, but that did make me laugh Chris Joy Hope you weren't too attached to them/have some spares.

  • in reply to Elizabeth Morgan

    I think the bigger issue might be that, if I have my information correct, this type of test lead is discontinued, so it's a complete set at between £40 and £70 depending on where you get it from. And the pain of having to stop the job and nip out to the wholesalers unless you have a spare set knocking around.

    New individual lead + probe+croc clip of this type are going for about £40 on a certain online auction site. Used ones much cheaper, but of course you don't know how good those would be actually in use day-to-day.

  • She obviously has a taste for greens.

    I feel your irritation, having recently had a similar problem with our pet rabbits, who my wife lets onto the back lawn to cut it, who will both strip mains lead to the copper in one bite, and have front teeth that can penetrate the orange rubber style of propane hose leaving slow leak damage that is not immediately obvious . My son and I fell foul of this recently when a gas powered 5KVA genset we were working on got left out when the rabbits were released.  This made the next running-up to set up the voltage regulator far more exciting than it should have been !
    For now the mains lead has a soldered and heatshrink joint and the gas hose sports some strategic wraps of self amalgamating, but both of those ' running repairs ' will need to get sorted properly before we declare it "ready" to take back to the scout HQ. 

    M

  • in reply to gkenyon

    Spot on. I rang Megger this morning, but individual leads are not available.

    The annoyance is ending up with a second set of probes and clips. In the end, the cheapest option (by a small margin) was fused leads, which are available without the bits and bobs.

  • From the title I thought you were talking about Jenny Ryan

    www.jennyvixenryan.com/about

  • in reply to Sergio Fernandez

      If that were the case:

  • You have the probe end, and a few bits of lead, but no plug. I suggest you check each and every fox poo on the lawn/fox latrine for it.

    A few wagos and it could be as good as new Slight smile

  • in reply to OlympusMons

    Stuck out tongue closed eyes

  • So you could say its got you completley foxed boom boom, alright il get my coat

  • in reply to Kelly Marie Angel

    Well now, the problem is that "The Police" were patrolling elsewhere.

    This morning there was a dreadful racket of magpies. It turned out that two of them were chasing away the vixen. :-)

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