One Acorn Too Many

[hathathatkilenckilen]

It wasn't a woodpecker. It was Scrat.

[AweSomo84]

Do you hace cancer jet by all the waves?

[erod1944]

@AweSomo84 No, we've developed no cancer - Thanks for asking. We have however noticed that after 2 years of radiation, the woodpeckers can speak 5 languages and can tune up a Honda Civic.

[AweSomo84]

@erod1944 yeah thats real mature of you , just riducule . But oneday you will get it i dont hope so but if you do you will talk differently

[UPTHElRS]

I have the same problem with my cell phone... to many nuts.

[AweSomo84]

hey needs to be nuts to do this work

[mammacalo]

I love woodpeckers even more after watching this.

[parrotboy8]

This looks like something that squirrels would do.

[noneother]

hey can someone please send me the song at the end? it's nice

[erod1944]

That would be in Central California near Porterville in the foothills.

[adamharnett123]

What part of the USA is bear creek? love the vid the accorns look like they would never stop coming!

[mboughton1980]

Real question is, did you replace the radome or repair the hole?

[erod1944]

The Real Answer is, the chewed up radome is now hanging on a wall in one of our radio offices with a clock in the middle of it. I don't think they've replaced the cover yet but probably have it scheduled for replacement before winter. We always replace the covers because once they're ripped (or pecked) the wind just keeps working at it until the whole thing comes off usually ending up tangled with the feed horn and screwing up the path allighment.

[jekader]

внушает!

[homeslice1998]

That was really cool how they stored all those acorns in there.

[hdinfo1]

There's also "carpenter bee fade" that I've had to deal with.

[hyvahyva]

I was going to make a Russian Woodpecker pun, but that's a bit off topic...

Seriously, wow. Were they kinda nesting in there too? I've never seen woodpeckers cache stuff like that before. I have, however, seen and heard our pileated woodpeckers down here pound on inappropriate materials until they make a hole, including the fibreglass housings on street lamps.

[ka6pnl]

Great this is a real lesson. i wish I could use this in my communication class. Who knows what the failures will be.

[Drfong2112]

whoahahaha whoah ha ha ha its the Woody Wood Pecker show.

[0wonderboy]

lol they put them in there so the rf could cook it :D probly only cooked them tho.

[archaedemos]

hehe funny birds

[KimmyRose12]

Wow, is this real? I cank think of any other way for how all those acorns got there! Maby this was the work of several woodpeckers.

[Agentzero141970]

50 bucks say people thought wrong when they clicked on this link, they were leaning more to a political video. Oh how I love human thought.

[diamondforehead]

Peckerwoods?

[reject2007]

Aw Nuts!

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

I never knew I could share something in common with a woodpecker... But I don't eat McDonald's, I keep it at my front door as a lure for people, then shave them and eat their hair.

[terracottah]

would have liked to see you build the woodpecker a box, attach it below the antenna, and put all of his acorns inside.

[magick205]

Vegas Squirrel Says: JACKPOT! Sounds just like a slot machine paying off. About how long did it take to fill to the point of failure?

[erod1944]

That info is not known. What is known is that there were no failure reports on this 18 GHz system until a day before the video was made. Apparently each acorn contributes a finite db amount of attenuation and the Woodpecker exceeded his path fade margin.

[wine721]

I know waht you mean,,, I have seen it for my self!

[JWKessler]

I wonder what evidence they have that this was actually the wok of woodpeckers. It looks more like something squirrels or chipmunks would do. A neighbor near where I once worked was putting walnuts out for the squirrels and we would find them in the oddest places. I even found a walnut in my car's air cleaner housing.

[erod1944]

The evidence was; "A Woodpecker Visual Sighting".

[dragonatorul]

I didn't know woodpeckers were into maggot farming. Cool.

[IDrankYourMilkshake]

That woodpecker was set for life and you ruined it.

[TheGammaRayBurst]

Are you serious or being sarcastic

IDrankYourMilkshake?

[TheGammaRayBurst]

Can you see my sarcasm also?

:-D

[IDrankYourMilkshake]

sarcasm noted.

[mistaspot1]

Nature: 1

Machines: 0

[JJRocco]

I wonder if the acorns got cooked.

[youknuckle]

haha awesome

[soulsultan]

I'd be pissed, there would be some fried woodpeckers around that site if that happened to me....

[Binxalot]

Get enough woodpeckers and you could start a side business selling microwaved nuts.

[Princeaboo]

Wow interesting!

[zerotsm]

That's funny. I'm used to wasp nests taking out a C band dish, but that's the first time I've seen acorn fade!