Nuts in my air filter

Here’s an odd one...

Ive recently bought a Massey 35 3cyl and I thought I would take the air filter off for an inspection as I doubt it has been replaced for years. I was somewhat amused when I removed the oil bowl at the bottom and found it full up with hazelnuts and acorns. My theory is a squirrel climbed through the hole where a gauge is missing and along the breather before dropping its nuts into the filter :rolleyes:
anyone ever had this happen?
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Phil P

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I remember one of my collage lectures telling me about when he went to Africa to train the locals about servicing and maintaining their tractors. He said when they emptied the oil and dirty sand out the air cleaner they where then putting clean oil and clean sand back in because that’s what they had found. ?

Don’t forget to put some clean nuts in?
 
I remember one of my collage lectures telling me about when he went to Africa to train the locals about servicing and maintaining their tractors. He said when they emptied the oil and dirty sand out the air cleaner they where then putting clean oil and clean sand back in because that’s what they had found. ?

Don’t forget to put some clean nuts in?
Workshop manager at our old David Brown dealer got flown out to Kenya to an estate with about twenty DB tractors less than six months old with worn out engines. They'd been emptying the oil bath and filling with dry sand which was getting sucked straight through
 
My next door neighbor has a jcb516-40 mini telehandler which I swipe sometimes to put a bale out. It was down on power and missing out at high revs and the air filter light was coming on. Easy fix,I thought but the filter was spotless. After a lot of pulling bits off there was a birds nest in the air intake. It's used about every day so I can't see how there was time to build the nest
 

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