nice lady

[tony marks]

had a lady up the street from one of my accts.. seems she needed a little clean up..what she didnt tell me was the place was infested with fire ants..she had fire ant pesticide on her back porch..dang things felt like i was having acid poured on me..
pay backs gonna be sweet .. mabe a hornets nest thrown thru her window..
now how to i get the hornets nest in a plastic bag suitable for slinging.. without gettin stung myself

 

[dozerdan]

Tony
That's not a problem, hornets don't fly in the dark. Wait until dark, just slip the bag up over the nest and pinch it off at the top and tie the bag shut.
We used to do that all of the time with a paper bag. We then soaked the bag with gasoline and burnt the hornets.
How is the shoulder and the saw working out?
Later
Dan

 

[tony marks]

i am glad to report both saw an shoulder are doin good.. just got to be careful not to allow an recoil to kick back on me,, an in six months or so i anticipate
full recovery an strength..
the 026 is really the way i had hoped it would be.. im experimenting with narrow kerf bar and 95vp chain ,with it..
it allows even better use of the high rpm powerband..my problem now is most of my wood is hard cured oak 20 inches or more..so a test is really a test in stuff i really dont intend to use the 026 on any way..ive just started taking some saw work again .. so am looking forward to using it next week in wood it was meant to be used on.. thanks for askin. tony
ps the hornets are just a revenge fantasy,,i think..

 

[BigSawMan]

???? ants, I was chipping away at a 20' dead tree, topped with no limbs with my axe a week ago, and these little ants come out of it, so I say " nah, no problem, they will just leave the wood later", then I go farther in, and gobs of big black carpenter ants are pouring out of it, I was like " sh!t, theres gonna be ants all over me soon", so I found another tree to work on and left that one alone for the saw to get ahold of later.

You guys know of any way to make ants leave wood? I suspect just kill them.


Later, Neil

 

[Ryan Willock]

I went to move my 10 ton trailer two days ago to haul my dozer to a job and had a dozen hornets fly up my shirt. I got stung eight times before I got my shirt off

 

[Paul Downes]

A childhood friend of mine had a mean old lady neighbor who used to yell at us all the time for no good reason. We got into a habit of putting sparrows through the mail slot on her front door about once a year. You should have seen her running around the house with a broom up in the air trying to get them sparrows.

For hornets the best way I know to kill them is with a hand sprayer with about a 1/4 cup of liquid dish detergent to the half gallon. It kills them in less than 30 seconds and they don't fly well after the soap and water mixture hits them. It's a lot cheaper than hornet spray. Never got stung using it. Works on most bugs.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by Paul Downes
For hornets the best way I know to kill them is with a hand sprayer with about a 1/4 cup of liquid dish detergent to the half gallon. It kills them in less than 30 seconds and they don't fly well after the soap and water mixture hits them. It's a lot cheaper than hornet spray. Never got stung using it. Works on most bugs.

Ya, I couldn't believe how well that worked the first time I did it. All this time before, I was going out and buying the poison crap.

 

[glens]

Reminds me of an hilarious comic I saw several years ago.  I might could find a copy of the "Bizarro" comic to link to if I spent the time...

It had a kind of plain (but nice smile!) girl hopefully hanging on every word of a fortune teller.&nbsp; The lady was looking into her crystal ball and said (something like):<blockquote>I see a nice home with a white picket fence.&nbsp; There are kids playing in the yard.&nbsp; They have a cranky old spinster for a neighbor.&nbsp; You are that spinster.</blockquote>

 

[pbtree]

Dropped a pine once. Was stacking the logs in a nice pile like the owner asked. Apparently the vibrations annoyed some yellow jackets that had taken up residence in an old gopher hole or what not.

I looked bemused at the first 4 or 5 that landed on my shirt. I then noticed the swarm erupting from the hole. I then felt the pain...

I took off like a bolt of lightening, Running down the street yelling every epithet known to man, and some I made up as I went. Got stung multiple times before I was able to tear off enough of the clothing they had landed on, and brushed them out of my hair.

Revenge was a gallon of gas dumped down the hole at night, and a rock stuffed in to seal it up.
Alan