Random Thought Thread

Southern Appalachia said:
Yeah you need to be judicious with it, can easily get rid of stuff you want. I’ve painted 3” poison vines with a brush on thick poison.
It does the job.
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I guess by limitedly I meant painted on using a cup and a foam brush rather than doing a foliar or trunk spray...I soaked each end and hit each one at least twice. Trying my best to minimize collateral plant/tree death.
 
gunslinger387 said:
I put about 45 seconds of Oxy Acetylene into a gopher hole, stepped back and tossed over a lit rag. You could see 50+ feet of tunnel lift up and collapse. Problem solved. I’m pretty sure it would work on wasps as well.

PSA- Don’t apply near gas lines.
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*FWOOOOMP*🤣
 
Burke said:
Speaking of yard work I got not so lucky this week. I had a bunch of poison ivy to get rid of. Last time I tried to pull it out and ended up getting it all around my wrists even though I wore gloves. So this time I bundled up in long sleeves and pants and weed whacked it. Then I went inside and thoroughly washed my face (which was the only exposed body part) with like four different scrubs. So none on my face…but somehow it must have gotten into my socks and up my pants and up my sleeves because my feet and calves and forearms are covered in itchy little blotches.
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BTW, it's hot, but potentially worth using disposable painter's or chemsuit coveralls.

Be careful to avoid cross contamination while removing the gloves and coveralls.
 
I worked landscaping/lawn care during my teens. I don’t get poison ivy. So I was the poison ivy guy. Of course, the other guys in the truck with me still ended up getting it.
I’ll probably be getting a ton of PM’s requesting help with poison ivy - which will be upsetting after having received zero PM’s for my squatch gimp services despite the glowing review and advertisement from Marc.
 
Cap’n Smudge said:
I worked landscaping/lawn care during my teens. I don’t get poison ivy. So I was the poison ivy guy. Of course, the other guys in the truck with me still ended up getting it.
I’ll probably be getting a ton of PM’s requesting help with poison ivy - which will be upsetting after having received zero PM’s for my squatch gimp services despite the glowing review and advertisement from Marc.
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so.... tell me more about ''squatch gimp'' life?
 
bluemax_1 said:
Got amazingly lucky today.

Just got done mowing the lawn, then used the leaf blower to blow the grass n stuff off the mower. As I'm walking back to the garage, is when I finally notice the friggin ground wasp/yellowjacket nest 😬

Friggin 1" hole with these assholes flying in and out. I ran the mower over that hole several times, and then was using the leaf blower to blow the grass off the mower, maybe 6-7' away. Somehow, didn't get attacked or stung. 😮

I think I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket to see if my lucky streak continues 😁

P.S.
Just because I got lucky, doesn't mean I'm not going to go scorched earth once it's dark, and turn their little hidey hole into a Winter Wonderland with a mix of Sevin and Tempo dust.
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I remember as a kid watching my dad pour about a gallon of gasoline down those holes. He would make a little path of gas leading to the hole and light with a match.
So cool! Works like a charm on those little f-ers.
 
JACKMANDU said:
I remember as a kid watching my dad pour about a gallon of gasoline down those holes. He would make a little path of gas leading to the hole and light with a match.
So cool! Works like a charm on those little f-ers.
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Watched my dad use gasoline to light a brush pile in the evening, when I was a kid.

The lighter he was using didn't light the first dozen flicks. Anyone who's used gasoline, probably knows that the gas fumes creep.

When he finally got the (whatever it was) lit and threw it on the brush pile to light it, there was an impressive WHOOMP, and the circle of flame ~5" off the ground, reached out to a radius of about 12' - 15' 😮

I was about 20' away, my dad (in shorts and sandals) was about 8' away. Boy, did he jump! 🤣

No burns, but it singed the hair off the lower part of his legs 😁
 
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