Cut down this past weekend....
Some years ago Dad discovered one not quite that big between the legs of a sawhorse that his posthole auger was sitting on. He needed to use the auger, so we had to deal with the nest. I went for it at a dead run and splashed a quart oil can full of gasoline/motor oil mix on it, and Dad followed up with a burning rag wrapped around a rock. Then we both ran like the dickens. The hornets came boiling out and came at us, trailing smoke like shot-up Japanese Zeros. They would get about ten yards or so before their wings burned off and they would fall to the ground. Some of them still tried to crawl to us and we had to stomp them.
The posthole digger got scorched a bit, but we didn't get stung. I lost all desire to fool with hornet nests after that.
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Jimmy P.,
2014-01-28, 06:54
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- Good material for muzzleloading shotguns -
Otony,
2014-01-28, 07:14
- Good information, thanks. - Rob Leahy, 2014-01-28, 09:53
- That is a nice one. NM - TomC, 2014-01-28, 08:00
- Gives me the willies just looking at it. - Andrew, 2014-01-28, 08:50
- Winged Minions Of Mephistopheles! - MR, 2014-01-28, 09:12
- Wow, Jimmy....that's an impressive beard, too! -
Caz,
2014-01-28, 09:21
- Wow, Jimmy....that's an impressive beard, too! -
Rob Leahy,
2014-01-28, 10:45
- Don't bring it in the nice warm house!!! - woody, 2014-01-28, 14:28
- Wow, Jimmy....that's an impressive beard, too! -
Rob Leahy,
2014-01-28, 10:45
- Cut down this past weekend.... - Remington40x, 2014-01-28, 14:41
- 11° outside and dropping. Now is the time to cut - Hobie, 2014-01-28, 18:33
- Cut down this past weekend.... - Catoosa, 2014-01-29, 10:47
- Cut down this past weekend.... -
TomM,
2014-01-30, 10:13
- Tom, This was at my brother's place.... - Jimmy P., 2014-01-30, 12:15
- Good material for muzzleloading shotguns -
Otony,
2014-01-28, 07:14