Needed to use my taller step-ladder, the one I keep outside, and realized I may not be completely up to speed on all the safety rules. It looks like this: .
A closeup of the problematic area: .
Any advice?
October 15, 2017, 02:37 PM
Cliff
Looks like a nest with a about a million asshole wasps inside?
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October 15, 2017, 02:39 PM
229DAK
As they say on SigForum: "Kill it with Fire!"
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October 15, 2017, 02:44 PM
Airpusher
Home Depot has ladders. That one looks unsafe to me.
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October 15, 2017, 02:45 PM
sigcrazy7
Wait a few months and free up the ladder when it's 30 degrees outside. I'd buy a new ladder before I tackled that nest.
If it was in a bush, a 12ga with birdshot works great. That'd be hard on your fence.
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October 15, 2017, 02:45 PM
RobLew
Aluminum is fireproof. Flame On!!!
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October 15, 2017, 02:49 PM
RogueJSK
October 15, 2017, 02:52 PM
jerkyjer
Just start hitting it with wasp spray, let it soak in startdismantleing a little at a time, more spray-repeat.
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October 15, 2017, 02:54 PM
architect
I definitely considered the KIWF option.
The Aluminium ladder might resist the flame, but that is T-111 siding behind it. Might as well move to Santa Rosa!
I have about a month before the next hard freeze, the can lights in the ceiling are going to have to wait for their new bulbs.
October 15, 2017, 03:16 PM
HayesGreener
Wait till after dark and hose it down with a couple cans of that 21 foot wasp spray. Jeez, that's a dangerous nest
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October 15, 2017, 03:22 PM
alreadydead
Ladders are the most dangerous item in the shop...that one more so.
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October 15, 2017, 03:23 PM
kz1000
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October 15, 2017, 03:58 PM
PHPaul
Nuclear-capable orbiting spacecraft.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
October 15, 2017, 04:17 PM
RogueJSK
No, no, no... Flamethrowers are justified, but nukes will only result in a breed of Godzilla-sized wasps. And nobody wants that.
October 15, 2017, 04:34 PM
MikeinNC
I recently hit a nest if yellow jackets with 30% premerathin. They just wriggled to the ground and died painfully.
Go get some of that stuff!!!!
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October 15, 2017, 04:42 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
You might try this...just make sure your surviver knows how to post on the forum to let us know how it went ...
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October 15, 2017, 04:49 PM
darthfuster
quote:
Originally posted by Cliff: Looks like a nest with a about a million asshole wasps inside?
Lol
I've mentioned this before, but spray the nest with mineral spirits, lacquer thinner, starting fluid, gasoline, brake cleaner etc. These chemicals will kill them so fast theyare frozen in place.
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October 15, 2017, 04:54 PM
the_sandman_454
If that were mine, the nest would be doused inside and out with a high concentration of malathion or something equally as effective. At night, when they're all at home enjoying a relaxing night so you have a better shot at taking out the community of them.
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October 15, 2017, 05:36 PM
YooperSigs
Did they read the multiple warning labels before they put the ladder into use?
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October 15, 2017, 05:41 PM
darthfuster
Speaking of ladder safety, this one always cracks me up.
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