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[Sigarms]

This evening (dusk) I was going to pour maybe a quart or two of gasoline in it (and light it???).

I'm not that dumb of a guy, and I thought I took the proper precautions, but take it from a guy who spent over a week in the burn unit... ALWAYS use diesel when burning.

While in the burn unit, I read a book by the owner of Chic fil-A (who is a lot smarter than myself), and he used gas as well that put him in a burn unit.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I used a gallon of gas figuring if a quart was good a gallon was gooder. I'm betting they were dead within minutes but lit it anyway.
The next day I threw a shovelful of fresh horse biscuits down it then a scoop of red clay packing it in tight with the tractor.
They haven't been back.

 

[WinterDeere]

I've killed quite a few of these nests. Never took more than half a soup can full of gasoline. Again, the fumes do the work, it doesn't take much!

One nice thing about the soup can is that you can duct-tape it to the end of a pruner pole to do the work from 15 feet away, if the nest is active. But I usually just wait until after dusk, walk up with the soup can in my hand, quick dump it on the nest and run.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I'd rather burn diesel than gas, lasts longer. When I had a year of yellow jackets building ground nests near my home, burning wasn't an option. I'm now sold on a gallon of water with Dawn mixed in. Pour in hole after dusk, the Dawn stops their ability to breath. And it's non toxic to plants...

 

[masseyrider]

I was aboot 15 when Pa and I were pulling old peach trees.
Back then the trees grew much larger than the ones grown around here nowadays.
My job was to wrap the chain around the stump and he pulled with the tractor.
I didn't notice the yellow jackets until he gave one tree a tug.
They came boiling out. I managed to run and only got a few stings.
Pa didn't realize what had happened until they already got to him.
Stuck on a running tractor tied to a tree he couldn't just jump off and run.
He got it bad.
For a couple hours I tried to talk him into go to emergency but by then the swelling started to go down.
I went after dusk and sprayed the stump and area with a hand sprayer with about a gallon of gasoline.
Looked like an atom bomb going off, but no more yellow jackets.

 

[masseyrider]

I'm not that dumb of a guy, and I thought I took the proper precautions, but take it from a guy who spent over a week in the burn unit... ALWAYS use diesel when burning.

While in the burn unit, I read a book by the owner of Chic fil-A (who is a lot smarter than myself), and he used gas as well that put him in a burn unit.

I sprayed them with aboot a gallon but ran a thin trail about 50-60 feet to light it from.
The initial woof of flame surprised me with how strong it was but no personal damage.

 

[Dftodd]

I'm not that dumb of a guy, and I thought I took the proper precautions, but take it from a guy who spent over a week in the burn unit... ALWAYS use diesel when burning.

While in the burn unit, I read a book by the owner of Chic fil-A (who is a lot smarter than myself), and he used gas as well that put him in a burn unit.

I tried to convey similar advice about using diesel fuel to start fires instead of gasoline to my neighbor.

Every year for 10 years while we lived across the street from him. I even offered him my own diesel on a couple occasions

Every fall going into winter, wife and I would be watching TV and then all of a sudden we would hear a "whooommmp!!" followed by the pictures on our walls shaking.

I would just look at my wife and say "Merle must be burning leaves again"

Then I would go peak out across the road to see if he was thrashing around on the ground or not

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My grandfather next door had a 5 gallon metal pump sprayer he kept filled with gasoline back when it was 100% gasoline. He used it for bees and starting fires. It was like watching The Wizard of Oz. He would spray a wasp or hornet nest, never got stung.

 

[DarkBlack]

As someone who gets stung every year, since I can remember, and have been stung literally everywhere on my body except my eyeballs.. I just keep a stock of at least 1 can of Spectacide wasp spray on hand. I buy the 2 packs , that are about $3.50 a can. Cheaper on sale. Works overhead or on yellow jackets underground. Not much more expensive than gasoline, diesel,or dish soap , and a lot more convenient

 

[DarkBlack]

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