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Sun, 11 August 2013 22:53  |
Robin Hood
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I got out to the storage place early. The plan was to put the plastic
sheeting over the frame I constructed around the Barn Queen and fumigate
the wasps.
The thin plastic sheeting was absolutely unmanageable in even the slightest
breeze. Furthermore, even a tiny piece of duct date located at various
places on the frame would likely snag the plastic and cause trouble.
It was 93 degrees with a heat index of 100 degrees, and I was all by myself.
I fought the plastic, and gave up, and went to Harbor Fright for a big
tarp. 20x40 foot or close to it. It was on sale.
I struggled getting the tarp up onto the roof. My plan was to take the tarp
up there, And roll up half the tarp into one roll and the other half into
another roll. That way I could unroll the tarp and only have to go half
the distance, instead of having to drag the entire tarp over the entire
length of the couch.
It was far too hot. I wasn't wearing my wasp suit. I decided to try and
face my fear and just get the job done.
I don't remember very much after that.
Everything went to pieces.
A lot of what follows is reconstructed from the video.
I know that I was up on the roof fighting with the tarp that was rolled up
into a long noodle, and trying to get a handle on it while balancing on the
roof and trying to get to a place where I could get the tarp partially
unrolled so that I could pull it the rest of the way forward on the frame
perhaps from the ground.
I suppose it was just too much activity, what with the tarp flapping and
rubbing around on everything up there.
I told myself not to panic. A couple of times I told myself not to panic,
according to the video. It didn't do any good.
Wasps began to fly around me. I saw at least three. I was as far forward as
I could be, with no way down... with the entire roof structure and all of
its of them and other places that the wasps could've been between me and
the ladder.
I remember giving a strangled cry of fear. Hyperventilating. Ducking under
the tarp to get away from the wasps around me.
It was at that time that I ceased to be in any conscious control of this
particular fiasco. I screamed like a little girl and ran, screaming the
whole way to the ladder and down and over to my car.
I only had one shoe. I'd run right out of the left one, which was still on
the roof, possibly under the tarp.
I was ashamed. I'd lost all control... The only way it could have been
worse is if I had pissed or beshat myself, but I was spared at least that
indignity.
My wife is still out of town, so I called my older sister. It turns out she
was on the road to visit our uncle who just lost his brother. I asked her
if she would stop by on her way home from there and that I was going to be
at our mothers house. Mom is also out of town, but her house is located
close to the storage unit.
"I haven't lost my brother, so I'm coming to check on you. Go to mom's
house. I'm just a few minutes away."
I drove to moms and raided her fridge. Diet be damned, I was going to drink
a Coca-Cola. I sat there and tried to calm my protoplasm. Older sister
arrived shortly.
She threw some ice packs under my armpits, took my temp (99.7), pulse 95,
and bp was 164/97. She's a burn center ICU nurse.
I showed her the video. To her credit, she tried not to laugh.
"Your parasympathetic system is going crazy right now. You're overheated,
nearly tachycardic, and your lizard brain thinks you just fought off a
tiger."
After a while, the ice melted and the numbers all went back to where they
should be. I could SMELL myself. Apparently that whole "stink of fear"
thing actually exists. Hmm. And googling "stink of fear" pulls up "morbid
fear of stings: Cnidophobia." That's interesting. Learn something new every
day.
I rode with her to visit our uncle. I don't know how many times I'll see
him before he dies. We had a good visit. Lied about the reason for why
older sister was late getting there (told him I got bad overheated which
might even be true.)
After our visit, my older sister and I had some strip mall sushi. It was
adequate.
I'm done messing with this. I've done literally all I can do, and attempted
to exceed my capabilities. I really did try. But I'm calling an
exterminator who can tent the RV and fog it.
While we were waiting to see if I would stroke the hell out, I called
Terminex, who does my termite and pest control. "We don't work on things
with wheels," was their reply.
"Well, this is your lucky day! As it happens, my wheels are removed!"
He laughed. "Um... tell you what, let me talk to my supervisor." He
returned a minute or so later. They're going to forward my message to the
local branch and call me tomorrow. Maybe they can do it, or maybe they can
recommend somebody.
But I can tell you this much. I'm not going anywhere near that thing until
it's been gassed to high heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QXKvKd7J8
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Robin Hood
Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217930 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 00:26  |
jimtze
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Hello Robin
Wasp control.Check this out. We use these around our place. We live in a dry, warm area of the Pacific North West and use these. They should be available in your area, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. Read the info It may help.
Jim Bratvold
Victoria, BC
76 Eleganza ll
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217946 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 07:20 |
kerry pinkerton
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Spiders are my phobia. I don't like wasps but I'm not afraid of them. Had two nests under the hoods of the GMC, one on each side. Carb cleaner with a spray straw works just like the wasp spray. They just drop and twitch a few times. There were a few strays that buzzed around but as soon as they lit, I'd hit them with the spray (or my hat).
Wasps go pretty quiet at night. If you can get to the nests at night, they will be on the nest with their wings folded and easy targets. Be sure to pull the nest out as the larva in the nest will soon emerge.
If the pest control guys won't do it, you might see if a bee keeper would do something with his bee suit on.
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217950 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 08:04 |
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USAussie
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Robin,
As noted you "exceeded your capabilities." I reckon you should be happy you didn't wind up in a heap next to the GMC after falling
off the damn roof! It's only nine feet but since you're 6 ft tall and if you landed head first that would have given you one hell of
a headache or WORSE!
BTW do you know why you are so afraid of wasps?
Regards,
Rob M.
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From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org [mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Robin Hood
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 10:53 PM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod
I got out to the storage place early. The plan was to put the plastic
sheeting over the frame I constructed around the Barn Queen and fumigate
the wasps.
The thin plastic sheeting was absolutely unmanageable in even the slightest
breeze. Furthermore, even a tiny piece of duct date located at various
places on the frame would likely snag the plastic and cause trouble.
It was 93 degrees with a heat index of 100 degrees, and I was all by myself.
I fought the plastic, and gave up, and went to Harbor Fright for a big
tarp. 20x40 foot or close to it. It was on sale.
I struggled getting the tarp up onto the roof. My plan was to take the tarp
up there, And roll up half the tarp into one roll and the other half into
another roll. That way I could unroll the tarp and only have to go half
the distance, instead of having to drag the entire tarp over the entire
length of the couch.
It was far too hot. I wasn't wearing my wasp suit. I decided to try and
face my fear and just get the job done.
I don't remember very much after that.
Everything went to pieces.
A lot of what follows is reconstructed from the video.
I know that I was up on the roof fighting with the tarp that was rolled up
into a long noodle, and trying to get a handle on it while balancing on the
roof and trying to get to a place where I could get the tarp partially
unrolled so that I could pull it the rest of the way forward on the frame
perhaps from the ground.
I suppose it was just too much activity, what with the tarp flapping and
rubbing around on everything up there.
I told myself not to panic. A couple of times I told myself not to panic,
according to the video. It didn't do any good.
Wasps began to fly around me. I saw at least three. I was as far forward as
I could be, with no way down... with the entire roof structure and all of
its of them and other places that the wasps could've been between me and
the ladder.
I remember giving a strangled cry of fear. Hyperventilating. Ducking under
the tarp to get away from the wasps around me.
It was at that time that I ceased to be in any conscious control of this
particular fiasco. I screamed like a little girl and ran, screaming the
whole way to the ladder and down and over to my car.
I only had one shoe. I'd run right out of the left one, which was still on
the roof, possibly under the tarp.
I was ashamed. I'd lost all control... The only way it could have been
worse is if I had pissed or beshat myself, but I was spared at least that
indignity.
My wife is still out of town, so I called my older sister. It turns out she
was on the road to visit our uncle who just lost his brother. I asked her
if she would stop by on her way home from there and that I was going to be
at our mothers house. Mom is also out of town, but her house is located
close to the storage unit.
"I haven't lost my brother, so I'm coming to check on you. Go to mom's
house. I'm just a few minutes away."
I drove to moms and raided her fridge. Diet be damned, I was going to drink
a Coca-Cola. I sat there and tried to calm my protoplasm. Older sister
arrived shortly.
She threw some ice packs under my armpits, took my temp (99.7), pulse 95,
and bp was 164/97. She's a burn center ICU nurse.
I showed her the video. To her credit, she tried not to laugh.
"Your parasympathetic system is going crazy right now. You're overheated,
nearly tachycardic, and your lizard brain thinks you just fought off a
tiger."
After a while, the ice melted and the numbers all went back to where they
should be. I could SMELL myself. Apparently that whole "stink of fear"
thing actually exists. Hmm. And googling "stink of fear" pulls up "morbid
fear of stings: Cnidophobia." That's interesting. Learn something new every
day.
I rode with her to visit our uncle. I don't know how many times I'll see
him before he dies. We had a good visit. Lied about the reason for why
older sister was late getting there (told him I got bad overheated which
might even be true.)
After our visit, my older sister and I had some strip mall sushi. It was
adequate.
I'm done messing with this. I've done literally all I can do, and attempted
to exceed my capabilities. I really did try. But I'm calling an
exterminator who can tent the RV and fog it.
While we were waiting to see if I would stroke the hell out, I called
Terminex, who does my termite and pest control. "We don't work on things
with wheels," was their reply.
"Well, this is your lucky day! As it happens, my wheels are removed!"
He laughed. "Um... tell you what, let me talk to my supervisor." He
returned a minute or so later. They're going to forward my message to the
local branch and call me tomorrow. Maybe they can do it, or maybe they can
recommend somebody.
But I can tell you this much. I'm not going anywhere near that thing until
it's been gassed to high heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QXKvKd7J8
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Robin Hood
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217955 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 08:33 |
habbyguy
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I'm betting that the best thing that could happen to Robin is that he'd actually be stung by a wasp or two. Like many things, the fear of the event is a lot worse than the actual event.
My eldest granddaughter (9 years old) is terrified of honeybees. During her recent visit to AZ, she'd get would up over the possibility there was a bee in the area, and have to get out of the pool. She was really wound up by a bee that actually crashed into the pool - I scooped it out and handled it to show her there was nothing to worry about. That plan went a little sideways when the silly thing actually stung me (a non-crisis, since she wasn't around at the time and bee stings don't really bother me much).
But kudos to Robin for a valiant effort, and for the guts to share it with the world.
Mark Hickey
Mesa, AZ
1978 Royale Center Kitchen
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217958 is a reply to message #217951] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 08:39 |
Robin Hood
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It's gonna be YOUR job to sing me to sleep tonight, Stick! :)
Rob, Mom says that when I was still an infant in the crib that a red wasp
crawled onto me and I grabbed it and squeezed my hand around it and got
stung badly. I have no memory of such, and I'm skeptical that I would be
able to associate one thing with the other at such an early age. On the
other hand, maybe it's one of those weird baby things, like the way a child
can just soak up language; maybe I saw it and heard it and then felt it,
and all that got put together VERY early in my cognitive development as in
"DON"T EVER EVER EVER DO THIS AGAIN!" Other than the incident when I was an
infant, I've only ever been stung a couple of times. Once above the right
eye when watering the dogs in the back yard, minding my own business when i
was ten, a bumblebee i stepped on barefoot when I was four (THANKS, Mom,
for letting your four year old son run around the yard barefoot, good
going!), and one last time when I was maybe 12 and riding in the back of
Dad's pickup down the highway, something hit me in the crook of my elbow
and stung me.
Whatever it is, it goes deeper than any concious fear. Totally bypasses
reason an jangles my fight-or-flight response.
Going at night to get the nests I can see won't work. I'm not as afraid of
the nests that I can see. If I can see them, I can kill them directly and
with extreme prejudice. The problem is, what about all the nests in
the numerous nooks and crannies that I can't see? Behind the propane tank?
Up inside the fridge? Inside the furnace? Tucked under the firewall?
There's a zillion places they could have built a nest. It won't do me any
good to kill the three or four nests I can find if there's a ton more that
I don't know where they are, hence the plan to fog the whole thing.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Stick Miller <stickmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Kerry Pinkerton wrote on Mon, 12 August 2013 08:20
> > Wasps go pretty quiet at night. If you can get to the nests at night,
> they will be on the nest with their wings folded and easy targets. Be sure
> to pull the nest out as the larva in the nest will soon emerge.
>
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> Yep, Robin. I think Kerry's on to something here.:) Go over AT NIGHT! Make
> sure you don't take a flashlight. Seems to me if you wake them up they'll
> be extra grumpy...and let me know how pulling the nests out goes for you.
> Live dangerously. No gloves.
>
> Think about it. You'll have the drama of living your phobia PLUS it'll all
> take place in the dark.
>
> Hey, there's always the chance you could fall off the top of the coach,
> plunging into a wasp filled abyss with fists full of paper nests and larval
> wasp corpses to soften your fall.
>
> Other than that, it sounds like a great idea.
> --
> Stick Miller
> '78 Royale - she left me for another man
> '76 Eleganza
> Americus, Georgia
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Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217960 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 08:43 |
Kudzu
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I agree, scrap the frame and wrap with the tarp itself. Throw a few
bombs under the RV. I've found that bombs don't work as effectively as
you might wish. The long squirters are instant death and contaminate the
nest. I find the paper wasps to be almost harmless compared to the small
yellowjackets. I surprised a nest on Saturday and got a few stings on my
hand. It's still swollen. I yelled when they hit me and I ran to the
house (one sting signals all of them to start stinging). So, I shouldn't
laugh *too* much at your situation.
Dan in NC
1976 Eleganza II
On 8/11/2013 11:53 PM, Robin Hood wrote:
> I got out to the storage place early. The plan was to put the plastic
> sheeting over the frame I constructed around the Barn Queen and fumigate
> the wasps.
>
> The thin plastic sheeting was absolutely unmanageable in even the slightest
> breeze. Furthermore, even a tiny piece of duct date located at various
> places on the frame would likely snag the plastic and cause trouble.
>
> It was 93 degrees with a heat index of 100 degrees, and I was all by myself.
>
> I fought the plastic, and gave up, and went to Harbor Fright for a big
> tarp. 20x40 foot or close to it. It was on sale.
>
> I struggled getting the tarp up onto the roof. My plan was to take the tarp
> up there, And roll up half the tarp into one roll and the other half into
> another roll. That way I could unroll the tarp and only have to go half
> the distance, instead of having to drag the entire tarp over the entire
> length of the couch.
>
> It was far too hot. I wasn't wearing my wasp suit. I decided to try and
> face my fear and just get the job done.
>
> I don't remember very much after that.
>
> Everything went to pieces.
>
> A lot of what follows is reconstructed from the video.
>
> I know that I was up on the roof fighting with the tarp that was rolled up
> into a long noodle, and trying to get a handle on it while balancing on the
> roof and trying to get to a place where I could get the tarp partially
> unrolled so that I could pull it the rest of the way forward on the frame
> perhaps from the ground.
>
> I suppose it was just too much activity, what with the tarp flapping and
> rubbing around on everything up there.
>
> I told myself not to panic. A couple of times I told myself not to panic,
> according to the video. It didn't do any good.
>
> Wasps began to fly around me. I saw at least three. I was as far forward as
> I could be, with no way down... with the entire roof structure and all of
> its of them and other places that the wasps could've been between me and
> the ladder.
>
> I remember giving a strangled cry of fear. Hyperventilating. Ducking under
> the tarp to get away from the wasps around me.
>
> It was at that time that I ceased to be in any conscious control of this
> particular fiasco. I screamed like a little girl and ran, screaming the
> whole way to the ladder and down and over to my car.
>
> I only had one shoe. I'd run right out of the left one, which was still on
> the roof, possibly under the tarp.
>
> I was ashamed. I'd lost all control... The only way it could have been
> worse is if I had pissed or beshat myself, but I was spared at least that
> indignity.
>
> My wife is still out of town, so I called my older sister. It turns out she
> was on the road to visit our uncle who just lost his brother. I asked her
> if she would stop by on her way home from there and that I was going to be
> at our mothers house. Mom is also out of town, but her house is located
> close to the storage unit.
>
> "I haven't lost my brother, so I'm coming to check on you. Go to mom's
> house. I'm just a few minutes away."
>
> I drove to moms and raided her fridge. Diet be damned, I was going to drink
> a Coca-Cola. I sat there and tried to calm my protoplasm. Older sister
> arrived shortly.
>
> She threw some ice packs under my armpits, took my temp (99.7), pulse 95,
> and bp was 164/97. She's a burn center ICU nurse.
>
> I showed her the video. To her credit, she tried not to laugh.
>
> "Your parasympathetic system is going crazy right now. You're overheated,
> nearly tachycardic, and your lizard brain thinks you just fought off a
> tiger."
>
> After a while, the ice melted and the numbers all went back to where they
> should be. I could SMELL myself. Apparently that whole "stink of fear"
> thing actually exists. Hmm. And googling "stink of fear" pulls up "morbid
> fear of stings: Cnidophobia." That's interesting. Learn something new every
> day.
>
> I rode with her to visit our uncle. I don't know how many times I'll see
> him before he dies. We had a good visit. Lied about the reason for why
> older sister was late getting there (told him I got bad overheated which
> might even be true.)
>
> After our visit, my older sister and I had some strip mall sushi. It was
> adequate.
>
> I'm done messing with this. I've done literally all I can do, and attempted
> to exceed my capabilities. I really did try. But I'm calling an
> exterminator who can tent the RV and fog it.
>
> While we were waiting to see if I would stroke the hell out, I called
> Terminex, who does my termite and pest control. "We don't work on things
> with wheels," was their reply.
>
> "Well, this is your lucky day! As it happens, my wheels are removed!"
>
> He laughed. "Um... tell you what, let me talk to my supervisor." He
> returned a minute or so later. They're going to forward my message to the
> local branch and call me tomorrow. Maybe they can do it, or maybe they can
> recommend somebody.
>
> But I can tell you this much. I'm not going anywhere near that thing until
> it's been gassed to high heaven.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QXKvKd7J8
>
>
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217964 is a reply to message #217961] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 08:57 |
Robin Hood
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Daniel: "Uncle" John was Dad's college buddy back in the 60s. They met Mom
and her cousin Kathy at the Snack-A-Minute in Vicksburg and became a
four-celled organism. Uncle John was the one that got me into science
fiction (Dad was more of a Louis Lamour western guy). So technically,
"Aunt" Cathy is (I think) my second cousin, but she and Mom were raised
like sisters, as my Mom was the second youngest of 12... very poor rural
Mississippi family. Fun fact: Mom didn't have electricity or indoor
plumbing until she was 12 or so. and knows all sorts of stuff about raising
chickens and canning and growing a garden. So he's not literally my uncle,
but that's the best way to describe his role.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Daniel Jarvis <thejarvis@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, wouldn't your uncle's brother also be your uncle?
>
> Dan in NC
> 1976 Eleganza II
>
> On 8/11/2013 11:53 PM, Robin Hood wrote:
> > It turns out she was on the road to visit our uncle who just lost his
> brother.
>
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Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217965 is a reply to message #217958] |
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Robin,
The way our brains work is amazing, I agree it is quite possible that the baby incident is imprinted and having been reinforced by
the two follow on incidents your fear is not irrational at all.
I reckon you're on the right trail now, find someone to bomb the Barn Queen and that should resolve the issue.
One more suggestion, see if you can find a pouch to attach to your belt that you can carry a can of wasp spray in.
Regards,
Rob M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Hood
It's gonna be YOUR job to sing me to sleep tonight, Stick! :)
Rob, Mom says that when I was still an infant in the crib that a red wasp
crawled onto me and I grabbed it and squeezed my hand around it and got
stung badly. I have no memory of such, and I'm skeptical that I would be
able to associate one thing with the other at such an early age. On the
other hand, maybe it's one of those weird baby things, like the way a child
can just soak up language; maybe I saw it and heard it and then felt it,
and all that got put together VERY early in my cognitive development as in
"DON"T EVER EVER EVER DO THIS AGAIN!" Other than the incident when I was an
infant, I've only ever been stung a couple of times. Once above the right
eye when watering the dogs in the back yard, minding my own business when i
was ten, a bumblebee i stepped on barefoot when I was four (THANKS, Mom,
for letting your four year old son run around the yard barefoot, good
going!), and one last time when I was maybe 12 and riding in the back of
Dad's pickup down the highway, something hit me in the crook of my elbow
and stung me.
Whatever it is, it goes deeper than any concious fear. Totally bypasses
reason an jangles my fight-or-flight response.
Going at night to get the nests I can see won't work. I'm not as afraid of
the nests that I can see. If I can see them, I can kill them directly and
with extreme prejudice. The problem is, what about all the nests in
the numerous nooks and crannies that I can't see? Behind the propane tank?
Up inside the fridge? Inside the furnace? Tucked under the firewall?
There's a zillion places they could have built a nest. It won't do me any
good to kill the three or four nests I can find if there's a ton more that
I don't know where they are, hence the plan to fog the whole thing.
Robin
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217967 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 09:09 |
jhbridges
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Well, I wish you were a bitcloser to North Georgia, I'd swap you Wasp Warfare for bolting in my new used dinette. Both are straightforward 'grunt' work.
I sympathize, I'm acrophobia to the nines and to a degree claustrophobic. . You can't really describe that irrational fear, people who haven't experienced it have no frame of reference. As my psychologist daughter points out, even though the threat may not be particularly real, the fear is.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach
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On Mon, 8/12/13, Robin Hood <loxley@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm done messing with this. I've done literally all I can
do, and attempted
to exceed my capabilities. I really did try. But I'm calling
an
exterminator who can tent the RV and fog it.
While we were waiting to see if I would stroke the hell out,
I called
Terminex, who does my termite and pest control. "We don't
work on things
with wheels," was their reply.
"Well, this is your lucky day! As it happens, my wheels are
removed!"
He laughed. "Um... tell you what, let me talk to my
supervisor." He
returned a minute or so later. They're going to forward my
message to the
local branch and call me tomorrow. Maybe they can do it, or
maybe they can
recommend somebody.
But I can tell you this much. I'm not going anywhere near
that thing until
it's been gassed to high heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QXKvKd7J8
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Robin Hood
Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #217990 is a reply to message #217951] |
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Ooooh that's just creepy.
Here's an idea, Robin. Beat them with a Stick!
Larry Davick
On Aug 12, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Stick Miller <stickmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Kerry Pinkerton wrote on Mon, 12 August 2013 08:20
>> Wasps go pretty quiet at night. If you can get to the nests at night, they will be on the nest with their wings folded and easy targets. Be sure to pull the nest out as the larva in the nest will soon emerge.
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> Yep, Robin. I think Kerry's on to something here.:) Go over AT NIGHT! Make sure you don't take a flashlight. Seems to me if you wake them up they'll be extra grumpy...and let me know how pulling the nests out goes for you. Live dangerously. No gloves.
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> Think about it. You'll have the drama of living your phobia PLUS it'll all take place in the dark.
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> Hey, there's always the chance you could fall off the top of the coach, plunging into a wasp filled abyss with fists full of paper nests and larval wasp corpses to soften your fall.
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> Other than that, it sounds like a great idea.
> --
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> '78 Royale - she left me for another man
> '76 Eleganza
> Americus, Georgia
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #218016 is a reply to message #217990] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 14:15 |
Robin Hood
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I called Orkin (worse than useless... foreigner didn't even know what an RV
was, and was trying to sell me a service plan for my "mobile home" and
couldn't tell me what possible methods might be used to remove wasps...
probably some third world call center), Terminex hasn't returned my call,
Magnolia and Termapest haven't returned my calls, Redd Pest Contorl, on
the other hand, did. I sent him a link to the video.
Dude is very sympathetic. He doesn't do tenting, but he offered ot help me
get the RV covered up, and then use his big fogger on it. Another pair of
hands will probably work wonders.
He's meeting me at 8AM on Wednesday morning, which is my next day off from
work.
--
Robin Hood
Jackson, MS
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] Second Battle of the Roof Pod [message #218030 is a reply to message #217914] |
Mon, 12 August 2013 15:31 |
kerry pinkerton
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You might think about some of these:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Raid-3-Pack-Fumigator-1.05-oz/11045996
They leave no mess or powder but kill EVERY FREAKING THING! Open all the cabinets, doors, and drawers (Go at night so they don't swarm out). Fill the base with the specified amount of water, drop the canister in and leave. In about 45 seconds it will start to outgas. I use them in my shop when the spiders get too bad and find dead bugs for weeks.
It won't do anything about the ones under the hood or in the wheel wells but it will take care of any inside.
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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Go over AT NIGHT! Make sure you don't take a flashlight. Seems to me if you wake them up they'll be extra grumpy...and let me know how pulling the nests out goes for you. Live dangerously. No gloves.