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How to effectively get rid of a hornet's nest with a flamethrower

Kal'Stang

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In many places no license is needed to have or use one of these..... just saying. ;)
 
Yup, the XM-42 Flame Thrower. Legal in 49 states and can be yours for only $699.

It is funny how cold steel and FIRE, send most valiant hearts running for the hills.

I prefer my Dragon's Breath shotgun shells that send a flame out the barrel of my shotgun for about 30 feet.

They are more controllable.
 
Chomsky said:
Somehow that doesn't look so good for the tree ...
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the first blast would do it-those hornets not fried would be dead from the superheated air (most of the Japanese killed by US flamethrower teams were not burned alive-rather their lungs were seared from the superheated air)

the rest was just a waste of fuel and hard on a tree
 
TurtleDude said:
the first blast would do it-those hornets not fried would be dead from the superheated air (most of the Japanese killed by US flamethrower teams were not burned alive-rather their lungs were seared from the superheated air)

the rest was just a waste of fuel and hard on a tree
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I had a feeling this thread would draw you out ...
 
Will be interesting to see if trump offers to pay for the wall
 
Shifting and slightly rotating vertical videos are even worse than normal vertical videos.
 
Chomsky said:
I had a feeling this thread would draw you out ...
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nothing much going on tonight-all the matches in the US open are over.
 
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Chomsky said:
- I am a homeowner.

- I recently had landscaping done.

- I see a large house on a large well-landscaped lot.

- The height of the trees indicates they are relatively young & newly planted.

- I know what my new trees just cost me

So, the cheap homeowner in me laments the damage done!

;)
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we used to use bottle rockets. it would take several shots to get the right timing on the length of the fuse before we'd get one to blow up right in the middle of the nest which would usually ignite it and fry most of the hornets not killed by the boom. one time we ran out of bottle rockets so (I could drive at the time) went down to the hardware store and the guy sold me a bottle of this stuff called Chlordane (now banned) now it was supposed to be mixed something like one to four with water but me and my brother figured WTF-we put it straight in the sprayer and pumped that sucker up to max and directed about a thirty foot stream into the next. It was awesome. the suckers didn't even buzz. It was at a nest in a well garden in our home. years later when the home was being inspected for termites, the inspector was wondering why there wasn't any sign of them in that area and I told him we had annihilated a hornets nest with straight chlordane. and he started laughing saying that stuff was toxic for decades!.
 
What a dick.
 
TurtleDude said:
you a tree hugger or a bug advocate? :mrgreen:
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No, but torching a tree with a flame thrower in a residential neighborhood is hardly the responsible thing to do. It is the redneck idiot thing to do.
 
Kal'Stang said:


In many places no license is needed to have or use one of these..... just saying. ;)
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From personal experience, flame throwers are not the best way to get rid of hornets nests.
 
Kal'Stang said:
:shrug: Trees are a renewable resource. ;)
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So are hornets.

Depending on the type, they will likely rebuild at or near where they were burned out.

I have covered myself in bee keeper's wear, and trimmed off the branch holding the nest, put in a plastic bag, filled it with hair spray and threw it on a fire. Boom.

Two weeks later they were back.
 
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