Test (was Re: [AT] Some ads from the 10/7 Lancaster Farming

Ralph Goff alfg at sasktel.net
Wed Oct 11 08:22:08 PDT 2006


Lyle Myles wrote:
> Guys some of your ideas seem very dangerous to me and on the farm I'll tell
> you what we did and no one ever got hurt. We used a big shop vac and put a
> hose extension on it. We would stand back and push the hose as close as we
> could get to the nest and we always used two hundred feet of extension cord
> on the shop vac, and then we would turn on the on switch and go to the
> electric plug in and plug her in and let the vac just suck up the yellow
> jackets. Once we were sure that there were no more jackets flying around one
> person would go to the end of the hose and wait for the vac to be shut off
> and then cap it and then slowly shoot wasp spray down the tube and wait a
> few hours and the problem is gone. 

Thats a good method Lyle. I've used it myself a few times.

Ralph in Sask.





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