[AT] Amost off topic carbon monoxide and insects and bugs?

[Francis Robinson]

    I know some of you are pretty knowledgeable about such things. I have a 
couple of minor problems in a couple of buildings with critters. Mostly 
excess spiders and some powder post beetles. Also one building with some 
rats. I know that many have used a vac hose hooked to an exhaust on things 
like ground hog holes for a long time. My thoughts were about closing up a 
building and running a tractor with a measured amount of fuel in it to 
fumigate the building. A mag tractor could run out of gas without then 
draining the battery. What I was wondering was if there is any residue from 
the exhaust that would be any particular concern? CO is colorless, tasteless 
and odorless but does it leave a residue or does anything else in the 
exhaust. Thinking mostly about something that would cause extra rusting. I 
have read that CO does have a fuel value but I have never heard of CO from 
an internal combustion engine exploding or even flaming from sparks or heat.
    As far as the spiders I never bother them outside and will go out of my 
way to not kill them but in the wood shop in particular they and I are at 
war...   :-)   I could of course "bomb" the buildings but most of those 
bombs and many sprays simply do nothing to arachnids...

    Maybe with a little luck we can drag this out for a week like the 
grounds thread...   ;-)



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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net