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

Skip Cleveland skipcleveland at bellsouth.net
Tue Dec 25 12:53:42 PST 2007




A guy here says it will work. Look part way down. I put carbon monoxide and 
powder post beetles in Google.
Skip
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/maintenance/Stopping-Powder-Post-Beetles-145371-.htm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: [AT] Amost off topic carbon monoxide and insects and bugs?


>    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...   ;-)
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no 
> path
> and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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