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  1. @Jethro – I was asking myself how they got that much gas into the bag without it melting already!

    Of course, there’s a good chance that photo is a setup, with the guy holding the nozzle over a bag of Gatorade.

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  2. Ummmm. I work on small engines in my doterage, I only purchase non-ethanol gasoline. It is not clear!
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  3. Rather than take the whole gallon to do a small formica job, I once, stupidly, poured some contact cement into a styrofoam cup. What a fucking mess I made!
    It eat through cup in a matter of minutes

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  4. I guess that would be gas bagging. But the visual doesn’t match what I imaged after reading the definition of gas bagging.

    I visualized someone like, say Jerry Nadler moving his lips, while expelling air & emitting an irritating sound, as one example among many possibilities. However, maybe the resulting effect will be about the same.

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  5. Gasoline is not clear and it takes on
    a different color with sunlight thru a blue
    translucent plastic bag.
    BTW= Gas will not melt the type of plastic that
    grocery bags are made of.

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  6. Odd and old pest tip you probably shouldn’t use:

    Gasoline will melt the wings on insects instantaneously.

    Huge wasp nest? Spray it with gas and watch `em drop immediately. Not dead, mind you. Just wingless and at your mercy.

    I do not advise this method, but if a cup of gasoline is the best you can come up with, you can do a lot of damage to wasp, bee, hornet, and bumble bee nests. Not damaging everything else around it is the next challenge, including yourself.

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  7. Dadof4, I discovered a bumble bee nest when I replaced the top of my ramp up to my shed several years ago. I was ready to bolt when I noticed that they were pretty docile and didn’t act aggressive at all. Don’t know if they were a different type of bumble bee, but I finished replacing the ramp top and they never bothered me.

    O/T, how is your ‘new’ church going?

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  8. Thanks, Claudia!

    My new church is going well. We had another baptism today. They’ve been live-streaming services lately.

    As for the bumble bees, there are many species and they don’t all act alike. Also, there are environmental factors to check when considering insect behavior. Low air temp or smoke from something can slow their roll.

    I’ve only been chased and stung by a BB once in my whole life, so I don’t really consider them aggressive, just something to avoid.

    I learned I was allergic to Bumble Bees then, so I know I’ve never been stung by one before or since. Yay on having antihistamines in the truck. My throat was closing up quickly.

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  9. @ Dadof4
    When I was a kid in SE Texas, the wasp nests were huge and they loved to make them under the eaves of our garage. My dad would tie a bunch of rags to the end of a long cane pole and soak them with gasoline and light it. He’d carefully approach the nest and hold the flaming ball of rags directly under the nest killing virtually all of the wasps immediately. It just takes a few seconds and no damage was done to the garage. Wasp nests just don’t get as big as they used to back then.

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  10. @ Hambone AUGUST 11, 2019 AT 3:55 PM

    Did that exact thing at 8-9 while living in 2 story apartments by the lake here.

    Used bamboo fishing poles at first. Underside of the second story wooden walkway on the outside of the building.

    Also when I learned the gas didn’t have to be lit.

    Fun times. I really shouldn’t be alive. Thank you God for watching over me, especially since I never deserved it.

    “Wasp nests just don’t get as big as they used to back then.”

    Purely depends on long between looking for them goes. Never look at the back of your house all spring and summer and they will get very big by the end of the warm season.

    Go out every month or two and it can’t get big ‘cuz you won’t let that happen. It’s why I have repeat customers on a schedule.

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  11. Dadof4, so glad you are doing well in your church. Been praying for you.

    I have never gotten a bee sting, so don’t know what would happen. I lived my teen years playing in the woods by the house I grew up in, so I must not ‘taste’ too good to them! Either that, or I’m just lucky I never made them mad.

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  12. I appreciate your prayers, Claudia!

    “I have never gotten a bee sting”

    Whoa! How blessed is THAT?!

    I thought God’s hand was on me, but maybe He was pushing once in a while! lol

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