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{tpc} said:
Champion makes a nice unit. Not necessarily the quietest depending on which one you get, but if you take care of them well, they run well. The inverter ones are definitely part of the quieter line.

We have a smaller one that isn’t an inverter but is a champion. I use it to run the travel trailer, on the occasions where we would have no power. It runs well enough to power the AC and tvs, and microwave if the AC isn’t running. Or the fireplace if the AC is off. Starts right up with like 1 or 2 pulls every time.
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I needed something with a 30 amp 240x outlet so I could run the well pump. It started on the 2nd pull pight out of the box so I'm happy about that.
 
cabaiguan juan said:
I got some wasp and hornet traps.
Go for it, evil little dude!
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We have a “dielectric” wasp spray. It drops them little assholes with wings right out of the air. And while it’s shocking them to death, they twitch around a bit before they die. Kinda makes me feel like I’ve exacted a little revenge!

disclaimer: I don’t really know if it actually shocks them to death, I’m just hoping so…
 
dawgie34203 said:
We have a “dielectric” wasp spray. It drops them little assholes with wings right out of the air. And while it’s shocking them to death, they twitch around a bit before they die. Kinda makes me feel like I’ve exacted a little revenge!

disclaimer: I don’t really know if it actually shocks them to death, I’m just hoping so…
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About 40 years ago I had a house on 5 acres with maybe 10 trees on it total Some paper wasps decided to make a home on a branch about 20' up and mostly hidden by some other branches. They did not like the lawn tractor at all. If you got anywhere near the tree at normal mowing speeds you could almost watch them swarm out of the nest like a cartoon, The only way to mow was to go as fast as possible starting about 100' before the tree to 150' after the tree. That was OK for a while but it didn't always work. So I stopped by the local old time hardware store where nothing had changed since the 40's and bought the last spray container that hooked up to a hose. It was full of purple-ish crystals and the only saftey warning was don't be down wind when spraying and to immediately wash when done. It might have been pure DDT left ovrt from the 60's for all I knew.

I had 159' of hose and borrow another 25 or 50' so I could reach the tree.. There was one spot 25-30' away where you could see just between the leaves and branches. That is where I would make my stand. So I get every thing ready, put the setting to stream and blast away. There was a delay of probably obly 5 seconds but it seemed like minutes before this brown cloud appeared at the edge of the leaves, I spun the control to the mist setting, waved it back and forth 2 or 3 time and then ran like hell getting stung half a dozen times in the process. A few hours later I veentured out of the house to see what the result was and you could see the brownish tint on the grass from all the dead wasps and there was a pile of them a few inches deep right under the nest. I don't know what that stuff was and never saw another water based wasp spray but it has to be illegal nowadays.
 
When I was a kid we had one of those metal swing sets with the plastic caps that disintegrate about a week after you put the set up. Unbeknownst to me, some bees set up a hive inside one of the open tubes.

When I'd mow, I'd have the mower right up against the swingset because we didn't have a weed whacker. As soon as the mower touched the set, I saw that same cloud emerge. I ran straight to the back door, opened it, and slammed it as fast as I could. Bees (or wasps, who knows) pelting the screen trying to get me.

My mower was a reclamation project my dad found and put back together. That's why it still self propelled when you let go of the bar. And now I see the mower is chugging along heading straight at my dad's garden. Belt or bee stings... Belt or bee stings...

I ran out the front door (since the bees were at the back door still) and got to the mower inches before it got the garden. Turned it off and ran back into the house.

I almost got the belt anyway when dad came home and saw there was a half mowed lawn. But once he saw the bees himself, I was OK.
 
tomthirtysix said:
When I was a kid we had one of those metal swing sets with the plastic caps that disintegrate about a week after you put the set up. Unbeknownst to me, some bees set up a hive inside one of the open tubes.

When I'd mow, I'd have the mower right up against the swingset because we didn't have a weed whacker. As soon as the mower touched the set, I saw that same cloud emerge. I ran straight to the back door, opened it, and slammed it as fast as I could. Bees (or wasps, who knows) pelting the screen trying to get me.

My mower was a reclamation project my dad found and put back together. That's why it still self propelled when you let go of the bar. And now I see the mower is chugging along heading straight at my dad's garden. Belt or bee stings... Belt or bee stings...

I ran out the front door (since the bees were at the back door still) and got to the mower inches before it got the garden. Turned it off and ran back into the house.

I almost got the belt anyway when dad came home and saw there was a half mowed lawn. But once he saw the bees himself, I was OK.
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My worst was when I was 6 we moved into a 3 story house. The thied florr was a 2 bedroom apartment where we lived and the other floors the owners lived. On the side of the driveway was a perfect climbing pine tree that I, of course, went up. I'm up high enough that I can look in the window of the apartment. While I'm shaking the branch and yelling so they could see me the wasps nest at the end of the branck I was standing on erupted. I was stung over 60 times before I made it back to the ground. Dad took me to the emergency room but since I wasn't allergic to the stings there really wasn't much they could do. I looked like the Michelin Man for about a week. Too bad it was the summer and I didn't miss any school.
 
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