High up wasp nest

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

In my tractor shed way up high is a huge wasp nest.
Awesome. My wife is allergic and we want to move the
machines out and load it up with hay, hand stacked squares.
So we need this gone. Any ideas? I clubbed it off last night
with a 16' 2x4 and the fuggers have it half back already. Now
it's even worse because its a an inverted bowl they are
working on so it's a black moving mess that I can't get too
near. Hay is cut.

jon f mn · Jul 20, 2013

Couple of tractors running inside with the doors shut for 1/2 day. Hornet spray may shoot that far too and if you hit the nest the poison will kill them all when they come back to the nest later.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

Wasp and hornet spray. Even sprayed with sevin they don't come back.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

Somebody asked about funny things happen in family, well my grandmother tied paper on her broom lit it on fire to get a wasp nest off her front porch, the fire dept. saved the house but the wasps were gone. Hope you are smarter than my family. We now use a spray can that will shoot 20ft.

Abbeyfield · Jul 20, 2013

Get a can of wasp spray. It will spray 20 feet

oldtanker · Jul 20, 2013

Yep get the spray. Not only will it shoot 20 feet it kills them almost instantly if you his the bugger directly with the spray. It's kinda like shoot down aircraft! I'd get a couple of cans. One or 2 for the nest shooter and another for your backup. The backup is there to get the ones that may come after you.

Rick

notjustair · Jul 20, 2013

If you are worried about being in there while dealing with them have a can of brake cleaner in your hand. That drops them immediately.

onefarmer · Jul 20, 2013

One more post suggesting 20 foot spray. But hit it at night when they are all home for best results.

smallercrawler · Jul 20, 2013

Shoot from inside a vehicle with one open window, if possible. Will afford protection and safe retreat if you only upset them. Windows and doors closed, of course!

RodinNS · Jul 20, 2013

Spray the nest... at night. If it was out in the open somewhere that it could be burned... that's even better... but not in a barn.
For the most part they'll be in the nest at night so by the time you get in there and saturate it with spray... and they realise what's going on... they'll be dead. Then you pop it with the 2x4 and take it out and burn it.

Rod

rrlund · Jul 20, 2013

On Duck Dynasty they used a long tube on a shop vac. lol

george md · Jul 20, 2013

Brake-kleen works many times better than any

wasp and hornet spray. put the straw on the

nozzle and you have a small anti aircraft

gun.

george

Will Herring · Jul 20, 2013

I think last time I used like 2 cans of black flag wasp/hornet spray (the type that shoots like 20 feet). Sprayed it the first day with the whole first can. Repeated on the second day with the whole second can. Third day, went out and hit it with a 2x4 and it was empty.

WAYNE-N-TX · Jul 20, 2013

I saw a extending pole that you attach a can of spray just for places like that. It was at a Tractor supply or Atwood's. Built like those poles you trim small limbs with.

old · Jul 20, 2013

If you can get close enough to it at night a can of spray carb cleaner knocks them down super fast and is better at kill them then the wasp spray you buy and is also cheaper then the wasp spray. I had to use some yesterday when I went to move my WD45 and found a nest in the switch box of the tractor and if I get stung I go to the hospital also

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2013

I like to take my 22 lever action Henry rifle and shoot them as they come out of the nest, of course it can be bad for the roof if they are next to it.
I try to get them with a rickochet shot if possible.

Youst yoking, he he

redtom · Jul 20, 2013

Take a long stick, like a 2x2 and put a long barn door hinge on it with one end up loose. Duct tape your can of spray to the stick, fold the loose end of hinge over to press on nozzle. Tie string on hinge down to ground. Hold up to nest, pull down on string to spray.

Dan T in MO · Jul 20, 2013

Get you one of those pump up sprayers and fill it with gasoline. Pump it up and start spraying the nest. Once your aim is true, light the stream on fire with a match. Next day, every wasp in that barn will be dead and you can start building a new barn

Janicholson · Jul 20, 2013

Even the big bumbles die immediatly in a small cloud of brake clean. They breath it in and die. They will rain out of the nest and bounce on the floor. Jim

MKinON · Jul 20, 2013

Kill them in the eve with wasp spray, but if you leave the nest up, it will deter others from building one too close by, or so I've been told.

PJH · Jul 20, 2013

I accidentally bought a can of wasp spray that foams when you spray it. It worked nice when I sprayed it in the hole on a hornets nest in the eaves of my house. Foams up, fills the hole, and they have to crawl thru the foam to get out.

Mark6005 · Jul 20, 2013

Find an old 2.5 gallon water fire extinguisher they shoot about 45 feet been using them to knock down nest for years

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2013

I put on rain gear over my cloths and a balaclavas with ski googles. A scarf over neck. I did buy a can of spray. Took my ladder and climbed right to it and goosed it wet close range. That process worked well I had no issues in the swarm. Then while kitted up like that I smacked it down with 2 by 4 and sprayed the mounting site wet. Hope that does it for our use tomorrow.

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