Daswulf Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 No one says scrap art has to be all metal. Have any Fastenal places around? They sometimes toss out metal buckets that bolts come in. Not to mention throwing out new bolts, nuts and stuff. Speaking of which, I havnt visited their dumpster in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Billy, I wish I were closer too. Like Nebraska close. NC is grinding on my nerves. Thomas, a roaring bonfire was my thought when I was considering using a galvanized garbage can but maybe the green/blue smoke and flames shooting about would be too much for the next door neighbors. They have kids..... Haven't checked the open flame ordinances yet either. Aric, thanks. I drive by one every day, apparentley with blinders on. A bucket would be great but so would replacing my nut/bolt supply. I took one 5 gal bucket of the most common with me. A plastic one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Hmm I suppose I could mail you a tractor to help remind you of home! or maybe you could go pick up a stihl BR800 magnum leaf blower and blow all the pine needles half a mile away from you an then plant your whole yard all in corn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Send a flat rate box of DUST; they just don't get dust on the east coast like we do out here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 I'll send you a box of mold right back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Lol, I could do that too Thomas! Lord knows we got plenty to spare! yuck! I don’t like mushrooms Scott! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I wonder if goatheads would grow in NC......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 I miss the old 9n. It tried to kill me a few times but it saved my bacon in the long run. You could say it paid all the taxes and insurance and more on the old place. Mold is a part of life here. I miss dry stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 No problem Scott. If its like the one by me remember that they are very random. Sometimes its a lot of plastic and cardboard from recieving inventory, then sometimes you might find hundreds of lbs of metal stuff. Always nice when it is in boxes or bags and you don't have to pick up a ton of loose bolts/nuts etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Thomas: No but theres every other aggravation on earth here. I just killed a stink bug the size of a silver dollar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I find a lot of "clean out the garage" stuff at the scrapyard; including other peoples collections of nuts and bolts that I tend to pick over for my collection that someday my kids or grandkids will probably take to the scrapyard... Nodebt I remember how surprised I was to find that prickly pear cactus grow on Sandy Hook the NJ sand spit that points out towards New York City. Found them the hard way of course... The natural channel leading to the NYC harbor goes a few hundred yards off the tip of Sandy Hook and so it's been fortified since pre revolutionary times, still has the remains of pre ACW, ACW, SAW, WWI, WWII, bunkers, fortifications and gun sites. My scout troop used to camp out and explore there back in the 1970's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Haha, those stink bugs just won't go away. Not as massive an infestation as they were but still annoying. I've come to the conclusion that they are interdimensional beings and can appear out of nowhere, disappear and reappear somewhere else. Few weeks ago one appeared on my back under my shirt. Messed it up when I itched my back then realized what it was. I absolutely hate their stink. Dawn dish soap and warm water kills em pretty quick, especially if they fall and you spray their belly. And they don't make a stink that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 I never saw a stink bug that big in my life. How big do they get? I will try soap next time I see one. I smashed that one and boy was that a mistake. TP, even the bushes here have thorns like cacti. I collect cacti.... In pots. People that live here are some tough hombre's and probably don't even know it. Nebraska was easy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Lol yeah we have prickly plants as well. "Jaggers" they can get thick if left unchecked and make impenetrable barriers. Only way to eradicate them is to dig in, start snipping and pull em out piece by piece. Easier when they don't surround your "stuff", just mow them over. I have some surrounding stuff that I have to deal with in the spring because I need that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 If you don’t mind messing with chemicals, then spray hyvar, it’s pretty wicked stuff, unlike round up, that stuff will kill off anything for a year before you need to re apply, Round up is a waste of time an money because it only kills what it lands on, then next week the weeds sprout right back up, but a word to the wise… anything that can sterilize the ground for a year isn’t anything to be taken lightly, you definitely need to read the MSDS and wear appropriate PPE, it will definitely keep a fence line cleaned out or anywhere else you wanna apply it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I try to steer clear of chemical pesticides or herbicides. Ill just fight the weeds naturally. Oh and meant to say, Ive never seen a stinkbug bigger than a dime or so. Must get bigger down there. Some other shieldbugs can get bigger. Well i did Make a stinkbug spade shovel size but that was scrapart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Are you talking about "Assassin Bug" you shared? I like looking back at the older projects posted on here. The bug I killed looked a bit like that only not so big. Any bug I kill that has a stench like that one did is a "Stink Bug". I will look into hyvar, I never heard of it. I used to be pretty selective about using sprays but around the edge of the property here I don't care. I may try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I did make a wheel bug/assassin bug, but I also made a stinkbug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Scott, We used that stuff years ago on a commercial chicken farm around the buildings and it works pretty good, but like I said it’s a little spooky that it kills everything for a year, Now days I just use weed eaters and I hire people to run them occasionally through the summer lol, that’s pretty cool Daswulf! here’s a male Eastern Hercules Beatle I found a year or two ago out front of the shop, I’ve seen them even bigger than this one before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Nice beetle. We dont have any like that here in western PA. At least that I've seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 They come out at night and are attracted to light just like a lot of other bugs, Last year I saw a massive wasp that sounded like a mini helicopter buzzing around the shop, it was as big as a small bird lol, I looked it up and I think it was a tarantula hawk, but I don’t know if I’m in the right region for them, and I couldn’t get a positive ID on him, so that’s just a guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I was sitting out on the porch one day having a smoke and a wasp was dragging a spider larger than itself towards me. I had taken a picture and video of it but can't seem to find it. I swear it had reddish brown wings like one of those but can't be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 We have both Tarantulas and Tarantula Hawks out here; it can be spooky to have a road "crawling" with the spiders during the mating season. (Of course the first time I saw a scorpion in the wild was in Tennessee, crawling on my sleeping bag about 6 inches from my face.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 15 minutes ago, Daswulf said: dragging a spider I see that a lot here during the summer, I’ve set an watched various species of wasps either dragging a spider to their nest and I’ve watched red wasps eat spiders, I have about 2 million estimated mud dubbers that call my shop home, and during the summer they stay pretty busy catching spiders for their nests, but they are clumsy flyers and occasionally they drop their stunned spiders around, I don’t know how many black widows I find because of that lol, the black an blue colored mud dubbers are the primary predators of black widows, and it’s funny how they hunt them, they locate a widows web and they crawl to the edge of it, then they reach out an purposely tap the web to make the black widow think it has prey, when she comes out for dinner and gets to close to the mud dubber it stuns her an pulls her off the web! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Sounds like I need some Mud Daubers, and some mud for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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