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Hi all,

If I use mineral spirits to dissolve stubborn cosmoline, what do I do with the nasty liquid? Leave it somewhere to slowly dry up, soak in kitty litter, or something else?

Thanks!
Aaron

I usually take an old broomstick and stick it into a fire ant bed as far as it can go. Sometimes the 5.5’ isn’t enough. Wiggle it around a few times and then pull it out. Pour any of the nasty stuff in there and hope it kills the queen. Or take it to the local parts house in an oil container.

That might make my '65 C-10 smoke a little if I poured it in the gas tank.

Know anybody with a waste oil heater? They can toss it in with the waste oil. Do your own oil changes on the car/truck/SUV ? You can toss it in with that oil when you bring the old oil back to the auto part store. Let it sit in a jug, the crud will settle out to the bottom, reuse the clean portion next time you need to clean something.

Huh, didn't think about the waste separating out. Thanks!

I do the same thing I do with bad gasoline. I pour it into a metal container, set fire to it and it goes away. I have a dedicated cast iron pot for the act.

I like the letting the fire ants eat it. I hated the SOB's when I lived in TX, still have scars on my ankles from hitting a nest with the walk-behind mower. I used the landlord's rider after that. (I mowed for part of our rent.)

Get caught pouring waste oils on the ground here ( it could show up in our six times a year ground water runoff test) and massive fines and jail would be the result. Do not pollute the environment, there are poisons that can be used for insects that work better than oils, or just pour molten aluminum into the nest and sell the....sculpture.. on eBay to some Hollywood shitbag for fifty grand.

entropy wrote:I hated the SOB's when I lived in TX, still have scars on my ankles from hitting a nest with the walk-behind mower. I used the landlord's rider after that. (I mowed for part of our rent.)

Ouch. I imagine the mower sucked them all up and sprayed them against your legs. Sounds like a lot of fun. I get those nasty little buggers in Arizona too. They make big tall mounds of rocks. I used to drive the riding mower on top of the mound to sandblast the underside of the mower and clean off all the grass buildup.

entropy wrote:I like the letting the fire ants eat it. I hated the SOB's when I lived in TX, still have scars on my ankles from hitting a nest with the walk-behind mower. I used the landlord's rider after that. (I mowed for part of our rent.)

When I was a little shit and my dad was stationed at Tyndall AFB, Florida I drove my tricycle into a big ass fire ant hill, I also still have scars/pock marks on my legs from those little red bastards. To this day I hate them, we treat the yard almost weekly to keep them at bay.

Death to fire ants, kill em all..........

For fire ants I use boiling water. I love to hear the little bastards screaming. I don't go pouring gas on the ground, because my well is nearby.

entropy wrote:I like the letting the fire ants eat it. I hated the SOB's when I lived in TX, still have scars on my ankles from hitting a nest with the walk-behind mower. I used the landlord's rider after that. (I mowed for part of our rent.)

They're a fact of life here in Louisiana I just killed about 50 mounds on my property last week. Weather's getting warm so they're resurfacing everywhere. As suggested you can pour stuff in the mound and hope it kills the queen but they have more than one in most mounds. Nasty little buggers.

Dynamite?

My grandpa kept a garden sprayer and would fill it with some concoction of his. On the wand he had added about 4’ of stainless brakeline and would shove this down as far as he could get it. Then let them have it, whatever it was. I really don’t know what he used and it could’ve been agent orange for all I know. Or whatever that stuff was in the early ‘80s that killed anything that breathed.

In the early 80 and earlier, the big "killer" was chlordane. I still have 1/2 of a 1/2 gallon jug of that stuff. Takes 1 teaspoon for a gallon of water. Illegal now, but nothing can live through it ..... nothing. Problem is, it last for years and years. They used to use it for termites. I used it around the ground around my bee hives. Bees fly over it, but anything crawling below is dead.

dolk wrote:In the early 80 and earlier, the big "killer" was chlordane. I still have 1/2 of a 1/2 gallon jug of that stuff. Takes 1 teaspoon for a gallon of water. Illegal now, but nothing can live through it ..... nothing. Problem is, it last for years and years. They used to use it for termites. I used it around the ground around my bee hives. Bees fly over it, but anything crawling below is dead.

That’s likely what he used then. He’d shove the extra long wand down and give it a good squirting as he pulled it back out. Normally ants pile their dead up outside the mound, with this stuff they didn’t.

SA1911a1 wrote:For fire ants I use boiling water. I love to hear the little bastards screaming. I don't go pouring gas on the ground, because my well is nearby.

isn't that a lot of work, catching all them little bastards and putting them in a pot of water?

Brake Weight wrote:My grandpa kept a garden sprayer and would fill it with some concoction of his. On the wand he had added about 4’ of stainless brakeline and would shove this down as far as he could get it. Then let them have it, whatever it was. I really don’t know what he used and it could’ve been agent orange for all I know. Or whatever that stuff was in the early ‘80s that killed anything that breathed.

Cyanide I have a hundred year old bottle out in the barn for getting rid of mice, rats, bugs, and......whatever else needs getting rid of.

dolk wrote:In the early 80 and earlier, the big "killer" was chlordane. I still have 1/2 of a 1/2 gallon jug of that stuff. Takes 1 teaspoon for a gallon of water. Illegal now, but nothing can live through it ..... nothing. Problem is, it last for years and years. They used to use it for termites. I used it around the ground around my bee hives. Bees fly over it, but anything crawling below is dead.

I loved that stuff as it was good for most anything needed to be kilt out... I even used it to kill grubs in the yard getting rid of moles making tunnels all over the place. No food so they leave or maybe the chlordane killed them too. I did spray it under the house once ridding moles and breathing the stuff got the best of me and sent me to the doctors office. Man was I ever sick, middle of summer and for some reason I couldn't brake a sweat. I finally took off running one morning in the hot weather and in about a mile the sweat broke and I was fine after that. Never thought at the time I'd been poisoned. I'd pay big for a gallon of that now and being older I'd be much more careful.

SA1911a1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:41 pm I do the same thing I do with bad gasoline. I pour it into a metal container, set fire to it and it goes away. I have a dedicated cast iron pot for the act.

Outside of setting fire to it is there any better way?