On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:28:58 -0500, "Crazy George"
wrote:

We have similar problems here, Roger, but that is the point of using the
second bottom, which is a press fit inside the bead of the other container.
This leaves a slight recess for controls. If you want no recess, then put
the cut off bottom in right side up, and you end up with essentially a
double ended sealed (except for the seam between pieces) bottle. Breathes
just enough to equalize pressure changes, seam isn't big enough for most
insects. Tiny ants might squeeze in, but insecticide could fix that.

Just throw in a single moth ball. :-))

Yellow Jackets have turned out to be a real problem over the past two
years. Last year I destroyed over 40 nests on our 200 X 200 foot
lot. I really don't know how many thousands I've done in, but it's a
lot.

We had them get under the siding just under the peak of the roof on
the sough end. They built a nest so large it popped the siding loose
and it had to be re-nailed.

About a month ago I went out to move some sections of a C-band
satellite dish. I had them stacked 2 by 2. I had hauled away several
pair when I reached for one and had it slip out of my grip as I went
to pull it away from the one under it. All of a sudden there was a
cloud of Yellow Jackets coming out from around each side. I beat a
hasty retreat (full tilt), but unfortunately I was building the base
for a small outbuilding right behind where I was standing. I had 7
2 X 6s running North and south with the top edges about 14 inches off
the ground. I was headed west. I made it all the way through with
just one barked shin and never fell. I waited till dark, set up some
halogen lights to blind them and then squirted in some wasp and hornet
killer. The kind that shoots a solid stream. When I got the dish
section out I found a nest over a foot across in there.
(and...I never got stung which is a lot better than last summer with a
total of 4. Three yellow Jackets and one wasp got me.)

Actually throwing a few mothballs around the attic insulation should
keep out the bees as well.

BTW, I'm probably going to use something similar to house a matching
network as I'm either going to put up an inverted L, or shunt feed the
tower for 160.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)