Spiders

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by superstock1489

Had a similar incident when I moved some stuff in my garage and what I thought was a cat scurried behind some other parts and when I moved those I saw a wide white stripe!!! (a skunk!!) man did I get outta there in a hurry! Ended up using the pressure washer to "hose" him out!.. Went around and fixed every hole I could find after that!

Hehe...I'll just bet you did!

Pretty cool animals really, when de-scented.

I would think if we could blend a cat with nifty fir and a
mild-mannered ferret, you might get a skunk.

Raccoons however...

BTW superstock1489...WELCOME TO OUR TOOL ROOM!

[old Chevy guy]

Was bitten by what the doctor said was most likely a brown recluse at a job sight and it wasnt pretty. Never saw the spider but had a sore spot on the back of my leg where I couldn't see it. When my wife came home from work at midnight it was a huge welt and black and blue. Went to the urgent care the next day and they put me on anti biotics I think,but I got a lot sicker before it got better. Fever,chills, achy with flue like symptoms. Basically felt like getting hit by a bus. I was still feeling the affects two weeks later. I used to have a live and let live policy with things but after that if I see a spider I smash him flat!

[woodwright]

I like to spray them with paint and watch them run around on fire. When I was younger we had horses. With horses come flies, and lots of spiders. I used to shoot them point blank with my pellet gun pumped up to 10. Even without a pellet, just the air blast vaporizes them. When I got older, we were remodeling a house. I had just hung all the sheetrock and a huge wolf spider ran across the wall. I got the pellet gun out, pumped it to ten, and let him have it.......nothing. It just fluffed up the hair on his back. After that I loaded it up and had some target practice. After missing him a dozen times, It took 2 direct shots to put him down. Big bastard.

[LEX]

Man, why did I come back to visit this thread!




I ended up using 3 Raid fumigators and so far so good, but still cautious.

[ETsC10]

ok. Never thought I'd say this but maybe spiders aren't so bad.

I just now learned there is such a thing as a house centipede.
Pulled up a YouTube of a house centipede vs a big spider.

GROSS!

[CSGAS]

Do not try this intentionally. I grew up getting bitten by Black widows as I serviced old brake systems, over and over again but these were young ones, maybe just out of their eggs. I usually found the dessicated mother after seeing the egg sacs and feeling itchy from the bites. Well after a bunch of these little bites I guess I developed an immunity to adult Black Widow bites, because when one happened all I got was a rash and one big pimple. When I moved East about ten years ago I had an occasion to test my ability with a brown recluse, and just got a bunch of pimples. I can't swear I'm still immune, and still keep my eyes open and show respect for the spiders. If I had to get rid of some, I'd try their natural predator. That means snakes or the lizard idea mentioned earlier. I've known a few people who've suffered the whole scenario pictured earlier from a brown recluse bite and don't want to risk that happening just from being pig-headed--take precautions! But being disadvantaged, doing things the hard way and having a tough childhood does have some advantages I guess.

[Dunenutt]

Thanks Guys... For a bad case of the HeeBeeJeeBees.

[wilkin250r]

I don't "hate" spiders, but I don't like it when they become a nuisance. Every so often I'll find a fresh hatch in my garage with several hundred of them little buggers just hanging around. I usually use real quick bursts with the ol' starter fluid and lighter trick. It's dangerous, I know (just keep them bursts real short), and I don't recommend my method to anyone. Sure gets rid of them in a hurry, though.

[NONHOG]

Originally Posted by ETsC10

For those of us who ship or receive parts from around the country (or world), it’s imperative we
check closely for egg sacs or plant parts and twigs.

Originally Posted by wilkin250r

Every so often I'll find a fresh hatch in my garage with several hundred of them little buggers just hanging around. I usually use real quick bursts with the ol' starter fluid and lighter trick. It's dangerous, I know (just keep them bursts real short), and I don't recommend my method to anyone.

Brought another junker in the shop and it must have been loaded with sacks
because I have little spideys everywhere. Lucky my son hates spiders so he is on "kill mode" I've gotten 2 hatches just as they started to stir.
I was using my Mapp gas torch. I forbid Jr. from using it.
I think they are just garden spiders but still, they gotta go!

[michael bustamante]

my ol lady got bit in the butt cheek by a recluse, there pretty common her in NM . after 2 days it was hot and hard a a rock. they lanced it while she was awake. only a shot of local. i felt so bad for her. i got bit by a black widow in 05 and had a reaction to it but nothing like hers.
word to the wise, before you get your stuff out of storagfe throw a bug bomb in there!!!, same with collecting a barn find

[tex_waco_usmc]

I have seen all kinds of spiders all over the world and now after reading this I am going to go bomb my entire shop (30 X40 w/ 22' eve)!!!!! Thanks guys... I am itching all over and checking everything (and I am at work! People think I am crazy!) LMAO

[ETsC10]

Thanks a bunch Tex for ttt this thread.

JUST when I was getting over the heebe-jeebies...

[67lowered]

I run into black widows alot at work, I use BeeBop, its wasp spray, After a day of seeing them, being around them, I itch, and always brush my clothes anytime I feel anything!!

[tex_waco_usmc]

Originally Posted by ETsC10

Thanks a bunch Tex for ttt this thread.

JUST when I was getting over the heebe-jeebies...

You are so very welcome! (My bad I didnt mean to bring them back up! LOL)

[tex_waco_usmc]

So last night I went out to the shop and of course was on gaurd because of this thread... Pulled my daughters dirt bike out and then the quad and one of them was off riding the dirt bike while I was putting gas in the four wheeler. Out of no where I hear a death scream from inside my shop so I dropped the gas can (thank god for those leak proof spouts) ran in there and my youngest was in there looking at a wolf spider that was roughly 2.5" across and it jumped and scared her so bad she was shaking... After laughing a little bit (to myself because I probably would have jumped too had I seen it jump) it met its match... A size 11 steel toe boot heel (I finally stepped on him after the third attempt, those things jump quickly! LMAO)...

[jhaymon]

why is everyone so scared of spiders? they do a job and if you dont mess with them they wont mess with you. there are only 2-3 spiders in the US even dangerous to humans.a black widow is rarely lethal and it takes hours for symptoms to even start showing up. they wont bite unless the female is protecting an egg sack and only the female will bite. as far as a brown recluse, well the pic on the first page i dont think was one. that was just an ordinary cellar spider. a brown recluse has 3 eyes and that one only has 2. im more scared of tick and mosquito bites.

[rendus]

Originally Posted by jhaymon

why is everyone so scared of spiders? they do a job and if you dont mess with them they wont mess with you.

[CC69Rat]

Not sure why exactly .. but this thread reminded me of something.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Some may have seen this before, but you really should read this.

[Zeke's Garage]

CC69Rat.. I love the David Thorne emails.. thanks for reminding me of them.

I've been fortunate to only have black widows in the storage shed (They love to get underneath and inside of stored wheels). I mostly have the horrific jumping wolf spiders that occasionally roam across the floor when I'm lying on the bare floor trying to hold up a starter, transmission or complete crossmember, making it impossible to run away screaming. They don't do any harm so far, and they do seem to keep the other bugs from over-running me.

The worst ones are the huge brown garden spiders that build their webs all around the shop at night and allow me to go face first into them every chance I get.

I get into the habit now of walking slowly while making crazy full arm karate chops in an attempt to keep them out of my mouth. That along with the screaming at my tools, cars, or sh!te songs on the radio at 1am, I'm sure my neighbors have lots to talk about.

[Billett]

Haven't had a terrible run in so far but when you mentioned the arm karate it reminded me of my parents house. They always have spider webs all over the entrances to their house. You can walk through hit a spider web, make that hilarious face and try to swipe it all off, and then ten minutes later there's a web there again. We decided to adopt a method we like to call the shark fin and just keep a hand in front of our faces when walking anywhere that might be connected by webs haha
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[CC69Rat]

I have only seen one Black Widow in my life and it was close to the water hose downspout down in some leaves. I hear they like cool damp places .. This one met a size 14 real quick.

<shivers> ... I hate spiders.

[chip46wis]

Hope this helps someone----3 times a year I spray everywhere inside and outside the house with Home Defense MAX it has works well.Spray next to a spider outside and they take off running.

[BIGTEN]

Match and Carb cleaner

[slim-n-none]

Demon WP mixed up and sprayed along the top of the walls and along the base of the walls knocked all the spiders out in 2 days. Havent seen a web in a month, and before you could take them out with a broom, and by the next morning they would be back and even thicker. I buy it by the pound now and get midevil on their azzes.
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[ls1nova71]

Originally Posted by BIGTEN

Match and Carb cleaner

Customer on the phone with his insurance agent" Uh, well you see, I had a spider problem......,"
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