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Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« on: July 13, 2017, 12:28:39 am »

It didn't kill us!




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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2017, 01:27:26 am »
The skeeters arrived here in time for 4th of July...  went out in the low pasture to watch the big fireworks show at the neighbor's farm.. and the bloodsuckers drove me back inside.

I gets bad here.. have a creek running through the timberlot in a floodplain... so all the old meanders wind up with standing water.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2017, 02:58:59 am »
Oh, heck yeah we did!
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2017, 11:53:59 pm »
 It was fun and our version of Off bug spray, cause I don't think mosquitoes bothered us for the rest of the night!
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2017, 12:14:47 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 13, 2017, 11:53:59 pm
It was fun and our version of Off bug spray, cause I don't think mosquitoes bothered us for the rest of the night!

I got me a jug of the Black Flag mosquito fog juice and rigged a feed tube down to the muffler on my push lawnmower. It would blow smoke like crazy.

The first time I used it  the neighbors called the fire department on me.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2017, 12:18:38 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 14, 2017, 12:14:47 am
I got me a jug of the Black Flag mosquito fog juice and rigged a feed tube down to the muffler on my push lawnmower. It would blow smoke like crazy.

The first time I used it  the neighbors called the fire department on me.
Yeah, but how well did it work?
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2017, 12:24:43 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 14, 2017, 12:18:38 am
Yeah, but how well did it work?

It worked great. A lot more smoke, and more continuous than those handheld propane heated jobs. You just have to go around with a mower blowing smoke.

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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2017, 12:28:27 am »
Quote from: rodamala on July 13, 2017, 01:27:26 am
The skeeters arrived here in time for 4th of July...

The 4th of July?

Where, Antarctica?
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2017, 12:34:38 am »
Quote from: Old Warrior in Exile on July 14, 2017, 12:28:27 am
The 4th of July?

Where, Antarctica?

Minnesota and states south.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2017, 12:38:52 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 14, 2017, 12:34:38 am
Minnesota and states south.

Oh.

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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2017, 12:44:52 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 14, 2017, 12:34:38 am
Minnesota and states south.

I've done a lot of flounder gigging down at Freeport. We'd walk thru the salt grass carrying a lantern going to a back bay. We'd stir up a sizeable cloud of mosquitoes. When we got to the water's edge, we'd set the lantern down and walk back away into the darkness and wait. The mosquitoes would go back into the salt grass and bed down. We could then walk back, pick up the lantern, and go gigging relatively mosquito free.
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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2017, 12:48:03 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 14, 2017, 12:44:52 am
I've done a lot of flounder gigging down at Freeport.

Which Freeport? TX, NY, Il or FL
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2017, 12:53:50 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 14, 2017, 12:44:52 am
I've done a lot of flounder gigging...

Good times, no matter where you're from.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2017, 12:56:03 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 14, 2017, 12:48:03 am
Which Freeport? TX, NY, Il or FL

TX. Not really Freeport. Twas between Surfside and San Luis Pass.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2017, 12:58:31 am »
My sister and I rode our bikes right behind it when we lived in No Africa..my dad was stationed at an USAF base there....both of us still alive to talk about it....hey wait a minute, maybe this explains all my ailments..lol
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2017, 01:00:18 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 14, 2017, 12:56:03 am
TX. Not really Freeport. Twas between Surfside and San Luis Pass.

Been there.  You can drive your car out on the beach.  Just like Daytona.
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« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2017, 01:06:12 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 14, 2017, 01:00:18 am
Been there.  You can drive your car out on the beach.  Just like Daytona.

We camped out on the beach a lot. You'd wake up an fiddler crabs would be all over your sleeping bag.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2017, 02:09:27 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 13, 2017, 12:28:39 am
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When I was a kid you could lay in bed and hear the city fogging truck go down the block at night.  Those days are gone.  Now they only spray if there is west nile or the such found in the area.  I'm with you....we survived it and it WORKED.  Now you have to hire someone yourself to spray for skeeters.  Mosquito Joe is the go to co. around here.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2017, 07:17:31 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on July 14, 2017, 02:09:27 am
When I was a kid you could lay in bed and hear the city fogging truck go down the block at night.  Those days are gone.  Now they only spray if there is west nile or the such found in the area.  I'm with you....we survived it and it WORKED.  Now you have to hire someone yourself to spray for skeeters.  Mosquito Joe is the go to co. around here.

Our HOA hires a service that has a truck that sprays for skeeters.   It is weak sauce and has little to no fog and no oder.
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Re: Ever Ride the Fogger at dusk?
« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2017, 09:52:07 pm »
In these parts if they get bad they call the Air Force.
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