Which one of y'all did this, part 2, the trailerening

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Got two cars to tow on on trailer and some leftover bits from when Handy Andy shut down a few year back? No problem!

I did it in my basement:

I have mixed feelings about doing it on a trailer, but I'd probably go for it.

Makes me look like a genius by comparison

My dwarf car sits on pallet racking over top of my 996 in the garage.

so much win!

Apis Mellifera wrote: I did it in my basement:

Is that a beehive in the corner???!!

I'm considering whether I'd tie the racking down better, then tie the car to the racking.

Other than that, it looks good to me.

Slippery wrote:

Apis Mellifera wrote:

Is that a beehive in the corner???!!

Yes. I have my screen name for a reason. Honeybees, MGBs, Aunt Bea from Andy Griffith, I like Bs. I like wasps, hornets (nest pictured), etc.too. All but yellow jackets. Yellow jackets can get bent. The hornets moved out, btw.

That's Han Solo in carbonite next to the hornet nest.

Apis Mellifera wrote:

Slippery wrote:

Apis Mellifera wrote:

Is that a beehive in the corner???!!

That's Han Solo in carbonite next to the hornet nest.

Is there a better sentence than this anywhere?

How did they get the car up there and how are they going to get it down?

yupididit wrote: How did they get the car up there and how are they going to get it down?

Forklift, thats how i put my cars and or boat in storage on my mezzanine.

Apis Mellifera wrote:

Slippery wrote:

Apis Mellifera wrote:

Is that a beehive in the corner???!!

All but yellow jackets. Yellow jackets can get bent.

This. So this. Bees are awesome but I HATE yellow jackets so much.

(I'm a huge honey bee fan btw)

Well this thread derailed quick...

I've lived around yellow jackets all my life and they are pretty docile by my standards. Maybe my standards are off! In general you have to come into truly unreasonably close contact with them before they get aggressive. I think most of the resentment probably stems from times when it wasn't NOTICED that one was in unreasonably close contact with them and their aggression thus seemed unjustified.

I had a nest in the upper corner of each of my garage doors last year and we all passed within feet of each other on a daily basis for months. I would usually only kill nests where people who weren't used to living alongside the non-human world would be likely to accidentally piss them off. Certain paths that visitors would walk up to or next to the house, etc.

As a kid growing up in the country i got bit or stung by nearly everything. There is a type of red wasp out here that i have to assume is the mother teresa of the insect world because I've been around them all my life and never been stung. And i mean, when i was a kid, i was a giant shiny happy person to insects. Maybe that's why i think yellow jackets aren't so bad. I myself was definitely worse!!

Bees suck

In reply to Vigo:

I think you are confusing yellow jackets with paper wasps. Yellow jackets are ground nesting and are fiercely territorial. They will swarm you at the slightest provocation and running from the nest is not enough to get them to stand down. I put one wheel of my mower in a nest entrance once and got 17 stings in thanks; enough to ensure that any yellow jacket nests I notice get nuked from orbit on sight.

dculberson wrote: In reply to Vigo: I think you are confusing yellow jackets with paper wasps. Yellow jackets are ground nesting and are fiercely territorial. They will swarm you at the slightest provocation and running from the nest is not enough to get them to stand down. I put one wheel of my mower in a nest entrance once and got 17 stings in thanks; enough to ensure that any yellow jacket nests I notice get nuked from orbit on sight.

THIS

I also grew up I the country and other than white faced hornet's (you REALLY REALLY don't want to piss them off) yellow jackets are right up there on the list of things you don't want mad at you. Of course this meant as kids we spent lots of time trying to catch them and lots of time getting stung.

That lovely moment when you go to remove the mouse nest from around the belts in the drill press and then find out it's also a currently inhabited wasps' nest...

I'm the Dexter of the Yellow Jacket world.

The only good Yellow Jacket is a DEAD yellow Jacket.

I'm also the Josey Wales of the Yellow Jacket world when I get those 20' wasp-poison cannons in my hands. I'm ambidextrous even!

Yeah screw yellow jackets, we have the standard red paper wasps here, but also some smaller yellow and black paper wasps that look similar to yellow jackets and have the same aggression. The red ones leave you alone unless you are actively trying to destroy the nest, while the smaller ones will mess you up if you get within 20 ft and make use of anything that causes vibrations like a drill.

Apis Mellifera wrote:

British sports car on racks in your basement? Check

Porsche silhouette on the wall? Check

GT40 5.0? Check

Multiple motorcycles? Check

Hornets nest? Check

Han Solo in carbonite? Check

Most GRM situation on record? In the running

Bumble Bee Pinata? Check!

Yellow jackets usually live underground...I burnt them right after we found each other, then they moved into my bathroom wall. That was fun. There is a lot of biomass in a yellow jacket colony, and that makes a lovely smell after puffing them with Drione.

They will AGGRESSIVELY pursue all food sources -- especially open beers. I enjoy baiting them and trying to get a vector back to the hive when they depart, although the tried and true method of locating a colony is a weedeater.

dculberson wrote: In reply to Vigo: I think you are confusing yellow jackets with paper wasps. Yellow jackets are ground nesting and are fiercely territorial. They will swarm you at the slightest provocation and running from the nest is not enough to get them to stand down. I put one wheel of my mower in a nest entrance once and got 17 stings in thanks; enough to ensure that any yellow jacket nests I notice get nuked from orbit on sight.

Yes, me and everyone else in South Texas. According to the internet it appears you're right, and I'm surprised that literally noone i've ever spoken to here in South Texas in my three decades has gotten this right. Granted, I haven't spoken to many entemologists!

We don't have any truly aggressive stinging insects down here that I can think of. Or aggressive venomous/poisounous anything else. Considering how many defensive bites i experienced in my youth, I'm tempted to think I may not have survived an environment that was legitimately hostile.