This guy just had to have 4 old Cedars milled today. These logs had been laying in the woods for 6 or 7 years.
UG-LEE......full of Ants.
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You need to get a pet ardvark .
Did you get any wood outa that?! :D
And they will bite you too. :o
I keep a can of wasp spray in my operator's seat for such. ;D
WOW, i'm at a loss of words, doesn't happen often :D
I didn't think ants liked cedar?
THAT's a lot of ants. The cedar I get has as many carpenter ants as nails, they are very common. I used to ignore or spray them, now I just unhook the sawdust collector suction hose off the mill and give then a one way ride through the impeller to the big sawdust pile in the sky. Even sucks them out of their nest. I guess it's kind on like having an aardvark.... ;D
YH
Wow. That's a lot of ants, even for an old cedar log! Did you spray 'em?
They say a ant can carry three times there own weight. I think you should have made them your off bearers. :D
My ants were more artistic than yours. ;D
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Now your saw shed has an ant nest in it :D :D :D
I would bite you, too, if you were trying to cut up my house.
Just looking at that picture I'm a digging and a starching.
I got to tell a instead of taking pictures , i would be dragging those logs back to where the came from !!!!!! ;D ;D,
OH YEA! ants love cedar, regardless of what others have said, I found an economical way of dealing with ants is to keep a spray bottle of pine-sol handy, works for clean up jobs and for the time ants show up, david
I've found ant's too, only not so many all at one time!
When you see a nest of ants like that, do you know how to tell which one is the queen?
Jim Rogers
Quote from: thecfarm on May 12, 2013, 08:11:56 AM
Just looking at that picture I'm a digging and a starching.
Tell us more. :D
Quote from: thecfarm on May 12, 2013, 08:11:56 AM
Just looking at that picture I'm a digging and a starching.
Starching? Oh well, my thread didn't turn to food........but IRONING? say_what
That's spell check for ya and almost flunking spelling. ;D I knew it did not look right. Close enough for me.
Quote from: Jim_Rogers on May 12, 2013, 09:30:32 AMWhen you see a nest of ants like that, do you know how to tell which one is the queen?
There will normally be several queens which you can easily identify by their size and color.
I milled a few big cedars that had a whack of ants and a little bird stayed right with me till they were gone.I enjoyed his company.
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Quote from: Magicman on May 12, 2013, 03:57:42 PM
Quote from: Jim_Rogers on May 12, 2013, 09:30:32 AMWhen you see a nest of ants like that, do you know how to tell which one is the queen?
There will normally be several queens which you can easily identify by their size and color.
No, no Magicman she's the one wearing the crown..... :D
You are a bad man.... :D :D
David,
Starch is in potatoes, and potatoes fried is food, so starch is food.
Quote from: Magicman on May 12, 2013, 03:57:42 PM
There will normally be several queens which you can easily identify by their size and color.
Now that's interesting .Along a few years back I tripped a 100 foot ash in the woods which I first topped because of three nice walnuts I didn't want to harm with the fall .
So they I was 65 feet in the air in a bucket truck blowing about 30 feet out of the top and cut into a colony of biting ants,nasty little rascals .It wasn't like I could go any place except jump out .I'm some dumb not plum dumb .
So ant bitten from the ordeal I felled the spar and danged if the bottom didn't have a colony of big black carpenter ants .Now I would not have thought two different species of ants would be in the same tree.
David...I thought all theads eventually turned to ironing. ;)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22539/2976/0318092143%5B1%5D.jpg) ant attack on this day and they one!
Antie Poston, that has kind of a ring to it ;D
Hey guys, do you have any of thoses in the states
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Then ones we have here are even bigger, sometimes a good half inch or a smidge more. May be 5/8 for the bigger ones.
I hope not. We gotta enough ah ants. :-\
Did you have any 70 mph half ants?
The reason they hide in cedars is because they think that is the last place you will look for them.
And, they are usually right.
You want to wipe them out ,sure fired cure .Hose the stack down with Sevin from a water applicator .Done did that ,antless.