amateur Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) Following on from @Minky's tale of the wasp nest, when I was a teenager the back lawn was troubled with molehills, so I determined to smoke the moles out using chlorate weedkiller mixed with sulphur and coaldust (I don’t know why either). This was poured down the hole, ignited, and a brick put over to seal it. I saw fumes drifting out at the far end of the lawn, then WHUMP, the lawn seemed to lift an inch or two as (I assume) the coal gas ignited. No more molehills, but the lawn turned a funny yellow and never really recovered. Edited October 24, 2023 by amateur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottletopbill Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 Star blue anchor black boy or white swan and crayfish robing hood and the partridge plus most i have forgot there names. Oakmore gardens always had a big fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, bottletopbill said: Star blue anchor black boy or white swan and crayfish robing hood and the partridge plus most i have forgot there names. Oakmore gardens always had a big fire. Ha ha that’s the ones also the bridge house and the seven stiles my old man had an English flag that he brought back from Italy after the war and that was given to the publican in the swan on one hazy drunken night Edited October 24, 2023 by nobbyathome More info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottletopbill Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) Used to drink in the white swan and my brother played for the darts team. Lived across the path from the seven stiles now flats may have drunk with you dad as done the rounds from 1975 onwards. Just remembered were the bridge house was opposite Nugent now feeling my age 66yrs Edited October 24, 2023 by bottletopbill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted October 25, 2023 Report Share Posted October 25, 2023 (edited) On 24/10/2023 at 15:12, amateur said: Following on from @Minky's tale of the wasp nest, when I was a teenager the back lawn was troubled with molehills, so I determined to smoke the moles out using chlorate weedkiller mixed with sulphur and coaldust (I don’t know why either). This was poured down the hole, ignited, and a brick put over to seal it. I saw fumes drifting out at the far end of the lawn, then WHUMP, the lawn seemed to lift an inch or two as (I assume) the coal gas ignited. No more molehills, but the lawn turned a funny yellow and never really recovered. Haha. Sulphur,, haha... One year the wasps decided to make a massive and aggressive nest behind an air brick at ground level in mothers house. I couldn't see any effective way to deal with the problem. Then DING,,,, I had a plan. I had found a few sticks of sulphur (something to do with drying hops years ago) and there were a few planks about 8ft long left over from a job. So I used 3 planks to form a tunnel to the air brick. At the other end I made a small fire of sticks and grated some of the sulphur stick onto the fire. I fanned the fire up to full chat with a bit of ply. Vast amounts of thick toxic yellow smoke went into the air brick and as wasps came back trying to get anywhere near the air brick they just fell out of the air onto the ground ,,, dead, stone dead. After a couple of minutes I took the planks away and put the fire out. The Wasp problem was eradicated but so was the grass on the lawn,! The sulphur had turned the grass bright yellow stripe. Mother was not best pleased by the yellow stripe from the fire scorched site of the fire to the air brick and the stink of sulphur in the house. I opened all of the house windows, got a spade and dug the yellow landing strip out, got the garden hose and blasted the soil, found some spare turf and replaced this to make good. Mother said that the cure was worse than the problem. Still needs must when the devil drives. The wasps were no more, Mother survived the sulphur, the lawn recovered. = result. Edited October 25, 2023 by Minky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.