rrbrown

I have a ton of projects to work on and I am a house dad since I'm a disabled Marine and the wife works. My daughter is 16 and working her first job. I drop her off and pick her up it's like 7 miles one way and they almost always send her home early because of the economy. My 14 year old had a small fire in my shop small damage but hard to want to work when it smells like soot. Thats gone now and he calls the other day he broke his jaw 2 places wrestling with a 300+ lb freind of his. my wife meets me at the oral surgeon pulls in the parking lot and this lady backs into her car. I bring my daughter to the dentist and he sends me right back to the oral surgeon to get all her wisdom teeth cut out. I have to go to the VA hospital but since Hurricane Katrina they have to send people to Jacksom MS for allot of things. Jackson is like 2 1/2 hrs one way. Oh and alot of you already heard that I attract spiders and after 8 spider bites Its spider season again. I swear I just want to stay in my shop and work. It drives me crazy not getting to finish anything.

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woodnthings

You're vertical and still breathing! Just for grins, I moved my Minimax jointer planer from the second floor shop down to the ground today, just like moving the 12" Powermatic TS yesterday. What was I thinkin?
Everything went right until something went wrong. It was even on the ground when I backed out the forks and lifted them up tipping the unit over onto the on-off switch. The spotter didn't know what she was supposed to be spotting, but did take a lot of pictures! We are not related by marriage and never will be. Murphies Law and Gravity, only Murphy played a big role in this incident. So, don't worry and may the FORCE BE WITH YOU! bill

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rrbrown

Hey Bill I'm just talking I don't take stuff like that to serious. However It really is driving me nuts trying to find time in my shop. No matter what I do to plan time something stops me. I have found that sometimes the more you fight the forces against you the worst it gets. So live by the words "go with the flow". Oh The spiders are going to kill me if I can't find a way to get rid of them. Had one run down and around my leg just a little while ago. Guess its time to spray again.

Shouldn't you be working with the equipment instead of moving it. Man I wish I had that much free time.

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woodnthings

Richard, I don't know how effective these are against spiders, but they work great for mice, squirrels, bats, chipmunks etc. They have different frequecies and volume levels for what ever type of pest you may be dealing with. I have 3 of them and have them in the house and shop. Price is reasonable if they work for you and I reccomend them. bill
http://www.bird-x.com/transonic-pro-p-29.html

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rrbrown

thanks bill, I'm going to check into it.

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cabinetman

There is the philosophy of fate/destiny. Those forces may be trying to tell you something...like it's not time to work yet.

GeorgeC

That item will do nothing for spiders. Spiders do not have audio systems to be disturbed!

Go to wherever it is that you buy pesticides and ask them for their best spider spray. But before doing that google spider pesticedes and see what is recommended.

G

rrbrown

I called the company and they claim it works well on spiders ( he was a Salesmen though), However it will drive my 5 dogs crazy. As for the pesticides, Pest control companies will warrant against anything but spiders. I fired mine and asked some other pest control folks I know and asked what I should use. I bought some of the stuff recommended and mixed it double the strength. The spiders like swimming in it but do not die on contact. I'm looking for a new poison now. I have tried rosemary since I was told spiders don't like it but my pain in the butt dogs that I don't want to drive crazy with the other thing keep peeing on the bushes and killing them.

I did seem to have luck or maybe just a coincidence but the cypress mulch I put in the garden seams to at least keep them away from the house. Maybe because they are staying in the mulch or something but I have about 10% of the spiders as I did before the garden and mulch. I plan on replacing the dead rosemary just in case its what is working.

Oh you should have seen the face of my doctor when I said I was putting in a new garden. Especially after looking in my records and saying “hum so were up to 8 spider bites right.”

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Richard

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Gene Howe

Hmmmm. Then why do they congregate behind my shop CD player? Maybe they like my 50's and 60's R&R....Good Vibrations? Or, maybe I oughtta move it once in a while.

Sleeper

I have to deal with black widows. I kill at least two a day sometimes as much as 10. The pest control company said they could only place poison in strategic places so when they walk across the area they die, but you can’t have poison everyplace because of the other hazards. I understand that they hatch thousands of young and then the young blow with the wind. They land where ever and set up shop.
I don’t believe that they will be affected by sound. I work at very high power communication and radar sites where there are plenty of high frequencies and plenty of spiders. That sells guy will say anything you want to hear. Don’t waist your money.

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GeorgeC

There are a number of products that are effective spider control is used properly. I have always preferred Demon WP and Cypermethrin. ( SPIDER CONTROLS )

You are not wasting your money if you do this properly. You do not want to spray the top of your work surfaces, spray behind and under your products int he shop. You cannot do this just once and expect total results. Do not expect instant kill unless you spray the spider directly and even then it takes some time. I recently sprayed a large black widow on my boat and it took her a while to die.

Spider control is just like controlling any other pest. Take care of them in their hiddy areas for effective control.

You are a human. You have intelligence. You can prevail.

George

Sleeper

That’s some good info there George. I cannot believe that CA is not on the “cannot be shipped” list, must be an oversight.

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rrbrown

I have been using suspend but will try the damon Wp next I guess. I recently went to try and get my legs fixed from the spider bites because they swell all the time now. I was a consult patient from the Baton Rouge, La VA to the New Orleans Va, they then did test and sent me to Jackson, MS who said New Orleans done the wrong test. They would schedule the right test but that they send people there to Arkansas. Give me a break it was all different days but damn. Atleast they pay travel money but you would think it would be cheaper to use outside of the VA services under a contract or something. Not that I'm mad about it but driving 100 to 350 miles one way for the doctor is the kind of thing that keeps me out the shop.

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Richard

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Lucas54

I personally like having the spiders around (gets rid of the obnoxious bugs that like to to buzz around). However, I once had a bug guy tell me "The best and most effective way to get rid of spiders is to focus on the other, easier to kill bugs. If you take out all the easy to kill bugs, then the spiders have nothing to eat." Seems like reasonable advise.

knotscott

Sounds like my life Richard....I know exactly how you feel! Life is uphill most of the time for sure!

rrich

Stupid question here, What are the spiders eating? If there ain't any food for the spiders, you won't have spiders.

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rrbrown

Well first off I live in a subdivision that sits in the middle of the country in south Louisiana. This whole area was pasture land 4 years ago and there are deer a rock throw away. So getting rid of the bugs here is not as easy as say the city. As for what they are eating I would say me; 6 bites and 4 hospital stays in 3 1/2 years. Yes I know kill the food and the spiders leave but its not that easy in Southern Louisiana in the country. How many spiders you see in a day? Me I see a minimum of 20 and on a good day a few hundred.

Hey I appreciate the help with the spiders but we got a little off tract here. I was just stating that it seams the forces are trying to keep me out of my shop. Spiders, Fires, doctors, kids, broken jar you know stuff like that.

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Richard

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ACP

There could be several things at work here. Perhaps its just the Feng Shuei of your shop being off. That is a simple fix. Have a feng shuei expert come in and help you redecorate and move all your tools around. Another possiblity is you are on Indian burial ground. Perhaps the spirits are trying to get you away. The last option might not be an Indian burial ground but rather that they moved the headstones of an old cemetary but they didn't move the bodies. Sounds like any one of these three could be the issue. Good luck!