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Second radiator replaced on kids cars this week!

Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
I swear.....I don't know what the deal is, but two of my kid's cars had to have radiators replaced this week. Its a good thing Jimmy (Realspeed) knows so much about cars! We would have been lost without him this week!

Jimmy did one in an apartment complex parking lot, on a hill, with a drunk maintenance man checking up on him. The second he did on a gravel area, next to the highway, beside a welding shop with the sun beaming down on him both times.

We did find a cow ant hanging out at the second place. I haven't seen one of them in quite some time!
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,035 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You need to adopt Jimmy and get rid of the kids! Don
  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK Kasey I am an old school southern country boy [^] BUT PRAY TELL what is a COW ANT [?][?][?][?]
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
    OK Kasey I am an old school southern country boy [^] BUT PRAY TELL what is a COW ANT [?][?][?][?]


    I can tell you that. It's an ant on steroids. It's big and they're black and red and you can stomp on them until your shoes are shredded and they won't die. They got a stinger that's about 3/8" long that keeps on stinging until the sun goes down!! Don't screw with them they'll make you wish you were dead.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They are HUGE! They are about 2 inches long, like two big bumble bees that are attached to each other. They are covered in RED fuzz with a black fuzzy stripe across their rumps. Really.....very VERY cool as far as ants go.
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,213 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    That Jimmy, he's just as handy as a pocket on a shirt!![:D]
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,346 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    too bad about the radiators not a cheep repair
    as for the other
    I have seen one ( ANT ) never knew what they were , looks like a goo one to avoid
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We always called them velvet ants or cow killers.

    I think they are actually wingless wasps.
  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They are actually wasps and the females do not have wings. They do make up for that with a stinger from hell. In my youth we found that a pellet rifle was the best way to kill them. Luckily they are not fast moving and are solitary. I would hate to run in to a nest of those....
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,513 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A grill lighter will put them out of commission.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree with Don. Send the kids packing and keep Jimmy. Does this make up for all his mistakes this year????LOL. You and Jimmy are more like brother and sister, then friends. Those are the hard ones to find. Your a great friend Jimmy.[;)][^]
  • pip5255pip5255 Member Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    They are actually wasps and the females do not have wings. They do make up for that with a stinger from hell. In my youth we found that a pellet rifle was the best way to kill them. Luckily they are not fast moving and are solitary. I would hate to run in to a nest of those....


    isn't that what they made 22 speadshot for ?
    just because you could doesn't mean you should
  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pip5255
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    They are actually wasps and the females do not have wings. They do make up for that with a stinger from hell. In my youth we found that a pellet rifle was the best way to kill them. Luckily they are not fast moving and are solitary. I would hate to run in to a nest of those....


    isn't that what they made 22 speadshot for ?

    I have used that to good effect on carpenter bees, but it annoys the neighbors and with a little patience I find I can still drop them with a pellet! (takes a few more shots though...)
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another bug I never see any more are those HUGE black grasshopper things that had the red or yellow stripe down their sides. They were four or five inches long....scary as mess to a little girl playing outside!
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guntech59
    We always called them velvet ants or cow killers.

    I think they are actually wingless wasps.


    Yeah, that's exactly what they are. They don't hurt anything or bother me, so they get a pass.
  • realspeedrealspeed Member Posts: 6,335
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    I agree with Don. Send the kids packing and keep Jimmy. Does this make up for all his mistakes this year????LOL. You and Jimmy are more like brother and sister, then friends. Those are the hard ones to find. Your a great friend Jimmy.[;)][^]


    Its been an interesting relationship to say the least.... lol from the beginning when i got a job trading a Cetme (pile of ****) in on a Lanber at her dads shop and getting my finger stuck in the barrel of a Barrett 50... Yes I actually stuck my finger where it didnt belong.... But yeah she is like another mom most of the time... keeps me out of trouble and blasts my * when i do something stupid...
  • realspeedrealspeed Member Posts: 6,335
    edited November -1
    Funny thing is ive never been one to carry a whole set of tools in my car...ive alays had like a cresent wrench and channel locks and never really had a need for them...

    Kasey got me a nice craftsman tool set along this line..

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    Had full intentions that it was going to be my track box (stays with the racecar) But it hasnt left the back of the daily and ive used it more than i ever thought I would... Granted its not a complete have everything you will ever need set... but its done all that ive needed it to do excecpt for a thing or 2 but those pieces have been added.
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's a really nice looking tool set. As far as having every tool that a person could ever need there is no such thing. I could buy every tool that Craftsman and Snap-On sells and would still find something that I needed a tool for that I don't have.
  • Okie743Okie743 Member Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
    Another bug I never see any more are those HUGE black grasshopper things that had the red or yellow stripe down their sides. They were four or five inches long....scary as mess to a little girl playing outside!


    Yep, lots of things evaporating (going away slowly or gone)in this neck of the woods in last few years.
    To name a few. Honey bees, (the tree dwellers went first, As a teenager I hunted and robbed bee trees, squirrels, very few in the deep woods, seems they have moved from forest to towns, rabbits, quail, the large yellow and black striped grasshoppers, snakes such as rattlers, copperheads, water mosaics, bullfrogs, cow ants, mountain boomers (large colored lizards, Butcher birds, Blue birds, scissor tail birds, very few acorn trees and hickory trees produce or weak when they do.
    Appears to me it's not global warming it's more like mother nature sending a global WARNING.[B)]
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    agree with that...almost no butterflies thru here anymore,,,just a few individual ones when we used to be coated twice a year....no honey bees in 3 years...used to pick up bull snakes on the way home and throw them in the old barn...only saw one this year...and the list goes on...plenty of frickin armadillos...
  • rambo rebelrambo rebel Member Posts: 4,028
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
    OK Kasey I am an old school southern country boy [^] BUT PRAY TELL what is a COW ANT [?][?][?][?]



    if you ever got hit by one you'd never forget it.

    got hit on the neck while camping when I sat in a lounge chair. guess it was catching some rays. the only thing I can compare it to is getting hit by 3 yellow jackets in the same spot at the same time. intense pain that subsides VERY SLOWLY over a couple hours. and throbs like hell most of the night. felt like my heart was in my neck.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All i kept thinking was that thing is gonan sting me whiel i am under this dam car lol....
    Jimmy
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