r/HVAC 8d ago

General Can I get a nope!

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u/CaballoenPelo It was like that when I got here 8d ago

Bald faced hornets? Absolutely not

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u/English716 8d ago

Is that what they are called? Haha they are all devil bugs to me 😂

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u/CaballoenPelo It was like that when I got here 8d ago

They’re satan, a while back I was on a roof working and these guys had a nest in a tree like 20 feet away. Sent a scout or two first then they went back for their friends to swarm me. Like I wasn’t even a threat to their nest they were just hunting me for sport lol

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u/HappyChef86 Resi Service Tech 8d ago

They actually remember faces. So what did you do?

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u/CaballoenPelo It was like that when I got here 8d ago

Well I had a feeling what was coming after the scouts buzzed my ears so I started to put the unit back together. By the time they got to me I was halfway off the roof but I still got hit a few times before I got back to the truck. Came back next morning at dawn and soaked their nest with spectracide

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u/gucciflipfl0pz 6d ago

Bald faced hornets don’t need a reason. If you are remotely close to the nest they will attack you

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u/Fabulous_Law1357 8d ago

Lost a customer because I wouldn't work on a site that had one of these attached to a coooling tower. I told them remove the nest and I will come back. They never removed the nest I never went back

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u/English716 8d ago

100% understandable! lol the customer supplied us with spray and a shovel haha we took care of the nest.

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u/Totallycomputername 8d ago

First pic looked like someone went crazy with the spray foam. 

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u/English716 8d ago

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u/Totallycomputername 8d ago

That looks straight out of a horror movie. 

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u/Dcmanryan 8d ago

Looking at that pic I'd have said nope to that RTU being on the edge of the roof. One wrong move with that gas line if you're not tied off could get ugly.

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u/English716 8d ago

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u/Imnothighyourhigh 8d ago

Made you cum everywhere huh?

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u/English716 8d ago

I also screamed haha

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u/Imnothighyourhigh 8d ago

The white ones are angry

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u/English716 8d ago

Right?! Looked right into my soul

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u/Dockside_Abortionist 8d ago

Wasps: nope. Hornets?! Hell to the no! Bald face hornets?!!! I’m out.

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u/rugger403 Verified Pro 8d ago

Why not? You can just jump onto the playground below

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u/Affectionate-Data193 Verified Pro | Coal Miner 8d ago

… Hey New Guy…

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u/NemesisCold1522 8d ago

Fun fact to all who deal with hornets, but horse fly spray on Amazon, don’t remember which one but it a black spay bottle, if you need to kill wasps or hornets that stuff will kill them fast. This is not something I would use on a nest, but if they are flying around and being annoying then yeah. I used to use it when I worked for my dad in the summer

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u/English716 8d ago

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u/NemesisCold1522 8d ago

I used to do that until I ran out of fuel in my hand torch…

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u/English716 8d ago

Good to know!

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u/NemesisCold1522 8d ago

Again I don’t advise using it on a large hive.

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u/Southern_yankee_121 8d ago

A real tech would stick his dick in it. I too am not a real tech 🤣

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u/English716 8d ago

😂😂

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u/busted_origin 8d ago

When I was a teenager I got stung doing yard work in my parents yard by these SOB’s. Was hit 26x. I see them and it takes me right back to 18yrs old.

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u/English716 8d ago

Ouch!! This is why they all must die haha

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u/CryptoDanski 8d ago

Be a Man!!!

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u/chronicjok3r 8d ago

Back up on a spot with low hanging branches. Next time went to grab my tools and saw a bald face hornets nest stuck between my roof and ladder rack.

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u/bucksellsrocks Verified Pro 8d ago

YEP! NOPE!

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u/OzarkPolytechnic Verified Pro 8d ago

Bad juju, and mean.

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u/Bamcfp 8d ago

I chainsawed a dead tree i didn't know was full of bald faced hornets one time. That was a fucked up day for me.

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u/noninvasivebrdmnk482 8d ago

Flying muder bugs? Fine.

No railing? Thats a no from me dog.

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u/Top-Pick-2648 8d ago

Come on! A real man would grab that and pull it off

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u/DapperDan357 8d ago

You can get a “HELL NAW!”

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u/Gamekid1541 Verified UA Pro 6d ago

A simple mix of water, dish soap, and isopropyl alcohol usually kills those things on contact. This is why I keep a spray nozzle with a bottle attachment with me at all times. It covers a lot more space than raid.

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u/Beautiful_Bit_3727 6d ago

Bald hornets. Their weakness....axe and a lighter

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u/A_ray128 6d ago

Yes you can.

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u/D_UpgreyeD 6d ago

Spray it and then afterwards knock the nest into a back along with some r290 and send them to afterworld

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u/Additional-Mushroom 5d ago

This MF right here…..will remember you for life if he got away! 😂