MasterBlaster
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Depends on what its been eating...
Healthy looking bear.
I've got European hornets in the house. They're living in my eave out back, and this is the second day this year I've had them inside. Those things scare me. They're huge, and sound like P51s flying around the room. Had two flying around my head this morning, and I was whimpering like a little girl :^D
I won that battle, but I've gotta do something about those things. They could probably kill my cat if she took an interest in trying to grab one, and I don't need that kind of excitement first thing in the morning(They're attracted to light at night). I don't like using chemicals, or dicking up critter's gigs, but I think I might have to get some bee spray, and try to get to the nest I can't really see somewhere in my eave. Behind the flashing somewhere...
They can't however be as bad ass as those Asian Giant Hornets Jay told us about. They are huge and have a personality and predilection for causing pain.
We used to kill wasps, but not any more.
Free, and poison-free, is better.
I was at a customer's house. Wasps in their garden shed. They paid an exterminator to spray the exposed nests with poison, even though they aren't aggressive, mostly.
I told them about the free service, that is used to create allergy cures, somehow. Win-win-win.
I don't see any ice axes in that pic.
Bees get all the credit.
Wasps do a huge amount of the heavy lifting.
Yes Cory, they are huge pollinators. Predators too.
Not to mention recycle-ers.
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I agree on doubling up on the toprope Sean. I've been thinking a lot about the best way to do that without having to tend either system by hand. Shunt? I've got one of the Petzl chest ascenders that I'd like to try with a weighted line, but not sure about a secondary. I guess I could tend the shunt just like the Akimbo and have kit for a simble RADS setup to unweight it. . . So many options! haha. Still just playing with ideas, winter is a long way off yet.