In this video we're gonna take care of a wasp's nest this nest is actually about
five meters from the ground so it is very high up I should point out that if you
ever try to get rid of an nest like this it is very dangerous especially if
you're gonna use a ladder for that reason we're gonna make a pole which can
deliver the toxic poison through the hole to the wasps which will eradicate
all the wasps in the nest if you are not 100% sure you what you are doing it's
a good idea to get the professionals in to take care of the nest for you so as
you can see that's the nest and it's up there on the eaves
so it is very difficult to get to you can see by the amount of wasps going in
and out of this hole that there is a lot of activity in the nest and if you
now turn up the volume on your computer and listen to this noise this is
the noise you can actually hear from within the bathroom
to get rid of the wasps I'm going to use wast killer powder I actually bought this on
ebay it was about seven pounds delivered this will treat quite a lot of nests you
do not need to use a full container normally you would take the lid off go to the wasps
nest squirt that in obviously in this case we can't because it is four meters
maybe five meters from the ground obviously you do not want to be doing
this type of job from a ladder it is very dangerous if there is anything about this
that you do not comfortable with or you don't like wasps and you think this job
may be too big for you it is a good idea to get a professional wasp killing firm
in they normally charge about forty five pounds to get rid of a wasp's nest they
don't actually take it away they just use a similar kind of power to this which
actually kills all the wasps so I have a plastic tube here which is about three
meters long so I'm going to use that that's just a piece that they have lying
around in the garage I'm going to use this piece of copper pipe we're going to
fix that to the top of there and then we're going to pipe this up using some
eight millimeter plastic tube that will connect onto the fire extinguisher which I will
charge your using the compressor now I know a lot of people don't actually have a
compressor or an empty fire extinguisher so there are other things that you could
use you could use a vacuum cleaner that blows to provide the air or you could
use an air dryer even you couldn't use virtually anything so we're going to
make this up and we're gonna test it using some flour so this tube will be
filled with the flour and then when we do the proper killing we will use the
wasp killer powder so our first step is to drill a hole in here and then I'm
going to feed the plastic tube down to the bottom and the extinguisher will be
at the bottom so we're going to use a bit of gaffer tape on this job obviously so the
first thing is to drill a hole through this tube
this piece of tube is approximately 10 millimeters and that should go nicely
through the hole into the wasps nest and I do imagine that they will be
quite angry once this tube is poked anywhere near the hole that goes to
the nest so I'm going to put that about there now I'm going to drill a hole
further down for the tube to exit so I'm simply going to feed this down there
until that comes out at the bottom I can cut that off I'm going to cut that again
and I will use a one-way valve that will prevent any of the power which is put in
here from going down this pipe obviously you need to get this the correct way
around
Then I can simply push that in the end of there
so I'm just going to put some duct tape around the end there and that will stop
any of the powder from falling out of there
and I need to remove this nozzle and that is actually an eighth BSP fitting
so I've actually got an eighth BSP fitting to eight millimeter tube so I
could simply push that in there and I'll just tighten that up
so to charge this up I have connected this
pipe up to the compressor I'm going to connect that on to there and then I
press down on the lever there and that will open the valve inside of there
and that can then charge this up with some compressed air and unfortunately the
gauge isn't actually working on this but we do have compressed air in there now if we
press down on the lever that should be just enough to squirt out some of the
powder so that is now connected to the bottom of the tube and in the top we put
the powder and then we're going to take it outside and test it so I'm going to
use this funnel place that in there and then I'll proceed to fill this up with
some flour
this is actually my third attempt at making this the first time I used a
piece of copper tube instead of speedfit and I thought we'll get away with just
taking that together using some gaffer tape unfortunately that didn't work too well
and the powder came out of the back like this so I then made mark 2 . Mark 2 was a
fire extinguisher with the ten millimetre speed fit pipe but there was that much
pressure in it that you actually got kickback and the powder went everywhere
sort of is a danger that if you use that much pressure you could actually blow
the wasps nest apart and all the wasps could escape into the loft space so this
is now Mark 3 and I've taped the fire extinguisher to the end there that has
been pressurized using the compressor and we do not have a lot of pressure in
there it's nowhere near what you will get in a normal fire extinguisher and
then there we have a restrictor that restricts the air going from the bottle to
the exit tube at the top so by using that I can actually reduce the amount of
pressure that's coming out of the end of the tube that part there is a piece of
10 millimeter speedfit and what I've done there is I've used a 10 mil - 8
millimeter reducer so to get the powder in the tube I'm using an old silicone
nozzle and then a funnel so we're going to take this outside now I'm going to
give it one last test I'm now going to fill this tube with the wasp killer
powder but before I do that putting on some disposable gloves and I'm also
going to put on a respirator
it's good idea to wear full protective clothing when you do this so I'm going
to work some welders overalls welders gloves and the beekeepers hat
just in case the last thing you want to do is get the wasps angry and get
stung several times by a lot of angry wasps
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