My neighbor brought me a few peices of cherry yesterday. As I was sealing the ends I noticed ants coming out of one end of a piece. Whats the best way of killing these critters without messing up the wood?
Vernon
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Ants in Cherry
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I usually just dump some kind of thinner on them. That usually does the trick.
Joe
Joe
RAID works great. I also keep a few of those ant baits around my indoor wood piles just in case they come in with the logs. Those things work on the ants long before I get to some of those logs.
I had (have) the same problem with some of my cherry wood
-seems like ants like cherry then i guess-
I started turning the rough form and as the tunnels got more i dumped the whole piece in some oil... ants dead problem solved well besides the tunnels that are everywhere in the wood 🙁
-Astrid-
-seems like ants like cherry then i guess-
I started turning the rough form and as the tunnels got more i dumped the whole piece in some oil... ants dead problem solved well besides the tunnels that are everywhere in the wood 🙁
-Astrid-
Donna Banfield
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I dunno, sometimes I like to have the ants and worms working at the wood. They're wonderful architects, creating some unusual blanks for me to finish.
Of course, I don't like them in all my pieces, and never in my shop. Like Mike Schwing, I hit the wood blank with Raid ant and roach killer outside before turing.
Of course, I don't like them in all my pieces, and never in my shop. Like Mike Schwing, I hit the wood blank with Raid ant and roach killer outside before turing.
Raid
So that is the secret of how you get the bugs to hold still. Then you can use them for models on those bug pieces you make.Mike Schwing said:
Urgh on the Raid and roach killer. Can't be good to powder that wood then breath it. I'm a big fan of putting the piece in a garbage bag with a chunk of dry ice. Let is sit for a couple of days. The dry ice is CO2 and, as it vaporizes, it will suffocate anything in the wood.
By the way, whatcha doin up at 5:45am, Donnna?
Ya crazy. Ya know that, right?
Dietrich
By the way, whatcha doin up at 5:45am, Donnna?
Ya crazy. Ya know that, right?
Dietrich
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I found out the hard way that ants love cherry. I cut down a couple very old cherry trees hoping there would be some good turning wood in it. Those trees were so infested with carpenter ants that they had chewed most of the wood away on the inside of the pieces. So it was firewood. I let it sit ouside all winter in 16" lengths on top of one of my cords of firewood and much to my surprise , I split some of those pieces with an axe this spring and they were still full of ants. I didn't want to bring them in the house to burn in the wood heater so I set fire to them out in the yard and burnt the wood and fried the ants. Hope they have not infiltrated into my birch firewood that they were piled on top of. Hopefully they dont like birch but I will know come winter when I start burning it.
W.Y.
W.Y.