oneshot 1 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Sprayed Herbicide around my Garden and Berry Patches but I had a board up so spray wouldn't get on stuff. We shall see. oneshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Hope it wasn't 2,4,5T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cmoore03 Posted June 7, 2020 Members Share Posted June 7, 2020 Even a guy with a bad shoulder can use a hoe, maybe you should try one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOPanfisher Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 14 hours ago, tjm said: Hope it wasn't 2,4,5T. I fund an old rusted can of 245T some years back on an old shop building, also found a paper can of Lead Arsenate. I used to spray some areas of garden and strawberries with grass killer, think it was Arrow, worked very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 4 hours ago, MOPanfisher said: I fund an old rusted can of 245T some years back on an old shop building, also found a paper can of Lead Arsenate. I used to spray some areas of garden and strawberries with grass killer, think it was Arrow, worked very well. It's funny what is still around and not noticed. Mom told me she had found a jar of a heavy liquid on a shelf. I went over and looked at it. It was a large dark medicine bottle full of mercury. I have no idea how much was in there but it was heavy. I called the DNR and they came and picked it up. She in her state of mind could not remember where it came from and who knows where dad may of got it . Glad it is gone. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 37 minutes ago, BilletHead said: It was a large dark medicine bottle full of mercury What could that have ever been used for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrierman Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 35 minutes ago, fishinwrench said: What could that have ever been used for? Refining gold. Billethead is RICH! Let's get him! BilletHead, Daryk Campbell Sr and Deadstream 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneshot 1 Posted June 7, 2020 Author Share Posted June 7, 2020 Wondering where I put this. It was to be in Gardening. Not sure what it is I know I like it better than Roundup. This was on the outside I use Hoe and Mulch around the Plants. Berries are in Raised Beds, just got around the outside of the Boxes. oneshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 1 hour ago, fishinwrench said: What could that have ever been used for? Investment. It follows the price of gold more or less and has varied from ~$2/lb to ~$55/lb over the last 40-50 years. Years ago my younger brother was recovering mercury from streams in the west because it was valuable to sell, it doesn't take much to weigh a pound, about 1.13 fluid ounces=36#/qt- and it was worth his while to collect and sell it. It was used in gold and silver extraction in the 1800s and the waste is in bottoms of the streams in mining areas, at one time he had about 20# in a jar. One former use for it that I'm familiar with is weighting of a plumb bob; to eliminate bulk a 12-16 ounce brass plumb bob would be machined out hollow and filled with mercury so that it weighed much more and would stabilize quickly, especially on multistory drops or in wind. I've used mercury filled plumb bobs that weighed about 3# and fit easily in one hand. Of course back when I was young it was played with in school, demonstrating how fast the drops could run across a surface and how they rejoined if put near one another, also how it would adhere to copper making pennies silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneshot Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Well seems to have worked and I didn’t kill everything. It’s Spectricide Weed and Grass killer. oneshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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