[Billthegravedigger]

Originally Posted by johnleeknoefler ↗

Cyanide is nasty. Have used it many times for fumigation. I HATE that stench, even though it is very effective.

Apparently not, seeing how you are still with us and all. Sorry man, couldn't resist.

[johnleeknoefler]

Originally Posted by Billthegravedigger ↗

Apparently not, seeing how you are still with us and all. Sorry man, couldn't resist.

I'm quite sure you noticed the "for fumigation". We used the "eggs". They are cyanide salts from what I have been told. We mix a solution of sulfuric acid and water (two parts water to one part acid) and then lock all doors but the one exit we will use. Only one person gets assigned to drop the eggs. We plan a path so there is no backtracking and going back into a zone where there might be gas. Then do the drop. Exit and lock the door and post signs. Two or three days later return to ventilate the building. That's the nasty part because you can smell that stuff. It's like ash and almonds. When I was a kid there was a bag of the smaller bricks. I thought it was sugar and licked one. I instantly realized my mistake and ran to wash my mouth. Where my tongue had touched turned white for about a week. We kept amyl nitrate on hand for accidental poisoning. I loved that stuff.

[Billthegravedigger]

Originally Posted by johnleeknoefler ↗

I'm quite sure you noticed the "for fumigation". We used the "eggs". They are cyanide salts from what I have been told. We mix a solution of sulfuric acid and water (two parts water to one part acid) and then lock all doors but the one exit we will use. Only one person gets assigned to drop the eggs. We plan a path so there is no backtracking and going back into a zone where there might be gas. Then do the drop. Exit and lock the door and post signs. Two or three days later return to ventilate the building. That's the nasty part because you can smell that stuff. It's like ash and almonds. When I was a kid there was a bag of the smaller bricks. I thought it was sugar and licked one. I instantly realized my mistake and ran to wash my mouth. Where my tongue had touched turned white for about a week. We kept amyl nitrate on hand for accidental poisoning. I loved that stuff.

Hope all is going good for you John, and it would take brass balls to do that kind of work. The coroner here got me to smell a body that died from that stuff, or tried to anyway.

He said it smelled of bitter almonds, but very few people could pick up on that smell. It smelled like wet newspapers to me though.

[johnleeknoefler]

Originally Posted by Billthegravedigger ↗

Hope all is going good for you John, and it would take brass balls to do that kind of work. The coroner here got me to smell a body that died from that stuff, or tried to anyway.

He said it smelled of bitter almonds, but very few people could pick up on that smell. It smelled like wet newspapers to me though.

As far as taking balls to drop the eggs, it was just what we did. It never seemed like it was a big deal to me. Only we did do a walk through ahead of the drop to make sure no one was in the shop. We usually did the drop on a Friday afternoon before Sabbath so for sure no one would be working. After working in the bees all week and getting the snot stung out of me dropping a few lunch sacks of cyanide eggs is a bit anticlimatic.
As for the smell, it could be the body you smelt had been aired out a bit and also how was the cyanide taken? What form was it? I have heard there are various forms. The stuff we used was exactly the size and shape of the charcoal bricks you use for barbeque. Just white in color. They have absolutely no odor before being dropped in the acid solution. After the place is aired out we (usually me) would go in and take out the solution which would have reformed crystals in the solution. The crystals looked like ice beginning to form. I know now it was illegal even then but at the time I didn't know and so just flushed it down the toilet. Later when I heard it was illegal I buried it which might of been even worse for the water table. Also I have no idea what the remaining salts were. Perhaps cyanide salts that were left over? I still remember that nasty smell and how it would take days for the reek to subside.
You could tell when it reached the windows cause I would stand outside and watch till the bees and insects inside would just start dropping. A good way to know that the poison had dispersed enough to be safe for entry was when you would again see insects in the windows.
The largest critter I ever found dead was a possum which had hidden up in the rafters. The main pest we were trying to kill was wax moths. They can eat up combs all winter long and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not kept under control.

[OhSisterMagdelene]

Thanks for saving us some tax dollars

[Kazoo]

Was I the only one waiting to see a pistol?

[skinnypig74]

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[bobafett]

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[Riley321]

[docfr8]

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