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Postby hobo finds » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:57 pm

Broke down a window ac unit and out poped a 4" long scorpion bounced off my leg and took off! Mother nature did not like me for releasing the freon I think!
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Postby messymessy » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:05 pm

I think I would have screamed like a little girl.
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Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:07 pm

Did ya scrap it?
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Postby Rodebaugh » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:08 pm

Scorpion? I googled it and it looks like a land crawdad with a bee stinger tail! :o

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Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:08 pm

I've seen on TV where they are said to be tasty! (deep-fried)
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Postby Thogey » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:25 pm

I run in to them all the time.

I have an employee who just picks them up with his bare hands.
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Postby chris6084 » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:50 pm

Seen many scorpions while I lived in AZ, even some in my house. I sat on one while camping and got stung, not a good surprise. Lesson learned, when outdoors, look before you sit.
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Postby HoardCopperByTheTon » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:32 am

One stung my mom in the tail twice.. seems he didn't want to share those shorts she was putting on. She always shakes them out real well now. :mrgreen:
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Postby coppertone » Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:48 am

You southerners have all the cool critters!!
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Postby Hades12 » Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:41 pm

I find lots of spiders and some bees in some of the monitors I do, even had a piece of equipment die a few years ago from a lizard, but never a scorpion.


PS what average per pound do you see from window AC units?
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Postby hobo finds » Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:54 pm

Hades12 wrote:I find lots of spiders and some bees in some of the monitors I do, even had a piece of equipment die a few years ago from a lizard, but never a scorpion.


PS what average per pound do you see from window AC units?


I break them down

This one I got 3 lbs CU
8 lbs alum/cu raid/coil
34 lbs sheet steel
13 lbs elect motor
28 lbs compressor/sealed unit

Total should get me $22-$25 or so.
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Postby Hades12 » Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:03 pm

average #50 unit so .50 per pound? or there about. you ever cut the compressor? the dump keeps the window units out seperate I tried once to buy them by the pound and am going to try again.
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Re: scorpion

Postby larryb » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:08 pm

HoardCopperByTheTon wrote:One stung my mom in the tail twice.. seems he didn't want to share those shorts she was putting on. She always shakes them out real well now. :mrgreen:


Just read'n some old threads and posts, and this one I found pretty funny. lb :D
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Postby Morsecode » Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:44 pm

Great. Now I'm afraid to carry the air conditioner down the basement.
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Postby John_doe » Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:46 pm

I found one in my dryer yesterday. First one I have ever seen in real life, and he was not a happy camper.
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