Post #28334 by Lake Surfer on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 9:55 PM

Many of you have read my tale of late night wood stealing earlier... this has to do with the larger chunk of dry wood I had found... I struggled with the chisels on this four footer... crappy wood... I think its willow or something... very hard to carve. Anyhow, I got a nice moai like guy carved out of it and set it up in the garage to apply some stain. 10 minutes later tons of large black carpenter ants started crawling out of a couple small holes. They were everywhere... and once in a while these huge queen ants with wings started crawling out. Of course they were all dropping quickly due to the stain but I was scrambling to get them off the tiki before they dried in the poly stain. Anyone else have any insect problems when they carve wood? I would figure there isn't much that could burrow into palms though... I've also encountered larve in my basswood logs while debarking them.

This tiki is definately going outside... who know what else is burrowed inside!