You've NEVER Seen This REAL 1980s Lawn Mower Insect Killer!

[@DianeHuber-g3r]

My husband has a 1966 huffy rider that smokes worse than that WITHOUT the fogger attachment...

[@Iowa599]

Not worse, 'more'. also helps insect problems

[@danielbane5670]

I worked for Huffy in Richmond Indiana in 1971 on the rider assembly line.

[@MmmHuggles]

Just some excess cylinder lubricant lol.

[@Lon-up8bq]

This is the best show. both entertaining and educational. I think schools should require this in a small engine repair class.

[@kknows3512]

I used one of these for years, 1970s to 1980s. If you can see heavy fog you are using too much dope.The trick is to regulate the flow valve so only a tiny amount of juice is flowing. I installed a quarter turn ball valve ahead of the needle valve. Pull the hose off the metal pipe, open the QT valve, and set the regulator valve for a drop every 15 seconds. Then use the QT for ON-OFF. When stopping, close the QT a few minutes before shutting down the engine. Worked great! I only needed to fog about 2 or 3 times each summer to keep the skeeters knocked way down.

[@silent1967]

It's like anything else brother, you just can't be stupid about it. We don't have many people with common sense nowadays.

[@jhonsiders6077]

Had one in Miami the city would give you the fluid bring your own can you mixed it with kerosine they also had the trucks we rode behind on our bikes LOL .

[@Saved_The_Day]

Love these videos! We sure did have lots of machinery and gadgets back in the day with very little to NO safeguards. Sure is crazy how times have changed. Now you spill a cup of coffee on your lap and get awarded a million dollars!!

[@danielparsons3995]

What a oddity makes this Sunday morning interesting 👍

[@andyhamilton8940]

We recommend a 50/50 mixture of Agent Orange and asbestos for best results.

[@rickcrickc1017]

Don't forget a dash of DDT.

[@joshmanis9860]

Don’t forget the pint of arsenic

[@dntlss]

ha ha ha

[@mp9228]

That mysteries and oddities intro never gets old

[@wilmarbarrick3194]

Lil' DDT fog in the morning... smells like... VICTORY ✌!!

[@stevenrail4976]

🎉

[@safetyharborfirearms]

Maybe a little Agent Orange too

[@ClickinChicken]

funny/humorous.

[@mikemetzger7956]

In the early eighties working in the factory on second shift in the summer, with both ends of the buildings railroad doors open, plenty of mosquitoes in the evening. Maintenance department would push a lawnmower just like yours Taryl, down both outside isles and the center isle to fog for mosquitoes. Never having looked at the lawnmower, I always assumed they just put a chemical in the gas tank. I have to say that it did work. Thanks for bringing back the memory.

[@silent1967]

I LIKE IT ! The insectacide in those days was some great stuff, DDT was the best. Today's stuff is junk.

[@HE-pu3nt]

The cancer and male sterility was a bit of a downer though.

[@silent1967]

@HE-pu3nt Yeah, just don't eat it.

[@dannyg402012]

@@HE-pu3nt the stuff they put in food now is killing more people and causing more cancer than any of this stuff ever did

[@knighthawk86855]

Your neighbors bugging you.... Fog em... LMAO

[@Casadejoe]

I got a Honda with bad rings. Get the same effect😂

[@wyrunuts]

Yep, I have a Honda HR214, smokes,but still runs better than the new mowers.

[@smallenginediagnostics9350]

I remember back in the 1970’s when the city had a bigger version of this mounted on a pickup truck. It was diesel and malathion. You could smell it coming when it was blocks away.

[@LCStL1]

we'd chase those trucks down the streets on our bikes!

[@BillMalcolm-tn3kq]

Malathion was the king of poisons. I used to dribble it in powder form in a circle round my transplanted broccoli plants. Mix it in a bit to make the soil radioactive. Next morning, the dead cutworms were a sight to behold. DDT was piker dust by comparison, all it did besides killing mossies and giving scratchy armpits was ti make birds egg shells transparent and rubbery -- alien life forms would eventually emerge and flop around before croaking. Was the oxygen that got 'em, not the DDT. Star Trek said so. Living Better Chemically was the motto of the age. Then Bhopal India struck Malathion was the king of poisons. I used to dribble it in powder form in a circle round my transplanted broccoli plants. Mix it in a bit to make the soil radioactive. Next morning, the dead cutworms were a sight to behold. DDT was piker dust by comparison, all it did besides killing mossies and giving scratchy armpits was ti make birds egg shells transparent and rubbery -- alien life forms would eventually emerge and flop around before croaking. Was the oxygen that got 'em, not the DDT. Star Trek said so. Living Better Chemically was the motto of the age. Then Bhopal india struckMalathion was the king of poisons. I used to dribble it in powder form in a circle round my transplanted broccoli plants. Mix it in a bit to make the soil radioactive. Next morning, the dead cutworms were a sight to behold. DDT was piker dust by comparison, all it did besides killing mossies and giving scratchy armpits was ti make birds egg shells transparent and rubbery -- alien life forms would eventually emerge and flop around before croaking. Was the oxygen that got 'em, not the DDT. Star Trek said so. Living Better Chemically was the motto of the age. Then Dow's plant in Bhopal India struck with methyl isocyanate, killed off 4000 folks and had 600,000 severely injured. That stuff was even better than malathion on insects. Er, and humanoids.

[@BillMalcolm-tn3kq]

As you can see, the stuff had an effect on my brain.

[@prevost8686]

I was in high school in the early eighties and played high school baseball. I remember many times a huge fogging truck with a load of DDT would fog the park area before a game just to keep the skeeters down. They usually went through the city limits once a week during peak skeeter season. We never gave it a second thought.

[@Wheel_Horse]

All the little grass ratlets in my neighborhood would ride behind the fogging truck on our bicycles. Nope, never a thought that we were killing ourselves slowly with his fog. Marvel mystery oil down the carb throat would make a pretty awesome cloud of smoke too. A friend rigged up a dealio where he could turn a valve from the driver seat and drip the MMO into the carb as he drove. Why? just because kids were crazy back then... we thought it was fun anyway.

[@jhonsiders6077]

@@Wheel_Horse I made one for my car drilled into the exhaust manifold used trans fluid and kerosene mix made a huge cloud ! we rode our bikes too followed the truck (miami) im 67 still alive LOL .

[@Wheel_Horse]

@@jhonsiders6077

[@fastbusiness]

When I was about 10 yr. old, the city had an old jeep that pulled a trailer with an industrial size fogging machine to kill the mosquitos. We would ride behind it on our bikes and inhale that sweet smell. Now, with only a few brain cells still alive, I can only sit and watch YT videos about lawnmower repair.

[@franklovell3149]

The city would send out notices about keeping the kids out of the fog...parents didn't care. Kid dies, they just make a new one that looks just like the old one!!

[@agostinodibella9939]

Oh God! I remember as a kid way back a truck would fog the neighborhood, and us kids followed it with our bikes! Boy, were we dumb!

[@jamesspash5561]

I didn't have this add on kit, but the old worn out mower I had burned more oil than fuel. No mosquitoes or any other bugs bothered me while mowing.

[@tonysheerness2427]

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

[@hmartinlb]

Survival bias

[@NoNORADon911]

Not really lol. Eating lead paint chips might not kill you.

[@williamworth2746]

And I would not duck with that generation

[@TheOnespeedbiker]

Actually more often than not, what doesn't kill you makes you weak and sick 🤢.

[@Nozinbonsai]

It's was an anticholinisrease , the nerve poison it did cause huge problems, seeing it much later though.

[@modoc852]

$29.99 sounds like a bargain compared to what Jack Kevorkian charged.

[@4acrehome168]

I could see this in the 40s or 50s. But the 80s? Holy crap

[@marriedwithsmallengines]

Good morning from Ontario, Canada!

[@oxyfee6486]

Woodstock Ontario watching Taryl too, hello fellow Grass Rat.👍🇨🇦🇺🇸

[@shepardsinsequence]

These Lawnmower Mysteries and Oddities are scary 😱

[@toenails.]

Lawnboy mowers worked the best at 32:1 oil mix. No need for that extra add on junk.

[@rogerstlaurent8704]

I heard Battery power mowers work the best with this insect killing device BTW do you know where the Muffler is located on a battery powered lawnmower ????

[@2StrokeDriptroit]

@@rogerstlaurent87042 strokes kick ASS! Actually, my old 2 strokes run clear and clean in my old 2 strokes! That includes open flywheel Power Products and Clinton 500 series Panthers, great engines, if ya want smoke go to the usually recommended mix for these-16:1 ! And use straight 30 weight 4 stroke car engine oil! You will have people calling the fire department thinking your house is on fire! 😆😆👍🏻

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Try 16:1....

[@ElainesDomain]

I'll take 2 and a 55 gallon barrel of DDT.

[@bucketsgarage]

Good morning everyone 😁😁😁

[@james1795]

UPWIND!!! Not downwind!!

[@JDG1958]

I’ve had 2 of those hand held foggers made by Burgess. I may also have some of the fogging insecticide solution hanging around too. It’s true, that solution gums up the works. I used mine around 20 years ago. I’m still here too. Cough-cough. Pardon me while I cough up my lungs.

[@markdanielczyk944]

That'll put some hair on your chest!🤣👍 There's your funeral!🫵

[@davie66fly]

"Downwind"? Wth!!! You're already sniffed too much Taryl!😵‍💫

[@Adirondacks4me]

My parents own a camping area in northern NY in the 60s. Many a time we used this fogger in the evening to fog the camping area... lol, this brought back some memories..!

[@andyhamilton8940]

Lil Johhny could use that to wake up Gwampa from his hammock nap!

[@jdh395]

great idea

[@garyruark9506]

Good invention. Simple, cheap to manufacture, easy to install and it works. Any kind of fogger is going to be something that could get on you when using.

[@Iowa599]

If you fill that tank with diesel fuel can you use the mower as a flame thrower? (for leaf clean-up without raking)

[@santaclause2875]

awesome idea !!!!!!!!!!

[@drfalcon4102]

Backin the late 50's, early 60's my father had a small engine shop in IL,, he sold a ton of those things,,,think they were $8.95 or so,, made a nice cloud,, did they kill anything??? I doubt it..

[@mikechasse1016]

Blitz sold insect foggers in the 60's. I had the remnants of one on a Wheel horse 857

[@patjohnson3100]

I used Burgess pressure spray tanks from our local hardware store, but I've never seen this insect fogger. Always interesting to see these oddities. The vintage mower is cool, and you have a nice shop.

[@MTHDCS]

Uncle Buck's Marquis Fogger!

[@santaclause2875]

Oh God, that was a hilarious movie !!!!!!!!

[@wg4405]

My Dad back in the day built his own kit like that . I believe I still have a stainless tank out in the barn he made to do that to a rider but never installed it .

[@benjamincresswell3713]

Yes, we did that all the time back in the 60's. Most of my neighbors had riders and they sat the tank on top of the the tractor hood and let the insecticide gravity feed into the exhaust pipe. And yes it was DDT BABY! The Good Stuff. Now me, I had a Go-Kart made from an old Soap Box Derby Kart that I put the driving part of my Dad's reel mower under in the back. When we camped out I'd drive my Go-Kart to the spot where we were going to camp. When I got in the right place, I'd take the air cleaner off and pour some 6-12 bug repellent out of a bottle directly into my Briggs & Stratton intake manifold. You know where the choke was, while the engine was running and let the 6-12 go thru the whole intake and come out the exhaust. I didn't drive it around, I just fogged the area where we were planning on camping out, and it worked very well. That would have been about 1964. ben/ michigan

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing.👍

[@matthewcauthorn3948]

I remember them from the 1960s. Can’t believe they lasted till the 80s.

[@jerrysimmons9831]

I'm usually with you, but your definition of working and mine appears to differ . That motor sounded running rougher than a cobblestone carriage with square wheels when you turned it on. Also, even if working poorly, I'd prefer not to be down wind, upwind would be preferable. And to those talking DDT on the 80"s, it wasn't a thing. Now in the 60's and early 70"s, I saw truckload of the stuff sprayed in the rural South. But it was banned in the 70's because of reports of messing up the shell strength on Eagle eggs.

[@oldoldpilgrim7898]

I used to ride by cotton fields sprayed with DDT in the 70's. I usually rolled the windows up before driving by if the smell was in the air. DDT smelled kind of sweet to me. The defoloiant sprayed on before the picker went through smelled much worse.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

What nutty Idea !

[@paulwillard5924]

An old time company produced a chemical delivery system just like this. It was called Flitz, it could be applied with a pump hand applicator or as a muffler mounted unit like yours, usually put them on lawn tractors. Classic Tractor Fever had a show about one of the Flitz units on a lawn tractor, quite educational…

[@markrandall1456]

We had one of those on a mower when I worked for the school. It was an older model with a cylindrical metal tank. We were close to the river bottoms. When the floods would come then the mosquitos would get real bad. We fogged around the school daily and sometimes twice a day. No AC - open windows in the schools so the fog got the bugs and the students too I can still smell the fog. This was in 1968-1973 time frame.

[@georgenovotny4421]

That fogger idea was hilarious!!! I love it! Screw the green new dealers and the EPA! LOL

[@JAMESMUSIL]

Now you tell me not indoors ! To late I'm in the Hospital ; Thanks sick boy + his dogy

[@andrefiset3569]

In the 70's, all the kids in the campground including me, chased the pick-up to get fogged. Luckily, it didn't smell bad. Back then they put used engine oil on the dirt roads to control dust too. Good old times.

[@bobgallerie3694]

My father made one of those back in the day. Put a metal tank half way up the handle and it dripped on the end of the cigar muffler. I sort of remember he had a 45 degree fitting so the muffler pointed down a bit. He would use it the morning when we had family over for a cookout.

[@dougthornton6884]

As a kid in the 60s at our summer house in the Catskill Mountains, we all waited for the "Roto-Mist" truck to come around with the DDT cannon. No bugs, birds, fish, or any other living thing left alive !!!! Clean and good.

[@gavila222]

The other small engine guy I follow would probably pour beer in the tank..

[@billmalec]

Fogging used to be kind of common. Malaria isn't something you want either. I could see positioning that up-wind and letting it run and fog an area and moving it occasionally. I think that would be safer than waking behind it.

[@Jeffrey-t8g]

I like it, what other colors does it come in?

[@dntlss]

ha ha ha

[@wildchild4163]

Back in the 60ds we had mice in the garage. My dad would mix the lawn boy a little rich ,start it up and close the door , let it run till it choked lt self out . 😊

[@treytaylor7553]

Good morning. Great oddity Taryl!!

[@andybecker2693]

My automatic fogger was a 1961 Lawn Boy that used a 16:1 mix ratio. If you grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, you inhaled a lot of secondhand smoke of different types,lol!

[@JefferyAshmore]

1970 2 cycle snowmobile with carb right in chest exhaust blowing out from cowl. Moto ski, skidoo ect. Yea that was healthy, probably where my copd came from.

[@mrdfarms9373]

This is GREAT!!!! Who needs the mosquito man in his spray truck when you have this!!! DDT for all 😂

[@jeffreyweinzierl1509]

I think it would be fun to try something smokier with that thing. Used motor oil? 2 cycle mix perhaps? Turpentine?

[@Mark-dq6lr]

And THERE’S your poison! 🐞🐜🦟🪰🪲🦗🕷

[@nutsnbolts76]

I never would have thought a man with teefs like that could dance!

[@garethjudd5840]

I'm surprised this never took off 😂

[@train1962]

Stayed in a campground in the Florida Keys in the early 90's.Just before dark they pulled a small trailer around with a small engine running spewing out smoke Mosquitos were still bad after nightfall. Still here to tell about it.😄

[@GeorgeJefferson-h7w]

I stayed at a campground in South Dakota 8 years ago and they had the same thing. I was like wtf?

[@RichieCat4223]

With that green color I thought it was for Lawn Boy.

[@mcburcke]

Back in the day, I think insecticides were still made of dilute nerve agent, which actually killed bugs very well. That's probably why all the warnings about staying clear of the fog.

[@williambaker1753]

I like these mysteries and oddities.

[@michaelbragg8763]

Funny thing, we used one of these to fog the inside of an old grist mill I worked at. We just pushed it inside and shut the door. It is a 4 story building, and we had fog coming out the window on the fourth floor!

[@Big_B1-e]

Never been this early before

[@thebegrsshow]

So are you telling me I shouldn't re-install the one I've been using for 30 years on a dozen different mowers onto my new Toro?

[@budsodalsky]

Leave that running in a tightly sealed wood shed and lock slippers in there till tommorrow

[@marvlinke7453]

I remember as a kid using a similar product. Explains a lot why I am the way I am.

[@jasonhumphry5836]

Id like to see you run ice water in it perhaps as a muffler cooler 😎

[@bobrau1]

We had this in the early 60's in Hawaii. It worked good to kill mosquitos. On the military base they also had a truck that came by a few time a week that fogged everywhere.

[@ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO00]

You meant UPWIND of it.

[@oldoldpilgrim7898]

In the early '60s i was in a yard where someone hooked up a similar lawnmower fogger. It fascinated me but my mother wouldn't let us near it, she probably took us inside. DDT was a popular insecticide in those days. I don't know what was in the tank.

[@williambowman7822]

Morning gang

[@jamesc9327]

Happy Thanksgiving to the Tayrl family. Is this thing good for family members we may not like? OK enough silly, thanks for the excellent video sir. 👍👍👍👍

[@ThomasGuy-r8p]

60 yrs old never heard of the mower/ fogger. Do remember in the 80's when towns fogged for mosquitoes. Better shut windows. And whats up with 12 min videos? How do we properly sharpen lawnmower blades? The best fuel additive is automatic transmission fluid. Get on the stick grass rat. Your our hero.

[@bingo45373]

I remember as a kids I would ride my bike through the fog

[@lawntractrlife]

kills everything but the mosquitos 😂

[@alansmith4734]

7:51 "down wind"? Wouldn't it be safer to be "up wind"? Pet Sematary is down wind! =O

[@santaclause2875]

Dang, Taryl, has it already snowed in Indiana ??????????

[@bruceferrero8178]

We had Phillip the fogger in Crescent City IL. He drove around town with the DynaJet pulse jet mosquito fogger back in the 70s

[@Scooby-Doo-bd4ek]

should've called it the nextdoor neighbor killer..😄😄😄👍👍👍

[@crocketteerden6240]

We made units like this one at work. We just used oil. Seemed to put a nice oily film on the grass

[@stevebrueggen800]

Hey Taryl. I’ve been looking through your store inventory. You’re out of Omega XL. WTH? 😂

[@astroboy5137]

When I was a kid in the 60’s. The county would fog the ditches 2 or 3 times in the summer.

[@jimwilhelmi9932]

We had one of those in the 70s, the hose supplied with ours didn't have the steel tubing, which is probably why I am able to reply to this thread.

[@MegaRickw]

I have a new one right now that's made to go on my leaf blower,it's about 12 yrs old and never used,wish I could post a pic of it here,Rick from Delaware

[@keithrayeski6417]

Early winter Taryl or, left over episode!

[@Floyd-o2f]

Why do all that I just use an old mower with bad rings and let smoke that way I got rid of alot Of bees that way.😊and there's your smoked dinner.

[@abrahamwestmoreland7241]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! BE SAFE!

[@poormiserablesinner4600]

20 % off ain't enough I want 1/2 off

[@wayneessar7489]

We have tiny evil biting bugs called Black Flies and this would be ideal to make mowing possible!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

As a kid we had a craftsman mower with one of those on it for our cottage. Ahh the memories of dumping DDT into the mower of dreams and chomping through two foot high grass in a grey cloud of happiness. And we're still alive with no adverse effects. Hell, im over 60 and all three of my eyes are 20/20/20 still.

[@santaclause2875]

hilarious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@georgenovotny4421]

But look at what it did to his teeth!!!!

[@chubbyjohnson5480]

Aw yeah! Another mystery and oddity!

[@dkeith45]

Reminds me of when the British first used poison gas against the Germans in WW1. As it was blowing towards the German trenches, the wind shifted and blew it back on the British army, with predictable results 0_o

[@1pcfred]

They had to do something with all of that Agent Orange they had left over.

[@philliphall5198]

I can remember Mr Walt yelling at us not to do it 😢 lolol the driver pulling the trailer with engine 😮

[@RMartin631]

I've seen worse. I used to have a 1950s engine powered push mower with an aluminum deck. The problem wasn't that the belt driving the blade was on top of the mower without a guard. It was a rear discharge mower. Hit a piece of sharp metal, it hits your leg, it cuts an artery, and suddenly you have blood spurting out all over the place.

[@ClydeQuick]

We did that 50 years ago with transmission fluid

[@tedjastrombjr.5187]

Great dance moves, all ya need is a Disco Ball