Since it's slow I will share a little bit of my excitement for the afternoon. Was on the back end of my property cutting some dead trees down for firewood and came across a nice dead cherry about 14 or so inches across. Went ahead and dropped it and all was going smoothly. Typically I chunk it up into small logs that I can carry and pack them by hand to wear a cut them up and split them.(I like to think of this as part of my exercise regimen). Anyhows apparently there was a hornet's nest in the upper section and they weren't to pleased with the disturbance. I didn't notice until I felt some pain in my finger and saw the little bugger setting there giving me what for. Then I looked down and I was standing smack dab in the middle of the nest. Next thing I know I get hit on the back of the neck and i drop the chainsaw(a bad move in hindsite) and the race was on! I covered 100 yards in record time while trying to swat Hornets off my pants and shirt, finally just loosing my shirt and gloves just as I made it to the basement. One or two made it in with me but I settled the score fairly quickly with them and then began to ponder how I was going to get my chainsaw(still idling) back. Long story short my neighbor happened to be walking the back around the corner of his property when he spied me donned in a heavy carhart coat, welding gloves,mad bomber hat and a welding shield, sneaking back towards my chainsaw. Of course he has to ask just what the heck I am doing(I assume up until this point he has thought of me as mentally stable.) Once I give him the rundown I can tell he his really struggling to hold back the laughter. I tell him that I would really appreciate it if he would just go ahead and laugh because I fully intent to when everything settled down. Anyways I got my chainsaw back without further incident. I can't see where all I have been stung but counting spots that are throbbing it's around 8 or so. Not to bad considering the circumstances. And feel free to laugh as well. I know I am.
Ouch! I would have donated the chainsaw to whoever retrieved it. I hate hornets, yellow jackets, wasps or anything with a stinger. I have been known to knock women and small children out of the way when confronted with a situation similar to what you faced.
Just reading this made me feel i was getting stung.... omg ... glad your got your chainsaw ....i feel your pain OUCH....
Used to work for Orkin pest control and know how you feel. I once took two bumble bee stings to the head at the same time. That may explain what's wrong with me
Usain Bolt better start looking over his shoulder. LOL. Glad you're ok. I can just see it, with me in the starring role. Once while turkey hunting I had a black racer snake come across my boot and start up my pant leg. At three feet up and still gaining altitude it dawned on me it was non-poisonous.
pestilence! Reminds me of the time i was turning over my compost out back. Nice summer day, shorts no shirt and i feel this burning like i got hit by a bead as i was welding. Well i look down and the ground wasp werent to happy when i ruined their nest. took 3 hits from them and i got out of dodge!
Wow that had to be scarry and painful. .glad you got through it ok it could have been alot worse I'm thinking
Definitely could have been worse. Fortunately the main force concentrated on my Jean's which were real heavy carhartt. Not a one made it through that. A sleeveless t shirt wasn't a good call on my part though. I definitely didn't put in a record time on the hundred yard dash but considering I was wearing steel toed boots and running uphill I am not disappointed. I felt I laid my best on the table and not many would have done better
Ha, done the same things with chainsaw and tractor, left them both running over yellow jacket nest running as hard as a old man can, wait about 4 hours to go back
Quote from: Old Timer on July 28, 2019, 06:58:41 PM
pestilence! Reminds me of the time i was turning over my compost out back. Nice summer day, shorts no shirt and i feel this burning like i got hit by a bead as i was welding. Well i look down and the ground wasp werent to happy when i ruined their nest. took 3 hits from them and i got out of dodge!
You must have posted a pretty good track time yourself!
That could have been rel bad for some people. I'm not allergic to them but a friend of mine is. He lives in Saint Augustine and about 5 years ago we took his boat out in a King-fish tournament. We were a little over a hundred miles offshore and all of a sudden there's a wasp flying around the console. He bails, I'm like what the heck are you doing. He said I left my epipen in the truck. So that could have been real bad. He stayed in the water while I chased and finally killed the wasp, then he still stayed in the water and had me search the boat. Apparently one had started to build a nest in a rod holder and stayed on it until we were that far out. I told him you have to be pretty afraid of something to jump out of a boat 100 miles offshore and leave me alone on the boat with the key in the ignition. He said his chances of survival would have been better in the water by himself than to get stung on the boat.
I know this feeling. Two summers ago, I was doing some spraying on a 4 wheeler, with my brother. My brother had the wand over a fence and I was driving the 4 wheeler in a hayfield that was about 5 feet tall. I ran over a yellow jackets nest and suffered about 8 to 10 stings before I realized what was happening. Off the 4 wheeler I came screaming BEEEEESSSSSSS running at full sprint. I left the 4 wheeler running in idle. The only way to retrieve the 4 wheeler was with a heavy set of coveralls, heavy gloves, hat and scarf wrapped around my head with only my eyes uncovered in 90 degree heat. My brother LHAO. I told him, better me than him, as he is allergic to yellow jackets.
Yeah, I feel bad for the fellows that are allergic to them. It can definitely turn bad fast for some.
Ouch, glad you are not allergic so none the worse for the attack. Years ago I was walking down the back stairs and got stung, it was then that I noticed the nest. A can of Black Flay wasp and hornet spray did the trick
The only hornets nests I ever get into are right here on OG... :toothy12:
I did have a run-in with black ants (the big mofo's) once. Was standing around talking to some friends out in the desert,...didn't notice I was standing on the entrance to their den (or whatever it's called). Didn't feel them crawling up my leg under my pants (don't know how that happened) and none of them bit me until they had reached my knee. All of a sudden my knee was on fire when the whole bunch of them started biting,...all at once. Me running away while trying to get out of my pants was not a pretty sight,...or at least that is what I was told. At the moment, I really didn't give a d*mn what I looked like.
My knee swelled up like a balloon and got numb for a couple of days,...and for months afterwards that knee joint gave me fits. I still don't know how those ants "communicated" with each other that they were not going to bite me until they all got the signal, but it sure as heck happened that way.
I'm just glad they stopped at the knee and didn't decide to go higher! ;D
I have had 3 encounters with yellow jackets after I ran over their nest while mowing. Used both the run a distance then hit the ground and roll and the run as fast and far as you can techniques after they located me and began stinging. Neither method was successful in stopping the attack. Twice I was on a tractor, luckily I set the brakes and took it out of gear prior to bailing out. Returned after dark to recover the tractor and declare war on the yellow jackets. That battle I won.
Dang. Feel for you. Hornets are no joke.
We got some tuff hombres here! :whip2:
Quote from: Happy on July 28, 2019, 04:20:50 PMthen began to ponder how I was going to get my chainsaw(still idling) back. Long story short my neighbor happened to be walking the back around the corner of his property when he spied me donned in a heavy carhart coat, welding gloves,mad bomber hat and a welding shield, sneaking back towards my chainsaw.
I hate to laugh :TooFunny: because I despise wasps and hornets, and have had many a run in with them. But that there brother, would have been a sight to be seen!! ;D :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Been there before. I really hate wasps, bees, Hornets, any of the sort. I despise Bush hogging in the summer but its gotta be done. Few years ago I was in alabama helping some folks with clearing some property for a new food plot and setting a few blinds. Got through the whole day without incident until we began walking to the road. About 20 feet from the road I noticed something buzz by my head and back again. Then it hit me in the chest. Giant black and white Hornets. I yelled run and we split up running as fast as I could while swatting my hat to get them off of me. Probably ran at least 200 yards through thick as briars , they never slowed me down. Hit the road right in front of a club member on a tractor. Looked like a fought a bobcat from the briars and swollen like a Tyson fight from the Hornets. I think I took about a dozen hits. Mostly to the neck and chest. Worst was the fat roll on my side. I absolutely hate flying insects and they are everywhere around here
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About 25 years ago I was working 3rd shift. I had done some laundry in the morning and hung it outside on the clothes line. When I got ready for work that night I ran outside and grabbed a pair of pants. On the way to work I stopped at the local convenience store to grab a cup of coffee. On the way out of the store I feel something sting me in my thigh. As I got to the truck I feel 2 more. I can feel several things crawling on my leg. I kicked off my shoes, stripped off my pants and turned them inside out. There were 7 wasps in my pants. I got stung 5 times. I bet it was quite the sight....me standing in the parking lot in my underwear at 10:30 at night beating the crap out of my pants with one of shoes. I did kill all 7 of them bastards!
Until recently, it had been years since I'd been stung. Couple weeks ago I was cleaning a pool at a customers house. Everything was fine until I tried to enter the pool house. First step up the block stairway and BANG! Joker busted me on my toe. Did a little song and dance. Put a bit of dip on it. Told my employee about it and he ran like a chicken back to the van. Rolled up all the windows and locked the doors. Left me out there to complete the job and fend for myself. Turns out, he's allergic to bee's and can't afford an epipen. Blows my mind too. Guys an aspiring "rap star" and can buy a $1500 tennis chain and lord knows what for some tooth glitter. Btw, he's looking for new employment if anyone's interested in listening to him "sing" to you while you transport him from location to location.
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I hope I never have an encounter with them again. I am allergic to bees and I have not been able to run since my car accident in 88. I do not remember it but I guess I almost died because of them when I was young from what my mother told me and I reckon she would know. It is my only worry when I am out turkey hunting, we have rattlesnakes but they are very few and far between where I live. I carry my epipen in my backpack and another in my cargo pants when I am out hunting.
When I was a kid my brother and I were throwing the baseball and threw it up in the tree and there happened to be a hornets nest up there. I picked the ball up and the next thing I knew I was being stung all over. Took 16 stings from them. I don't ever think I'll forget that feeling.
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