OntheLevel
ArboristSite Operative
So I had a funny adventure this summer I haven't shared yet.
I was cutting some small buckthorn. Algonac state park.
Cleared a good patch and all of a sudden I feel sharp pain in my face, neck, head, everywhere.
Didn't know what was goin on immediately so I dropped my saw and started swatting my face, and head where they were lighting
me up. Ran 15 feet away and started pulling hornets out of my hair. One got me 1 inch from my eyeball.
So my boss and the other cutter I find out are both allergic to stings and we're 3 miles into the woods
The hornets kept coming for me, even from a distance. We had to leave the premises. My baby 261 idling in the woods covered by
hornets.
I came back to the scene of the crime 1 hour later. My saw still idling and covered by the whole hive.
3 hours later I came back. it finally ran out of gas. Still covered by hornets though..
I said there is no way my baby is spending the night out here. After some thinking I cut a really tall 20' small diameter stick.
It had a branch with a hook like projection. I carefully hooked it around the handle and pulled it back a few inches at a time.
After a pulling it 15 feet closer they lost interest and grabbed her. :msp_smile:
I found out that day that hornets have gound nests.
Adam
I was cutting some small buckthorn. Algonac state park.
Cleared a good patch and all of a sudden I feel sharp pain in my face, neck, head, everywhere.
Didn't know what was goin on immediately so I dropped my saw and started swatting my face, and head where they were lighting
me up. Ran 15 feet away and started pulling hornets out of my hair. One got me 1 inch from my eyeball.
So my boss and the other cutter I find out are both allergic to stings and we're 3 miles into the woods
The hornets kept coming for me, even from a distance. We had to leave the premises. My baby 261 idling in the woods covered by
hornets.
I came back to the scene of the crime 1 hour later. My saw still idling and covered by the whole hive.
3 hours later I came back. it finally ran out of gas. Still covered by hornets though..
I said there is no way my baby is spending the night out here. After some thinking I cut a really tall 20' small diameter stick.
It had a branch with a hook like projection. I carefully hooked it around the handle and pulled it back a few inches at a time.
After a pulling it 15 feet closer they lost interest and grabbed her. :msp_smile:
I found out that day that hornets have gound nests.
Adam