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Yellow Jackets in hollow tree
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You would know.:help:
poke the hive with a stick and run....if there still behind you after about 200 feet ya got yourself some killer beez:jester:
ropensaddle
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Ok I will post the results later:monkey:
oldirty
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pics!
460magnumMOD
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Last week my boss and I were taking down a big pine. Bucket truck is tied up in the paint shop so he climbed it up while I cleared brush as it came down. When my boss got to about 60ft. or so I hear him start yelling and cussin. The 200t came crashing to the ground (still works fine) and he was trying to get his line around a branch and a prusik tied in it to slide down. The knot was only about half complete by the time he came sliding down. He made it down safely, but with 11 stings on his head from white face hornets. I didn't think they would make hives that high up, but there it was in a mangled section of branches about 5ft above where he was. Needless to say we said screw it and blocked of the street (underground utilities) and dropped the whole tree there then used the trusty swinger loader to push the top out of the road and spray the hell out of the hive and ran around like a couple little girls.
ropensaddle
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Now me thinks you want me to get stung, how am I supposed to run
and take pics
Shame on you old dirty and yes I know its oldirty,not in this case bud :hmm3grin2orange:
oldirty
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Now me thinks you want me to get stung, how am I supposed to run
and take pics
not in this case bud :hmm3grin2orange:
hey you wanted me to go play grab ass with them grizzles when i was in AK man! lol
oldirty
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awesome story. lol
those are them bastids we are talking about on another thread. those guys are pissed all day long.
no wait its this thread! lol
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ropensaddle
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Wow your not old too good of memory I stand corrected
Never got any pics of griz though especially with a test of coo ! :hmm3grin2orange:
Jkebxjunke
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If you go the wasp/hornet killer route.. try to find the stuff that foams up... does a great job of stopping them in their tracks... they don't seem to fly too well when foamed.
Texas Traveler
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There is some great ideas here on what to do & I would add one thing.
If you can move a car or truck nearby so you can get in in a emergency if you hit a nest.
The yellow jackets hate the cold air from the air conditioner.
That saved my bacon from one large nest I stepped in when I was running a large STIHL brush cutter.
oldirty
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just thought i would add that we have a coworker who doesnt care what anyone else wants or thinks because he is really that selfish. he's the type of guy who will pull into the yard see that its going to take a second to park the truck because of whatever reason and get in his own and leave. a 20 yr guy.
anyway that honey bee colony we found we were going to cut the log and put it on the other side of the fence so it can do its thing.
come around the wood pile and he's over there spraying the snot out the hive.
i go "what the hell you doing dude?"
"i am allergic to bee's" he says continuing to spray.
i say " what the hell you care about wood in the pile, you arent going to do anything with the wood and we both know you wont put yourself in harms way.....why you care"
"i'm allergic" he says
"dude their honey bee's....terry was in the nest yesterday running the saw and they didnt bother him."
"allergic" he says.
"you suck, do you ever think of anyone else?" i said. and walked away.
Jkebxjunke
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we have a potential problem with honeybee hive dying ( hive collapse I think they call it) and here is a hive that was going to be relocated so they could go about their business and along comes Mr selfish who decides to take them out even though he wont be anywhere near the hive... idiot
