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Bob Kerr

09-27-2007 20:44:34

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Ouch! Bushhogged today with the M and found out that an M is not high enough to get me through a swarm of yellow jackets unscathed. They only got me twice, but right after that happened the radiator started leaking! I called it a day after that! I am going to give them the "treatment" tomorrow and resolder the leak.

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Bob Kerr

09-28-2007 20:07:54

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Dam BEES update! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

Well They got me again twice today! Went down to dump sevin dust in the hole and there were leaves and sticks from the bushhogging covering the hole, so dummy me takes another stick to sweep the area quick to find it and get clear. Dang those buggers are fast and aggressive this time of year! They did get some yummy "just deserts" today. I guess they gave me mine also! Kept bushogging after fixing radiator and the brake pin came out and was lost and the brake spring broke, leaves built up on the engine since the hood was still off so I could check for more leaks and the M caught fire (got it out ok), Replaced 4 shear bolts(one lasted 2 min) and finally stuck in a grade 5 bolt and had a bolt come out on the 3 point hitch and get lost, with no more bolts on hand it was a trip to town. Got raked real good by several multi flora rose bushes , but paid them back with the bushhog. Spent the last hour picking out thorns out of me. at least those bee drillers stay in the bee and not me. Worst of all is the legion closed early tonight so no pain killer! Not been a good week. !)

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BigMarv1085

09-28-2007 19:26:21

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

I buy several cans of the cheap starting fluid from Big Lot's. Instant death to a wasp nest and doesn't leave a oily residue.

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Bill in NC

09-28-2007 15:30:28

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

I was running a handle bar type Ditch Witch one summer afternoon and ditched through a big yellow jacket nest. With the Ditch Witch vibrating and jumping up and down in Randolph County's rocky soil, I wasn't fully aware of what was happening until a couple of them hit me on my face. By that time I had already got stung about 25 times on my arms. Funny thing, those yellow jackets kept trying to get back into their home over the next ten days. The entrance was tore apart by the ditch and they couldn't figure out what to do and eventually died flying around looking for the entrance.

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mowr

09-28-2007 14:55:30

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

If they got the radiator you'd better check out all the reservoirs before you work the tractor again; gas tank, transmission, battery.... Seriously, I sympathize! Pushing a lawnmower, I started getting stung and some of them had gone up my pantlegs. No more mowing that day. By the time I went back to deal with them a few days later a skunk (so I understand) had already helped himself...and me.

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Janicholson

09-28-2007 12:38:16

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

Electro-Motive Spray (CRC) is the most powerful wasp/bee/insect killer I know of. they do not die, they seem already dead on just a whif of it!
Try it on a paper wasp nest, they just fall dead and bounce. JimN

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teddy52food

09-28-2007 18:56:27

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Janicholson, 09-28-2007 12:38:16

A fly or bee has no lungs like we do and can't hold their breath. They absorb oxygen from the air through the fuzzy parts of their body. Any spray that penetrates will do them in.

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Janicholson

09-29-2007 12:52:37

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to teddy52food, 09-28-2007 18:56:27

Sorry, not true.
Insects breath through spiracles that are passages leading inside to tracheae. Hairs are not used for respiration.

Spiracles : Paired lateral openings on each segment of the thorax and abdomen. These lead from the exterior into the respiratory system of insects. The respiratory system has elastic air tubes, called tracheae, throughout the body. JimN

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jpl

09-28-2007 10:46:37

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

had a few wasp nest around garage where my granddaughter plays, well no more in or around garage, i just get a can of starter fluid and shoot them and their nests, sometimes they come after me but just shoot them out of air with the fluid then step on them. havent tried yellow jackets yet, they seem to fly faster. dont run out of ammunition.

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Goose

09-28-2007 10:17:04

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

About ten years ago at a different house, I needed to pull some old shrubs out on one end ot the house. To keep from tearing up the lawn, I parked a pickup for an anchor an hooked a come-along from the first shrub to the hitch on the pickup.

When I pulled the first shrub loose, I found yellow jackets had built a nest around the roots, and they were not happy with me for pulling their home apart. I took off running across the yard, but about a dozen still got me. Wasp stings don't bother me, a wasp can sting me and 15 minutes later, I can't even find the spot, but I sure felt those yellow jackets for a couple of days.

My dad told once of a great uncle of mine who was plowing with horses and a walking plow. He plowed into a nest of yellow jackets. They got up his pant legs and inside his shirt. Guess he was in bad shape for a week or so.

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John M

09-28-2007 03:40:43

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

Went out last week to pull my working M out to do a little bushoging myself. Took about 15 minutes from the time I started the tractor, until I was in the feild. I was out there about an hour, I just happen to look down at the ampguage about the same time 2 wasps come fling out of the amp box right onto my face. Cut it off and prayed I wouldnt faint or fall off and left it sitting, still sitting there. (Im slightly allergic to bee stings)Picking up some spray today.

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banjo

09-27-2007 22:04:54

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to Bob Kerr, 09-27-2007 20:44:34

Dont you hate it when that happens. hard to outrun them on an open tractor.

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Ron in Nebr

09-28-2007 07:30:12

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to banjo, 09-27-2007 22:04:54

"outrun them ON an open tractor"????? Heck, I didn't know you were supposed to stay ON the tractor! When my brothers and I were kids, naturally back then we put up all our hay with open tractors. It was a pretty common sight to see a tractor sitting idleing and a kid running away from it for dear life. Then dad got the job of going and moving the tractor away from the bumblebee nest. Funny, never knew him to get stung during any of these rescue missions either. Although there was a time right before I was born when his sweep tractor died right on top of a bumblebee nest and I guess they got him real good before he could get away....suppose it was grandad who had to rescue that tractor!

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Bob Kerr

09-28-2007 06:53:35

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to banjo, 09-27-2007 22:04:54

I guess the bad thing about outrunning them is I was right in the middle of very thick underbrush with low lying limbs from some bigger trees and it was hard to see where the big grille smashing trees were in low gear let alone 4th. I guess that is why I didn't see the swarm that got me till it was too late. Hope a coon got them last night!

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GeneMO

09-28-2007 05:01:31

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Re: Dang BEES! in reply to banjo, 09-27-2007 22:04:54

I have two or three truck loads of iron still to haul from a junk pile I am cleaning up. I only work on it in the winter to avoid bumblebees, wasps and rattlesnakes. Wasp spray is part of my gear that I keep in the truck. It seems they were especially bad this year in MO.

I have an outhouse at the hunting cabin and needed to use it real bad the other morning. First time of the season. Was all settled in and looked up. There were about a zillion wasps up in the top. Thank goodness it was in the mid 50's they were pretty cold. I got the job done and hauled outa there.

Gene

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