Animals falling from trees

[Jerry Lord]

i was attacked by a black snake 52 feet in the air doing some town work a few months ago threw the bastard to the ground and let the younger fellers take care of it..

 

[Mikecutstrees]

Honey bees

I took down a 24" eastern hemlock last year that had a huge hive of honey bees in it. The homeowners called a guy and he vaccumed and saved most of them then screened off the hive in the early am and I took down the tree. There were alot of bees around while I was chunking it down though. It was interesting cutting off the last chunk above the hive while my spikes were vibrating from the po'd bees. I dropped the stick so the hive was upright, worked hard to make sure it didn't roll over but it still split and many po'd bees got out. I only got stung once that day but my groundie got stung 3 times and " Didn't wanna do no more" He looked like he was going to cry. So we called it a day. The bee guy put a 10' section of 24" hemlock filled with bees in the back of an F-250 and left. What a day. Got a nice tip though.

 

[Cowboy Billy]

My dad and brother bought 80 acres last year and I was pushing in a trail with a 550 case dozer. I see something fall next to the cab. Look over and see a little baby porcupine about the size of a football wandering off.

 

[smokechase II]

Kind and gentle

A government agency I work for used to be known for 'disposing' of porcupines.

A co-worker, sometime ago on a forest not to be named, saw a porky up a mid-sized pine. He climbed the tree and used a stick to push the 'varmit' from the limb that he was on. Contact with the ground was fatal.

However, my co-worker felt a poke in his lower bicep while climbing up, (but before he got to the porky). Couldn't find anything unusual on the ground and continued on with his life.

A week later a broken off quill came out of his back above the scapula - near the shoulder. That thing coulda hit a nerve or major vessel in its travels.

 

[smokechase II]

Other tree animal accounts

Here are two other animals in tree accounts that I saved in a powerpoint years ago.
I got these accounts from AS and they have been shortened a bit:



"I hit a family of snakes in a 40 inch oak tree once. At first when I saw blood on the chain I thought that it hurt myself again ’cause I took a chunk out of my knee with a Poulan 2 months earlier. I checked myself out and then started to pull out the remains of 3 or 4 Gardner snakes, (not sure ’cause they were so mangled).
Other than that I have had a bunch of squirrels run at me and that’s about it."


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…. "half way through the chain binds up, I pull it out to find bits of hair and bloody stuff. Really nasty, turned out to be a ’possum. We've also found many snakes, squirrels, raccoons, rats, owls, and bats. My crew called me the "butcher"…
I had a rat jump onto my chest while trimming a palm. I was on the top rung of a 30' ladder and tied in" ....

 

[Dibbs]

Found a bat in the middle of a rotten apple tree.
I just blocked it while it stood and pushed the rings onto the ground, it was starting to get dark but I noticed something on the ground moving when stacking the limbs and rings for collection another day. Next thing a Bat jumps up, flaps around my head for about 30 seconds then decides his house isn't really fit to live in anymore then takes off. He was lucky, he couldn't have been more than 6 inches from the wrong end of an angry MS440!

 

[LTREES]

I've had a number of tree rats, one that would not leave the tree. But the time that sticks in my mind was a dangerous hickory ( 3' hole of rot in the bottom,english ivy all over, a crack 10' tall 2" wide) We roped out the top very gingerly, pull off about 15' and it was hollow. About a 12" hole in 18" dia. trunk. i looked in and could not see the bottom. I figured enough is enough lets drop it. The tree just fit where we were working (about 45' or so )
we cut the wood into FP lengths and my buddy started to run from his last cut. there it came out, the biggest raccoon I've ever saw. it just waddled and barked out of sight. this thing could have eaten my face off. this was only a stick when I looked down the hole.:jawdrop:

 

[rtrsam]

I had an event that was kind of funny a few years back. I was over near Tahoe with a couple other guys taking out a good sized red fir. It was leaning back over a building, so I just limb-climbed it up a ways and set a choker. Attached a line to the choker, out to a block at the base of a tree and back to a fire truck equipped with a big hydraulic PTO winch. Partner put in a face, and back cut and then gave me the high sign and I winched it over. Right about the time the tree started to move good, something came flying out of the top of the tree...right into my windshield. A big old flying squirrel was clinging to my windhield wiper with a real crazed look. He stayed there for a couple minutes before he took off.

 

[Ed*L]

My usual "passengers" are Raccoons. My woods is way overpopulated with the damn things.
If I think the tree is occupied I'll slip the 9mm in my belt. Fell the tree, drop the saw, draw the pistol.

Ed

 

[jpvjr]

Has anyone ever fell a tree with an animal in it? I have multiple pine squirells, a few hornets nests, a flying squirell, and numerous bird nests to my name, all in shame. But, they all lived! Except the defensless bird chicks that died.

Yep, I'm cursed in 2 ways, 1 I can't seem not to get a bees nest to not fall on me, & 2 where I am , copperheads are. (ground level).

 

[trax]

A friend killed a fisher 2 years ago in a big hemlock. Fisher population around here is way up probably due to lack of trapping.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Not me, but my Dad knocked a black bear and her cub out of a tree way back when. (Early days of WWII). He was driving a dozer, clearing for a road in B.C., and Mrs. Bear didn't like it much. A .303 calmed her down okay, and baby became the camp pet til he got too big.

Then he became dinner!