Classic Hazard Tree Takedown With Crane

[Bakuma]

Smoke is what you want for bees, it's amazing how little smoke calms them down when the beekeeper is pulling their hive apart. Of course he goes slowly and gently and doesn't kick the side of the hive!

Vibration is what gets them going - pity to spoil the honey with bee-killer sprays - that honey comb is fantastic!

 

[ropensaddle]

With a crane there is no hazard oh I forgot killer bees

 

[tree md]

Excellent takedown!!!

 

[jrparbor04]

sucks that you cannot just tie into the hook,,,per ansi standards,,,makes it easier at times though,,,although i can see the safety part of it,,,i dont want my ropes no where near that cable

 

[Mitchell]

cutting the branch out

So I cut the branch which the hive was on and down they went. Even with the hive gone though, about 5 of them were keeping me at bay. 1 got me right in the chest right about where my heart is, and the other got me in my left wrist. I tried to keep as still as possible until they went away... sudden movements were a bad idea. Once I got on the ground my crew and I poured gas on the hive and lit them up. 1 10' tall ball of fire and that was it for the hive.

looks like a great job Jomoco

I have went a decade without being stung then last week... I tried the cut the branch trick with a wasp hive in a spruce 30 feet up. I found the little buggers kept returning to where they thought their nest was anyways. At any given time there was fifty or so air superiority patrols going on. After a dozen stings and several customer alarming swears I turned tail and said I'll be back in week.
Not two days later I get stung on the wrist when I was cutting and wedging over a back leaning [towards a cabin] 100' lodgepole. I quickly scanned sideways and up for the nest, nothing? I looked down and you guessed it, my size 11's have framed the nest opening perfectly. It was like a scene out of the mummy with all them little buggers pouring out! My falling pants looked like a wasp keepers [if there is such a thing!] Had I known fast movement encourages them, I still would have still dropped my saw and ran for all I was worth. Ten minutes and 15 stings later [including one right next to the boys] I had extracted them all from "inside" my clothes.
The good folks I was working for had hired me to come up and thin out their cabin on Lake Cowachin. They assured me the winds come up with out fail every day around 1 pm it was 12:20: great.. 50 wind sprints [and ten more stings] to the stump for a couple wackes and run away and the tree was finally down

In all seriousness it would be wise to carry an epi pen. I used to have one never to far in the bush but working residentially I have taken a quick first responder arrival for granted. I forgot to consider different first aid scenarios when I went out to a fairly remote place. My long sleeved shirt also helped: It sucks in the heat but saves me wear tear and stings.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

(snip) My long sleeved shirt also helped: It sucks in the heat but saves me wear tear and stings.

I always wear a white, long-sleeved shirt with my light yellow company logo tee shirt over it. I think it actually keeps me cooler as the sweat collects and then evaporates for extra cooling, and the lighter colors reflect the sun's rays. I also keep a mosquito helmet net in my side bag and put it on right over my helmet when the bees and wasps start swarming. They do get up in my face, but the net keeps their stingers from connecting. The draw string pulls tight around the buttoned collar of my shirt so they have never gotten inside. Gloves protect my hands. Having been stung four times by wasps while on the ground, I have no great desire to get tagged aloft.

 

[BLACKeR]

ive learned to always look around very carefully for the ground nests, especially. you cannot get them with spray and once you rile them up your done for. you have to kill those buggers with fire. ive learned what areas they like and when i see a suspicious spot i check it over good, before i go marching in and banging around.

 

[TaoTreeClimber]

Bees suck on a crane job. I had something similar to that happen in Ga a few years back. The honey comb in the cavity was about 3x3x8ft we could have gotten about 25 gallons of honey out of that if we hadnt sprayed about 6 cans of Raid into it.