Religion in the woods

[nw axe man]

Amen to that Randy!! Giant Wood Wasp:

They're called Stump Puckers (F for the P) here as well.

That's one nasty looking little dude. It just looks like it would sting hard.

 

[RandyMac]

I have never been stabbed by one, I have anecdotal evidence from others that have.

 

[Metals406]

That's one nasty looking little dude. It just looks like it would sting hard.

The black thing is for eggs, but the yellow thing sure looks like a stinger to me. And they got a nasty rep in the woods here, so they must bite or something. :dunno:

 

[HILLBILLYREDNEC]

Woods

Well there are few out there that consider the little bugs the man upstairs message service. I worked with a cranky arse old hook tender that if he was stung he wood shut the site down and sit on stump til he said fire her up boys. Never did figure it out till we were working a real nasty cow face yarding operation and the old boy hollered like a mad man after he stepped into yeller jacket nest and we shut down and 5 minutes later the main line failed, he saved the riggin crews life. I hate black wasps worse then any other thing that stings, had a thinning sale that had a few snags filled with black wasps, well the three fallers I was working with told me to run for the crick cause the hornets were a coming my way, got them sobs stinging me in some bad places to be stung:msp_mad:

 

[teatersroad]

I just wonder how the wasp knows in that sand sized brain to aim for the head, an area rich with nerve endings and short on muscle mass to absorb the venom.

You're broadcasting too loudly from the noggin. Try donning a tinfoil hat next time, likely to get more groin shots after that. My experience anyways.

 

[madhatte]

Naw, next thing you know it's tinfoil boxers, and pretty soon you're the Tin Man clanking and crinkling your way through the woods.

 

[Greenwedge]

My thoughts.....I'm definitely a believer in God...Do I live like it? Not so much. I choose to think that God created all of this and just lets us make what we will of it. I do not believe that he guides anything for us....I have to believe that. If I thought he guided a child rapist to it's next victim or a terrorist to a successful attack for some greater purpose......well, I'll just have to go to the devil if that's the case cause I don't want to meet him to learn of his reasoning. I think that he just let's everything run it's course and then he judges us when we've run er through.......I'm in big damn trouble no matter which way it pans out!!!!! I do not profess this to be true......It's just what works for me and keeps me from cursing any higher power. Yellow Jackets are little terrorists! I hate them with a passion. I will not speak of the big black bee with the white face and white rings around there rear end. If I do then are relationship might worsen!

 

[madhatte]

I choose to think that God created all of this and just lets us make what we will of it.

George Burns said to John Denver in the movie Oh, God! something to the effect of "What do you want from me? I did my job already; the rest is up to you." Deism? Acnosticism? Who cares? The important thing is to live like you mean it, and to expect neither help nor sympathy from the universe.

 

[nw axe man]

Every man has his own opinions about God and who He is and what He thinks. Where, do you suppose, do we find out any truth about this God we're talking about. Or, do we just go on in life listening to each others opinions and taking what we think should work or what we'd like to believe about God? There has to be an answer.

 

[Samlock]

I had this thought today as I was skidding the last few logs.

If God is the one that tells the wind where to blow, the sun when to rise, the bird where to nest, does that mean He also tells the briar to reach for the groin and the yellow jacket to aim for my temple? Man my head hurts.

I had a hornet hit me between the shoulder blades a few years ago. Now I went to college on a rodeo scholarship to ride bucking horses, worked cowboy jobs all through college, came home and ran a framing crew specializing in high end houses. I log on the side with a chainsaw and a tractor and at thirty years old I thought a hornet sting was going to make me cry in pain. I mean, how do they know where to aim? More times than not if I get stung by wasp or yellow jackets it's on the back of the head or in the eye lid or somewhere that really hurts. :msp_angry:

The Great Creator gave them ability to see infrared light. That's how they find the warmest spots of the victim's body and hit there.

 

[056kid]

I read online that they don't sting as well.

They must bite then, cause they sure are known here for their dirty deeds.

Probably no one else makes them mad enough to sting/bite besides loggers. I know if I had one circling me I would get away from it or take it out quick. It looks like it would #### you up, no matter what end the pain is administered from. .

 

[madhatte]

They've never bugged me (no pun intended) but they sure do look creepy as hell flying all clumsy and dazed in smoke. They often land on my nomex, probably because it's a bright color. I'm guessing their bad rep comes from just looking all prehistoric and evil.

 

[RandyMac]

I know Yellow-jackets bite, one of their other names is Meat-bees. I watched then peel up tissue off deer being skinned.

 

[teatersroad]

yep, they are very likely to beat you to the smoked salmon at the picnic.

 

[RandyMac]

Yeah, you bring an extra PB&J as a diversion.

 

[slowp]

I know Yellow-jackets bite, one of their other names is Meat-bees. I watched then peel up tissue off deer being skinned.

Those are the ones that some of us puff up from sometimes, and sometimes not. I think it depends on what they have been munching on whether the puffiness becomes great. They hurt. They feel like they are in you all the way up to their necks when they sting. I have been nailed a few times in the head by them. Got asked if I had just had jaw surgery one time. There was a dentist at that time, who would suggest jaw surgery (breaking and wiring). I believe his brother inlaw was the surgeon. I declined on the surgery and switched dentists. There must have been a lot of folks who knew folks with jaws wired together.

I try to avoid dentists and bees although the dentist here seems to only cause pain in the pocketbook, which is how it should bee ar ar ar.

 

[floyd]

As we all know, yellow jackets bite as well as sting. My sweetie was doing a little dance last week in the garden. She had just killed a queen.


Randy Mac found you a coat of arms, eh?

 

[RandyMac]

I have claim to a few Floyd, Clans are intermingled.

 

[floyd]

That is a nice pattern on that one.

 

[2dogs]

Well there are few out there that consider the little bugs the man upstairs message service. I worked with a cranky arse old hook tender that if he was stung he wood shut the site down and sit on stump til he said fire her up boys. Never did figure it out till we were working a real nasty cow face yarding operation and the old boy hollered like a mad man after he stepped into yeller jacket nest and we shut down and 5 minutes later the main line failed, he saved the riggin crews life. I hate black wasps worse then any other thing that stings, had a thinning sale that had a few snags filled with black wasps, well the three fallers I was working with told me to run for the crick cause the hornets were a coming my way, got them sobs stinging me in some bad places to be stung:msp_mad:

This post is the proverbial "turd in the punchbowl". First you say you are working in the brush and because the hooktender was stung he would shut the entire yarding operation down. No site boss? No company owner to say whet the heck is going on? A bit later you are a faller. Are you both? Then the mainline failed 5 minutes after the hooktender was stung. Do you even know what the mainline does? COME ON MAN! Please respond!