The Descriptive Process

[treeslayer2003]

No either I parked that tree on a nest or the nest was in the tree... figured it was a short hop and a skip before they went from arrow formation to fighter plane, and chased me into the river...

I'll deal with em tomorrow. MY partner (who is braver/dumber) came out later in the day and got close enough to em to maybe think they could be honeybees, which is awesome if we can save em cause the wifeys hive more or less died over winter. If not there are two cans of raid in the crummy.:msp_ohmy:

oh, honey bees ain't bad. cut a red oak last year full of um. topped, pulled out, loaded n hauled. they flew all around but stung no one. I recently met a guy who will come get them for free. but he don't want yellow jackets tho:msp_sneaky:

 

[northmanlogging]

Guess who got to go to the ER last night... simple docs visit turned into uncontrolled bleeding by around 10:30... got home around 3 am, I'm normally not a bleeder... kinda weird.

So no strenuous work for me... still need to take care of that bee/hornet tree, And two back leaners next to HO's house so he can put his doggy fence back up...

 

[roberte]

randy, i'm sure ya got stung up a time or two.

I know I have been touched up twice, up the pant leg and the armpit.
When the yellow jackets want a piece of you there gonna get it.
Had a close call last fall, but it was just cold and wet enough that I didn't get it.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Guess who got to go to the ER last night... simple docs visit turned into uncontrolled bleeding by around 10:30... got home around 3 am, I'm normally not a bleeder... kinda weird.

So no strenuous work for me... still need to take care of that bee/hornet tree, And two back leaners next to HO's house so he can put his doggy fence back up...

i'm sorry to hear that. hope ya ok.

 

[treeslayer2003]

I know I have been touched up twice, up the pant leg and the armpit.
When the yellow jackets want a piece of you there gonna get it.
Had a close call last fall, but it was just cold and wet enough that I didn't get it.

I seem to get it 2-3 times a summer. hade a knee brace on once, they went in that hole over the knee, musta been 10-12 got me in the knee. ain't had to wear it since. I hate yellow jackets, they hurt ya worse than any snake will scare ya.

 

[roberte]

I seem to get it 2-3 times a summer. hade a knee brace on once, they went in that hole over the knee, musta been 10-12 got me in the knee. ain't had to wear it since. I hate yellow jackets, they hurt ya worse than any snake will scare ya.

At least a snake you might be able to get with a bar tip.

 

[bustedup]

At least a snake you might be able to get with a bar tip.

Bro if snakes about juss call the AS snake charmer.........ie TC he seems to like those creatures lol

 

[treeslayer2003]

At least a snake you might be able to get with a bar tip.

jus be sure to under cut him so ya don't wear it.

 

[northmanlogging]

Well so much for a light day...

managed to get a Load out even with setting up a hive box and playing Russian roulette with the bee tree, got three logs out of it... lost a little chunk in the middle to the bees. I did manage to saw right through the bottom of their hive and no one got stung, gots some pics I'll have to load...

Once they settled down from the initial shock of having their house on its side they where very mellow little bees, kind odd to have em bouncing of the tin hat... They make a line straight for home and if anything gets in the way they don't seem to pay much attention to it and plow right into it...

 

[twochains]

At least a snake you might be able to get with a bar tip.

Oh Hell don't do that...like slayer said, you'll wear it! First thing I do is shut the saw off and find a stck er something. If you are chasing a copperhead, there could be another one right by it. If you leave yer saw running sitting on the ground, the vibration of the saw could attract the other one. Then when ya get back to yer saw you have visitor!...I have had that happen before!

 

[Eccentric]

Dammitit'shotandhumid!!!!


Been over 100 degrees here since about noon. Unbearably humid. Rained off and on much of last week.......and that water is steaming out of the grass and soil now. Absolutely NO breeze whatsoever. I feel like I'm trapped in a giant's armpit...

 

[northmanlogging]

Logging bee...

Tis not much but made for a pretty fun day.:smile2:

Got the wifey out again so she could play with the bees

 

[treeslayer2003]

Dammitit'shotandhumid!!!!


Been over 100 degrees here since about noon. Unbearably humid. Rained off and on much of last week.......and that water is steaming out of the grass and soil now. Absolutely NO breeze whatsoever. I feel like I'm trapped in a giant's armpit...

he he, welcome to southeast weather.

 

[Eccentric]

he he, welcome to southeast weather.

When I was 14 my folks took me on a train trip across country along the southern route, up the east coast, and back across the northern route. Went to New Orleans and Disneyworld in June. Holy crap that was hot and nasty. Went to DC for the Smithsonian, Arlington, the capitol, and such. Visited relatives in Pa and WV. The cicadas were in 'bloom'. Buzzing, nasty, humid, and hot. You folks can keep that weather. I'll deal with the occasional earthquake....

 

[treeslayer2003]

yep, when them things sing it's hot.

 

[madhatte]

Tis not much but made for a pretty fun day.:smile2:

Got the wifey out again so she could play with the bees

Surprised to see 'em in a cedar. Usually the terpenes send 'em packin'. I'm guessing that the catface scar acts as a barrier to unsavory smells? Pretty cool, either way.

 

[treeslayer2003]

well, a 4 foot tank will not fit in a service body since the manufacturer welds a 1/4 inch tab on each side for god knows what reason. really didn't want this to be a major deal today, but i'm into it now.

 

[RandyMac]

Dammitit'shotandhumid!!!!


Been over 100 degrees here since about noon. Unbearably humid. Rained off and on much of last week.......and that water is steaming out of the grass and soil now. Absolutely NO breeze whatsoever. I feel like I'm trapped in a giant's armpit...

95531 Weather Forecast from Weather Underground

 

[twochains]

95531 Weather Forecast from Weather Underground

and... LMAO

 

[northmanlogging]

Surprised to see 'em in a cedar. Usually the terpenes send 'em packin'. I'm guessing that the catface scar acts as a barrier to unsavory smells? Pretty cool, either way.

From the looks of the cleaned out side of the log there's bark all the way around the rotten bit, I'm thinking this was one that overcame and grew around a smaller tree? Sent the rest to the mill, probably wont get much out of it but the but didn't look to bad, and the top only had a bit of rot, the middle log still has the bee mobile home on it...