whadja do today?

[pdqdl]

Seemed to bite the crap out of me.

I was doing a brush cleanup recently, hanging from the climbing gear on a small cliff edge, and discovered that I had an ant biting me. I was startled to discover that they could get my attention that way. I have always been almost bug-proof, and none the usual irritating insects bother me too much, including mosquitoes, wasps, bees, even chiggers & ticks don't give me welts, so I don't consider myself to be a fair judge of what would bother other folks.

I am a bit curious how many other guys have problems with ant bites? (This does not include the notorious fire ants in the south)

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

I was doing a brush cleanup recently, hanging from the climbing gear on a small cliff edge, and discovered that I had an ant biting me. I was startled to discover that they could get my attention that way. I have always been almost bug-proof, and none the usual irritating insects bother me too much, including mosquitoes, wasps, bees, even chiggers & ticks don't give me welts, so I don't consider myself to be a fair judge of what would bother other folks.

I am a bit curious how many other guys have problems with ant bites? (This does not include the notorious fire ants in the south)

I wouldn't say it hurt as bad as a swarm of hornets but I was covered in welts and even after I took a shower it still felt like they were biting me.

The same thing happened to me last year. The logs in question had been sitting for awhile, the ants are profuse under the bark. Small black ones.

 

[ropensaddle]

I was doing a brush cleanup recently, hanging from the climbing gear on a small cliff edge, and discovered that I had an ant biting me. I was startled to discover that they could get my attention that way. I have always been almost bug-proof, and none the usual irritating insects bother me too much, including mosquitoes, wasps, bees, even chiggers & ticks don't give me welts, so I don't consider myself to be a fair judge of what would bother other folks.

I am a bit curious how many other guys have problems with ant bites? (This does not include the notorious fire ants in the south)

Come on down here I can give you a good dose of chiggars,seed ticks and fire ants lol, I'm sure you will find that they can bother you

 

[ropensaddle]

I admired my blue berries time to pick again

 

[JeffGu]

Carpenter ants will get pretty p*ssed off when you chop their house up. Some species more than others, but they often bite me. It's mostly just a minor annoyance, as I don't have any reaction to them. My wife, on the other hand, gets welts like you do. But she's allergic to all kinds of stuff. Like helping me throw cut up trees into the trailer.

 

[ropensaddle]

I gave up on strawberries a long time ago. The squirrels in my neighborhood are so hungry I don't even get to see any flowers on my small southern magnolia tree. They eat the flower buds before they ever begin to open.

Put a few number 0 or 1 traps on the trees squirrel problem solved!!!

 

[pdqdl]

Come on down here I can give you a good dose of chiggars,seed ticks and fire ants lol, I'm sure you will find that they can bother you

I really hate ticks, but they don't seem to get on me too often, and I am very good at finding them before they dig in. Chiggers are absolutely no concern; I simply don't react or notice their bites. I have been out with crews clearing brush and everyone but me comes in the next day crying about all the chigger bites. They are not happy to discover that I was blissfully unaware of the chiggers. Misery loves company, you know.

I have never been around fire ants, but I have heard that they are positively bad news to get stung by. I suspect that they will hurt me less than most folks, but I am pretty sure I would notice them. I damn sure notice when I get into the wasps or bees. No health problems, but it still hurts when they stab me.

 

[pdqdl]

Put a few number 0 or 1 traps on the trees squirrel problem solved!!!

Never seen or heard of that. Pictures?

(or were you referring to the size of your shotgun pellets?)​

 

[pdqdl]

I admired my blue berries time to pick again

Is that a peach tree, and how is it doing? The blueberry farm I was at didn't have a single peach on theirs. They claimed the squirrels got them all.

 

[ropensaddle]

Never seen or heard of that. Pictures?

(or were you referring to the size of your shotgun pellets?)​

no bro leg hold traps lol

 

[ropensaddle]

Is that a peach tree, and how is it doing? The blueberry farm I was at didn't have a single peach on theirs. They claimed the squirrels got them all.

No thats a japaneze oak, sawtooth is what i call it, arbor day give away, 3 years old i planted it

 

[JeffGu]

I murdered more trees, today. I took some of their body parts and was going to scatter them across the countryside, in plastic bags, but decided to just burn them, instead.

 

[ropensaddle]

I murdered more trees, today. I took some of their body parts and was going to scatter them across the countryside, in plastic bags, but decided to just burn them, instead.

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Nice load hickory ?

 

[mckeetree]

Got into it yesterday with a lady over a $400 discrepancy on her bill. When I tried to show her everything was correct with the invoice in black and white she started yelling
she was calling the police and that we damaged a cat bed at another property she owns that we never worked at. Just when I thought she was regaining her composure she
came unhinged again and screamed "You owe me for a cat bed, a sprinkler head and the door you damaged on my grunk". Grunk...what's a grunk. That's what it sounded like. Grunk or maybe grunt.
Don't you love working for crazy people.

 

[JeffGu]

Nice load hickory?

Unfortunetly, no... mostly Siberian Elm with some Ash and Mulberry in with it...
Still, it burns.

 

[13TreeWorks]

My Tapatalk has been royally f'ed up the past couple of days but here's a pine I did nothing special noting heroic ..... funny thing was it made me sick light headed shaky sick to my stomach got it got striped out had to come down out so I dident yak in the brush pile.came back 2 days later still felt like crap but as soon as the last section hit the ground I felt perfectly normal again ????? F'in vodo tree I guess

 

[Pelorus]

my eyesight ain't quite what it used to be, so if you wanna call a spruce, a pine, I'm ok with that.

 

[BC WetCoast]

I thought is was one of those funny eastern pines.

 

[JeffGu]

Half pine, half philodendron-spruce!
What? Clearly, it's half philodendron, half spruce-pine!

 

[13TreeWorks]

Ok spruce it is or was .... Franky I get lazy like that because the customers always call em a pine and I don't argue they want them gone so I do that that they never call me when they want to know the scientific name of a certain tree more so that they simply want "that one" gone I don't have the energy to to explain to these ppl that there pine is a spruce or there arborvitae isn't a pine and there's no such thing as a "box cutter" tree ... I will admit tho I need to work on my identification