Ground hornets! [emoji2962]

[masseyrider]

I just ignore em' while mowing, I have a cab.

show off!

 

[BackRoad]

I just ignore em' while mowing, I have a cab.

That ^^^^ may be the only redeeming benefit of a cab...hornet protection!

I like the open operator station the other 99.9% of the time!!!

 

[camshawn]

Had a bald face hornet nest in a cottonwood tree. Was trimming the lower branches for the tractor clearance and there nest was on another branch I didn’t see. One of those buggers came strait at my forehead from about 10 feet and nailed me. Needless to say, they were gone the next morning….

 

[WinterDeere]

I was a "town kid" growing up, never had to deal with a lot of wasps and hornets. Then I took a job as a teen at a tubing place on the Delaware River, and one of my several maintenance jobs was knocking down wasp and hornet nests in the changing rooms and outhouses.

They armed us with a broom, no wasp spray or protective gear of any kind. I didn't know a mud wasp from a paper wasp from a bald-faced hornet at the beginning of that first summer, and I guess I still don't know the proper names for all the various variety we have around here. But you'd be hard-pressed to find a better expert than any one of us teens who worked that job over the years, on which ones can fly out of their nest and onto you most quickly, versus which ones would give you a few seconds to escape after knocking them down.

 

[masseyrider]

Had a bald face hornet nest in a cottonwood tree. Was trimming the lower branches for the tractor clearance and there nest was on another branch I didn’t see. One of those buggers came strait at my forehead from about 10 feet and nailed me. Needless to say, they were gone the next morning….

It's like the scene in The Matrix except you don't manage to avoid the bullet.
The paper wasps were at least 40 feet away and one of the bastards came directly at me.
It was like the movie scene where you see the bullet coming but it came so fast that I never even had time to flinch.
Got me in the ear. That hurt for at least 3-4 days.
They lasted as long as it took me to get some gas, a rag, a long pole, and matches.

 

[Hay Dude]

It's like the scene in The Matrix except you don't manage to avoid the bullet.
The paper wasps were at least 40 feet away and one of the bastards came directly at me.
It was like the movie scene where you see the bullet coming but it came so fast that I never even had time to flinch.
Got me in the ear. That hurt for at least 3-4 days.
They lasted as long as it took me to get some gas, a rag, a long pole, and matches.

Didn't your Rabbi tell you yellow jackets sting those that disturb them?

Who still uses matches?

 

[WinterDeere]

Who still uses matches?

I still use classic wood kitchen matches to light my wood stoves. Did the Zippo lighter thing for awhile, but they require refueling too often.

 

[masseyrider]

Didn't your Rabbi tell you yellow jackets sting those that disturb them?

Who still uses matches?

I don't have a Rabbi, priest, minister...
I believe in science not some fairy tail.
By all appearances in retailers around here matches are still popular.
But this is the 3rd world Kanuckistan.

 

[Hay Dude]

I still use classic wood kitchen matches to light my wood stoves. Did the Zippo lighter thing for awhile, but they require refueling too often.

I use a plastic disposable "bic" lighter.
Easy-peezy

 

[WinterDeere]

I use a plastic disposable "bic" lighter.
Easy-peezy

Harder to get under a load of wood in the stove and light a fire with one of those, without burning the knuckle on your thumb.