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.

 

[masseyrider]

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

Just adding to the world's pollution problem.
And here was me thinking it was just your attitude.

 

[Hay Dude]

Just adding to the world's pollution problem.
And here was me thinking it was just your attitude.

We have "recycling" here
Maybe they don't do that in "Canuckistan"

 

[masseyrider]

We have "recycling" here
Maybe they don't do that in "Canuckistan"

Why recycle something who's function is easily replicated by something that doesn't need recycling?
Did you ever think (probably not) how much energy is used to recycle and that 90% or more of some materials intended for recycling ends up in landfill anyways.
Recycling is a false panacea. It isn't very effective and causes it's own negative issues.
Just to start, have you seen the smoking exhaust of the trucks that run around picking stuff up at the end of your driveway?

 

[Hay Dude]

Why recycle something who's function is easily replicated by something that doesn't need recycling?
Did you ever think (probably not) how much energy is used to recycle and that 90% or more of some materials intended for recycling ends up in landfill anyways.
Recycling is a false panacea. It isn't very effective and causes it's own negative issues.
Just to start, have you seen the smoking exhaust of the trucks that run around picking stuff up at the end of your driveway?

I actually agree. I just think matches are sort of like bag phones. Things of the past.
BTW my trash disposal company has trucks that are certified clean idle and have the latest gubmit pollution devices

 

[WinterDeere]

I like a Zippo lighter for outdoor, they're fairly wind proof, and not disposable. But, they come with the hassle of having to refill them.

If you're using a lighter often enough to make fueling it part of your regular weekly routine (eg. every Sunday evening), then they work pretty well. But for the occasional user, they're more a frustration than a solution.

Wood match sticks still beat everything else for indoor use, in my house. I can reach the fire starter under a load of wood in the wood stove, or stick one up into one of my wife's stupid jar candles, without burning my fingers in either case. Totally disposable and renewable, and since I buy those little boxes of 32 sticks by the gross, I always have one in every location where we tend to use matches (by each wood stove, one in the kitchen for candles, etc.).

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

We use wooden matches.

They're the only thing that makes the bathroom accessible after I pinch a loaf.

I just say "it's a 2 match day" (or 1-4)...

 

[Dftodd]

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

We had to get rid of one of our forklifts at work. We had a choice of keeping the 18500lb forklift with cab, or the open station 36,000lb forklift.

We shipped off the 36,000lb forklift.

We have 7acres of asphalt at our shop. So we ended up being a storage hub for pipe for our region.

After that pipe sits for 6 months or so, and then you disturb it, it looks like Armageddon

All you see is a large moving cloud of wasps and yellow jackets blotting out your view

We make sure the cab is closed, AC on high (can't get too warm), go in for a stack of pipe.

We lift it, shake the living snot out of it, and then do laps around the yard with the pipe for a bit before loading it on a truck

 

[Jstpssng]

We lift it, shake the living snot out of it, and then do laps around the yard with the pipe for a bit before loading it on a truck

This reminds me of a truck driver I was talking to who used to haul honey bees. He said that when he pulled into a truck stop, the place would empty out. When he stopped at a weigh station, they'd wave him through. Honey bees really are pretty docile though. I remember riding my motorcycle through the orchard years ago, and stopped, not realizing it was where the hives had been while pollinating. I was instantly covered with stragglers who had been left behind. I just brushed them off and didn't get stung once.
I suspect it helps that I'm not afraid of them. My biggest fear is that someday I'll become allergic to them.

 

[bdhsfz6]

You don't want to wind up like this girl:

No harm done though:

 

[Gem99ultra]

I like a Zippo lighter for outdoor, they're fairly wind proof, and not disposable. But, they come with the hassle of having to refill them.

If you're using a lighter often enough to make fueling it part of your regular weekly routine (eg. every Sunday evening), then they work pretty well. But for the occasional user, they're more a frustration than a solution.

Wood match sticks still beat everything else for indoor use, in my house. I can reach the fire starter under a load of wood in the wood stove, or stick one up into one of my wife's stupid jar candles, without burning my fingers in either case. Totally disposable and renewable, and since I buy those little boxes of 32 sticks by the gross, I always have one in every location where we tend to use matches (by each wood stove, one in the kitchen for candles, etc.).

The thing I don't like about Zippo lighters is the blister that they leave on your leg when (not if) they leak. On the upside, they do make a certain click when you flick them open and shut during your times of boredom.
I have a couple of Zippo's laying around in a dish on the dresser, left over from 'Army' days. Those are simply treasured reminders, not for daily use. Bic made Zippo obsolete.