look what I rolled over today

[Andy Carson]

I got the rest of my cover crops seeded today. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow so I thought it was a good time. Rye and Rye/Hairy Vetch mix. I fixed my roller and got it all rolled too. Look what I rolled over… Ouch! I’m not sure what the “right” thing to do with these is, but we ran away. I am glad I was pulling something that can at least be trotted with… I got stung a couple times, but they seemed to go after my horse more. Maybe it was because she doesn’t have a hat to swat with, but probably because she actually stepped right in the nest. Man, I didn’t think I know that many cuss words! I went back after to take this picture (with the zoom).

[Jean]

Holy Crap~

[Carl Russell]

Glad you escaped without issue. I’ve never seen them in plowed soil, but plenty of times in woods dirt, and under stumps.

Carl

[Andy Carson]

Ugh! I can’t imagine what you do if you run over a hive dragging a log in the woods. I would imagine you couldn’t go sideways too far and you probably can’t trot off. Do you just get stung until you get out of range? Do you unhook in the swarm? They followed me pretty far, maybe 75 yards. That would have been a miserable walk…

[lancek]

Well I have run over them in the woods and its every man for himself aspecialy since I am alergic to ther stings! I cut through a hive that I didnt see in a hollow tree 40 feet up in the air and recived 240 stings before I could get away, so now I carry an epie pen with me !

[Tim Harrigan]

What kind of things were you saying coming down out of that tree?:D

[near horse]

I dropped a nice buckskin tamarack one time and found it had a bees nest in the base. The tree was near my wood truck and was “good wood” so I HAD to try and buck it up and load it while bees were flying about. When I finally had enough and went to get in the cab, I found I’d left the windows down and the cab was full of bees!! So, I decided that I should spray them with my powder fire extinguisher!! It slowed them down by coating them but I couldn’t see out the windshield so had to drive looking out the window with “white bees” crawling all about the cab.

[Andy Carson]

Ug! These bee stories really illustrate how easy I got off!

[Carl Russell]

In the woods the chainsaw usually gets them riled up before the animals step in them. The noise and exhaust from the saw can keep them disoriented. It’s when you turn off the saw that they get you. I have dragged logs over ground nests before, and have had animals get stung, but I’ve never noticed that they were any more rattled than with biting flies, but I haven’t had the whole nest unload on them either.

Carl

[Carl Russell]

@Carl Russell 21055 wrote:

In the woods the chainsaw usually gets them riled up before the animals step in them. The noise and exhaust from the saw can keep them disoriented. It’s when you turn off the saw that they get you. I have dragged logs over ground nests before, and have had animals get stung, but I’ve never noticed that they were any more rattled than with biting flies, but I haven’t had the whole nest unload on them either.Carl

So a few days ago I was working on a steep bank, and had to back the horses up into a tight spot to get a top-section of a big pine. It was a difficult maneuver and it was pretty much the only way I was going to get this piece….. and if I didn’t have to, I wasn’t going to try to get them to do it twice.

So when my nigh horse started throwing his head and madly stamping the ground with his hind feet, I didn’t spend a lot of time investigating his concern….. I was reasonably certain he was in a hornets nest. He jumped a few times, but I reassured him that I wanted him to stand, and he did….. I mean he didn’t run away, but he didn’t stand still….. I made an allowance and worked quickly at making my hitch. All went smoothly after we pulled ahead 15-20 feet.

Now the biting flies are thick here now, and this happened about 1 pm….. high fly-time….. so although the stings were probably painful, and more numerous, he was still able to concentrate on the task at hand…..

Carl

[grey]

It’s amazing what they will put up with when we ask them to. They are so sensitive, they can feel a gnat land on their hide. However, they will play-bite each other on the forelegs just for entertainment, or stand in a swarm of hornets if we demand.

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