You dont know true pain until....

[babsbag]

@soarwitheagles I have never had the pleasure of having even one yellow jacket bite, but a friend of mine got attacked by some while riding her horse. She ended up in the hospital and her horse ended up at the vet's office. You were very lucky.

You mentioned in another thread that they nest underground so now you have me walking around the area for the new orchard studying the ground before I start the tilling and digging.

 

[TAH]

@soarwitheagles that is terrible .

I got stung by 7 at one time and that hurt so I can't imagine 30 or more

 

[soarwitheagles]

@soarwitheagles I have never had the pleasure of having even one yellow jacket bite, but a friend of mine got attacked by some while riding her horse. She ended up in the hospital and her horse ended up at the vet's office. You were very lucky.

You mentioned in another thread that they nest underground so now you have me walking around the area for the new orchard studying the ground before I start the tilling and digging.

Babs, these are not the normal yellow jackets that build the grey paper nests under eaves and such. Killing the yellow jackets that build the paper nests is super easy with the spray that HD or Lowes sell.

The yellow jackets that live in the ground are called Yellow Jacket Subterranean Wasps. And they are incredibly mean if you step on their nests, go near their nests, or plow their nests as I did. It is a good idea to diligently walk and scan the area you plan to plow. The only effective way I have seen these nests killed is with a special dust insecticide.

@soarwitheagles that is terrible .

I got stung by 7 at one time and that hurt so I can't imagine 30 or more

It hurt, but the good news is, now the bee stings don't seem to hurt at all compared to the yellow jacket stings!

How did you get stung by 7 at one time?

 

[babsbag]

The ones that live under eves I call paper wasps, these are the "meat bee" that likes to ruin picnics; I just never knew that they nested in the ground. They even look evil when you look at them up close; almost like they are wearing some kind of evil mask. I have a new dislike for them since they are harassing the bees.

 

[samssimonsays]

My shin met the hitch of a truck. But I was in full swing to toss 100# of feed into the bed when I hit. I stopped dead in my tracks and almost passed out.

 

[Bruce]

Oh tell me you don't really stand in the bucket. I have thought that many a time and my DH gives me this look..."don't you dare" kind of look. Now days I pamper myself when I can and hire it done.

I think we are talking "in the bucket maybe a foot or two up". Just enough to get shoulders even with the post pounder for the first few hits.

 

[Mike CHS]

Yep - I didn't see the earlier post but Bruce has it. I do trust my wonderful wife enough that I will let her lift me up in the FEL to get tree limbs that I can't reach from the ground though.

 

[babsbag]

Yep - I didn't see the earlier post but Bruce has it. I do trust my wonderful wife enough that I will let her lift me up in the FEL to get tree limbs that I can't reach from the ground though.

 

[Alexz7272]

My shin met the hitch of a truck. But I was in full swing to toss 100# of feed into the bed when I hit. I stopped dead in my tracks and almost passed out.

That is the worse especially with momentum

 

[Goatgirl47]

I can definitely say that my worst and most painful experience was with our Jersey cow's fat 11-month-old heifer last year.
I was trying to put a halter on her while she was eating some alfalfa pellets out of a bucket (that was the only way she'd let me touch her head), and as soon as I bent down she swung her head up (almost hitting me in the face) and butted me in the side, hard. I was between her and the fence, and, unbeknownst to me there was a screw that was only driven half way into the post. My elbow slammed into the screw head and, long story short, I had to get 8 stitches.
That made me a lot more wary and alert when I am around cows! I am happy to say that we sold Sadie not long after.