Sackett2
Platinum Member
All sorts of safety is covered here, but something I forgot about were bee's. While driving my tractor, i think about loads, tilt, pto blackberry vines- all things associated with operation of the rig, but today I was reminded of bees.
No, no stings, didn't even bother the nest.
The son and I were feeding brush into two fires all afternoon, just cleaning up the summers mess. All done, parked the tractor in the front yard (doesn't everybody?) and looked across the dry slew, at a tree. Damm, that looks like a paper nest. So we walked down to it and looked-Bald faced hornets nest, under the size of a basket ball, still active. Now the tree is just losing leaves, most the tree still covered but this low hanging branch is almost bare. Wouldn't have been 3 months ago when I was hogging with my new tractor right next to it! The ROP would have thumped it nicely if I had seen the need to shortcut under the tree.
I'll be looking up a bit more from now on, as if I didn't have enough things to be paranoid about.
Y'all be careful
Steve
No, no stings, didn't even bother the nest.
The son and I were feeding brush into two fires all afternoon, just cleaning up the summers mess. All done, parked the tractor in the front yard (doesn't everybody?) and looked across the dry slew, at a tree. Damm, that looks like a paper nest. So we walked down to it and looked-Bald faced hornets nest, under the size of a basket ball, still active. Now the tree is just losing leaves, most the tree still covered but this low hanging branch is almost bare. Wouldn't have been 3 months ago when I was hogging with my new tractor right next to it! The ROP would have thumped it nicely if I had seen the need to shortcut under the tree.
I'll be looking up a bit more from now on, as if I didn't have enough things to be paranoid about.
Y'all be careful
Steve