Wasps

[Dean Lofthouse]

Doing a connie hedge today, 30ft up and cut a wasps nest in half

 

Nice and calmy undid my anchor, grabbed my hedgetrimmer and calmy climbed down, but inside I was panicing like a gud un.

 

Got stung quite a few times on my right arm, which is swollen right up.

 

Our lass wanted to know why they couldn't have stung me somewhere else so she could have benefited from it cheeky bitch

[Johny Walker]

Doing a connie hedge today, 30ft up and cut a wasps nest in half

 

Nice and calmy undid my anchor, grabbed my hedgetrimmer and calmy climbed down, but inside I was panicing like a gud un.

 

Got stung quite a few times on my right arm, which is swollen right up.

 

Our lass wanted to know why they couldn't have stung me somewhere else so she could have benefited from it cheeky bitch

 

got cought meself today in mankey private hedge size off a football

[Dean Lofthouse]

got cought meself today in mankey private hedge size off a football

 

I did try saying sorry Mr Wasp, but they were having non of it

[Tree Man Tom]

Chap i work with got caught today, 3 stings. Bloody things!

[Johny Walker]

I did try saying sorry Mr Wasp, but they were having non of it

 

just bashed them with me rake

[Mozza]

The last one i encounterd was abit bigger than a football, Visor and ear muffs down, get it on the end of the rake, had the chipper running, ran 50 yards with it on a rake and slung it threw a timberwolf, worked treat!

[Charlieh]

i had a giant wood wasp come out a privet hedge i was cutting today scared the hell out of me, nearly fell of my ladder, it was huge and making a lot of noise, i couldnt decide if it was a hornet to start with so took evasive action with the rake and got it pinned down, so i could see it better, fantastic little beastie

[Nick B]

I got stung 4 times on my head a few weeks ago

Wasp nest was in a shrub i was working on

Big as a football, a cloud of wasps came for me I ran like mad

Had to use a can of wasp ease on my head to stop it hurting

[stihllearning]

dean,

 

we got stung a couple of weeks ago,me once on the hand ,groundie three times on the face and five times on the back.

as the day went on i could see the swelling going up my arm and by home time it was past my elbow (groundie was fine).

 

when i got home my wife insisted i call the out of hours docs at the hospital,good job too because it was infected and i was about six inches away from four days of intravenous antibiotics,dont take it lightly if its still swelling get it sorted

[alex_m]

The horseflies are bad enough in the woods we work in!

 

I was bitten on the arm by a couple of them and it swelled up to the point i looked like some kind of Popeye freak!