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So do you blokes carry bee keeper suits in your trucks, or just dial 999 when you bump into trees with bee/wasp/hornet hives in them? Jomoco

How about a bee keeper's jacket n hood mates? Just in case there's no butter at hand? Jomoco

And when you lot run to clop a bit of butter on yur burns n stings? Cold Comfort Farm indeed! Jomoco

Such stinging retorts! What! Jomoco

So you lot ignore the relationships between bees, trees and wasps thinking working in trees doesn't increase the likelihood the twain shall ever meet with dire consequence? Tree workers are no more at risk of bee and wasp attack in massive numbers, is not uniquely inherent to their chosen professions? That a responsible crew foreman need not prepare and equip himself to deal with cuz it's somehow overkill? Tell me more mate, by all means? Jomoco

Bees trees n wasps! But can't foot the bleedin costs! Murphy's laws give these brave lads no pause! Their kits bulging tea n crumpets and hutzpah! What! Jomoco

So what's a twin pack of EpiPens cost in the UK cousins? Epinephrine has multiple ways of being administered of course, but when seconds are crucial, ease of simply jabbing with EpiPens costs 500 bucks more than it used to, to quickly administer a buck's worth of epinephrine. I wonder if navy seals carry them in their purses? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector Jomoco

This whole stinking election was manipulated to put Hillary in office, so Victoria Nuland can take the reins at the State Dept and stay the course, set by her husband Robert Kagan, founder of the PNAC Group that orchestrated the events on Sept 11th, 2001. That friggin Bernie pissed on his supporters n principles by endorsing Hillary instead of Jill Stein? Proves my point that the whole govt's intent on staying the PNAC course come hell or highwater IMO. The kids n I will vote Green thank you very much.

Interesting article on acquired immunity to allergens being the result of exposure to nasty germs n stuff found on farms n animals, at a very early age, like 2 years old. Why Melbourne is the food allergy capital of the world Makes me glad I was a hillbilly toddler raised on a tobacco farm with cows n pigs n chickens n stuff! These modern sterile office lives'll kill you n your children too it seems? Jomoco

I think not. In a pinch, I believe God helps those who help themselves. There was a European video of an old devout catholic grounds keeper mangling himself horribly on camera way back in 09, very gruesome. But it had an undeniable beauty and dignity about it that sticks in my mind. The old man starts by getting on his knees, mumbling a prayer, kissing his cross necklace then the trinity hand motions. Then he proceeds about ten feet up a ladder, with a chainsaw, climbs onto the crotch of the first big lateral on the tree, starts cutting the top of the lateral downwards at arm's length out on it, causing it to split just like a lateral barber chair, allowing the brush end to come down first in a step towards him, and the butt end to come down on him, breaking his leg in two places, and pinning him by the leg to that crotch, trapping him there. The beauty of it all was in the courage and fortitude exhibited by the ole timer extricating himself single handedly from that nightmare scenario. Just a barely audible groan or two as he pushed the branch butt up far enough to yank his floppy leg free, and agonizingly make his way down that ladder about halfway before falling off it altogether, then crawling towards the camera. And who's to say those devout prayers n stuff didn't help keep him alive that day? Very stoic and tough old bloke to rescue himself like that with such a minimum of noise n drama. Jomoco

I've no doubt I mangled quasi's words beyond recognition! Shall I apply pneumatic pressure bandages ASAP? Or let the poor retch bleed out n end his suffering? That is the question. Whether tis nobler to assist Darwin's delinquents, upon their journey into night? Jomoco

It's self importance repetitive disorder, which Pfizer will soon have a pill for. Or inbred hillbillies disorder, for which there's sadly no cure. Why was I not too made of stone, like thee? Quasijomoco

Yeah, the moral to the Brit story seems to be that of Darwin's little helpers, on a global scale! Rule Britannia, Brittania's fooled the world! Jomoco

Yeah, you lot are rather relentless once you take umbrage as a nation. You've got me so flustered n astonished, that I'm givin serious thought to adding one of those battery charged heart restartin paddle'd contraptions to my manly treeman's medkit. Uncle already you heartless distant cousins O mine! Jomoco

Believe it or not I gotta pry myself from retirement and go climb trees for a couple days! Fear not, my medkit's well provisioned, cell phone's charged n ready, once more, bravely into the breech lads! Jomoco

No, but Andy Griffith's an ole N Carolina tarheel like me! You Brits don't care for yanks much to this very day, eh? Pity that. Jomoco

Well Joe sometimes that big ole bar'll grab yu n squeeze yu just a little too tight! And if you wanna stay alive yu better put up a pretty good fight! Jomoco

The way your release cut allowed the entire tree to jump a foot or so off the base, indicates the crane operator preloaded the pick a couple hundred lbs too much! Not bad though for your first go with a crane mate! Jomoco

Actually I was pretty familiar the properties of the southern and northern adjoining neighbors of the hospital ER complex, having worked on their trees on numerous occasions, all commercial scientific research oriented. So save the hedges n grass n let em bleed eh? Jomoco

Who said anything about a broken leg injury? Pneumatic arm n leg splints make great quick to apply sterile pressure bandages to limit profuse bleeding from accidental chainsaw/handsaw cuts. How bout tourniquets? Are they superfluous too in a tree men's medkit? Jomoco

You'll understand if I plead the Sargent Shultz routine on how any landscape damage occurred that day? I generated some economic stimulus activity for doctors nurses n landscapers? Jomoco

I'd use the stretcher like a tarp, and drag iz azz to the truck, then haul butt the nearest ER! Next! Jomoco

Splittin wood rounds with a wedge n sledge for my sis to burn in winter's about as close as I get to exercise outside of climbin these days. But there again, I'm an admitted ole orthopedically challenged has been! Jomoco

And had I followed your sage advice in real life on the job with Shiny Bob mate? He'd be dead n buried instead of happily flippin pizza's and intimidatin folks with iz light blue malamute eyes. Jomoco

Ok, it's an imminent bloody situation, how are you going to get your 240 lb in danger of dying coworker, off that steep embankment safely without a bloody stretcher of some sort? Jomoco