[AT] Thinning the herd NOW bee stings

[Phil Auten]

Cecil,

I haven't noticed any relief from any stings, but I've only been stung 
once, by a wasp,

in the last 20 years or so. Benadryl dosen't seem to make me sleepy, but 
two beers

and I'm ready for bed. :o)


Phil in TX


On 7/9/2017 3:47 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> Charlie:
> The good thing about that is it will probably help relieve some joint
> pain.   I get about 3 days pain relief from a bee or wasp sting.  Joint
> pain that is.  When I got into a hornet's nest a few years back, I had
> over 50 stings.  I was mowing a large field to do a grid survey.
> Hornet's were in the ground.  I poured my chainsaw gas on them and it
> only pissed them off.  I lit the gas and talked the fire dept into
> letting it burn to the fence line. While it was burning I went to local
> Wal Mart and bought a bottle of Benadryl.  I made the mistake of taking
> 3 pills.    It was over 100 miles back home, and it was the longest 100
> miles I ever drove.  Benadryl is also a great sleep aid...!..
>
> Cecil
>
>
> On 7/9/2017 2:47 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Well I went and opened my mouth about bee stings.
>> Got up from the computer, went out to mow the yard
>> on my ZTR and just as I was about finished ran right
>> straight through a nest of them somewhere.  They wrapped
>> me up.  I've got stings on my left hand, behind both knees and
>> on my right ankle.  So far I can't tell exactly how many individual
>> stings but I think there were multiple stings in some of the spots.
>> Took some Benadryl and I'm not particularly bothered by stings
>> other than the pain so I'll be alright as soon as it stops burning
>> and itching and hurting.  As many as were flying around me and
>> crawling on me that I was able to brush off I really feel lucky it
>> wasn't worse!
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dean Vinson
>> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 11:35 AM
>> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thinning the herd
>>
>> John, that's great news about finding a good home for the thresher.  I
>> remember your posts from some time back saying how hard it was to find
>> anyone interested at all, even for a thresher in as good a condition as that
>> one.
>>
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, Ohio
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>> Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 9:03 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: [AT] Thinning the herd
>>
>> Dad and I have been pondering for some time about thinning our antique farm
>> equipment collection. In a nutshell, he has reached an age where he can only
>> provide technical and moral support. My son has no real interest in most of
>> our stuff, so its time to let a bit of it go.
>> Yesterday a fellow drove 3 hours to pick up dads IH threshing machine.
>> He already had a thresher but it was old and in need of serious repairs.
>> Dads was one of the last built, 1950's, and was used less than 10 years.
>> I tried for a few years to get a local club to buy it or find other locals
>> interested---no luck. Anyway the guy that bought it raises draft horses and
>> uses them to grow the oats he feeds them each year. He plans on using the
>> thresher to thresh this years oats. Guy borrowed a 34'
>> trailer to haul it on, worked great. Best part is the thresher only sat
>> outdoors one night. One of the challenges of selling machinery this big is
>> finding someone with shed space for it. Its nice to let something like that
>> go to someone who will appreciate it. Fellow is also interested in our grain
>> binder, I'll see what kind of a deal we can strike up! I'm glad we found a
>> user, as we were already considering cutting the machine up for
>> scrap---thats a hard thing to do on a piece of equipment that only needed
>> greasing before it was ready to run.
>>
>> John Hall
>>
>>
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