[AT] Thinning the herd NOW bee stings

[Mike M]

Charlie, it's funny you mentioned that, a friend up the road was mowing 
with his ZTR last year when he saw a ground nest before he ran over it. 
He pulled up over it with the blades running and just sat there for a 
few minutes, there where only a few returner's left, nothing more. Took 
out the whole colony.

Mike M


On 7/9/2017 3:47 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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