I had this happen when I was up top a utility pole. It wasn't nearly as bad as this video, but it doesn't take many wasps to ruin your day. I was in a fall-arrest harness and seriously considered just unhooking and taking my chances with gravity VS the yellow-jackets.
In the end I climbed back down but got stung a few dozen times for my troubles.
Oh man I hit some yellow jackets in a bucket with an old versalift. The turn table was painfully slow, that was a bad, bad day. I ended up throwing the chain saw hoping they chased the noise and vibration, I don’t think it helped much.
Edit: I just wanted to reiterate how badly it sucks being stung by yellow jackets they’re so mother fucking mean man.
Aye and they’re hyper aggressive. If you’re in a tractor and run over a nest with a machine then all that noise and vibration is like crack cocaine for them.
say what now??! they bite?? i didn’t know that! And then they don’t even die.. so then that poor guy is stuck in a basket and can’t do anything about it. what a shitty day.
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u/JohnProof 9d ago
I had this happen when I was up top a utility pole. It wasn't nearly as bad as this video, but it doesn't take many wasps to ruin your day. I was in a fall-arrest harness and seriously considered just unhooking and taking my chances with gravity VS the yellow-jackets.
In the end I climbed back down but got stung a few dozen times for my troubles.