Put hand in woodbox...Ouch!

[Stax]

Was gathering a load of locust from my woodbox when all of the sudden I felt a very sharp pain in the palm of my hand. I dropped all of the wood and looked down at my hand. Wouldn't you know...friggin bee stung me. Must have been hibernating in that box for a while.

 

[fishingpol]

Ouch, pretty much the last thing I would be thinking of this time of year.

Here is the Chief Firewood Inspector doing her job:

 

[Hogwildz]

That, and poison ivy, is why I use my loading gloves/welding gloves not only to load, but to retrieve the new load of splits. And usually at least a long sleeved shirt.

 

[ScotO]

Was gathering a load of locust from my woodbox when all of the sudden I felt a very sharp pain in the palm of my hand. I dropped all of the wood and looked down at my hand. Wouldn't you know...friggin bee stung me. Must have been hibernating in that box for a while.

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I found several of them hybernating in my starter stack (stacked under the back eave of my tool shed) back in November....I picked up a couple of splits and threw them on my arm, and after carrying them up to the house found two lone yellow jackets! Weird......

 

[Stax]

Interesting Scotty. Yup, using the "free" gloves from (broken link removed).com to get wood out of the box now.

 

[Thistle]

Ouch, pretty much the last thing I would be thinking of this time of year.

Here is the Chief Firewood Inspector doing her job:

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Looks like my Thomas.Only much smaller

 

[begreen]

I've gotten stung a couple times loading splits out of the shed. Now I too wear gloves.

 

[jeff_t]

I find the lone yellow jackets all the time. Big ones.

 

[Highbeam]

Being allergic to bees, I am pretty careful to look where I grab. My last sting sent me to the hospital and it was while stacking wood in my old woodshed. I knew that there was a golfball sized nest in the rafters but I kept stacking closer and closer until one came down like lightning and zapped me in the forehead.