While Bush Hogging I hit a Tee Post. Yanked it out by the roots. It spun around under the deck, probably for no more than 2 seconds, but, it felt like it was 2 minutes from where i was sitting. The metal on metal sound made my back molars hurt. Result was a Tee Post pretzel.
Jay's story reminds me of a friend, who had purchased a home that had a handful of fruit trees out back. The place had gone into disrepair but he chiupped away at the rennovation, slowly cleaned it up, including the 2+ acres of lawn.
Well, bees love rotten fruit left on the ground and the prior owners had evidently left rotten fruit on the ground for years.
He was mowing out back, made his turn at the property line to head back to the other end. he looked ahead of him, and couldn't figure out what that big dark cloud was hovering about 4 feet off the ground?? Was his motor smoking? Was it a miniature rain cloud? Ball lightning? No, it was the swarm of bees who emerged from their hole in the ground, under the apples trees, after he had made a mowing pass right over their hole!!
As he approach the cloud, he realized what they were, as the first "fighters" reached him. buzzing him as if to to say "Target acquired".
By his account, he "did a donut" in the backyard while performing a 180 degree turn, slammed the throttle to FULL ON, and didn't stop or look back until he had mowed a cartoon-style path of grass around the side of the house and out across the yet-to-be-mowed front yard and down his driveway toward his mailbox.
He looked at the path later on and it had looked like a Mad-man had had gone on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride through his yard.
He waited for a cool fall evening to exact his revenge.
He had reconned the hole in the ground which he described as "Big enough to put your fist inisde". One gallon of gasoline (he wasn't messing around) and a road flare later it was all over. The flames shot up into the air at least 20 feet, liek a "Big Bee Blow Torch".
Don't worry, he only singed his arm hair up to his elbow as he laughed that "mad scientist laugh" as the flames shot skyward. |