[TowerTalk] Antenna/Tower work safety - Lyme Disease safety Don't froget Bee's

[chris casey]

Friend likes to tell the story of bringing a small telescope and
sighting the stinging insect nest/swarm at the top of a 300' tower
before climbing, rather than after all that work.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Wayne Kline <w3ea at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Lyme Disease, is s serious concern for anybody working walking in a wooded area or any tower located in a grounf brush area.An ounce of protection is worth a pound cure. But as warmer weather is apron us, My major concern is  from the Stinging flying critters.  not fun as you  are climbing over a tic ring or around  a swing gate .MY worse experience was from a sema box  used as a Prop-Pitch Selsyin wire junction tie box. and  just above the rung  I was stand on.Well thank  GOD it was a Bee nest - as the ones that were up my Jeans could only Sting me Once as I crushed them between the material and my calf ankle area.This was on a old  Air Motor free standing tower,  Lesson learned. always examine any area for Bee/Wasp nesting area and carry a can of bug kill as you go aloft. Be Safe. Wayne W3EA  > From: ai.egrps at gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:26:08 -0400
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>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna/Tower work safety - Lyme Disease safety
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>> > ... and then using a little tool which is a plastic spoon with a
>> > v groove cut in it to get under him and lift him off.  ...
>> > The little tool was given out at a tick seminar
>> > once.  I don't know where you can get them.
>>
>> Pet supply store.  I had them for my dog.
>>
>> I don't know if they work on the much smaller deer ticks; but I don't
>> recall seeing them mentioned in the CDC tick information.
>>
>> Andy
>> kb1nxm
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-Chris