Bee Fail, gloves

[sc-bee]

I even talk to them, don't know if it makes any difference

Oh so do I , all the time, sometimes more than others, but I am not sure the content is suitabvle for a family forum...

[Jaimes36]

Well smoked hands and I haven't needed gloves yet! Although I've had to shut things up and walk away but that's just honey bees.


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[Eric Bosworth]

I haven't read the entire thread so forgive me if someone said this already but I don't use gloves. Smoke the crap out of your hands and they won't bother you as long as you don't squish them. Without gloves it is easier to feel them so you don't squish them.

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[PhilK]

Copped a sting to the thumb joint yesterday through the blue disposal vinyl type gloves (nitrile). Had squashed her legs by accident when holding the frame, shifted my grip to release her and the thanks I got was getting to watch her crawl up my thumb, position her abdomen, and sting me. Wanted to stop her but had a frame in my hands. Right hand is like a softball today and I can't bend my fingers.. sometimes I wish I just stuck to leather gloves!

[divemaster1963]

We're they the disposable gloves? They are to thin. Get the ones that are at least 6mil thick.


John

[Oldbeavo]

Philk
You just need to get a few more so your system gets used to them. 4 or 5 a day and you won't even puff, though one very potent bee has given my wrist a little puff today. Would have had 8 or 10 on my hands today splitting  hives on a day that wasn't quite warm enough.
Be interesting to know why one sting has produced a little puff when none of the others can be found????

[Blacksheep]

Well you never know when the bees will sting you!I am in process of building a Solevian Bee hive House and it is about 20 foot in front of my hives.Haven't started hammering as yet but was working on getting the foundation block all squared up and level ready for the wood work.Been working on it late in the evening since it is so hot  and I am not supposed to be in the sun .Any way out of the blue one bees decides I need to be stung so she hit me on the nose!I hope that is a very rare thing as I hate to have to wear a  suit while working.To much trouble to move 10 hives AND DON'T HAVE ANY PLACE TO MOVE THEM TO!

[BeeMaster2]

In the last 3 days, I have taken at least 20' stings to my hands. We have been removing honey and a few of the hives were pretty upset. None of them swelled up or were even sore to the touch.  Today I found one girl under the lid of a bucket while extracting in the house and she got the pad of my left ring finger. That finger is swelled up a bit. There is no rhyme or reason to it.
Jim

[Tom in Kingman AZ]

                Just a blast from the past. I served in an AIRBORNE unit in Alaska and we had a strange type of gloves for everyday stuff. It was a felt type of glove that worked pretty well BUT when it got to 0 or below we had leather shells that fit over them. The sizes were corresponding so it was not a crushing kind of tight. As for their use with bees I go back to something an old prospector told me about rattlers. Before Kevlar "gaithers" (leggings) he would put paper mache around his legs. He claimed that a rattler could not penetrate the depth and it was light enough to wear for extended periods of time. Sooooo, I'm thinking about the winter gloves I had "back in the day". I might have to work slower but being retired gives me all the time I need. I REALLY don't want to get stung.

[PhilK]

Philk
You just need to get a few more so your system gets used to them. 4 or 5 a day and you won't even puff, though one very potent bee has given my wrist a little puff today. Would have had 8 or 10 on my hands today splitting  hives on a day that wasn't quite warm enough.
Be interesting to know why one sting has produced a little puff when none of the others can be found????

No thanks mate! The discomfort is not worth it I reckon. I'm a vet in my day job, and let me just tell you it was lucky that yesterday was a quiet day with no surgery or I would have been stuffed.
Hand is not painful or throbbing today, swelling come down a little bit, and can almost close all my fingers so I am happy with that at least. Managed to do surgery without too much discomfort!
I'm also worried that this could mean I have a bee allergy, as previous stings have puffed up but not as much.. what if it keeps getting worse with every sting and I end up in an ambulance one day

[Michael Bush]

Working outside in -10 F in the panhandle of Nebraska, I learned to wear "Choppers".  They were wool mittens with leather mittens over them.  I wore cheap jersey gloves under that with the thumb and first two fingers cut out.  That way if I had to have fingers to accomplish something most of my hand would stay warm.  With the mittens on they stayed warm and the leather gave you a grip so you could swing a hammer and blocked the wind from blowing through the wool knit mittens.  But for bees all I want or need is thin leather.  Once in a great while the bees will find a seam or work a stinger in far enough that it hits my skin.  But they don't really sting through them.  I just buy roping gloves and tuck them into my sleeves on my jacket.

[divemaster1963]

I love the roping gloves . I would use them in a heartbeat. There just no where around here to get them. I like to try them on first to get the best fit.

John

[Michael Bush]

I buy them at the local hardware store, but then we still have cowboys around here...

[Tom in Kingman AZ]

I love the roping gloves . I would use them in a heartbeat. There just no where around here to get them. I like to try them on first to get the best fit.

John

Check for a Tractor Supply Store anywhere near or order them on the web.

[divemaster1963]

I buy them at the local hardware store, but then we still have cowboys around here...

Lots of cows. ( milk). No boys.

John.

I forgot about tractor supply. We have on across town. About fourty miles.