You meet with the person in charge of the auditorium, and are immediately put at ease by his easygoing demeanor and easy smile. After showing you how to find the ladder, Mr. Artiss opens the door to let you hook up the vacuum. You have coordinated with a co-worker to meet you and hold the ladder - Lee Robinson is fearless, and ends up being a perfect choice.
Hook up the vacuum to the bucket, with the mesh bag inside the bucket to catch the bees, hook up the other hose to the lid, and cinch the shopvac tight against the 7' ladder, and you are ready to go. You started at dusk, when most of the bees would be returning from the field.
I don't know if you know this, but you are VERY much afraid of heights. And the 30' ladder provided by the City of Vicksburg is pretty rickety. But in the face of such predicaments, you forge ahead. Because you have chutzpah.
Lee holds onto the ladder, which is wedged between the tree and the building. And you begin the climb, squeezing between limbs and the brick wall, up three stories. After tying off the bucket to the ladder, as high as it will reach, you grasp the hose, and give the signal to Lee, who turns on the vacuum.
And the bees begin to disappear down the gullet of the bee vac, making a satisfying sound as each gets sucked backwards. (Your hose, however, creates a harmonic, resulting in a band-saw like scream that is painful on the ears. Note to self: the next time you do this, you should probably bring some headphones).
After five satisfying minutes of watching bees get sucked into the machine, you realize you are leaning further and further in towards the entrance to the hive.
Oh, no. Your vacuum doesn't suck. Or, depending on your perspective, it does.
So you descend the ladder, carrying the bucket of bees to the ground. And you transfer them to the spare bucket, an act that makes Lee hightail it away from your spot, as the bees emerge QUITE unhappy with you as a result of their journey.
Now that the bucket is cleared of bees, you ascend, and discover that the vacuum still sucks. Or, rather, that it does not suck.
Darkness is coming. You do not have illumination. What do you do?
Keep working. The hole won't change its location, so you can easily use your now-failing vacuum to not suck up angry bees in the dark while on top of a 30' ladder. Click here.
Seal up all holes except for the one you are drawing from, and plan to try again tomorrow. Click here.
Hook up the vacuum to the bucket, with the mesh bag inside the bucket to catch the bees, hook up the other hose to the lid, and cinch the shopvac tight against the 7' ladder, and you are ready to go. You started at dusk, when most of the bees would be returning from the field.I don't know if you know this, but you are VERY much afraid of heights. And the 30' ladder provided by the City of Vicksburg is pretty rickety. But in the face of such predicaments, you forge ahead. Because you have chutzpah.
Lee holds onto the ladder, which is wedged between the tree and the building. And you begin the climb, squeezing between limbs and the brick wall, up three stories. After tying off the bucket to the ladder, as high as it will reach, you grasp the hose, and give the signal to Lee, who turns on the vacuum.
And the bees begin to disappear down the gullet of the bee vac, making a satisfying sound as each gets sucked backwards. (Your hose, however, creates a harmonic, resulting in a band-saw like scream that is painful on the ears. Note to self: the next time you do this, you should probably bring some headphones).
After five satisfying minutes of watching bees get sucked into the machine, you realize you are leaning further and further in towards the entrance to the hive.
Oh, no. Your vacuum doesn't suck. Or, depending on your perspective, it does.
So you descend the ladder, carrying the bucket of bees to the ground. And you transfer them to the spare bucket, an act that makes Lee hightail it away from your spot, as the bees emerge QUITE unhappy with you as a result of their journey.
Now that the bucket is cleared of bees, you ascend, and discover that the vacuum still sucks. Or, rather, that it does not suck.
Darkness is coming. You do not have illumination. What do you do?
Keep working. The hole won't change its location, so you can easily use your now-failing vacuum to not suck up angry bees in the dark while on top of a 30' ladder. Click here.
Seal up all holes except for the one you are drawing from, and plan to try again tomorrow. Click here.
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