Had a bit of excitement today. I was mowing up in the field and hit a tree root that stopped the mower dead in its tracks and bent a blade. After some trouble I was able to straighten the blade and go back to mowing. The paths up around the bees had not been mowed for awhile so I decided to head up that way to mow. I made the 1st pass in front of the hive with no trouble, but as I made the 2nd pass behind the hive I got too close and hit the stand I have everything on. Well, it knocked the hive off the stand, moved the cement blocks, basically all Hell broke loose.
So I put the mower in reverse and got out of there as fast as I could. Down to the garage, off the mower as fast as I could go and started to gather up my bee stuff. Went back up to the field , started the smoker, put on my white long sleeve shirt, gloves, grabbed the hive tool and started for the problem. I 1st put back the cement blocks, them the cement slab, then I started to move supers. Got the bottom board and 1st super back in place with out and problem, then the bees started to swarm around me pretty good, so I grabbed the next 2 supers and put them on. Had to move them into the right spot, then I went for the last super. It had the feeder in it and the frames had all fallen out and the wax foundation had fallen out. Through them all in, adjusted everything to fit right, put on the inner cover then the top cover propped open with a brick. Nothing seemed to be damaged much, I had a plastic bucket next to the hive for water that got smashed, but all in all everything worked out well. I did not get stung, but it was exciting to say the least.