Had a visitor in the shop today Dad came close to getting bit

^THIS!!

I actually read this thread last night and said to my wife, "Check this out- these f*****g guys actually have a "snake stick" in their shop!" No thanks, man.

 

They do come in handy (even for non lethal stuff), I've got a bigger homemade snare and live traps too. You just never know.

My shop is downtown and I've caught snakes, rac****s, possum, cats, dogs, ??? in the last 30 years.

 

well guys im the dad who took the little stroll p*** this snake.lol i too love snakes and gators. dont know why but ive always loved them.most snakes have some of the most beautiful patterns on them.we used to have a snake room/ office in our house. in this room that my wife also shared with the snakes we had a timber rattler about 4 ft.a very onery copperhead about 3 ft.a redtailed boa 8 1/2 ft. 2 ball pythons about 3 ft. a water moccosin or cotton mouth about 3 ft. and something else i cant remember right now. all were in excape proof gl*** aquriams. before my wtreck i could and would lift the top off the copperheads and rattlers cages and get thier water bowls out clean and refill them and put them back.i moved so slow it would take about 5 minutes for me just to put the bowl back down.i had also on the back porch a nice angry caimen gator. he was alot of fun. let that boy loose in the house and hed keep people seated.lol.i dont kill things for being what they are.at least not animals.we moved into their world they didnt move into ours.when its possible i remove them out of our way and put them back where they should be, away from us.lol. ive tried to teach my kids and grandkids how to be around wildlife.what to do and what not to do.seems to have worked .ive always showed them respect.after all its still a deadly snake.pretty but still deadly.like some women ive known over the yrs.ive never been bitten in all the yrs ive handled snakes. but now im old and crippled and i do know my limitions.so off to the woods with this baby!most of what people seem to know about snakes isnt right most of it is all myths. ive studied reptiles for yrs before i handled my first snake. i do know what im doing.do you know that more people have been bitten by DEAD rattlers than live ones. fact. seems people that run over or shot or even cut them up forget it takes time for their reflexes to die than they think. you run over a rattler with your car , get out and pick up this dead snake to show him off or whatever and quess what his natural reflexes enable him to insert his fangs into your body. ops, he wasnt all the way gone. yet.happens alot out west and in the south.ive seen people do this very thing with me tellin them not to.enough about snakes im going out to the shop to work on hotrods!!!alone, i hope.....

 

must have missed this.yes we have a snake stick steel pole with a plastic v at the end.and a cord runs along the lenth of it and ends into a hoop at the v.. put the v over the snakes head and pull the rope and you now have a snake by the head and he cant get loose, well not if you keep the rope tight.lol we keep it just for this reason.to remove snakes without killing them. the neighbors appreciate it also.we can get a snake off the porch without shootin their porch full of holes...lol

 

how did it get in? do you have gaps under the doors? on my patio I have chicken coop wire mesh under the doors to my sheds to keep out strangers. No snakes just rats and rabbits.

 

I'm glad everyone is okay, including the snake.

I'm a snake fan, especially California King snakes. I've caught several around my old house in Livermore. What a beautiful and intelligent reptile!

 

I know a guy if you picked up a Garden snake he would shoot you & Snake. At a Car Show I ask him to hold other end of Boa from Cinn. Zoo, they were taking pictures. He turn red and spead off. LOL. I Couldn't get anyone to hold Snake with me. The Zoo wouldn't have had them there if they were dangerous. They had 6 or 7, beautful Snakes.

 

You must be talking about Government Leaders ! Wonder how much money goes in their pockets from Oil companies ? They are as low as a SNAKES BELLIE..... LOL

 

Nice that you let him go outlawsteel, cool.
Had a rash of snakes last year but only gr*** snakes, they kept heading into the garage. One of the cats brought a tiny one into the kitchen, it was playing dead but it was all done up like a corkscrew
Came home one day and my little boy says "Hi Dad, there's a snake in the telly..." - one was in the lounge, poking his head out from under the TV black box... my boy wasn't worried in the least but my missus was not happy..
(They all got put back in the garden btw)

 

We are from central Illinois, city dudes. Now retired to NW Florida in the boonies. Hard to believe, in over 18 years, we've seen more snakes back where we were raised than down here. At least on our five acres. The Suwannee River, the Everglades, and parks is another story.

Out of maybe a dozen we have seen at home, we just stop and watch them slither off. Except the small one that appeared to be a Coral Snake my wife found in he bathroom sink. Yea, they are poisonous. Like a trouper she grabbed the cheap can picker-upper we had on the back porch. Took her a while but she soon carried it through the house, showing me, and dropped the little feller out back.

When she asked me to come and get it I told her it's in your bathroom, it's yours. I was too busy playin on this puter. Sure the wife yelled and screamed. But a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!
Snakes lived here way before we did. Now if I could get her to go into town and chase some of those sneaky snakes out we'd be in good shape.

 

Don't forget them greens are very aggressive, not like regular rattler.

 

Here on the HAMB we're all about "traditional" modifications. I say you paint him and make a thread for TECH WEEK. Otherwise, copperheads in a garage are about as interesting as Stacy David's mullet.

 

I went fishing on the Gasconade River in Missouri with a friend a long time ago. We were walking along this shelf toward his favorite fishing spot and if you looked around to could see snakes lying up in the rocks. I figured no big deal, don't step on one don't grab one and your golden, like you I have never been chased by a coper head.

Anyway, my friend had a pair of Levis on that his wife had mad into bell bottoms with some handkerchiefs (man that was a long time ago) and I guess I stirred a copperhead on my way by, it struck at him and got its fangs tangled up in one of the hahdkerchiefs. He screamed and started running, slapping that old snak against the flint and lime stone as he went, he ran all the way to his truck and there was almost no snake left when he got there.

Outlaw,
I didn't know that you were someone's dad man. I guess I should have known because you got grandkids, but what the hell I was in junior high before it occured to me that my grandpa was my mom's dad.

Now I am glad that no one got bit. Before I was just kind of throwing it out there, you know a kind of a courtesy thing.

 

I heard they taste like chcken!

 

Ha yea!! Pin stripe em von dutch style or panel paint

 

Yea they same the same about Vietnamese chicks, sounds a little fishy to me.

 

Gasconade River in Missouri

Lot of snakes in that river, and all the other Missouri rivers.

 

I bought a small flats skif (ghenoe) on a trailer. It had been sitting in someones yard here for a while.

It needed cleaning. So I'm on my back scrubbing all the grime under the boat/trailer and was seeing all these spiny egg sacks. Thinking "man, those look like a egg sac from something serious" and down comes a spider about a ft from my head. Oh ****!

Brown widows. Not a real killer, but it'll mess up your day and may take a chunk of you with him. Ended up using 2 cans of raid wasp spray killing 3 more before going under again. Brown widows are like recluses. They hide in small places and don't like to be seen, but they'll bit when you accidentally disturb them.

The worst part is all the eggs. I didn't want to start a new colony in my backyard. So quarantined the rig and dowsed it completely.

Took a picture of one of the unwanted visitors.

 

Saxon, I wrote about my wife attacking that hugh foot long Coral snake but she does not want to meet another Brown Recluse spider.
Right in our living room she was bitten on the udder by one. Thought it was a Fire ant bite. Within days her **** began swelling and turning purple. Had to rush her to ER 50 miles away. They wanted to remove her breast.
Since we hang around with bikers and other strange characters , we knew women who had breast inhancements and other corrective surgery. Had three choices of plastic surgeons. Called Daytona doc. Ended up having a large portion removed. Twice. Year later had the other udder cut down to match.
Lucky she had decent breasts and no one even notices. At Olds shows she has been mistaken for Linda V.
We learned a lot about Brown Recluse spiders. Heard about a lot of people who died or had body parts amputated. Be careful around dark damp places. Hell our living room isn't dark or damp but she probably carried it inside.
Poor spider was just trying to hide in a warm place.

 

Well I have been wanting my wife to get a reduction, it never occured to me that a brown recluse was the answer.

man, I am sorry to hear about the wife friend. That had to be rough, pain wise and decision wise. The recluse is a funny spyder, I have known people that got bit by them and it was real bad and others that it wasn't any worse than any other spyder bite. Again real sorry to hear about the wife.

A lot of them are in boats.

 

The ONLY good snake is a DEAD snake!!!

 

Brown recluses can be nasty little *******s. Glad it wasn't worst then that for your wife, Denny. Although it was still a major ordeal. A friends wife down here was bit by one. Looked like a little dot then started turning black. They took a golfball size chunk out of her leg.

Amazing such a little bug can pack that much punch. I try to always smash my shop gloves before putting them on, as they like to hide it stuff like that.

Yeah that's true P&B. Everyone reacts to the venom differently.

 

lol funny. Like I said we live out in the country so yes there are snakes around here. Usually they stay out iin woods but sometimes they do come in the yard. He made a snake stick out of my old baseball pitch back along time ago. Been great around the house when they do come into the yard. catch them and put them back into the woods.

 

Yep. If you back away from a regular rattle snake, it will calm down. It wants as much to do with you, as you do with it. A Mohave Green will actually go on the offensive and confront you.

 

Thanks. I know this ain't the place to discuss these matters. But if it saves one person it's worth it.
All doctors wanna do with bites or cancer is cut! I love my ****s...hers...but told her her life is more important. Stuborn old woman made her desision and now I have both, her and her ****s. Since then she's been way too ornery at car and bike events.
Back to traditional rods.

 

Ha, you don't want to get mine around bikes or cars. She is as ornery as a peach orchard rat. Live and ornery beats dead and sweet any day. You are a lucky man.

 

Our Grand Ma made sure my Grand Dad kept their hoes very sharp, for that very reason. They could flick one's head off in a New York second. So far I've only killed one with a weed eater and one with a shovel so far. The *******s don't run, they stand their ground. Three foots a big en!

 

"Some of my best friends are 'snakes'..."

 

Yeah maybe a little off topic but it is shop related. Oh and Holy shnikes.









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