I walked into my garage this morning just in time to see a tail disappear beneath my car. I grabbed a rake and managed to chase the critter out from under the car. Unfortunately it took off toward my workbench. The bench has a lot of stuff stored underneath and my visitor managed to find a clever place to hide. I spent 20 minutes looking but didn't want to be real late to work. Now this afternoon I'll get to take everything out of the garage until the varmint is found. What fun it will be moving all that stuff hoping I find the creature without accidentally grabbing it. After all it's a 3ft copperhead snake! Not the kind of critter you want to share a bench with. I guess its time I put a new threshold under that door.
snakes holy ****! i thought our "shop possum" was bad . we chased it around for about 30 minutes a couple weekends ago, the damn thing hid and we never did find it.....
A few weeks ago, I heard something rustling in the corner of my garage, and found a woodchuck burrowed under one of the wooden pallets I've got blocks and heads sitting on! After I poured a bucket of water on him to let him know that my garage is strictly "no vacancy", he got the idea and moved out. *******ed squatters!
Maybe I'll use him as a slip cover for the shifter rod. Make him hold the shifter ball in his mouth. That'd be cool.
At different times I have had a very pregnant possum, a couple of chipmunks, and three stray cats hiding in the garage, but never an old no-shoulders. Thank the Lord for that. My father in law in Florida had a 5 foot copper head in his shop. He had to move all of his cars (8) out to make sure the old boy didn't get in a car some place difficult to get him out. Finally found him under the air compressor and had him removed to a sanctuary. No harm done to any party.
Sometimes I ask myself why it is I live in Maine and not some place warmer like Florida or Texas ... and then I read something like this and say, "Oh Yeah! That's it!" Snakes in the Shop?! Shheeeeeeit!
LOL -- I had one of those snaky experiences once upon a time. I had just got done mowing and saw him curling up under the car -- trying to get on the cross member. I got in the car and backed up and saw him take out. I hit the garage door opener, got a splitting maul and decided I'd have split snake soup. I saw him slithering up beside the house and took a wack at him. Sparks flew from the foundation as I missed. Now remember that garage door that I opened up? The snake, sensing his impending demise, decided to do a 180 and go the other direction . . . and I managed to miss about one more time before I seen him go into the garage. DOH! I looked for a while and then saw him slithering up a spare gutter that I had laying on the floor. The gutter was too tall to stand up, so it was at an angle and the little booger went right up in it. I put the gutter outside and banged on it . . . .it was a stand-off. I decided I wasn't going to have this big black snake (ok, it's not a rattler, but it's still a SNAKE!) anywhere near my yard. I took the gutter out to a field a couple of blocks away and left it for a day . . . when I returned, my gutter was empty. Whew! I haven't seen any snakes since then . . . but next time I do I'm going to practice a bit before putting divots in my foundation.
I one time took some items to the s**** yard. We were unloading, and a guy helping said, whose pet snake. I left the doors to the truck open, the snake crawled around and got in the cab,we never did find that snake,made for scary ride home.
And I thought the bats in our shop were bad. Heck we are happy that we are down to 6 or 7 of the varments. Kindof makes working at nite impossible.
My Father was a twin, he and his brother were always "up to something". They were like the 3 Stooges, short one stooge. One rather coolish Florida night my Dad put a rattlesnake in a paper bag under the seat of my uncles car. Being cold blooded the snake could only really lay there waiting for the heater to come on in the morning. My Dad kept my Uncle talking while he warmed up his car. Sure enough after about ten minutes the snake started heading forward towards the heater and out from under the seat. This was over 40 years ago and I can still see the look on my Uncle's face as he literally levitated off the seat and out the window of that old Ford. I laughed, my Dad laughed and eventually my Uncle laughed, but he never did get back in that car that day. Years later on another coolish Florida morning I was headed off to work and fired up my motorcycle. I sat there putting on my gloves when I noticed something moving on the engine. I looked down just as a snake started climbing up my pants leg away from the now hot motor! Sonofa*****! I jumped off that bike and shook my leg real good to get that ******* off me, but I never dropped the bike! Snakes are like tourists down here, they're everywhere.
If you want to know the true meaning of shimmy---Laying under the roadster pickup this summer, looking for slight leak in ****** coolant line. Didn't bother to jack the rpu up high enough to use my creeper, so was laying on my back on the concrete floor. I'm a big old guy, so it was a damn tight fit to say the least. Warm summer evening, garage door has been open all day. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I see something moving on the floor beside me. Its too tight to really turn my head to the side, but out of the corner of my eye, I see its a snake, and I can't really tell how big it is, or what kind!!! I go to do a real quick exit, and the coveralls hang up on an exhaust hanger. I ripped the whole damn front out of my coveralls, and just about lifted the rpu straight up, but I got out. It wasn't a really big snake, and it wasn't a poisonous snake, but I'm sure I heard the son of a ***** laughing as I was looking for a broom to chase it outside!!!
Snakes are bad, but at least theres only one, hopefully.. I'm dealing with an infestation of Black Widow spiders in my shop right now, had one run over the top of my hand when I picked up my battery charger the other day. Ive killed 10 so far, but its the ones I dont know about that worry me! Reminds me , time to go spray again....
Kin 'ell - what with snakes, hurricanes and earthquakes I'm sometimes glad I'm stuck on this side of the pond! On the bright side for you, at least they don't eat upholstery!
black snakes are lots better than the mice that they eat. and bats are waaay better than the mosquitos they eat. i don't mind either. copperheads & rattlers, on the other hand...
i did a tech on how to remove those little ******s a while ago, though it was mostly on how to remove them from your car...
i have a small farm in ct. horse goat, chickens. my boys have the nack for leavin the door to the barn open were my roadster and there bikes are kept. never had a snake but the F---in chickens make a mess you wouldnt believe.
Wait'll the Australians start checking in later...they have 19 of the 10 deadliest spider varietie and even more of the killer snakes in their area...vicious creatures that respect neither beer nor '32 Fords.
If you want to keep rats and mice out of your garage keep a black snake around. Or any other nonpoisonous variety. I like snakes way better than disease carrying rats! jerry
Funny that you would say that. My dad sold a tractor to a guy who painted it his teams colors and put big decals on the fenders. Dad said "the only thing real farmers have on their fenders is chicken ****!" CHAZ
All we have here is scorpions, taratulas, rattle snakes, and black widows. Thankfully, we don't have earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, or snow.
Hell yeah Id clean out the garage. A lady at work got bit by a copperhead in the hand last year. They cut her open from wrist to elbow and s****ed out the poision and dead tissue twice a day for a week.
Greetings from AUS. A couple of images of the local wildlife. The goannas eat mice and don't bite, one lives under my garage. The tiger snakes also eat mice and are possibly the deadliest snake in the world, one or more live under my garage. I don't like mice.
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