Everybody always says "look up" ....pfftt!

[CCC4]

This beasty hit me 2x in the upper section of my boot while blocking off some rot! Yay! 



 

[Bert]

I cant believe its in one piece. I would have blocked off some snake 

[snowstorm]

if there was a snake within a 100 miles i would be 110 miles away. up here i might see 1 a year and they dont bite

[coxy]

  my skidder would be on the next train headed to the frozen north  :D :D

[CCC4]

I cant believe its in one piece. I would have blocked off some snake 

One of the skidder guys is having it for dinner! ! I used my chainsaw on a copperhead last week, it moved and it slapped me in my thigh when it went up the bottom of the bar> !

[WV Sawmiller]

   Glad you're okay. I've stepped on them coon hunting and had cottonmouths hit the tops of my boots and only the fact I was wearing rubber boots that were tall and floppy saved me. I must admit it think I could have been a contender for the Olympic standing straight up jump when it happened and it definitely clears out any minor blockages in your arteries.

   Unless they are a threat to me or my family or pets I leave them alone now but I killed hundreds in my younger days. If fishing was slow we'd go to rocky areas like railroad trestles and shoot snakes sunning there. In all honesty they likely weren't hurting anything (but they'd make you hurt yourself) and I know of several boat bottoms they were shot out when one fell in the boat and I've broken several paddles and fishing poles messing with them.

[CCC4]

I get it, I just couldn't let that one walk. I did some thinking and called the nearest hospital and inquired about Timber Rattlesnake anti venom. I am cutting very remote and had to figure out a game plan if I take a hit. Nearest hospital is around 25 to 30 minutes away, Im in steep ground with a wretched hike out...so get a skidder to come get me so I dont panic or stress and push the venom through out. The hospital told me they keep (1) vial of Timber rattlesnake anti venom and then they air evac you to Little Rock. Either way, they take a rattle snake bite pretty serious here

[timberlinetree]

Yikes! Glad it didn't get ya.

[bigblue12v]

I'd have cut myself with the saw while madly swinging said saw at said vile rodent!

[Puffergas]

Your a better man than me..!! I'll hide up here in the snow bank.. Glad your OK..!!

[wolf nemeth]

   A few years back I was  recovering  from shoulder surgery, sitting on my deck reading. I heard a noise, looked up, and saw a middle part of  an apparently good sized snake hanging  out of the rain gutter right above my head.  I ran to the shed, got a hoe,  climbed on the reading table, and hooked the snake with the  corner of my hoe.
    It came down in a heap, coiled up and rattled. 
  I killed that rattlesnake three times, broke the hoe handle, and just for a minute completely  forgot I'd had  rotator cuff surgery the previous day.

[Ken]

CCC4  Glad you didn't get injured.  Hearing about those types of experiences makes me appreciative of our climate here on the east coast of Canada.  Cold winters = no poisonous snakes.

[CCC4]

   A few years back I was  recovering  from shoulder surgery, sitting on my deck reading. I heard a noise, looked up, and saw a middle part of  an apparently good sized snake hanging  out of the rain gutter right above my head.  I ran to the shed, got a hoe,  climbed on the reading table, and hooked the snake with the  corner of my hoe.
    It came down in a heap, coiled up and rattled. 
  I killed that rattlesnake three times, broke the hoe handle, and just for a minute completely  forgot I'd had  rotator cuff surgery the previous day.

"I killed that rattlesnake three times..."  Too funny, I'm still laughing!!

[CCC4]

Yep you cold climate fellas have it good on snakes and the escape from this wretched heat and humidity...but I just cant work in a T shirt! !!!

[mills]

There is only one species of snakes here in my area, and I know them as copperheadedrattlemocasins.

If they don't kill me with poison, I'll surely die of heart failure.  >:(

[coxy]

I know them as copperheadedrattlemocasins.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[kiko]

 

 
Got this on right near my house today, it had nine rattles.

[kiko]

Hope I am not highjacking your thread, CCC4.   Just go's to show you always gotta be lookin where you steppin.  This one was in my driveway some time back.  Dog days is what my granny used to call it.  With this heat those big boys are on t

  he move.

[treeslayer2003]

   A few years back I was  recovering  from shoulder surgery, sitting on my deck reading. I heard a noise, looked up, and saw a middle part of  an apparently good sized snake hanging  out of the rain gutter right above my head.  I ran to the shed, got a hoe,  climbed on the reading table, and hooked the snake with the  corner of my hoe.
    It came down in a heap, coiled up and rattled. 
  I killed that rattlesnake three times, broke the hoe handle, and just for a minute completely  forgot I'd had  rotator cuff surgery the previous day.

, i am bad for breaking what ever i hit a snake with. i moved a bell cutter down the road one day and dad followed in the pick up. i had to shut her down in the road as a black snake was trying hard to get in a crack under the windshield. i beat him to death with what ever was handy. dad said three more fell out of it before i turned into the job. to this day, he won't get close to that machine, swears there has to be more snakes in it lol.

[teakwood]

When we started clearing my land for the teaksapplings we killed around 900 rattlesnakes over 3 years, almost one per day. Normally the workers cut them with their machete, i killed about 10 with the chain saw. I forbided my workers to kill boas and other harmless snakes, but the terciopelos and rattlers are just to dangerous. I had workers who didn't want to work for me because my land was famous for rattlesnakes :D :D. Now their pretty much gone, maybe 8 a year. Ones they brought a snake with 18 rattles!! that thing was around 6' long

[Dave Shepard]

I saw a 3' garter shake last night. I should be good for another 2-3 years before I see another one. We have all kinds of poisonous snakes up here, but never really hear of anyone having any trouble with them, except the people who go looking for it. :D I've been reading a lot of Capstick lately. They have real snake problems in the places he was playing around in.

edited for spelling errors. Sometimes this fool phone has a mind of it's own.

[coxy]

when we went to Vermont the guy said they did no have any rattle snakes up there by smugglers notch is that true or was he full of

[Dave Shepard]

I spoke too soon. Maybe my quota is filled for the next 4-6 years now.  :D



 

[coxy]

is that a milk snake  :-\ :-\

[kensfarm]

If you had enough snake skin to make boots.. that pattern would look pretty cool.. even a belt.