SNAKES ON A MILL

[willmyers0169]

Was busy milling some flooring this morning on the LT 15 and heard something fall, i thought i was a log clamp until my dad stopped me and said look, under the mill was a 4' black snake that had fallen out of the rafters, with a belly full of RAT. Thank God he didnt fall on me or i would have left the mill with him.

[Magicman]

No snake today, but we did saw a hollow log that had a rat in it.  An off bearer grabbed it, gave it a sling, and we never missed a lick.  Where is a good snake when you need it??   ???

[Small Slick]

Two of my guys were changing a fuse box in a customers home and there was a fox snake in the suspended ceiling of the basement. One grabbed it by the tail and the other wacked it with a shovel. It also had a big bulge in its belly. Probably the chimp monk that made the hole in the house it used to get in.

I guess it was 48" long.

John

[WoodenHead]

You guys can keep both the snakes and the rats!   I don't care to play with either.  :D

[dboyt]

As long as it is not venomous, any snake is welcome around my mill.  Copperheads are a 'nother story.

[Brad_bb]

When I was a kid, I used to see garder snakes often here on the farm (hour south of Chicago).  I've seen Prarie King snake and bull snake too.  But....I have not seen a snake here in probably 5 years now, and I have way to many mice.  I could use some snakes.

[goose63]

Brad you can have all my garder snakes the yard is full of them I cant kill em fast enough

[MSSawmill]

As long as it is not venomous, any snake is welcome around my mill.  Copperheads are a 'nother story.

Ain't that the truth! I've already taken one out at the creek behind the house, my wife got one in the yard, and dad got one trying to cross the road. And we had a big moccasin on the walkway just outside the back door! (Wife freaked out on that one and didn't get it. I was at work...)

[beenthere]

Don't know the garder snake, but am familiar with the garter snake. Maybe the same one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_snake

[Mooseherder]

I had a Garter snake by the mill pad yesterday and 2 more today.  My wife saw another in the mill vicinity today.  I hope they eat mice because they are a plenty.

[WDH]

It is very snaky here. 

[Magicman]

Prolly 'cause we gots lots of snakes.   

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I saw the movie snakes on a plane.
I went thinking wood plane but it was an airplane. 

[jmouton]

i really dont like snakes       



                                                                    jim

[scully]

How to kill a snake ..... Load every gun you own empty on snake or as near as you can douse the area that the snake was last seen with gas and tires then light . after that shoot area some more ,throw axes at area and ..... well only if they supprise you .....

[Alligator]

In south Alabama it stays warm enough that all kind of snakes don't have to winter under ground. In the spring when we started running the planer hot and heavy, there would always be a few 10-15 between the sticks. We had an unstacker that sent the sticks down a belt and the lumber onto a chain deck to the planer. The snakes always came down on the lumber. My job among other things, was to KILL THE SNAKE! It didn't matter what kind, because the crew wouldn't come back into the planer shed if there was a snake on the lose. They had to SEE a dead snake! 8) There was all kinds, Rattlers and Rat, White Oaks and Copper Heads, Black and Graters. Never any Moccasins in spite of the fact there were plenty on the yard?

The only fear of snakes I have / had was the ones I couldn't see first. If they surprise you even the non poisonous will make you hurt yourself.

We had a logger, that I couldn't cruse timber with. He would show you every snake in the woods. I wanted to see the ones in my path, but not ALL of them. He saw every one. Knowing that there were that many gave me the creeps.

[Darrel]

My wife was in the shower a while back and the water went dry.  I went out to the pump house and got to looking around and found that a tiny little garter snake had gotten himself into the switch box.  He was fried and so was the switch.