I have a Sawmill Snake

[OneWithWood]

Found this beauty walking through the woods to my barn.  He was out catching some rays and when I approached instead of zipping away he just contorted himself to look like he was dead.  When I was heading back he was nowhere in sight.



 



 

We always called these black or blue racers.  For scale the road is 12' wide. 
Great snakes to have around and totally harmless.

[WV Sawmiller]

1ww,

   Thanks for the scale info. Means that was a pretty good sized snake. I'm impressed.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You are now One With Snakes. :D

[WDH]

My Sawmill Snake is back.  He can have quite the attitude.  Today, I just talked with him and he laid there and listened.  He did not have much to say.  He eventually slithered over and went under the kiln.



 

[YellowHammer]

Just don't let him go in the kiln.  They definately loose their attitude.

[Deese]

YH, I talked to NYLE and they said that you can actually set the "pit" on those rascals and eat them.

(For all legal purposes and effects, this statement is for FF entertainment purposes only, and would not consider consuming KD snake unless cooked in a solar kiln).

[WDH]

My dehumidification kiln would cook them well done.  If you want medium rare, you need a solar kiln  ;D.

[Magicman]

Snake jerky!   

Looked like a King snake and a Corn (Chicken) snake.   ???

[Deese]

My dehumidification kiln would cooked them well done.  If you want medium rare, you need a solar kiln  ;D.

But you've got to let the meat relax  (tenderize) overnight and sizzle during the day.  :D

[SineWave]

My sawmill Copperhead.

That's what the good Lord made sticks for.

[Brad_bb]

Man I just barely missed a Prairie King Snake on the road in front of my farm yesterday with my truck and trailer.  He wasn't crossing very fast and I saw him last minute, I swerved to get him right under the center of my truck and trailer and I'm pretty sure no tire got him.  I like non-venomous snakes.  I don't see snakes often but I welcome them to come eat all the darn mice!!

[YellowHammer]

My dehumidification kiln would cooked them well done.  If you want medium rare, you need a solar kiln  ;D.

But you've got to let the meat relax  (tenderize) overnight and sizzle during the day.  :D

Worst part about it was that is was still tender and warm when I picked him up with a couple sticks under the body, and he literally just fell apart, sloughed into several pieces, dripped onto the kiln floor and semi splattered like a smelly, nasty, bloody water balloon.  That's when I learned that cooked snake guts stink....bad....

[sandsawmill14]

Think I found his twin.




 

we used to find 6-8 of those every summer in dads kitchen cabinet talk about a wake up call at 5 am when you went to make coffee and one was there on the coffee can :D :D :D havent seen any in few years now though :-\

[Deese]

splattered like a smelly, nasty, bloody water balloon

Thanks so much for the description. Yummy.

[WDH]

I have eaten rattlesnake, but never a black chicken snake.  I am sure that they do NOT taste like chicken. 

[Magicman]

For some reason, a dead snake puts off a horrible smell.    :-\

[Kwill]

I hate snakes, kill everyone i see. This one i walked up on while mushroom hunting. He suffered from some severe head trauma from a 5 iron.

[WDH]

I let them live.  The only ones that I kill are the poisonous ones that are in the yard or by the house.  They are mostly just trying to make a living. 

[grouch]

I'm jealous. I only have a garage snake. How many blades do I have to go through to get a sawmill snake?


(About 6 ft long. Base of jackstands = 7.5 inches).

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

   They don't have to just be dead to stink. Many of them stink when agitated. My wife says they smell like cucumbers to her.

   I have killed way ore than my share as a kid but I don't kill them any more unless they are a threat to people or pets. Water snakes get in my minnow traps in the creek in the front yard to steal my bait but I don't blame them for just trying to make a living. If still alive when I find them I free them. If they have already drowned I leave them in for crawfish bait.

   I'd love to have several rat snakes in my barn and any I come across are going to be relocated there.

[WDH]

As we age, we take less motivation in killing things.  Like said in the Lion
King, it is All A Big Circle.  The Circle of Life.

[WV Sawmiller]

Danny,

   You are so right. I have let bears, foxes, bobcats, groundhogs, etc just pass on by while I was hunting here on our place. I'm not going to eat them, don't need the hides and they aren't a threat to me or anything I own so I just enjoy watching them come by.

[Darrel]

When I was about 14 or so I went with my parents I'm not sure where and the people there had rattle snake cooking in the fire. They tried to get me to eat some claiming that it tasted like chicken. So I just ate the chicken and claimed that I had already had some. I don't think they believed me but I didn't believe them either.

[Kbeitz]

Taste more fishy to me...

[YellowHammer]

Surprisingly, even though we are in the middle of snake country, we have very few snakes around.  Our cows and donkeys pretty much stomp every snake they see into the ground.  I guess that from their point of view, reaching down to take a bite of grass and seeing a snake in your breakfast will cause you to clean house.

Unfortunately, this means we have tons of mice.  For example, as I worked under the hood of Old Smokey, my ancient dump truck, a couple days ago, there were mice running all through the hood ribs.  I was able to get one in a picture.  Of course, as soon as I slammed the hood and fired it up, the smoke drove them into the cab where I was trying to drive with them scurrying around my feet.  Fun was had by all...