Can you see what we saw while we were sawing?

Weekend_Sawyer · September 28, 2003, 07:27:37 PM

I'll post more on this one tomorrow.

Tom · September 28, 2003, 07:33:30 PM

Yee-o-w-w!!

That's a cotton pickin' rattlesnake!!

Which stick did you use? :D I'd have used everyone I could've put my hand on. :-/ :-/ :D

Weekend_Sawyer · September 29, 2003, 05:36:51 PM

That's right!

We call it the rattler that came to supper. It was just under 4' without the head! I have the skin drying now and plan to mount it on an old oak board.

... and it does taste like chicken.
WS

Kevin · September 29, 2003, 06:24:11 PM

Save the tail, I have one in my truck and it rattles going down the road, the tail not the truck. ;D

Weekend_Sawyer · September 30, 2003, 06:41:40 AM

Yea, my truck rattles enough. The skin with rattles is drying I'm going to mount it. I do have my bear bells from Alaska on my turn signal. That sounds pretty nice.

WS

Tobacco Plug · October 02, 2003, 09:53:51 AM

Pardon my ignorance but what are bear bells?

SawInIt CA · October 02, 2003, 02:23:36 PM

little bells that ou wear and/or put on animals in bear country. so the bears know where to find dinner :D Maybe it is so they hear something coming and you dont spook them. Remember you do not have to out run the bear, just the person you are with. :D :D :D

Ron Scott · October 02, 2003, 03:08:03 PM

Darn, that Tom has good eyes for those photos. That snake would have bit me.

Tobacco Plug · October 02, 2003, 03:11:08 PM

Thanks for the definition.

Jim_Rogers · October 02, 2003, 03:20:41 PM

I heard a story once about a tour guide telling the group how to hike in the woods in bear country.
He suggested you wear these little bells to that you don't walk up on a bear and scare him. He, the bear, will hear you coming and run away. If he doesn't then you should carry a can of pepper spray. and if he gets near you to spray him with the pepper spray and he'll run away.
Then the tour guide took the group off the trail into the woods a little to show them some bear droppings. He said: "here this is black bear droppings." "you can see the berries and nuts and acorns in the droppings."
Then he showed them some Grizzly bear droppings "you can see here in his droppings little bells that smell like pepper." :D