Do you see it? She needs snake chaps!

Cactus · May 18, 2005

That is a neat link Bird !!!! Thanks /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Bird · May 18, 2005

Cactus, way back when they first recorded that story and sold a million copies, it was only slightly different. I noticed on that link, he left out one of the things he said on the recording I have. When they first saw the snakes, he said he "looked around at Geraldine and saw that she was about 2 seconds from hitting the floor. I told her - don't panic; just look around and see where the back door is. She said I've already looked and there ain't none! I said, reckon where do they want one."

1bush2hog · May 18, 2005

Thanks for the link Bird - I remember this story but couldn't remember who it was from.

Jerry Clower also had some good ones and I get the two mixed up

Slamfire · May 19, 2005

We have a couple here. Somebody recently found and donated to the Knoxville Zoo an Eastern Diamondback 7" long weighing 79 lbs.

jinman · May 19, 2005

Don, I guess you can get snake chaps or snake guards, but I think just plain old rubber boots that you can slip on when you go outside are the easiest and safest method of protection. People often talk about how snakes can bite through boots, but how many actual reported instances of that happening have you ever seen? Most of the time a snakebite comes from wearing low-cut or open-toed shoes and/or a bite on the hand/finger. My cousin was bitten by a copperhead when she went out to pick peas late in the evening and only wore flip-flops. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I have a set of snake guards that I used a couple of times and they were so much of a pain in the butt that I put them away permanently. I'll be happy to donate them to you if you want to give them a try. Just PM me if you want them. They are made of a thin semi-rigid plastic and just wrap around your lower leg. I used to wear them when I walked through high grass, but I don't do that much anymore. When I do, I'm worried a lot more about chiggers than snakes and I just wear my rubber boots with plenty of OFF! applied. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hey! Check out this fiesty little (4-1/2 ft) Texas rat snake. I'm gonna post several pictures in another thread, but this one I'll donate to your thread just to show the Texas snake with probably the most unfriendly attitude. When you make them mad, they will chase you and just keep trying to bite you over and over. This fella must have struck at me over 25 times while I was trying to get a good photo. I had to keep pushing him away with a stick because he wanted a "piece of me" really bad. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif The funny thing is that when they do bite you, they have no jaw strength and can't hurt you at all. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif This one could strike at least 18" in an arc that was about a foot high at most.

Moon · May 19, 2005

Good pic Jinman! Thanks.
That shadow in back of it makes him look bigger than 4 1/2 ft.

froggy · May 19, 2005

Jim,

That Texas rat snake reminds me of when I use to visit the snake house at the Fort Worth Zoo. I once asked the guys there which was the meanest snake they had and they all agreed that it was a "native" water snake. They said it would lie in wait and repeatedly strike whenever the lid to his cage was lifted. Said none of the poisonous snakes did that.

froggy

shoppintractors · May 19, 2005

I guess you can get snake chaps or snake guards, but I think just plain old rubber boots that you can slip on when you go outside are the easiest and safest method of protection. 

That's interesting. In Michigan we wear rubber boots to keep our feet dry during the winter months. That's an unusual visual trying to picture people in the hot Texas sun, carrying long sticks & dancing through the tall grass in black rubber boots. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Don /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

froggy · May 19, 2005

I'll take snakes over chiggers anyday!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

DaMadman · May 19, 2005

( Same day, here is another snake with it's head raised looking at me. )

Man some people have all the luck. I have only seen 2 snakes in the 7 years that I have lived in my house. I am not fond of the posionous ones but do not fear them either. The non-posionous one I like to see and even catch and normally release.