Don't know if this has been shared before?

[MinnesotaEric]

I'm glad I'm in Minnesota were we have the good sense to keep our rattle snakes along certain, known sections of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.

 

[JSanders10]

Well, that's a dang good place for him to be, IMO.

 

[newbury]

How big is the bale?

 

[MinnesotaEric]

How big is the bale?

If it is a 4' or 6', either way, that is a big snake.

 

[Thomas]

SOB...that bale would be still setting there for years.

 

[bullbreaker]

Dang it , somebody got a good hatband !

 

[AKfish]

Born and raised in SD and we had rattlesnakes wherever they decided that there might be something to eat!

That baled up snake sure looks like a constrictor - not a pit viper - though. Just like that fellow on the bottom picture.

Very nasty bite but not venomous.

AKfish

 

[AKfish]

You know, I used to kill every darn rattlesnake I came across for years! Then, with a bit of age and the recognition that they ate mice and rats and all those d@mn pocket gophers... Those buggers that created all those piles of dirt that ended up in the hay and down my shirt and in my eyes!!

I quit killing 'em. I would herd them off, outta the way - as they would hiss, spit and buzz.

AKfish

 

[ldbb]

That is one big RATTLER!!! But now he would make a couple pair of nice western riding boots. Thanks for sharing from ldbb, Eagle, Wis.

 

[bsrfarms97]

This past year I encountered a similar experience but not with a rattlesnake. This one is a copperhead. I guess my bales are fairly tight.