Sat. night, in the dark... I've still got it...that's the buzz

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You should have posted the pic's in the first post for Eddie.
He LOVES snakes.









Dead one's that is.

 

[marimus]

You wouldn't want to try that move with any of the snakes we have, these are not my photos, but I have seen all of these snakes on our land. I don't hang around to take pictures.


Taipans are large (up to 3 meters in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, one of which, the Fierce Snake, has the most toxic venom of any land species worldwide
Taipan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The eastern brown is less toxic, its the second most toxic land snake in the world . They can be very fast moving and highly aggressive. When agitated, they will hold their necks high, appearing in a somewhat upright S-shape. The snake will occasionally chase an aggressor and strike at it repeatedly
Eastern brown snake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The red bellied black is our friend. Although its a venomous snake, it tends to be shy, and eats the other more venomous snakes , you still don't want to step on one though.
Red-bellied Black Snake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[texasjohn]

LOL... you remind me of my daughter-in-law... who is from Brazil. Whenever I mention how tough and mean the critters are in Texas, she has a soft response.
Mention snakes... she points out that anacondas eat people
That's just a sample... seems that no matter what I mention, she knows of a critter that is meaner...

I think a 10 lb bass is a monster.... those are "baby fish" in Brazil..

 

[thatguy]

LOL - Thanks for clarifying which was the snake and which was the rule.. At first I thought that it was one of those rare, and hardly ever photographed 'equally segmented yellow auto retracting' snakes i read about on the internet once... ;-)

Finally got to where I can upload photos... all shot in my new shop with the circuit breaker reset... I used my phone camera, am impressed with the way they came out... bare concrete, hard for a snake to hide

Yellow thing is ruler... snake is next to it.
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I guess that I'm kinda like your dad, jinman, I figured he'd be gone by the time I got to my arsenal, or even to a longer handled tool... so... I went with what was available.

 

[mikim]

there's a good lookin' pair of boots layin' there. My wife has seen one at our place - and the neighbor says to watch out for 'em ... but I must be blind - haven't seen one yet. Afraid to see one ... and afraid to NOT see one.

 

[EddieWalker]

You should have posted the pic's in the first post for Eddie.
He LOVES snakes.

Dead one's that is.

Not a big fan of snakes myself, but at least this was a happy snake story!!!!

Eddie

 

[texasjohn]

Just to clarify for all who may be wondering... I'm not a snake hater... I just think that if a poisonous one is located in an area where it might get an unsuspecting human or one of my cattle, then it needs to go. I don't go looking for them. And, I CAN identify the bad ones for this area (rattle snake is only one I've seen on the place in 20+ years, coral, cottonmouth, coperhead) and let ALL the others go on their merry way.

 

[Oleozz]

We have black snakes that live in our stone house and I welcome them as friends because they eat mice and rats. Several years ago there was one laying on the chair rail in an upstairs bedroom, about four feet long, and I did remove him from the house because my wife hates snakes. I also don't appreciate them getting in my quail and pigeon coops but just about anywhere else they are left alone. Fortunately we don't have rattlers and very few copperheads.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I remember reading that untrained man is able to hit (punch) with fist faster than any snake can attack. Well, I didnt and dont want to test it, but what is the speed of a rattle snake anyway?

I know from Karate classes I tought for many years, that the speed of the punch can be greatly improved with just basic training.

 

[AlanB]

My best snake getting device has proved to be the full size Hoe...

Seems about the level of equality that I want to have in a fight. Backhoe vs. snake.

And I tend not to get close enough to identify anything past "SNAKE"