Grapple Something else likes my grapple

Tarnold · Jul 25, 2014

Went out an cranked the tractor with the grapple already attached. kept in pole barn with big pile of firewood all around. While warming it up saw a hose that looked out of place on the right side. 5 ft black snake draped around the right cylinder thumb. Backed tractor out of barn, snake never moved. Started to go down hill and it decided ride was long enough and it bailed. I swear that thing looked just like the larger protective hose that fits over the hydraulic lines.

Thomas · Jul 25, 2014

GD..That would have end my day right than and there.

JRP · Jul 25, 2014

One day while mowing on a ford 4000 a rat snake crawled out from below the dash, across the transmission , and dropped to the ground. Scary moment

Dozernut · Jul 26, 2014

I will take your snake, I prefer them over rats, mice and chipmunks.

True story, maybe I have told it before, I went in the shop to use the drill press. It is an old Delta with the cover over the pulleys and belts. The cover has a hole over the main shaft pulley, I guess for cooling. Unbeknownst to me a Black snake had got into the shop and found the hole in the pulley/belt cover on the drill press and thought this was a great place to hang out.

When I turned the drill press on, there was a loud bam-bam-bam-bam. I shut the drill press off and lifted the cover to find a very mangled and dead Black snake wound up in the pulley. Had to extricate the snake and clean up the mess it made. Sure hated to kill a good mouser but nature ( and drill presses) kill off the dumb ones.

kneedeep · Jul 27, 2014

I prefer non poison snakes as well, don't care too much for the vipers. Caught a big fat black snake slipping across the open yard at Duck camp. Never seen one like it so a few pictures and a text to my Rebel buddy confirmed a Mississippi Mud Snake!
Seems they are very secretive and rarely get out of the thick brush so not many of them ever caught or seen.
Beautiful snake with red stripes on belly and used its tail like a stinger on my hand! Seems to be one of their habits to sting at their prey with the tail tip!
I relocated it to the ditch bank to help with the pest control around camp.

Gordon Gould · Jul 27, 2014

I don't mind snakes but I can only say that because the ones I see are rarely over 2 feet long and most are much shorter. A couple of those longs ones would make me rethink things.