Tools Move, OH NO!

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> I hate snakes. </font>

I don't like spiders and snakes...

...And that ain't what it takes to love me.

Hey, that would make a great song! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

TXDON,
My wife doesn't want to live in the same area code with a snake. (I'll tell her you took this one somewhere else).

Do you have a snakebite emergency plan from your side of the county? I've heard negative stuff about the hospital in Lagrange so I plan to haul my butt to Austin or call lifeflight.

I'm not afraid so much of non-venomous snakes, but I won't hesitate to unload on a water mocassin or rattler. I load rat shot as the first 2 shots in my 45 ACP when tractoring around the pond.

Besides, my tractor gets covered with spiders if I leave it alone for a couple of weeks. How do you get rid of them if you have no water available?

How's your place coming along?

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Don there's a reason I don't advocate killing something just because it's ugly.

Last night on the news our NBC affiliate had an exclusive on a family that had chased down a pair of boa constrictors running from tree to tree in their back yard. It had been a battle. But they had caught the varmints. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

That station runs the same stories in their a.m. edition. But this morning they had the old boy talking about his valorous effort to trap the boas while on the bottom of the screen was a title about them catching Texas rat snakes. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

A couple of our fellow TBN'rs remind me of an old boy from Tennessee out contract cable splicing with me in California. As I was opening the side door to my chevy van I heard someone yell "snake". I turned around towards the voice and asked "what kind?" The response came from inside the back of my van. "ALIVE!!!!!" I never even seen him go by. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It is sad that some of the snake species adopted color schemes similar to their venomous neighbors as a survival technique. But they didn't plan on humans becoming part of the formula. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Inspector507]

<font color="blue"> I don't like spiders and snakes. </font>

I'm with ya Andy. Except the spiders I do have to wipe out, because the misses will scream until it's gone. Most snakes around these parts gets to live, they are never more than about 12-18" when I see them in the garden or yard. I did have 2 in the basement that got moved outside on the end of a LONG stick.
I understand all that food chain stuff. But......mosquitos have a place, but it ain't feeding off of me. GONE. Mice probably have a place, but if the misses sees one, I have to get rid of it or she's moving out /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif hmmm there's an idea. GONE as well.
Now if I open a tool box and it looks like one of my tools is moving.....I'm gonna get my 12GA. first, blast the moving tool second, and look at it's markings third. I kinda doubt if Sears has a warranty for that /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[txdon]

Kyle, Read in the paper that Austin is the #1 place to go in case of a snake bite. Our personal plan in case of snake bite is: Don't put on a tourniquet or suck the poison out. Do wrap the extremity snuggly to minimize swelling, Take a Benadryl, Call the Snake bite emergency # 1-800-764-7661, (poison control) they will advise you on the nearest hospital that can handle snake bites. Good news you probably will not die, bad news could lose limb.

The wasp should take care of the spiders if you let them, especially the pipe organ (black) wasp. I have about 50 wasp in about 20 nest buzzing constantly and no spiders except for the paralyzed ones they drop occasionally.

My wife made me get rid of the bird netting, on our blueberry bush, that had trapped two rat snakes. I was able to free the second one alive with an utility knife on the end of the stick. If the snake would have died my wife would have felt very sad. You may have to move to Canada with Egon. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[8NTX]

I know exactly how you feel, I too HATE being surprised by a snake, esp. when you are so close to one and have no idea he's there. A few years ago, I was meeting with a sprinkler co. at the lakehouse; we determined we needed a new lake pump for the system. The pump was on the pier, and had a little covered housing on it that I had made, about the size of a small dog house. I lifted up the cover, and was bent down, rubbing the dust off of the plate on the pump to try and tell exactly what size it was. The sprinkler guy said "SNAKE!". I said, WHERE?" He said, by your hand!!. Sure nuff, that sucker was coiled up under the pump on top of the pier a few inches from my hand. Probably hibernating since I think this was in the late winter or early spring. Fairly large diamond-back water snake, who didn't appreciate it when I tried to remove him from under the pump with a hoe.

 

[JazzDad]

Don, this gets me thinking: I think I'll put snakes in my toolbox to discourage theft out on the jobsite.
Maybe in my lunchbox, too!
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[gsganzer]

My mother-in-law is staying with my wife and I while her new house is being built. The other morning she was out on our the porch drinking her coffee, when a rat snake decided she needed some company.

Boy, can she move!!! I don't think I've ever seen her move that fast!! I think she went from the porch to the living room without ever touching the ground! She's now talked to the builder about speeding up his schedule and moving into her new house earlier.

God, I love snakes! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My 74 year old mom could pass Marion Jones in a 100 meter dash (if I tied a snake behind her).

 

[jinman]

Here's a little fella' I found inside my utility vehicle's brake drum when I was checking it. I've heard of a "jake brake" but this is a "snake brake" or at least it's trying to be. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif