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Had a visitor in the shop today Dad came close to getting bit

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by outlawsteel, Sep 6, 2012.

  1. czuch
    Joined: Sep 23, 2008
    Posts: 2,688

    czuch
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    from vail az

    We had a engineer park sideways on the entrance road and was out of his car making shooing motions. We went out there and there was a 4.5 foot mean/pissed rattler. He said "He didnt want it to get run over and it kept snapping at him".
    Ungrateful lout.
    When you get your zoology information fron Disney movies, ya get a ride in a helicopter and 4 days in ICU.
    The Czuch foundation rattlesnake relocation program is out of funds. Not sorry.
    Other snakes are welcome. theyre just after something to eat.
    Again, oatmeal, cheerios or the like with plaster-o-paris. Eliminate the food.
    Mr. Von Rigg Fink is CORRECT.
     
  2. There was once an indian maiden. She found a snake out in the snow nearly frozen to death so she picked it up and put it near the fire in her hogan to warm it and keep it from freezing to death.

    When the snake was thawed she went to pick it up and caress it and it bit her. She cried out, "But I saved you from freezing to death." The snake replied, " After all, I am just a snake."

    Once must remember that things that bite, sting, or claw just do that. They don't live by our rules.
     
  3. My son was carrying firewood bundled on top of his arms into the house one winter and guess what was sitting on top looking all curious? A baby rattler. I guesss my son disturbed his hibernating spot.
     
  4. lucky ink
    Joined: Feb 18, 2011
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    lucky ink
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    Call the turtle man...lol live action
     
  5. What, you don't get snow snakes???
     
  6. Gman0046
    Joined: Jul 24, 2005
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    Saxon X-2. At our house in the Florida Panhandle we live in a coastal wetlands community. The place is snake heaven they are everywhere. The ones I'm mostly concerned about are the pygmy rattle snakes. They are only about 12" in length, very aggressive, hard to see with exceptionally toxic venom. Cotton mouths also aggressive and very dangerous. Snakes are bad enough not to mention a black bear who recently showed up along with a large group of wild hogs. Posted is a picture of our bear.
     

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  7. afaulk
    Joined: Jul 20, 2011
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    Looks like a nice hatband to me!
     
  8. I hate those wild hogs
     

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  9. I left a bunch of old plywood sitting next to my house a few years back and when I went to clean it all up, I uncovered a nest of #$#@ ground dwelling bees.

    That's right....effin bees that live in the ground!

    Big sons of bitches too....and hundreds of 'em.

    I kept seeing these massive freakin bees in the garage when I was working on the 54 and didnt know why they were always around.

    Turns out that variety doesn't loose their stingers when they zap you. Before I even knew what was on me, they'd gotten me about 10 times....then another 10 times or so before I got the hell out of there.

    All the bites were on my arms and torso and hurt like hell. I swoll up like a pumpkin and tried to tough it out for a few days but ended up at the doctor. He gave me steriods and antibiotics.

    I waited till it got somewhat cold outside, then doused their nest in diesel, dug it up and killed all of the little socialist bastards.
     
  10. seb fontana
    Joined: Sep 1, 2005
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    seb fontana
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    from ct

    They in CT too? I'm gonna have to google..I been finding spiders like in your pic [looks the same as close as I wanted to get!] but makes webs, about 14" in dia......Took a long time to croak with spider spray, I think the one out in the trailer gets brake clean..
     
  11. I wouldn't have called the dog off either! ha! Exec schmec!
     
  12. Model T1
    Joined: May 11, 2012
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    Rustyfords, Benadryle next time. ---I'm not a doctor but sometimes I play one on the internet. Mostly Genocologist work. _____
    18 years ago we bought five acres set up like a little park with several wooded areas around. Right away I started clearing the small brush out of the woods out front so we could see the road yet most couldn't see the house. Had a fancy gas weed whacker. Almost finished and almost dark. Cleared that one little final area and felt like I was getting shot. Now I was never shot before. But figured this is what a small caliber bullet would feel like. A dozen or more.
    Okay get this picture. It ain't a pretty site. Was wearing short shorts and nothin else. I got stung places no man deserves to get stung!
    By then I was runnin toward the house and could see they appeared to be Yellow Jackets. Found out they actually lived in a tiny hole in the ground right where I was whackin!
    Altho I didn't die, I was sort of wishin I did. Swelled up like the Michilyn tire thingie from waist to toes.
    Wife gave me Benadryle after the old neighbor lady heard me yelling and found what happened. Told us what to use to take the swelling down. Next day I slowly snuck out there and poured gas down the hole then put a piece of wood over it.
    Really haven't seen many Yellow Jackets around since. This country livin ain't what it's cracked up to be! But we'd never go back to bein city slickers. :)
     
  13. falcongeorge
    Joined: Aug 26, 2010
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    from BC

    This is why I live up north.
     
  14. pecdaddy
    Joined: May 23, 2010
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    I too am amazed by the 'So I went and grabbed my snake stick..' WTF! I would do the Scooby Doo 'Sa Sa Sa Snake!' And ran away.
     
  15. Saxon
    Joined: Aug 9, 2008
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    Saxon
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    from MN

    Seb, kill it and look under the body it will have an hourglass mark. Its possible. They travel on trucks transport. Open web probably not, small webs. Looks like a funnel web in a corner. Im no arachnologist.
     
  16. Shadetree
    Joined: Feb 7, 2003
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    Shadetree
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    from Va USA

    Down here where I live is rattlesnake, and copperhead heaven, with all the thick wooded mountains, creeks and such.
    I have seen several people myself that have got bit and the suffering that one goes through, is not pretty.
    And some do die, especially when its a child.

    People around here spent generations thinning these things out.
    So a couple of years ago the master minds in power (fish and game division) decide that copperheads and rattlesnakes were in danger of being extinct here.

    So they in all of there infinite wisdom decide to drop some out on us from helicopters,to repopulate them!
    And it is a 800 dollar fine, if you get caught killing one!!
    This law is widely ignored, by all who live here lol
     
  17. Only Thing i HATE MORE THAN A SNAKE IS TWO OF THEM!
     
  18. Gez. I though we had problems with our mosqtoes.
     
  19. Note to self:

    There are venomous snakes falling out of the sky in Virginia.
     
  20. k9racer
    Joined: Jan 20, 2003
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    Just to make this sort of a tech tip.. When going to look at a car that has been parked for a while......... I always carry several cans of spray carb. cleaner.... I spray around one end of the car.. This shit burns and smells bad to critters/snakes and they will leave on the non sprayed side. If you encounter one just sprat away.. Second best thing to use is Wasp/hornet spray. Be sure to buy the one that sprays 10 feet.
     
  21. burnout2614
    Joined: Sep 21, 2009
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    I am laughing at all the above but....Hear me now and understand me later. If you are stung by any kind of bee,wasp,hornet etc. Apply yellow mustard to the sting(s) and you will have no reaction or itching. IT WORKS! I get one snake a year, usually a vicious 1-footer rat snake that THINKS he's a copperhead. I carry his punk-ass back to the woodline and tell him come back when he's grown! peace
     
  22. woodbutcher
    Joined: Apr 25, 2012
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    :DHi all.I grew up in Indian River county Fl.At one time or another,we had all kinds if creepy crawlies roaming around the property.Gators,wild hogs,rattelers,cotton mouths and ect.The gators we called the fish and game people.A couple of the hogs wound up in the freezer.The fangy ones wound up in snake heaven due to the large population of young children in the neighborhood.Found one black snake about 6 1/2 feet long left him in the yard.He was the neighbor hood mascot.All this was about 6 blocks from the center of town.When I got married and moved out to the west of town,things got REALLY interesting durning the rainy season when the drainage ditches got full.In one week I had to call the F&G people 8 times to remove gators from the back yard.They ranged in size from about 4ft to almost 8ft.Had more cotton mouths than a dirty dog has fleas.Used up a lot of .22 ammo ridding the neighbor hood of that problem.Things are WAY worse now,what with all the invasive species that have expanded their range.
    Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
    Leo
     
  23. I love hearing snake stories. I wish we were all together sittin' around a huge campfire at night trading stories. Wouldn't that be something? I can see it now "the annual HAMB snakes and ale campout." :)
     
  24. Speaking for yourself?
     
  25. I caught this Pigmy Rattler in my driveway. My eldest son Is the park superintendent a Lake Charles State Park. He had been wanteing a pigmy rattlesnake. Its now on display in the parks nature center. they also have copperheads,other snakes and a alligator. The alligators grow and get too large so they keep swapping for a smaller one.
     

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  26. DocWatson
    Joined: Mar 24, 2006
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    Cmon guy's what are you worried about? You have one snake in the worlds top 10 dangerous and its 10th, come over here and meet some of ours, 5 of the top 10 most dangerous, the 2 Most dangerous. Even ours spiders are more dangerous than your snakes!! You are more likely to run into a poisonous snake in Oz than a non lethal one!!
    I say lighten out and chill out, you got nothin to worry about, you don't even have Drop Bears!!

    Doc.
     
  27. 39 years ago when I was dating my wife she was bitten on the back of the leg. We had never heard of brown recluse spider,s back then. Well it started rotting out a hole in her leg big as a quarter and a half inch deep. The doctors wherent doing it any good. I had this horse salve for wound,s ect on animals. It was called Numaltizing Cataplasm (spelling?) I had used it on animals and myself and it was pretty good. We purchased it from the Watkings guy that sold stuff from the trunk of a dodge buisness coup. Any way I had a brand new jar. I took it and gave it to her mother not telling them it was for horses. It worked the bite healed up she still has a scar. Them brown recluse bites are nasty:eek:. I not giving medical advice just telling a true story. OldWolf
     
  28. Gman0046
    Joined: Jul 24, 2005
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    I once worked with a guy who was bitten by a brown recluse spider in his motel bed. It actually rotted the flesh on his leg. Of course he was known as Spiderman after that. Those spiders can do a world of hurt.

    Another picture of our bear.
     

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  29. lostforawhile
    Joined: Mar 23, 2008
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    I don't mind snakes but the poisonous ones around here get killed, there are plenty more around, the ones that seem to come around have a tendency to come back, same with spiders, I have wolf spiders and huntsmans that live in my house, don't bother me, but those black widows have to go
     
  30. DD COOPMAN
    Joined: Jul 25, 2009
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    DD COOPMAN
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    If ya GOTTA kill a snake, about the best way is to chop his tail off...RIGHT BEHIND HIS NECK! DD
     

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