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"I remember pulling in the driveway from work one day and saw the wife riding on the mower way out in the back yard."
Man, do you know how lucky you are? A wife that mows the yard! If my wife was to mow the yard, well, the first thing you should do is call that Ripley fellow. Then get out of the way as a lawn mower with a sofa, air conditioner, refrigerator, and bathroom can't be very maneuverable.
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I really wish that she wouldn't though. She has this thing about dropping the deck down to the dirt. I've replaced so many mower blades, I just keep a set hanging in the garage now. Nope, she won't listen when I 'splain to her what they cost. I've now got a hole drilled in the mower and a bolt and nut installed where she CAN'T sheer the tops of of tree roots and sling all the gravel out of the driveway. God love her...........
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I hear there's no snakes in Antarctica.
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AFAIK, there are no sane people in Antarctica. I do know at least four people who have been there, though, and at least one of them was sane.
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When I do things like rambling in the woods, I carry a 38 or 357 loaded with "snake" loads. About 100 grains of #8 shot over 5 grs. Unique, with a gas check over the powder and one over the shot. It will make a good snake out of the biggest and baddest one in the woods, or your driveway.
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Ol' country boy I was in the Seabees with told me a story about how he & a friend were fishin' in the swawmp in his jonboat. A cottonmouth fell out of a tree into the boat and his friend grabbed a .22 and proceeded to ventilate the bottom of the boat trying to shoot the snake!
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05-26-2017, 09:06 AM
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Many years ago when I was a uniform patrol Lieutenant we got a call from a lady who said she had a snake in her kitchen. She lived in a high-end apartment in security building on the second floor. The sergeant and a young patrolman responded.
The patrolman determined that she had seen the snake by her stove. He proceeded to remove the drawer under the stove, got on all fours and used his flashlight to peer under the stove. The lady was bent over trying to look under with him. He suddenly screamed like a little girl, jumped up knocking the lady backwards and both ran to the door.
The sergeant had been a park ranger in an earlier life and was very familiar with snakes. He reached under the stove and retrieved A boa constrictor that was over 7 feet long.
That Sergeant had a very dry sense of humor. As he was walking down the hallway carrying the huge snake, A lady was walking in with three kids and bags of groceries. Lady and children responded appropriately to the policeman carrying the big snake. The sergeant looked at them seriously and stated " They're coming up from the toilets and there's nothing we can do. " The lady sobbed " We be moving, we be moving today. " He finally convinced her that he was joking.
It was later determined that the snake escaped from an upstairs apartment. I have a picture of the snake draped over the trunk of a police car with at least a foot hanging over each side.
I'm afraid that if it was me peering under that stove that I would have filled that kitchen full of gun smoke and dirty words.
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I really wish that she wouldn't though. She has this thing about dropping the deck down to the dirt. I've replaced so many mower blades, I just keep a set hanging in the garage now. Nope, she won't listen when I 'splain to her what they cost. I've now got a hole drilled in the mower and a bolt and nut installed where she CAN'T sheer the tops of of tree roots and sling all the gravel out of the driveway. God love her...........
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I had to do the same with my mower: put a nut and bolt with loctite in the mowing height adjusting slot so the wife wouldn't drop the deck to dirt level and scalp the grass.
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I wonder if copperheads go to heaven or purgatory.
I'll have 3 or 400 waiting on me.
My weapon of choice has been whats handy. Rocks, sticks, 22 LR, hoe, rake, high school world history book, Colt Python, S&W 357, 410, 16 and 12 gauge and I'm sure there were more, oh yes, when I was 5 I stomped a bunch of just hatched ones in my 99 cent tennis shoes. Boy did I get it from Dad. A few days before we arrived at home after dark, Dad wore Wellington boots, he saw it with the flashlight between the car and the door. He gave it a quick stomp to the head. Thought I could do the same to the little ones, and I already knew a copperhead was poison. Dad "splained" the difference between Wellingtons and 99 cent tennis shoes.
So by 5 I already had done in 15 or 20. Luckily one did not return the favor.
A couple of years later I stuck my bowie knife thru the chicken house wall cracks to cut one in half, caught him behind the vent. I was on red alert every time I gathered eggs. One day he was waiting on the back board of the nests, if I would have stuck my hand in it would have been bitten, I ran and got my 410 that ended it.
I'm sure my picture is on the Copperhead post office wall.
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We have a nice fat CA King that lives under the poultry house and keeps the mice down nicely, and a big Bull snake out in the goat pasture for the gophers. He moved in this spring and decided to stay. Haven't seen a buzzworm in a couple of years, but they're around.
By the way, my house is adobe and its oldest part is well over a hundred years old. It has neither mice, nor snakes.
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as to the shovel
If you use a round nosed shovel you don't need as gooda aim.
Seems like if you used the front of that square one ya woulda been standing in the snakes hula hoop.
Glad no one got hurt.
Not counting Mr. Snake of course.
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06-26-2017, 09:50 PM
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I had a beefy one ton truck 4x4 with dual wheels. I come out of the woods loaded with firewood with the gvw at around 16,000lbs. I catch snakes sunning themselves on the road. If I ran then over they live. If I pull the emergency brake and lockup the rear wheels there road pizza for the crows. I hate snakes.
I was logging in one area the ranger wanted me out of there before the spring warmup. He said the area is full of copperheads. Funny they turned my logging road into a walking path.
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Divorce her now! If she can't deal with a simple snake, she'll be worthless when the SHTF!
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How would you like to find this in your hay bale?
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How would you like to find this in your hay bale?
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1. If it was dead I would remove and feed the buzzards.
2. If it was alive I would make it dead then remove and feed the buzzards.
3. Then proceed with baling hay.
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It seems S&W is missing an opportunity for a new product line: S&W Home Defense Shovels. I own a couple John Deere push brooms, so why not?
Growing up, home was a hike through the woods after the bus dropped us off. My interest was frogs, one of my brothers was snakes. Occasionally we collected these on the way home and our metal lunch boxes made great temporary habitats. We'd always put our lunch boxes on the kitchen counter and off we'd go outside. I remember the first time my mom opened my brothers lunch box with there being a snake inside it was a scream followed by a "first, middle, last name, get in here!". Every time after that it was just "first, middle, last name, get in here!". I'm guessing they were common garter snakes. She never minded the frogs.
I do not like snakes.
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For those who've heard poison snakes emit a cucumber smell may be right, but I think the smell of gun powder masks it.
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I would rather.....
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The Copperheads I've dealt with have not been aggressive. If they are around the house send the to snake heaven, otherwise let them be. Put out some sticky traps if you think there may be more around your home. A shovel is an excellent tool.
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I would rather have a shovel than a gun. I've never missed with a shovel and you have two methods of killing. The flat shovel smack and the guillotine.
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My wife yelled......
...."THERE'S A SNAKE IN THE GARAGE!" i thought, "Ok a little snake." I went out and something about 6' long goes out the dog door and just kept going..and going.. like a sea serpent. I cornered it in the back yard and discovered that it was just an old red bellied water snake, and he took off and I lost sight of him. Not poisonous but they have a nasty temperament. It had rained a lot and I think it was even too much for the snake and he was looking for someplace a little higher and dryer.
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The S&W shovel thread....
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It seems S&W is missing an opportunity for a new product line: S&W Home Defense Shovels. I own a couple John Deere push brooms, so why not?
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The fit and finish of S&W shovels is better than that of lesser shovels, which although very strong, just aren't as smooth at killing snakes. Would I use one to dig a hole? I'm not a collector so you're darn right I would!
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I think they stink......
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For those who've heard poison snakes emit a cucumber smell may be right, but I think the smell of cordial masks it.
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I think poison snakes smell awful and if you kill one it really smells.
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That just bothers me...
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1. If it was dead I would remove and feed the buzzards.
2. If it was alive I would make it dead then remove and feed the buzzards.
3. Then proceed with baling hay.
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I'm not really squeamish but it bothers me. I couldn't take it as matter of a fact as that but I'd end up doing the same. Is that a Timber rattler? It looks fat enough.
I didn't know S&W made hay balers, too.
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OH !!!! If it was just that easy....... (kidding of course)...
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You would need to buy a another car if she had what happened to me today. I went to get into the car and as I opened the door there was a snake as long as the door sill. It started moving and I slammed the door shut. That caught about a foot of it hanging down from the door.
I got some grass shears and tried cutting it off. Snakes are really tough critters but I did get it cut off. I opened the door and the darn snake stuck its head up by the fender and it struck a me. I slammed the door hoping to catch its head but didn't. I opened the door and saw the snake curled up in the fender opening by the door hinge. Then it disappeared. I opened the hood and there it was sitting on top on the engine by the firewall. I poked it with a stick and then it crawled down out of sight again.
I left the hood open and hope the snake drops down to the ground and crawls away to die, if it dies. There was blood on the battery from where I cut a long piece of its tail off. I hope it crawls off so it doesn't start stinking in the engine compartment.
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Do you favor fixed or adjustable sights on those S&W shovels?
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I hope it crawls off so it doesn't start stinking in the engine compartment.
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Nope, won't happen.
It's like dropping a tool or a part while working under the hood.
Never hits the ground.
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So, has she left yet?
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Phobias of various kinds are hard to understand, unless you have one. She may be having obsessive reoccurring, and intrusive thoughts about snakes. There are real remedies in counseling.
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Oh yea add canoe paddle to my weapons list. A copperhead tried to get in my canoe. the edge breaks backs.........
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When I was a kid we used to help the neighbor bring in his square hay bales from the field. Not too much mechanization back in those days. He used a Ford 8N tractor and a trailer. We herked the bales onto the trailer and then again into his hay barn. Nary a day went by without some real excitement. Rattle snakes under the bales and sometimes in the bales.
No one had a pistol or shovel so we just left the bales in the field if they were bound up in the bale. If not we just vacated the area and came back for it later. I'm not sure anyone around there even owned a revolver to shoot a snake with, I know we didn't.
My dad shot them on the pavement at night with a shotgun. The barrel was sawed off to about 20" and he called that his snake gun. He carried that in his pickup everywhere he went. I think that may have been for two legged snakes also. He could be a pretty tough customer having been combat infantry in WW2. I saw him run a guy off our property once with that shotgun. That guy just didn't know who he was dealing with I guess.
I've only killed a few in my life time, mostly to save myself or my dog while hunting. Never could see killing one for no good reason. Never cared to eat one so just left them alone when I had a choice. I've seen some pretty big diamondbacks hunting and working as surveyor in the SW. Some so big I had a hard time believing what I was looking at. They're out there.
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and it only takes one snake...hmmmmmm
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