I stepped on a Canebrake rattle with bare feet. Had a watermelon under each arm, and still jumped about 10 feet. I don't usually kill snakes in the woods, but I killed him just because he scared me so bad.
There were 7-8 eastern diamond backs killed within 100 yards of my crossroads the summer after we built our house. That was 16-17 years ago. Only killed 4-5 since.
Nice! That’s what i’m hoping happens here.
Rent a tractor and bush hog, mow everything down. They like cover, added plus you'll disrupt the rodent population. Then spend a few days with a shotgun walking around, keep the dog in the house while doing that.
Yeah my daughter couldn’t go out either. Lol. I don’t like snakes. No no no
Snakes thrive where there aren't people. Most live in places we never see. When you move into an area, they get seen and get killed.
The summer we had all the rattlers, both Sister {on her side of the road} and I had cleared trees to put in a house. Tilled up gardens. Mowed stuff that hadn't been mowed before. We must have run them out of their old haunts. They were all killed crossing roads.
Right on bro!
Long hair is a fucking pain in the ass especially when you always work on cars, IDK how many times I had to dig grease or some adhesive out of my hair or wash it out with thinner. I've grown mine out a few times past the middle of my back, once a Mohawk to my ass. I chopped and donated that to some cancer wig place. Now I buzz it down every other month, 1/2" in summer, 3/4" in winter.
I vacuumed the house today, with a shedding cat and thick pollen, this place was probably deadly to someone with bad allergies. When I went to do the enclosed porch, the shitty 30 year old indoor /outdoor carpet that had some heavy wear caught on the wheel and ripped. So I tore it up. @curious2garden, guess what I used to glue spots down when it got loose years ago?So now there's a dozen quarter sized spots of rug still on the floor. I get to try my new oscillating tool to try and scrape it up without damaging the floor too much. It's is a pretty worn tongue and groove pine wood floor under it so I'm not too worried. I kinda want to wire brush it to accentuate the grooves in the wood grain then do a heavy, maybe 1/4", clear epoxy coating to level it out. I think it would look good and give the floor some visual depth. I can't seem to find any pictures of it, so, IDK.
10 minutes of cooling (5 when pic was taken) and just a hint of a swayback to it. Springy, taste test on 30 min or so.
The big ones know they cant eat you so they are less likely to waste their venom on you. If they do they will typically only let one gland loose. The babies will juice you with both. Either way if you havent already map the nearest 2 or 3 facilities that you confirm have antivenom. (Vets first then human docs of course.)Scratch that,
Make it 4 adults, just nowI’m in shorts and flipflops can’t believe it didn’t just get me. It was close.
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Pretty sure these are the northern pacific rattlesnake.
I'm watching NHRA qualifying and they just said tomorrow you can buy any tickets for the rest of the year buy 1 get 1 1/2 off in case you wanted to go to Sonoma.
I would be surprised if the vibration from the tractor doesn't get them moving around some. I was part of developing an estate starting in the fall of 94' and finished in the spring of 97' it was a couple thousand acres with a 85 acre lake built in a swamp in Russell Co. AL we killed over a hundred Rattlers and 14 of them in the exact same spot ( not at the same time ) . I wish I had pics to share but we were not allowed to take any, but of course it can be seen on gog-le ear-h .
These are the lunar equivalent of parhelia (sun dogs)
Cool here is a different pic. Neat to witness it IRL.
. Dropped clones after finally getting around to making their gopher cages. They were itchin to get out of the styrofoam cups.
