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Hogleg

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Was working in the shop building a cage to haul lambs in the back of the pickup. Walked out to grab a tool from the other barn. Came back to see a bunch of birds making noise in the rafters. What I see is a 3 ft long snake entering a birds nest at the peak of the shop roof, around 15ft high. RIGHT OVER MY HEAD where I was working.

Knocked him down and removed him...

A few minutes later, digging around on the workbench in some of those red Folgers coffee cans I use to hold hardware. Look closer and darn it, ANOTHER SNAKE in the bottom of the coffee can! 2ft long one. Glad I did not dig into the can without looking!!!

Removed him also....

I really hate snakes in the shop!

John
 
Get black snakes in my shop too. They don't hurt much, but it
is unnerving to find one curled up on a shelf.
 
Was moving things from my Dad's shop over the weekend when my wife found a black snake about as big around as your thumb and three feet long lying in the office. Looked to be the same one I found a week or so ago behind the shop on one of the shelves, the only difference being that at that time it had a bulge about midways back from it's last meal. In both cases I picked it up and put it in a safe spot since I know they keep away both the mice and other poisoness snakes.
 
Only good snake is a dead snake they don't live long
at my place only thing that's not welcome here I
prob shouldn't be that way
 
Less bird excrement on your expensive tools and projects? Remove the prey, remove the predator.

Of course this didn't exactly go as planned for Phil Sheridan, the buffalo and the Indians.
 
a couple years ago i reached down and picked something up. i saw a rattle snake trying to strike at my hand, then i realized that i was standing on the snake and that's why it couldn't bite me. i looked around for something to smash it's head in but found nothing so i just ran fast to get away and get a shovel, when i got back it was gone. i was skeeert, first time i saw so many of my deceased family members gathered around me.
 
Except for the vipers, snakes are harmless and have a job to do too. We killed several blue racers out of ignorance as kids. Maybe that's why I let them alone now. Still, it is unsettling to turn over a board and find a snake snoozing.

Larry
 
I hate snakes all kinds of snakes small large or what have you.
I Grew up in Rattlesnake country they were everywhere you
really had to be looking out for them at all times. Came close
to being bit several times. Of course I do have a lot Irish in me
and you know what we did to the snakes in Ireland, Goodby
Baby.
Walt
 
I would have S#$ T my pants and burned the shop down if it
was me! They move and don't have legs . It's the devil and the
bible says so.
 
I recognize a King snake and a Gopher snake when I see them so I let them alone; any other snake I kill.
 
I didn't know that they could dislocate their bottom jaws and snouts until I picked one up when I was stationed in Georgia and thought that I had him right where I wanted him. I had a grip at its tail and one around it at the back of the head. I thought that was good since I had never held a rattler before, or after. That son of a gun dislocated the upper and lower, and was rounding its nose, fangs around to my fingers. I didn't know they could do that. I tossed it, took a big stick and kept poking at it until it tired itself out striking at the stick, then I took care of him. He wasn't so big. About 3' or so. Was a fatso though. Would have been good eating I suppose, but at the time I didn't think of it.

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 07:08:38 06/02/14) a couple years ago i reached down and picked something up. i saw a rattle snake trying to strike at my hand, then i realized that i was standing on the snake and that's why it couldn't bite me. i looked around for something to smash it's head in but found nothing so i just ran fast to get away and get a shovel, when i got back it was gone. i was skeeert, first time i saw so many of my deceased family members gathered around me.
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Don't you know that if you P on a snake it makes them scared of you and no longer dangerous?
 
Teasing Alert! The posters should properly give the length of snake in inch"s--since snakes don"t have "feet". Warned you. RN
 
My grandfather used to catch black snake and put them in his corn crib to eat the mice and rats. Unless he is a viper(we only have a couple of them in my area) I don't mind them.
 
Patio umbrella blew up onto the roof of our home. Put the ladder up and grandson went up to get it. I was right behind him. As he got hold of the umbrella to toss it down, I pointed out a gopher snake about 4 feet from him. Freaked him out.
 
Super Trucker, I have done that very same thing. First house my wife and I bought had a small shed out back with a lean-to on each side. We never used it, mainly because it was in need of repair and I had not had time to take care of it. Every spring for a few years I found numerous snakes it it, so I finally set it on fire, cleaned up the mess and planted grass.
 
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