My tractor found a snake !

[Tinhack]

sorry don't agree. maybe if venomous, otherwise relocate.
ophidiophobia: an intense irrational fear of snakes.

That's what I always used to think about Scorpions. Until one got me through several layers of paper towel trying to relocate it from my kitchen sink to outside. Never again. Scorpions kill lots of bugs but they're just as ornery as Yellow Jackets when it comes to stinging. And a Scorpion's sting is 10 times as painful as a Yellow Jacket's. I eliminate all near my house and shop. (And I'm a Scorpio) So far, I let snakes be snakes--Unless they are venomous.

 

[Jstpssng]

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Bruce

My sentiments exactly!!!
Actually, we don't have venomous snakes this far north.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

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Bruce

You can look at the other end too ... Non-venomous snakes have large scales on top of there head, but not the rest of there body, venomous snakes have the same small size all over, this is referring to the "top" side, not the "bottom side"!

 

[number two]

Damn, give my -40 degree and 3 feet of snow any time before meeting up with one of those wrapped around your neck as you move around the basement. Holy crap. Thats what I like about the cold, it gets rid of all that rif raf that can kill you. you just have to dress for it.

My feelings exactly!
Well said.

 

[lman]

The only snakes I've seen at my place are these puny garter snakes. I knew a guy that had such a fear of snakes, that he would run from a picture of one.

 

[dkmc]

That snake in the tractor was identifying as a fan belt, until his shiit hit the fan

 

[kenhar]

My truck has found a couple of house cats like your tractor did over the years. The kitty lost all nine lives at one time. Didn't stink but was a mess to clean up under the hood.

 

[boatmoter]

Started my tractor, heard a clunk and smelled a funny smell

Watch out !

you should give your tractor a treat for that one..

 

[pwhite42]

Started my tractor, heard a clunk and smelled a funny smell

Watch out !

Maybe it was killing mice for you.

 

[AnotherBueller]

Started my tractor, heard a clunk and smelled a funny smell

Watch out !

Better that your tractor found it and not you, safer that way.

 

[AnotherBueller]

Too late for BBQ sauce?

Snake tastes good, just like chicken.

 

[MossRoad]

I think the main thing this one didn't like was not being able to climb out of the pool.

I always keep the ladder (now steps) in the pool when the winter cover is off just to have a place for critters to get out if they fall in. Finding one dead squirrel swirling around on the bottom of the pool was enough.

 

[blehmann]

Several years ago I got on the tractor and started it. Almost immediately a rattlesnake about three feet long dropped down onto my right foot then dropped to the ground and sped away. It happens. I'm not about to start looking under the hood and probing around looking for snakes. Even though I'm constantly on the lookout for them, I've learned that I don't immediately recognized them for what they are. Monday of this week I bent over to pull my bolt that I use for a lock on my overhead rolling shop door. I noticed the snake about the time my hand was three or four inches away from it. The light was dim so I turned on my cell phone light. It was a coachwhip about four feet long. I know that it lives in the shop and I'm good with that. Cleaner than a cat and does the same thing. One time I reached for a screwdriver on the horizontal screwdriver rack and saw a snake laying behind the screwdrivers. That startled me, so now I always look pretty hard before reaching for a screwdriver.

 

[oldpilot]

At a Special Forces FOB one time, Russ Brooks was putting his boots on when one foot met a scorpion, which bit him. Fortunately the other Green Beret at the FOB was Mike Holland, who was cross-trained as a medic. Russ said, "What'll I do?" Mike said, "Get over it. You'll live."

He did, at least for a while. His name isn't on the Wall, anyhow. But that was 62 years ago, so the odds aren't good for Russ.

 

[jgdiener]

sorry don't agree. maybe if venomous, otherwise relocate.
ophidiophobia: an intense irrational fear of snakes.

Agree with big bubba. Unless venomous, most snakes are good for people and the environment. They eat rodents that would love to get into your tractor's wiring and nibble away.

 

[tacticalturnip]

At a Special Forces FOB one time, Russ Brooks was putting his boots on when one foot met a scorpion, which bit him. Fortunately the other Green Beret at the FOB was Mike Holland, who was cross-trained as a medic. Russ said, "What'll I do?" Mike said, "Get over it. You'll live."

He did, at least for a while. His name isn't on the Wall, anyhow. But that was 62 years ago, so the odds aren't good for Russ.

I'm surprised there wasn't a suggestion to drink water, or down some ibuprofen.

 

[mllud]

I remember a pitcher in the bible of Adam and Eve under an apple tree and a snake hanging on a limb just above them.
We are programed that snakes are evil.
As someone said above our parents also teach us to fear snakes. Kids can't tell the good from the bad.

Edit: I guess it would depend on your religion.

 

[HAR]

Damn, give my -40 degree and 3 feet of snow any time before meeting up with one of those wrapped around your neck as you move around the basement. Holy crap. Thats what I like about the cold, it gets rid of all that rif raf that can kill you. you just have to dress for it.

That is one really nice thing about living in the Northern Tier....a lot of cold blooded things just do not like the place. One worry is continued warming might allow a few to migrate a bit further and that is not to my liking.

One thing about where I live, a couple times of the year, we actually witness snake migrations as they seek out cavernous areas to overwinter in. We see them in spring sometimes, but mostly on road surfaces in the fall, where they can lay and gather warmth, during their trek.

 

[Gord Baker]

Yikes looks like a CopperHeaddedRattelMoccasin!

Milk Snake

 

[MossRoad]

Milk Snake

You'll need a very little stool to sit on.