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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 21, 2020 12:03:02 GMT -5
Went in my barn yesterday to fuel up Zero Turn mower, reached for gas cap, something wasn’t right, Damn! Snake was coiled around the gas cap, backed off, knocked him off, ball peen hammer nearby, bye bye snake. It was a pigmy rattler, they usually are around my pine trees, guess storm moved him. Checked out mower very careful.
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 21, 2020 12:16:27 GMT -5
Wow.
Glad we don't have much to worry about in central Illinois when it comes to poisonous snakes.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 21, 2020 12:45:08 GMT -5
Oldcajun just got a little bit older. 😊🤠
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 21, 2020 13:07:28 GMT -5
All we have around these parts is prairie rattlers. Mean little grey-green vipers. 48” would be a really big one. Jack’s been bitten three times in the last four years. I have all my dogs on the Red Rock vaccine. If they’re bitten a bit of swelling is about the major complaint.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 21, 2020 16:16:25 GMT -5
I'm so glad we don't have anything like that here. I'm glad you had your wits about you.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 21, 2020 16:58:54 GMT -5
Good ol’ St Pat!
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 21, 2020 17:01:40 GMT -5
 Maybe it’s because I was born on St Pats day that my wits were sharp!
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Post by toshtego on Oct 21, 2020 17:24:23 GMT -5
Rural residents should always be alert to these visitors. They are ever on my mind when entering shops, barns and sheds.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 21, 2020 18:14:50 GMT -5
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Post by lizardonarock on Oct 21, 2020 18:17:29 GMT -5
City boys look straight ahead, country boys always look down because of snakes. I never reach under anything and carry a garden hoe in my truck. Snakes hate the smell of gas vapors. They spray gasoline into holes in Sweetwater to make the snakes come out for the big roundup. Maybe Brad can lease them his lawnmower this year.
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Maybe it’s because I was born on St Pats day that my wits were sharp!
