I've done that as well. I was clearing some palmettos out and I did this thing with the base to roll all the fronds to one side so I only had to make a few whacks with my knife. On more than one occasion I pinned snakes in them and cut them into very small pieces.

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Posted by suga pudin

The Village

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 3:02 pm to Capt ST

First time I went over to my gf's house to meet her parents, her dad decides to coil up a 5' dead rat snake on the front porch and turn the lights off. I was nervous to begin with and then I almost stepped on the snake...screamed like a girl. Then they flip on the lights and everyone starts laughing. I almost had a heart attack.

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Posted by Hammertime

Will trade dowsing rod for titties

Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 3:22 pm to hawgfaninc

First day in the woods as a job, and thought I'd have to interview because the company is one of the biggest hardwood timber companies in the southeast. Got all dressed up in a button down and nice jeans. Boss tells me to meet him somewhere, I had no idea where it was.

Turns out my interview is my first day and we are cruising timber and marking lines. Great deal, but I can't complain about some dirty clothes.

So we separate for about an hour, and then he takes me under his wing to show me how to cruise. Maybe 30 minutes later we take a break and are talking for a while and I see a 5ft rattlesnake laid up maybe a foot from where he was standing. Told him and he jumped about 15ft away and goes and grabs a big branch to kill it. The branch ended up being rotten and just pissed off the snake. So he is running around trying to find a good one and finally finds one and beats this snake to death.

I stood there thinking, "Where the hell else am I gonna be able to see the owner of a mhlti-million dollar company beat a snake to death with a stick on my first day other than the woods?". It was comical to say the least

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Posted by Good Times

Hill top in Tn

Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:19 pm to Good Times

quote:
Many moons ago we lived in Houma.

I remembered another one at that house. It was on concrete foundation piers. We had a small sun room/utility room on the back. My wife had a parakeet in a cage back there. One day she calls me screaming that a snake ate her bird and was still in the cage. I came home and figured the rat snake had pushed passed the dryer vent in the floor, ate the bird, and was too fat to get back out. Wife gave the snake a pardon, so I had to drive it to some other woods to be released.

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Posted by lsu mike

Gonzales

Member since Sep 2006

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:48 pm to Good Times

When I was young and dumb would go hunt snakes for bragging rights. Well stupid me thought it would be alright to walk in ditch along water filled with soft field grass, barefooted. Well as I'm sure you know I stepped on a f'n mocassin and scared snake so bad he shot off in water and then once he got his wits about him, turned around and came after me. This happened all within 5-6 seconds. To this day still think I literally ran across water to get home.

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Posted by DrTyger

Covington

Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:54 pm to lsu mike

As a kid my pawpaw had this old shack we would stay in to hunt or fish out of. It was in the territory of a few trappers who thought they owned the marsh and didn't like any body else there.

One day (I must have been about 8-9) we go there and the trappers had busted the door down and broke a bunch of shite. They also ripped a whole in the sink and two cottonmouths had got in through it. I'm waiting in the boat and from there all I can see is my dad swinging for the fences at the ground with a mop that the trappers had cut all the string off of. I had no idea what was going on. It was a pretty funny sight.

He killed both of them eventually. One was about 6ft long. It's a good thing he checked under the sink.

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Posted by skuter

P'ville

Member since Jan 2005

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 8:00 pm to hawgfaninc

Was bow hunting in Woodville one afternoon. I kept hearing what I thought was birds rustling in the leaves. Looked for the longest time trying to find out where they were. Finally looked straight down and there was a 5 ft rattler stretched out directly beneath me.

All I could think was he was somewhere close when I climbed the tree and never saw him. I was hunting alone and the thought of getting bit and no one around to help me.

I stuck him about 2 ft from his head with an arrow and he started rattling and biting the arrow. Once I killed him I couldn't hunt the rest of the day. Gave me the heebey jeebys.

ETA: My wife had a coral snake in their apartment when she was in college at ULM

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