That was close!!!!

[Southern Lawns]

:eek:
First snake encounter this year. Back yard of a developing neighborhood, came out of nowhere and crossed over my boots and went on it's way. Too close for me. Just a reminder to all. Be careful.
Raymond

[Eric ELM]

Well what kind was it? Was it a killer snake? We only have the friendly type around here, glad of it too. :)

[awm]

That happened tome once.Id tell u how much honeysuckel
I cleared on fist jump.but u wouldnt believe it.

[cos]

we have only the friendly type of snakes here in philly too!

:D

[Southern Lawns]

Don't know what kind, black, brown and white. Happend sooo fast didn't have a chance to get personal. We have the friendly ones down here too. Their the ones sleeping on the roadways in the summer. Well, that's what Mom used to tell me when I was a little boy.
Don't get me wrong..........I don't go out of my way to hurt them, I just have a great respect for them. They can make you feel bad in a NY minute. Don't have time to feel bad!

[EROSS17]

Man do you hate those things. It's always a shock to see one. Thank god for the non-lethal ones in Michigan.

[Greenkeepers]

Put that on your bill for snake removal :)

I don't mind them as long as they don't bug me, we have copperheads around here and they can put a hurtin on you.

[AB Lawn Care]

Personally I love snakes!There is only 1 deadly snake in ontario and that is the missasauga rattler.But they have been almost wiped out.For me the best show on TV is the croc hunter.That guy rocks!

[lawnboy82]

this was something i had read about a couple of years back and i am not sure if it is true or not. you could always ask the crocodile hunter. but if you are bit and there are fang marks in the form of a diamond then it is not poisonous. if there are only 2 puncture marks then you have a poisonous snake.
i had a similar encounter several years back. a big copperhead or water moccasin slithered right in front of the lawn mower. thing must have been a good 4 feet long. cause 48" w/b and the snake was just as big. it went and was swimming around in this big pond. all you could see was the head sticking up out of the water and the body kind of down below the water. freaky.

[Grassman]

I see a few snakes of some sort everyday while working. Down here in Fl. we have quite a few naughty ones to watch out for. Have not been bit yet though, knock on wood! Russ

[Mike Nelson]

One more reason to buy a ride on.:D

Mike

[65hoss]

I don't do snakes. The only good one is a dead one. I caught one last year with its mouth open about to strike me. I hit the throttle on the trimmer and cut his head off. I happened so fast I didn't know what happened.

[Fantasy Lawns]

we get all types of critters down here ....some nasty snakes & spiders ....the little pigmy rattler's like to poke the head about the grass when they here you .....than it's a race ...but they move faster than the mower does ;->

[dmk395]

From my experiences one of the nastiest things I have seen must have been running over a snake with the mower.

[Southern Lawns]

That would be nasty. Ya know what they say.............better him than me ;)

[Ssouth]

ever seen a cotton-back-rattle-mocassin. These are some nasty buggers. All joking aside. Here we have cotton mouths, water mocassins, and a few rattlers. Lots of others, but most are considered beneficial to ridding of pest. I also don't like snakes but I let them be unless they are to close for comfort.

[SMB]

I ran over a little garter snake today with our Z. The first snake of the year DEAD! ;)

[skyphoto]

This post reminds me of a day last fall as I was mowing up next to a storm drain and out pops a rat about half the size of a cat...I dont know what came over me but the hair on my neck stood up and I shoved the levers all the way forward and began to chase this thing across the yard...at about 10 yds I was right on his tail then he began to jump as I closed in...then found a small patch of grass to hide in and it was kinda like the movie (cristine) I just paused for a second and then POOF the rat was mulched! My 6 yr old twin boys thought that was a great story but the wife said I was nasty!

PeacE!

[Mike Nelson]

Well we are telling stories I remember the time I hit a rabbit nest.Man fur was flying.:D

Mike

[Evan528]

Last year I accidently killed two gardner snakes! One with a trimmer and one with my z master! Was ugly!

[Edited by Evan528 on 04-07-2001 at 10:27 PM]

[lee b]

Ya'll better watch out, those idiots at PETA may come looking for ya. My motto is " I love animals - they taste great". We've got plenty of snakes, had a few close calls but ain't been bit yet. Sent alot of the boogers to reptile heaven. Rattlers and copperheads ain't so bad, piss-off a cottonmouth, then you've got problems. Cottonmouths ain't scared of much and are prone to chasing whatever aggravates them. No joking, I've been chased a couple of times, that'll get your blood to flowing. People who tell you that snakes are timid and always try to avoid humans need to meet some of these ill-tempered south Georgia cottonmouths, it would give'em a whole new outlook on the situation.

[cleancut]

I've had run ins with 2 copperheads and several black snakes...Not been bitten but I've came very close...The most fierce creature that I've come across was a 10 lb. little yapper...The smaller the dog, the worse the bite is...

[T-Bone]

If its any biger than a night crawler I'm out of there.

Was trimming along a fence a couple of years ago when I snagged a little gardner snake wrapping it around my leg. You talk about shaken a leg, my wife laughs to tears every time she thinks of it. She even told the neighbors not to kid themselves that a fat man can run. Lord only knows I was picken em up and putting em down.

[Jusmowin]

Been hit by 2 black snakes and a king snake, none of which lived to tell their snake buddies about it.But in the last year or two ive only had to weedeat 1or2 snakes so far .

[Grateful11]

I killed a snake one time with a weedeater around my Dads pond. Not sure what it was at the time but it scared me so bad it deserved to die. I gnawed the hide right off it.

[bob]

I bring snakes home all the time. My son takes them out behind our house and lets them go. I feel bad when I accidently kill them with a trimmer or mower.

[turfguy33]

I got bit once by a chicken snake. I was cleaning out a ditch bank, and reached my hand through some thick brush, (very stupid), I felt it hit, but at the time, didn't know what it was, I pulled some of the brush back and seen the darn thing strike me again.......Yea, had my pocket knife out and had that little booger fileted in 2 seconds.....It didn't hurt, but it sure scared the crap out of me.....
Moral of the story, don't stick your finger where it don't belong.......

[1stclasslawns]

Watch out fur those snakes! Ya might chop up an edible one,
all joking aside I run over them first and ask questions later.

BTW I am a member of PETA People Eating Tasty Animals.

We have cottonmouths rattlers and copperheads abundant around here.

Biggest Ive seen is an almost 7 foot black snake.

Scearet me.

Jim

[little green guy]

One proprty that we cut has a pond in the back that we only cut around every other week so the grass gets kinds high sometimes. No exageration last year I killed a snake every time I cut that area, I aim for those darn things.

We have mostly gardners and black snakes around here, but we also have some copperheads, water mochisines and rattlers.

The biggest snake I ever saw has a black snake( I think), that sucker was aleast six feet.

Oh yah, also I heard that some of the black snakes are mateing with copperheads and that means so black snakes may be piosones. I don't know if thats true of not though.

[ProScapeOM]

No kiddin' Coppermouths are MEAN. When I was a kid I was fishing and had some pearch on a string in the water and up comes this coppermouth and starts to bite all over my fish! Crazy thing. He got the catch that day. Then there was the time my sister and I was fishin' and a BIG yellow rat snake jumped from a tree limb right on top of my sister's head! Poles and all went in the water and we went running and screaming. Most recently, I was blowing debris away from a flower bed structure made of railroad ties when a huge black racer/king snake/I don't know what it was came charging out at me. I don't know which one of us was more scared. I believe in being kind to the wildlife and as long as they don't hurt me, I don't hurt them.

[Mowin4cash]

Originally posted by AB Lawn Care
Personally I love snakes!There is only 1 deadly snake in ontario and that is the missasauga rattler.But they have been almost wiped out.For me the best show on TV is the croc hunter.That guy rocks!


DAYNJA, DAYNJA, DAYNJA!!!! Terry rocks too!!!!

[kutnkru]

The first year I ever mowed full time was for another contractor. I was mowing along this fieldstone wall they had out along the back of the property line. I was thinking it was a hose and didnt realize it was a four foot milk snake sunning itself until I saw the tail move as I walked by it after passing the head.

I was waiting to see where the hose came up onto the wall so I could get it out of my way while mowing. Needless to say, the back forty went another week without being cut. EEESSHHHH!!!

And I saw alot of those Copper Heads when I was in the Caroilnas last year. Watched many a mexican kill them 3 footers while clearing out brush and overgrowth along the wood lines of properties.

Not my but, I was far and away when the word went out that they had found yet another nest.

Pansy footed about snakes I am. :(
Kris

[jasonp]

I was looking at the ground in front of the kubota and saw something green trying to get away from the mower, But it was to late, I never seen it again.