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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: jerry on November 21, 2016, 11:50:10 am
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In general dialogue with the great man GMC not 10 minutes ago. He was reposing on the verandah of the GMC Ponderosa rather than slaving in the shed when he let out with a suprised sounding "PHARKKK" straight away I said "Snake" "yes" came the shaky reply and further advised that it was 1 metre long and heading straight for him. I'm gonna kill the phukker he said and with that attacked it with a near bye shovel. This I might add was all being transmitted by mobile phone. All was quiet momentarily and I was suspecting the worst when all of a sudden a clearly shaken GMC advised that he had partially severed the offending creatures tail which had pissed him off mightily as he swung around and struck the head of the shovel. He then made good his escape by buggering off to hide under the BBQ. The snake that is! Who knows where GMC went. Cheers Jerry
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priceless! nothing like risking your life to sever the last 6 inches of a poor ol snake looking for a feed or a bit of shade.
if gmc had moved at his usual pace, the snake might not have even noticed him... 8)
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good thing that joe blake will die after all not much fun when adult snakes hang about your house and sheds. I always have an old rake over my shoulder when I'm walking around my farm which has sorted many of them out before they get too big. I remember 3 summers ago raking though an old builder sand pile getting out lots of small salt bush snakes when I went for a deep rake though and got the 6 foot long moma coming for me on full s pattern,well with a landing of the rake to jump back got the tail,next jump back the middle and the third jump 6 inches off the head, by that time I was 10 feet tall and bullet proof and decided to call it a day
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I remember running over a Tiger snake when I was a young bloke up in the Grampians. Got caught around my back wheel. I jumped off doing about 20kph much to the amusement of a mate riding close behind. Still have nightmares! J
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;D GOLD Jerry may have to sykpe GMC next time and get a vid of the action :) :P
After 8 rounds in the 22 the neighbour came to investigate and promptly borrowed the long handled shovel. Too easy ::)
I was feeling guilty after this, as above she/he was probably after a rat in the wood shed,shade or water.
The snake obviously had a history with many old injuries and markings on his/her long 4ft + body.
cheers A
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Yes, production came to a halt again today :o
I had just made a cuppa when young Jerry rang so I went and sat on the verandah to take in the serenity while chatting and bugger me if this bloody brown snake comes slithering toward me.
It rattled me a bit and I'm not sure of the sequence of events so I was a bit worried I may have offended Jerry as it seemed like he had no sooner mentioned he wanted to build some weird Hybrid when I shouted out "what the??? no way Pharrrk off"
Fortunately when I got back to the phone Jerry was still talking to me.
priceless! nothing like risking your life to sever the last 6 inches of a poor ol snake looking for a feed or a bit of shade.
if gmc had moved at his usual pace, the snake might not have even noticed him... 8)
It noticed me I'm sure it was coming straight for me, probably wanted to have a feed on me and then take up shade in our house!
I'm happy to let them alone if I see them in the north pasture but not around the house, had one in the house years ago, seemed to freak the missus out for some reason :o, had one in my workshop too many years back, was never quite sure if it left and had a few nervous days never knowing what was going to greet me whenever I lifted the welding shield up
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doesn't pay to have them around the house that's for sure. especially as they are up to "operating temp" from 15 to 25 degrees. ie at night! nothing like stepping out for a leak and standing on a cranky joe blake.
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Must have been all the rain but they are bad this year, ran right over a brown snake while out on the mountain bike two weeks ago. It just slid out of the grass right in front of me and I went over it just behind the head, it pissed off pretty smart after that. Last week out walking the dog I ran into another one luckily saw it before we walked over the top of it and was able to restrain the dog. Both browns, not big but big enough and both really healthy looking.
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any brown snake is potentially deadly. the venoms do weird stuff to our systems and a strong anaphylactic shock is also possible let alone the loss of skin, muscle mass, smell, taste ability etc. not worth effort skittle them. if there is one about, the egg in the paint tin is a good method of catching them for disposal (as is a 12 gauge )
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We're got red bellied black snakes on our property. I leave them alone as they are generally not aggressive and keep the brown's away.
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weve got a fleet of black snakes with whom we are delighted to see. the last brown met a sudden and unexpected end.
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I went for a ride years ago and ended up at the pub in a little town near Newcastle called Minmi. I ended up talking and having a few beers with an old bloke called Musa and a few of his mates for most of the afternoon. Now any of the locals will tell you that this pub was home to the biggest story tellers in the whole country.
Anyway back to the story this old bloke (Musa) was telling me that he had been out rabbiting that morning and he had come across a dead snake, it was about 2 mtrs long, 60mm round from the head to the middle, 150mm round in the middle and about 20mm round from the middle to the end of his tail. I said no wonder it was dead. That's what I thought too he said so he performed an autopsy on it. He cut it open and found that it had swallowed a syrup tin arse first, it was full of frogs. Starved to death. I ended up going back to that pub heaps of times after that and I think it's still my favorite spots to spend a Saturday arvo.
Zane
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many many moons ago. we had graduated to 125 and 250's when ol mate picked up a kwaka 75 for his nephews. he decided to take it out bush. he was 5' 10 ish and bean pole stature. I was waiting for him to catch to me and when he pulled up he was right on top of a 6'ft angry brown :o. it was thrashing around madly and I was screaming at ol mate to f off quick but he didn't understand why. it hit his legs a few times and then he looked down..... the adrenaline shot went thru him like electricity. the legs went up round his ears and the throttle was wound on full....he was in neutral ;D ;D ;D. it was priceless. I still giggle thinking about the oh no moment and the look of horror on his face :D
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We have red belly blacks and King browns on our property and after 26 years only have had to kill 2 browns 1 was stuck in a yabby net and yes the net was in the water, it was at night we pulled the net up our torch was flucked could hardly see, old mate say yep there's some in there grab em, as I put my hand in close to the net it just didn't feel right, old mates going come on hurry up, I'm going nah you do it, so he pulls out his ciggy lighter, shit its a brown snake!
we try to live with them and so far so good, its our choice and I'm glad its illegal to kill them
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rake with no8 fencing wire attached to the end works a treat-gives you distance or throw petrol on them ,they will bite where the petrol has hit thm and kills themselves-they are immune to their poison when it swallowed in their prey not when they bite themselves.lost a sheep to a snake last week, a dead brown is a good brown. carpet snakes on the over hand are great
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I had a pet carpet for years, got to be 6 ft long. it got hold of me one day...interesting 15 minutes.. sold it for 500 bucks
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We have lots of Brown snakes round here at The River, we've lost two dogs to the bloody things over the years. In the hills or by the River we leave 'em alone, in our house yard, different story !! Redbelly's are welcome, they are pretty cool dudes, they keep the numbers of rats and mice down.
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mate on the farm had a leaking firebox water heater thingy on the stove so couple of shifters and into the cupboard nxt to the fire. cramped spider webbed mongrel spot. something sharp was digging into his shoulder and no matter how he wriggled, it kept digging in. eventually he tightens the fitting and as he starts to crawl out he hears an unmistakeable sound ...snake on concrete!!
he has had a large brown chewing on his collarbone for 5 minutes or so. he locks it in the space and calls his old man who turns up and rushes him to hospital. luckily no envenomation.
they went back for the snake and whipped the door open and its gone! no way to get out....wait, the upside down ice cream container..yep coiled up in there
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Got a lot of browns here , they come up from the creek lookin for trouble.
I just move them along with a broom and guide them up to the neighbors place.
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Got a lot of browns here , they come up from the creek lookin for trouble.
I just move them along with a broom and guide them up to the neighbors place.
lol speaking of creeks, was fixing the creek crossing after floods washed it away and stalled the back hoe, had a shit battery (always a jump start) so I jumps off the back hoe and seen something moveing away, went over for a better look Ill say 7 foot cos it could of been longer a girth the size of a baby's head ahh Mambo(Brown Snake) we meet again, first saw it in the north paddock in the mid nineties, it always took a look and calmly wondered off each time, I still wonder if it is still alive (I hope so) I will probably get bitten for saying this but somehow after 26years we just seem to Co exist, I know there are you that think I'm nuts, trust me had plenty tell there view, farmers, family and friends, but amongst them have found others that respect their space old farmers driving around them not over them, put water out for em, recon it stops em comin in for a drink, either way are you part of the problem or the solution? just saying
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last week searching for molds in my storage facility (industrial sized chookshed),up a dead end isle,turned to walk back,heres the resident diamond python curled up & around in an RS250 mold,"eyes very bloody wide" as i inched past,hes a big bugger that frequents the top sheds ,only comes down to mine to drag old skins off ::), :P
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last week searching for molds in my storage facility (industrial sized chookshed),up a dead end isle,turned to walk back,heres the resident diamond python curled up & around in an RS250 mold,"eyes very bloody wide" as i inched past,hes a big bugger that frequents the top sheds ,only comes down to mine to drag old skins off ::), :P
lol
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as a kid I shot a 7' 6" brown snake, was the dinghy record and probably still stands. I found a clipping from the local paper showing me standing on a fence holding the skin...had it for years then I had to throw it out. fangs were near a cm long
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Story goes that Dean Taylor of SA on his tz700 yam speedway sidecar and Clarry Jones of Vic had a fierce rivallry (as most sidecar boys do). At Bendigo Showgrounds one night Dean got Clarry to dive into his tool box and was met by a pet snake. Clarry retaliated a few weeks later by swallowing his gold fish at a party. Apparently one re emerged later still flapping. Didn't witnessed this one but I did of a few of Clarry's other jokes.
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Story goes that Dean Taylor of SA on his tz700 yam speedway sidecar and Clarry Jones of Vic had a fierce rivallry (as most sidecar boys do). At Bendigo Showgrounds one night Dean got Clarry to dive into his tool box and was met by a pet snake. Clarry retaliated a few weeks later by swallowing his gold fish at a party. Apparently one re emerged later still flapping. Didn't witnessed this one but I did of a few of Clarry's other jokes.
HA HA HA HA Haha HaHHHHHHaaaaa very good.
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Story goes that Dean Taylor of SA on his tz700 yam speedway sidecar and Clarry Jones of Vic had a fierce rivallry (as most sidecar boys do). At Bendigo Showgrounds one night Dean got Clarry to dive into his tool box and was met by a pet snake. Clarry retaliated a few weeks later by swallowing his gold fish at a party. Apparently one re emerged later still flapping. Didn't witnessed this one but I did of a few of Clarry's other jokes.
Tell us more!
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Our Jack Russell had one bailed up in some bushes last summer. By the time we realised what was going on it was practically all over. Brown snake doing an impersonation of Swiss cheese, with dozens of puncture wounds, feebly emerged and almost seemed to be saying "shoot me please". I gladly obliged but it was anxious few hours waiting to see if the happy hunter showed any signs of being bit.
The kids recently saw a hawk or eagle flying off to dinner with a decent sized snake thrashing in its talons.
Snake tales - pretty much everyone in Australia has at least one!
Tex
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As a youngling it was my job to feed the chooks of a morning, one morning I’m heading out to the chookshed which was just past the woodpile when I spot a snake just in front of me to the left, about the 10 oclock position.
I stopped in my tracks and started slowly walking backwards when suddenly I noticed another to my left about the 7 oclock position.
Now wanting to make a quick exit I turned to my right away from these 3 foot snakes and bugger me if there wasn’t another on my right at about 3 oclock.
No more slowly walking backwards, I dropped the chookfeed on the ground and sprinted back to the house, stuff the eggs, they can wait.
Of course they were long gone by the time Mum went out for a look, I couldn’t get out of the job and I had to keep going back everyday and did so with ‘Marty Feldman’ eyes. :o
Saw this clip the other day and it brought back this memory, may have to start therapy all over again!
I feel for the little feller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OjfK0t1XM
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Yeah, nah, this one is betterer. Not suitable for children tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBNG5KD1oU
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Kind of funny really, You always get that weird feeling when one is around. Not a lot of anything but red bellies where I grew up on a dairy farm and in summer you could bank on a few in the house yard. One xmas day and as usual it was stinking hot so we had christmas lunch on the verandah in the shade. In front of the verandah were two hydrangea bushes that were always cool. and mum thought it would be a good idea if i cut a few flower heads off for the table . I jump down and bounce straight back on the veranda. a Huge mumma was lying under there and she wasnt happy. Probably wouldnt be happy either if you had to look after the dozen or so babies that were tangled around the bush. Dads 22 worked well on mumma but those little ones were too little so the spade sorted them out. Im fairly sure i had seen mumma in the top paddock the week before as she stretched out to be about 7 feet and fat as. . grew up with snakes as dad caught them in the forest at work and made a few buck by flogging them off to gosford reptile parkand would be nothing to see a chaff bag in the back of the car and hopefully something was in it. if it was empty then you got concerned.
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Who would stay on that friggin island long enough to film that. NOT ME.
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was exploring an old adit a year ago (horizontal mine shaft) and there was a huuuge brown reclining in a side cut. he got a little agitated then I realised he was watching the lamp spot so I "guided him" with the lamp spot on the ground in front of him up to the end of the tunnel then we looked about for a bit and left him to find his way out. amazing
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I saw a snake once, scary.
K