Got my adrenaline rush today!

[bugleboy]

We have an area at the house that is surrounded by landscape timbers. I can’t quite get the mower to cut the weeds right up against them. So, I usually spray it once a year to keep the grass back so I don’t have to weed eat all the time. This late in the season the grass/weeds start taking over again. So after I mowed this morning, I stopped and started pulling the tall grass with just my bare hands to make it look nice and tidy. It was just a few feet that needed it and I didn’t bother with the trimmer. Could’ve been a big mistake. I had pulled a couple feet away when I caught a glimpse of a little bit of movement where I had just reached down and grabbed the grass up. First thing I did was step back, then thanked the Lord for keeping me from getting bitten by this baby rattler! I sure got a jolt of adrenaline out of it though! Its head was underneath the timber thankfully. I feel sure it was just trying to escape after I had mowed through there. Tried a quick jerk on its tail to pull it out, but it didn’t work. Ok, great! If it’s not coming out, it won’t mind if I cut its head off while it’s stuck in there. Glad my knife was sharp.

[Drycreek3189]

I did that very thing years ago against my shop. I had leather gloves on but that probably wouldn’t have made any difference. I pulled a big clump of grass up and there was a full grown copperhead coiled and ready. I don’t know why he didn’t bite me but I’m glad he didn’t. I gathered him up and took him to the woods and set him free.

Ha ! No I didn’t, I killed the venomous SOB !

[bobc]

That'll get your attention for sure.

[Clint]

My Dad and I were pulling weeds at their house one time and he grabbed a hand full of weeds and through it back down REAL fast.
He had a had full of rattlesnake just about like that one. It didn't take him long to look at it.

[dustoffer]

My Dad and I were pulling weeds at their house one time and he grabbed a hand full of weeds and through it back down REAL fast.
He had a had full of rattlesnake just about like that one. It didn't take him long to look at it.

Wife did the same thing in our yard and told me "That's a snake: I asked her what it looked like and she said " dark diamonds" and I told her to run. I walked over and put my boot on its head until she got back with the shovel. It was a small one, maybe 15".

[bugleboy]

I hear you Drycreek. I’ve left them alone a few times when I wasn’t close to the house, but that ain’t happening in the front yard!

[BayouCat]

You dodged a bullet. I once was mowing with a push mower and was in flip flops casually going along. Looked down for whatever reason and saw a baby water moccasin lunging up between the mower and where I was about to step. Stuff like that definitely gets your attention.

[Big Lee]

What type of laundry soap removes "brown stains" from your under britches? Asking for YOU!

[okrattler]

I go lookin for them so I've had more close ones than I can remember. The most recent was one my mom found at her house. It bit a dog twice and crawled into some bamboo she has growing out there.

It was dark so I went out there, got a spotlight and went in after it. I could hear it buzzing but it was a real faint buzz so I knew it was up under some of that bamboo that had fallen over. I was standing on a bundle of that stuff and I saw a clump of stuff and that's where I thought the snake was. I'd stomp that bamboo when it quit buzzing to get it going again so I could try and tell where he was. I started removing sticks of bamboo that I was standing on and I started stomping it to break it. That's when it started getting louder and then it would go faint again. I thought to myself "He sounds close but I can't see it in here." Eventually I removed enough that it was loud enough that I could tell exactly where it was. I was standing on top of it. He was coiled up under that bamboo under me. His rattles were under that bamboo and I had him pinned to the ground. I couldn't see him in that thick mess but my hand moving that bamboo was less than a foot from him that whole time. I was gonna shoot him but he didn't bite me for whatever reason. I caught him and turned him loose way out in the middle of nowhere.

He gave me a pass so I figured it's best if I didn't kill him. He had more than enough opportunities to bite me. I catch 'em all the time so I just kinda count on gettin bit again one day. I was just glad it wasn't that day. I hate sleeping in hospitals.

[mossman500]

Nice rattle bug!

[Agdog]

I joined you this afternoon. Was pulling a couple logs off a woodpile at the house so my wife and her friends could burn them on their OK trip this weekend. Little devil was under one of the first logs I grabbed, sitting much higher than my brain thought they’d be. He got deeper into the pile before I could get a positive id but I’m pretty sure he was a juvenile copperhead.

[bugleboy]

Nothing was going to get that out, I just threw them away!!!

[Bisch]

Glad he didn’t get you!!!!!

Bisch