Beware of pretty colored sticks!!!

[southernsis]

Was at my office and I got a phone call from my husband. He was outside chopping fire wood. We had a bunch of chunks sitting on the ground by the wood storage shelter. He said in his call he found something for me. I quessed all kinds of things, but not the right thing. He was moving a chunk to sit it on the chopping block, when he notice what he thought was a really neat colored stick. He said he looked closer and it was a 2 ft copper head there. Luckly for him, it has been cold for days, so the snake couldn't move very fast. He chopped the head off with an ax. He never thought that there would be a snake under this chunk of wood that was sitting on end. I think it scared him, but he will never admit it.

[glenn kangiser]

I hate it when that happens.  Had a rattler a few inches from a water faucet I was turning off once.

[muldoon]

he needs to give them logs a lil kick before picking them up.  you'd be surprised what you find underneath logs.  I've had close calls too, not fun. 

[Don_P]

My wife scared one up while she was weedeating with a steel blade on. I heard steel repeatedly hitting the ground and ran around to see what the matter was. Poor dude looked like somebody spilled a couple of cans of vienna sausages and she was working on converting that to ground round. No way I'm sneaking up on her. Most of the folks around here think our cliff is infested with rattlers, I've never seen a need to dispel that notion  .

[MountainDon]

Out in the desert here in the SW you learn to never pickup stuff on the ground without checking for snakes. Fortunately up in the mountains around the cabin it's too cold for them. 

[MushCreek]

My wife scared one up while she was weedeating with a steel blade on. I heard steel repeatedly hitting the ground and ran around to see what the matter was. Poor dude looked like somebody spilled a couple of cans of vienna sausages and she was working on converting that to ground round. No way I'm sneaking up on her. Most of the folks around here think our cliff is infested with rattlers, I've never seen a need to dispel that notion  .

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