Snake in Muffler
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"There's a snake in my boot!"
Move over Woody.
Good thing you found it before it started cooking!
Ray
Move over Woody.
Good thing you found it before it started cooking!
Ray
Mmmm, cooked garder snake!
Reminds me of an old troy built tiller I bought years ago. They were asking $275 and said it ran. Half hour later he couldn't get it to even fire, so I got it for $150. Took it home and found there was no spark. After checking a few other things in the system, I ended up pulling the flywheel, I found a nest of baby garders wrapped up inside. It was juicy enough I'm pretty sure they were alive before we tried to start it. Once I cleaned it all up, it fired right up and still runs like a top.
Just be glad that you found it before it got nasty.
Reminds me of an old troy built tiller I bought years ago. They were asking $275 and said it ran. Half hour later he couldn't get it to even fire, so I got it for $150. Took it home and found there was no spark. After checking a few other things in the system, I ended up pulling the flywheel, I found a nest of baby garders wrapped up inside. It was juicy enough I'm pretty sure they were alive before we tried to start it. Once I cleaned it all up, it fired right up and still runs like a top.
Just be glad that you found it before it got nasty.
Hisssssssstory shows to check for unlikely things when you have an issue.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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I had an old 53 Ford - went out one fall day, turned the engine over and noticed something was not right........something funny about the spark plug side of the engine! Holy s@#$ .......the snake was about the size of the radiator hose...black...
First thought was the kill the snake, then common sense took over - "they are the good snakes!" - he didnt want to move however.
SO what could I do? (needed the tractor!) - so - my youngest sons paint ball gun - yeah thats the ticket, couple of mutlicolored balls in the right spot made that snake move like it was on fire! The paint added to the color of the tractor too!
First thought was the kill the snake, then common sense took over - "they are the good snakes!" - he didnt want to move however.
SO what could I do? (needed the tractor!) - so - my youngest sons paint ball gun - yeah thats the ticket, couple of mutlicolored balls in the right spot made that snake move like it was on fire! The paint added to the color of the tractor too!
Several years ago I was in town on a Sat. morning at the lumber yard. As I walked out a lady put her car to a screeching halt, jumped out screaming, yelling, dancing a jig, waving her arms, saying nothing anyone could understand.
Turn out she drove to town and suddenly discovered a snake in her car! It come up on the dash and she hit the brakes!!
Turn out she drove to town and suddenly discovered a snake in her car! It come up on the dash and she hit the brakes!!
Start the tractor up... he`ll scoot outta there real quick.
If he dont, oh well, cook`em up an eat`em.
If he dont, oh well, cook`em up an eat`em.
He may have got in there shortly after you used it last, attracted to the residual heat??
Another thought, it may be getting ready to shed it's skin. The stamped edges on the guard is probably just what it needs to help. I find snake skins all the time in our wood pile. I think the edges and pinch points help. There I go thinking logical again!
Another thought, it may be getting ready to shed it's skin. The stamped edges on the guard is probably just what it needs to help. I find snake skins all the time in our wood pile. I think the edges and pinch points help. There I go thinking logical again!
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Just got in from the morning dog walk in the twilight. Coming around a corner by my neighbors, I mention to my wife who can't see so well in the dark, "snake dead ahead" and she snatches back on the leash my male lives on this time of year. It was a rattler, thankfully minus its head. My female is smart enough to avoid snakes so we let her sniff at it a little and she got the message. First rattler we have seen in the neighborhood this year.
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I chased a few copper heads with the lawn mower so far this year. Neighbor mowed and baled the field behind us. Chased them into my yard
Found a king snake in the sunroom one morning when I went to let dogs out. He got relocated with a shovel since they eat the copperheads
Saw this on the news recently:http://www.fox19.com/story/35829867/video-captures-snake-hitching-ride-on-vehicle-down-i-26
My snake story. Hooked up to the jon boat, pulled it out from the shed and pulled it over to another building. Don't remember exactly why, either to get something to put in the boat or to hook the water hose to the motor to run it a little. Anyway, walk around the boat, and there's a rat snake laying there that wasn't there when I drove by there 5 seconds ago. The only thing I can figure is that it was in the boat and decided it was time to get out when it started moving.
When my mom had chickens I usually had to catch one or two a year out of the chicken house.
My snake story. Hooked up to the jon boat, pulled it out from the shed and pulled it over to another building. Don't remember exactly why, either to get something to put in the boat or to hook the water hose to the motor to run it a little. Anyway, walk around the boat, and there's a rat snake laying there that wasn't there when I drove by there 5 seconds ago. The only thing I can figure is that it was in the boat and decided it was time to get out when it started moving.
When my mom had chickens I usually had to catch one or two a year out of the chicken house.
There is only one snake story, I know,, see there was this young sailor,, and one dim evening on a routine extraction of a recon team,,
When the boat nosed up to the shore and he jumped off, with a bow line in one hand and a shotgun in the other,,
3 steps into the jungle and all hell broke loose, seems a cobra decided that he was not impressed with how the young sailor was stomping about, and stood to tell him about how unhappy he was....
The Gunny from the recon team said he never knew a pump shotgun could cycle so fast
When the boat nosed up to the shore and he jumped off, with a bow line in one hand and a shotgun in the other,,
3 steps into the jungle and all hell broke loose, seems a cobra decided that he was not impressed with how the young sailor was stomping about, and stood to tell him about how unhappy he was....
The Gunny from the recon team said he never knew a pump shotgun could cycle so fast
Last summer my wife and I were out yard saling. She bought a vac for the garage and we went down the road a mile or so and she started yelling at me to pull over. There was a snake crawling up her arm. I stopped and she jumped out. Now we had a snake loose in the car. I opened up the doors and there it was curled up in the back floor.I got a stick and got it out but it was not happy. It was just a small milk snake about 10 inches long. I think it was in the vac hose when it was put into the car
Skeets, funny you say that. We had torrential rain here for two or three days last week. That must be part of it. And the kicker is when I poked him with a stick, he slithered down to the bottom where I couldn't see him. So when I went to look, there in the area where you pull the oil dipstick was a mouse nest that looked like the Taj Mahal. All that in two maybe three days. Mouse and snake living within inches of each other. Both took the nearest exit though once I fired it up and moved it!
Some folks just don't like snakes!
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/...-car-than-touch-garter-snake/?ref=regionstate
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/...-car-than-touch-garter-snake/?ref=regionstate