SNAKE TIME AGAIN !!!

[Bruce CurtisMember]

That Chris is a Joe Blake singles hangout……

by invitation only, imagine a brown snake turning up to the party???

[dennis da menaceMember]

what did you expect eags….

eagles are the direct enemy of the snake…

what sort of pooncy eagle are you, you should have talonned his eyes out and bit his head off like any other eagle would…

harden up eagle, you are supposed to be the alpha species remember :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

funny, i was just telling XYtransit a story last night of riding with a couple of mates and one mate running over a snake and it reared up and tried to bite the barkbuster of the next bloke that came past…at 60km/h. i saw it happen it nearly took the snakes head off. i couldnt believe it got up so high. :woohoo:

and Bollocks, you are nuts mate :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Mick DMember]

I got bitten on the hand by a black snake when I was 13, I can tell you that they make you friggen real sick. Especially if you run 400 meters to the house then your grand father does the “John Wayne” cut open the bite with a razor blade and attempt to suck the poison out. THe frantic half hour drive to hospital down the Comboyne mountain with a belt as a tourniquet didn’t help my cause, by the time I got to hospital an hour after being bitten, I was one very sick boy. In the ensuing week my arm went black and the glands in my arm pit were the size of a cricket ball and the pain in my hand was pretty hectic.

Even after that experience I am not scared of them and as a lead rider most of the time, I have regular encounters with them, the latest being only last weekend, when I ran one over by accident. I will admit I stopped quickly just to watch the other riders antics when they spotted it….That is always a good laugh!!!

[alanMember]

if you see snakes out here this time of year there extra slow as being cold bluded

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Michael, you’re one of the very few people I’ve heard of that’s actually been invenomated by a black, bloody unlucky, I’ve had a “strike” on the leg by a large black snake in my old shed, which was right on a creek bank. But he was only really trying to push me out of the way as he was laying behinf my lathe and I turned it on, so he sorted headbutted me and scampered out the door behind me.
Dogs will get bitten by Black snakes often, basically because they won’t leave them alone, and we had a cat (think Horse’s attitude from footrot flats)that used to catch brown snakes and kill them.
But to be envenomated by a black blake is up there with lotto wins, actually it’s less common, and I’ll betchya it made you crook, back in those days the doctors hadn’t got good antivenine, cause the dinosaurs wouldn’t let them….

[Mick DMember]

I jumped off a post and rail fence into long grass near a dairy and landed straight on the bloody thing and it had hold of my middle finger (the bird finger) before I realised I was bitten.It clamped on like a bloody bull terrier and I actually pulled it off my hand and it left scratches the length of my finger with its fangs.It got me real good. It was a bloody huge bastard too. Whilst I was in hospital they went on a snake hunt and it was back at the same place and met its maker via a shot gun blast. Under a sheet of tin nearby there were several small ones that also met the same fate.
The whole incident made the Daily Telegraph too,I was famous for being unlucky/stupid for a day or two.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Ok that explains it, jumping fair onto them does get them a bit upset, and the little ones were probably it’s offspring, and from what I’ve seen they do tend to hang around together for a bit.
Latched on too, crikey woulda been just pumping the poison in from the sound of it.
You’re a lucky lad to still be here after that, especially given the level of knowledge that wasn’t in every hospital back in those days.

Daily telegraph eh?
“Boy from bush slays T-Rex then gets bitten by giant snake in epic battle”

[Mick DMember]

Nah more like.

Boy Whacks snake with his hand :laugh:

[GregMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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Nah more like.

Boy Whacks snake with his hand :laugh:

And now days it reads “Balding old blinding man regularly whacks his snake with his hand” :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Mick DMember]

I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist that one………. :laugh:

[TrevorMember]

Hey guys
Just happened to notice the snake banter.
I am sitting in my office which is where my kids keep their snakes. We have a banded childrens python, two olive pythons and two other Het (part Albino) Darwin Pythons. Then theres the carpet snake and a few sundry lizards and geckos and the like.

Nothing venemous mind you. Just harmless slithery things. We get them out each night and handle them. Pretty cool once you get used to it. They do have a tendencey to strike at you when they are young and they do draw blood but nothing to worry about. My 14 year old son thinks nothing of it.

On the farm we used to own we always had to move a big carpet snake out of the choook shed. I would grab it behind the head and drag it out and throw it down in the bush. Next day it would be back. It would only eat the eggs not the chooks luckily.

Oh yeah, there was the time we were riding bikes in a group and camping out west. The lead rider ran over a big carpet snake. He stopped and grabbed it (in full motorbike gear and all so feeling invincible).
He took the snake back to camp and released the thing into a tent. Some mate hey…

The snake didn’t like riding on a KTM. It grabbed him a few times before he got back to camp.
Crazy bastards hey…

[Bruce CurtisMember]

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The snake didn’t like riding on a KTM. It grabbed him a few times before he got back to camp.
Crazy bastards hey…

You just know I gotta say this…

Damn smart snake that one

:laugh:

[MalMember]

Mr Blue wrote:

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Trev wrote:

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The snake didn’t like riding on a KTM. It grabbed him a few times before he got back to camp.
Crazy bastards hey…

You just know I gotta say this…

Damn smart snake that one

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I’m with ya there Blue. It probably seen a bump coming up and grabbed him to avoid being ejected into orbit. :laugh: :laugh:

[GregMember]

mal5.1 wrote:

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Mr Blue wrote:

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Trev wrote:

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The snake didn’t like riding on a KTM. It grabbed him a few times before he got back to camp.
Crazy bastards hey…

You just know I gotta say this…

Damn smart snake that one

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I’m with ya there Blue. It probably seen a bump coming up and grabbed him to avoid being ejected into orbit. :laugh: :laugh:

PDS, maybe you guys have it all wrong, it could stand for “Predator dismount system” :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

TB

[PaulMember]

Aaron wrote:

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He said the guy walked up and cracked its head off like a whip.

I saw this done on TV about 20 years ago as a demonstration, something like: “this is how real men deal with the buggers”

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