Buoy
Founding Member
I had just pulled the boat out of the garage to clean it, and kind of assess where I'm at in this project, as I haven't really touched it in two years. Jody got back from the store, and mentioned that our neighbor was in his garage working on the scooter he just bought over the internet that he had to assemble. So, we thought we'd swing by and take a look at his project...
As soon as we got over he was backed into a corner of the garage and said "don't come in - I have a big rattlesnake in the garage". Sure enough, the snake was under his wife's car - about 3 - 3-1/2' long. He had a metal rake, and I told Jody to grab my rake (it was only 75' away, I had been using it yesterday and left it in the yard). She kept telling me to get back and further away from the snake, but it's not like I was gonna leave Don cornered in the garage. Jody just yells at me "OK, if you get bit, you're on your own"... So she went back to the house and grabbed her phone and car keys (expecting the worst)
Between Don and I, we herded this thing out of the garage with rakes, and he was headed slowly towards my property. We kept heading him off, and had him heading slowly towards the rocks away from our properties. He had semi-coiled a few times preparing to strike. Don looks at me and says "should we kill it"? I looked back at him and said " well, I don't want him around HERE"! We herded him a bit further from the house, and Don took his rake and came down on the snake, breaking the handle off, and then continued to beat the snakes head with the handle. We knew he was dead, but the body was still moving, so I suggested we take it's head off with an axe just to be sure. Don has lived here on this mountain for 30 yrs, and said it's been 15 yrs since he's seen a rattlesnake here, and this is the closest he's been and first one he had to kill.
As soon as we got over he was backed into a corner of the garage and said "don't come in - I have a big rattlesnake in the garage". Sure enough, the snake was under his wife's car - about 3 - 3-1/2' long. He had a metal rake, and I told Jody to grab my rake (it was only 75' away, I had been using it yesterday and left it in the yard). She kept telling me to get back and further away from the snake, but it's not like I was gonna leave Don cornered in the garage. Jody just yells at me "OK, if you get bit, you're on your own"... So she went back to the house and grabbed her phone and car keys (expecting the worst)
Between Don and I, we herded this thing out of the garage with rakes, and he was headed slowly towards my property. We kept heading him off, and had him heading slowly towards the rocks away from our properties. He had semi-coiled a few times preparing to strike. Don looks at me and says "should we kill it"? I looked back at him and said " well, I don't want him around HERE"! We herded him a bit further from the house, and Don took his rake and came down on the snake, breaking the handle off, and then continued to beat the snakes head with the handle. We knew he was dead, but the body was still moving, so I suggested we take it's head off with an axe just to be sure. Don has lived here on this mountain for 30 yrs, and said it's been 15 yrs since he's seen a rattlesnake here, and this is the closest he's been and first one he had to kill.
