Killed the first copper head of the season

old · May 17, 2012

Was out mowing hay when I saw it. I was out on my Farmall BA and did donuts on top of it. I figure it is dead but when I walked back that way it was gone but I know I tore it up good so should have crawled off and died. Tractor died shortly after also but that is posted in the Farmall forum. Will take the 44 mag back out when I go to fix the BA

Ivan in Mich · May 17, 2012

Maybe the snake bite the tractor

Ralph Bauer · May 17, 2012

...maybe ?? For sure!!!! Just cut the tire and start sucking out the area, deeeeeep inhales when sucking! LOL

GordoSD · May 17, 2012

I thought you had the mower on the D-17?

Bernsy MN. · May 17, 2012

Wow! That reminds me of when I lived in Ozark county, And I ran over one pulling a disc, ran it over several times, Had a vision of it coming up on the rear tire next to me.

60 acre hillside · May 17, 2012

Ran over one pulling a disc! WOW!

just another old geezer · May 17, 2012

reminds me of the stroy about a guy who carried a small flask of brandy for snake bite, and a small rubber snake, in case he couldn't find a real one. lol

Fawteen · May 17, 2012

"Doctor said yer gonna die..."

60 acre hillside · May 17, 2012

Down in Bollinger County, Missouri we had a logger who tried to kill a copperhead with his axe, The snake bit the handle and the handle swelled up and split the head of the axe. I saw the split axe head when he wanted me to weld it back.

FarmerZeb · May 17, 2012

how far north do copperheads go in Missouri?? saw a pretty big king snake but haven't seen a copper head up my way yet

-Paul

Fergienewbee · May 17, 2012

Old;

Is the .44 what you use when a bigger hammer won't fix the BA? LOL!

Larry

John730D · May 17, 2012

Dammit Paul, That is just wrong!!!

Fawteen · May 17, 2012

Whut?

YER the one that got it! "8^)

Fawteen · May 17, 2012

Musta been a BIG snake!

old · May 17, 2012

44 mag is the only pistol I have that I also have shot shells for so it is that or nothing and nothing is not good

Ultradog MN · May 17, 2012

LOL Fawteen.
I remember that one.

old · May 17, 2012

That mower on the D-17 is a JD #9 this one that I used today is on the BA I built a couple years back. I have 3 machines that I can use to cut hay and use them all at least once a year to make sure I have at least one working back up

DownSouth · May 17, 2012

You should have cut his head off and took it to the scrap yard. Do you know how much copper is bringing these days?

Sorry, couldn't resist.......

Dennis K (WA) · May 17, 2012

I'm just glad we don't have them guys here.
Rattlers on the east side of the state but not west.
Dennis

old · May 17, 2012

The way I understand it they are pretty much all over Missouri but yes as you get more north they are not as common as they are down here at the lake of the Ozarks. I kill on average about 4 a year

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2012

Had a friend take a bite from one of those rascals when he was in his garden hoeing last summer. Critter was laying under the melon leaves,he did not see it and he got tagged with short pants on so was direct hit on leg calf. He recognized what had happened by the bite marks and wife headed him to hospital. The bite swelled up to baseball size on his calf very quickly after the incident. The hospital had to call for antivenom to a big city hospital and have it flown in since he went to a rural hospital and they didnt have it.Guy was down for 4-6 days for recovery and taking med treatment but had a full recovery and wound return to normal after 30-40 days taking easy.They say recovery depends on how much venom got in the wound,the age and size of the snake and how young you are,your immune system strength and how healthy you are as well as your physical size and how quick you get med attention.Think might have read nowdays 15-20% of copperhead bites can be fatal.Might say this guy was lucky he had his wife around give some first aid and to drive him to hospital immediately. This was in sc IN. In pioneer times think many or most of these bites were fatal.

old · May 17, 2012

In Missouri it is said that there has never been a fatal bite from a copperhead. They say yes it will make a guy sick and hurt a lot but not kill. Me I'll not take my chances and I kill every one I ever get a chance at killing

Drew · May 17, 2012

Seen them in southern Boone county, just north of Jefferson City. My father in law and my wife's uncle each got one the same day last year.

2x4 · May 17, 2012

1% fatalities

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2012

(quoted from post at 04:55:49 05/18/12) 1% fatalities

Yeah, just need to work harder!!

ASEguy · May 18, 2012

My son killed one in our flower bed last week. We have never had one up that far in our yard. My daughter found it. Last one I killed was probably ten years ago.

Anonymous-0 · May 18, 2012

yeah its the season ,, disc mower does a nice job on them ,,sausage links ,, had one cow snake that was skinned by the mower ,,and slitherd away a bloody mess /

greygoat · May 18, 2012

Please be cautious of snake"s biting a tire! It"s
not a Joke. I heard a story about a tractor
running over a rattlesnake..snake bit at a tire
snake was killed..but weeks later farmer was
scratched by part of a broken fang sticking out
of the tire..and got pretty sick!

M Diesel · May 18, 2012

(quoted from post at 19:15:20 05/17/12) The way I understand it they are pretty much all over Missouri but yes as you get more north they are not as common as they are down here at the lake of the Ozarks. I kill on average about 4 a year

In the mid 60s my grandpa bought a place in a holler just north of Rolla that had not been farmed in something like 25 years. 300 acres. Old wood barns made of logs, all the fields were just grass, wooded hills, creeks running all year around. Snake heaven. He carried a rifle on the M for a while but finally got a 22 pistol because it was more handy and ammo was a lot cheaper. He figured that in the first year he averaged better than one a day.

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