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Hands and knees but with a couple of feet extra room. I would NEVER attempt doing that in April or May but the snakes were very lethargic and didn't move at all - except when grabbing with snake tongs. The creepy part was crawling out, thinking you were done, and realizing there were 4 snakes curled up on the beams above my head the whole time I was under there.
Oh HAYUL NO.
A friend of mine had a crew out doing a termite treatment on a woman’s house down in central GA about 20 years ago. He gets a call from the woman. She’s very calm and after going thru the usual courtesies says, “You have some guys out here today working on my house. Nice guys, but I need to ask you about something. Now I’m not completely sure, but I believe I just heard gunfire from underneath my house.”
He says, “Ummm...I’ll be right out.”
Sure enough, one of them had pulled his 38 out of the glovebox because a snake was in the crawlspace with them.
Nobody was hurt so it was okay to laugh my ass off about it.
The creepiest one I ever dealt with was when cleaning out a pool skimmer. Put my hand down to pull the basket out and noticed there was a rubber seal on the rim of the skimmer that I didn't remember. Then it moved. Yanked my hand back out, then the copperhead slithered out. I like snakes, but that one got cut with a shovel. 14 at the time.
@Bankwalker it really wasn't as nerve racking as it sounds. Except the part where you are handing one guy a loaded snake tong and getting one without a snake on it - you don't want to keep crawling out every time you grab a snake - just pass it on to the guy behind you.
On the two out buildings - there was no crawl space so we gased them out - not knowing if any where under there or not. There were. That's when the 14 year olds were walking around grabbing snakes. I wish I had it on video but we didn't allow the kids to have their phone out - concentration being of importance.
HERE IS THE BEST PART FOR YOU @Bankwalker - you just can't make this stuff up:
We didn't kill the snakes - just released them at another part of the lease - it's 10k acres so there are thousands of snakes - no big deal. Anyway, I had a large trash can in the back of the Polaris Ranger with about 40 snakes in it. Two 14 year olds keeping the trash can steady. We hit a hidden bump in the grass and the trash can tipped over spilling some of the snakes into the Ranger bed and some in the grass Kids jumped out before the Ranger even stopped. Had to get the snakes out of the back of the ranger and throw them to the side and get out of there. By this time it was sunny and about 70 outside - the snakes were more than awake at this time. Exciting times.
In west Texas you really don't see rattlesnakes that often - you do during spring turkey season - but even though you rarely see them you are always aware of them and are rarely startled.
I've seen rattlesnake infestations before and they occasionally carry them on the news - a week ago there was a story about 45 snakes being removed from under a house in Albany, TX. But I have never seen or heard about an infestation with almost 70 snakes under the house and another 25 under the sheds. That was a real snake problem.
But a great experience for the boys.
I wouldn't crawl under a house in a million years if I knew there was a single snake there (much less 40 or 70). Call me a ****. I prefer to think of myself as Indiana Jones.
The censored word was S I S S Y. Please forgive me and my potty mouth.
one more strike and you're outta here!!!!