An item not to add to your shop!

[swd]

We did a re model to our house 15 years ago and the old garage is my shop. About 10pm last night my 18yo daughter opens the door from inside the house to tell me something and looks down and sees this guy on the steps IN my shop. About 2.5’ long with 7 buzzers.

 

[Just Say Moe]

yikes!

 

[farmerjohn]

I hate surprises like that! Have a few ever year here, hope you made a good snake out of him. He's plenty big enough to make you bad sick not to mention the cost of the "antiventom" if they used it. Watch where you step.... John

 

[swd]

I hate surprises like that! Have a few ever year here, hope you made a good snake out of him. He's plenty big enough to make you bad sick not to mention the cost of the "antiventom" if they used it. Watch where you step.... John

Yes, he’s having a good long nap..

 

[sandwarrior]

You out west? He looks like a Pacific (Crotalus Pacificus)

 

[swd]

You out west? He looks like a Pacific (Crotalus Pacificus)

Yes, Sierra Foothills

 

[SecondsCount]

I bet you don't have a rodent problem

 

[Steve morgan]

We did a re model to our house 15 years ago and the old garage is my shop. About 10pm last night my 18yo daughter opens the door from inside the house to tell me something and looks down and sees this guy on the steps IN my shop. About 2.5’ long with 7 buzzers.

I would have had to repair the steps after the shotgun went off.

 

[joshb]

He doesn’t look friendly……

 

[ggshoots]

You out west? He looks like a Pacific (Crotalus Pacificus)

He would be a Deadimus Slitherous around me.

 

[sandwarrior]

He doesn’t look friendly……

they are not pets for sure.
As far as killing them, I understand you are afraid of them. However, they make great mousers. And, because they are reptiles, they aren't susceptable to bubonic plague or rabies, that rodents carry. Which have killed far more people than rattlesnakes. Not saying they don't make you jumpy, it's in both our natures. I've found that overcoming that fear and relocating them is better for our environment.
I will say that in this case (in your home/garage/shop) sometimes close is too close.

 

[durand mortenson]

My woods work put me in contact with these guys on a regular basis and they don't want anything to do with you. When thy were shedding their skin it effected their vision and during this period they could be pretty aggressive.

 

[tmwinds]

I would have torched the house on the way out.

 

[Conaso]

I'm not sure if it'll work but have you tried mothballs (naphtha) near access points? Take a small tub with lid and sloped sides, punch a few holes on the sides. The lid and sloped sides help keep rain out. Definitely keeps out racoons, opossums, etc.

 

[nakneker]

I’m glad she saw it!

We had one on our front porch coiled in a corner by a bucket we keep the hose in, my wife saw it. The grand baby’s were visiting and play out there all the time. He got the death penalty and my wife puts out snake repellent three times a summer now. Small pellets that smell like moth balls. They are rare around here in the first place but they certainly aren’t welcome around the house.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

All non poisonous around here but the wife is scared senseless of any snake. I don't kill them, catch bull and garter. Release them in good bushy habitat several miles away. Wife is alright with that. When I bowhunted antelope in SD, crawling around stalking in the grasslands I just kept my bow out front. Figure the bow would make them shake and I wouldn't put my face on one.

 

[jackieschmidt]

That thing could hurt you bad.

Snakes have their place in natures way.

Just not where this one is, or was.

 

[Sandstorm]

I came close to stepping on one setting up the Flags at our monthly club match. Lucky for me he wasn’t quite awake that time of morning either.. Sun had not warmed his ass up quite yet. I didn’t bother waking him either.

 

[swd]

Here he is stretched out yesterday

 

[sandwarrior]

Here he is stretched out yesterday

Definitely a pacific. They do have nasty venom.