Wood Shed Security

[Localele]

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Originally Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:35 pm

I find it useful to have some security amongst the wood stash for various reasons.As if anyone could get in without me.My security is very quiet and thankfully even I don't know where he/she is.I did find this draped over a stack this morning though.

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[kiwigeo]

Snakewood!

[xray]

what would it be michael? not brown i hope

[Kim]

At 10' and that fat it would probably be a python.

Cheers

Kim

[Localele]

I keep telling myself it is a very friendly Carpet Python.I see them on top of stacks occasionally and they don't worry too much as long as you don't want the board they are on.
Martin, I cut up some really nice Snakewood a couple of weeks ago and made mallets out of it.Makes you wonder sometimes.
If he keeps putting on weight around the middle I'm going to lock the shed beer fridge.

[liam_fnq]

Hey Michael, I've got a much smaller stash so do you think you could cut the last foot off him and post it up.

It'll sprout a new head right?

[Lillian]

Well, that's a hell of a mouser. Do you have a large problem with mice or did you go with the extra large version just because it would fit in your shed?

[J.F. Custom]

Hmmm. I don't think it's the mice Lillian, I think it's the snakewood. Like attracting like and all that you know? Better send it to me Micheal, for your own safety. The SNAKEWOOD that is... not the SNAKE.

That is impressive though - just not the sort of impressive you would want to stumble upon unexpectedly, python or not. Nice of it to leave a calling card then. Wink Very Happy

How many babies can these lay again?

Jeremy. Cool

[Dennis Leahy]

I have caught (by hand) many many snakes as a kid, and on into "late childhood" (adult body, child's mind), including a couple of dozen rattlesnakes. I have a healthy respect for all snakes, especially the ones that can do a lot of damage, but I would say I do not fear snakes.

However...

If I reached into my wood stash and came across a 10 foot long snake (python or otherwise), I'm quite sure I'd need a change of underwear.

hahahahaaaa

Damn! That's cool!

Dennis

[Dennis Leahy]

Oh, for those in Oz, I should say that from what I know of the aggressive nature of at least some Brown snakes compared to the relatively strictly defensive nature (and warning mechanism) of Rattlesnakes, a bit of fear would undoubtedly be added to the healthy respect. Fear, and the resulting squirt of adrenaline, would come in handy in making an exit from a Brown snake.

Dennis

[kiwigeo]

.......Dennis spent a good half hour trying to get the truss rod to lay straight in the slot.

[Lillian]

Do they call it a Brown snake because of it's color or the color in your shorts?

[P Bill]

I had a similar experience about ten years ago. I was working for a boss and hadn't been in the shed for about three months. I'm back in the far corner of the shed, where smaller bits of timber are stored high on a rack. I look up and see a snake skin, follow it with my eye, to the corner and up the other wall. I showed it to my neighbor and he said if that's a "Brownie", we've got a big problem around here. It was 2.4 m. The snake would be smaller because the scales overlap. I showed it to a snake catcher and he said it was a Python. As a general rule, pythons climb and brown snakes stay on the ground. But I don't believe that 100 % (no trouble that way).

[Dominic]

When I lived in Margaret River in SW WA we had lots of snakes around. Rats had dug a hole under the wall following the drain which came up under the bath in our bathroom. Then a tiger snake, very dangerous and aggressive snakes, followed the rats and decided to live under the bath. It could get out through a small gap between the bath and the surround.
I'd walk into the bathroom and there would be this tiger snake curled up in the bath or on the ledge. A cornered tiger snake is a very unhappy and stressed out snake.

We didn't want to kill it and tried many things to encourage it to leave. Filled its hole up with water first but it seemed to like that. Then tried some old sump oil which a farmer had suggested. Just made it angry. It was summer so started having a shower outside under the hose.
3 months later it was still there so we went in and had to destroy the bath surround but it went up behind the shower wall so we destroyed that as well. Ended up killing it because it would not leave.
A few days later, an even bigger tiger snake appeared on the drive way, looking pissed off as if to say, what have you done with my friend. It chased Julie into the house.

Tiger snakes are active at night, unlike most snakes and they used to lie in wait for mice or rats along the door step at night. I would go outside at night, hear a slither behind me as I stepped out the door and find I had just stepped over a big tiger snake. Gets your heart going.
Dom

[kiwigeo]

Lillian wrote:
Do they call it a Brown snake because of it's color or the color in your shorts?

No no...... Lillian one thing you never do is put the snake into your shorts.

[needsmorecowbel]

Is that a tonewood? i hear you can never have enough tonewood...

[Lillian]

kiwigeo wrote:

Lillian wrote:
Do they call it a Brown snake because of it's color or the color in your shorts?

No no...... Lillian one thing you never do is put the snake into your shorts.

Um, no fear of that happening Martin. Promise. Scouts honor and all that.

[Bob Connor]

In Tassie you only get three types of snakes. Tigers, copperheads and whip snakes.

The only way you can tell the Tigers and Copperhead apart is a scale in the middle of the head. The Tigers have a shield
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and the copperheads look like this
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The whip snakes weren't so deadly but you'd get crook from one of their bites.

Definitely wouldn't like either of the others in the shorts Lillian.

[P Bill]

I tread heavy and hope for the best .Also I fire up the compressor first thing .I never give a snake the idea I think he might be good for dinner.

[DarwinStrings]

I don't have any snakes in my shed but this big old blue tongue keeps scaring the crap out of me every time he slides out from under the bench next to my foot, I think he/she does it on purpose to have a bit of a chuckle watching me jump.

Jim

[Richard]

This fella shows himself every now and again. This is him on the roof of the shed. I heard the birds outside going nuts, which generally means they're either having a go at the cat or this guy is crawling around... unfortunately by the time I got my camera and back outside he was mostly hidden.

Last time we found one of his skins it was somewhere in the 2-2.5m range (6-8ft).

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