Saw chaps and snake bite

[Big Sach]

Have little worries by me of snakes, when they bite me, they die of cirrhosis
before they can inject the poison..........
Actually, many chaps have no Kevlar at all, just the fiber fill that jams the chain immediately.
I prefer to use my black leather chaps with the stainless steel mail, and
matching thong and keychain, It is a French-Canadian Lambert' original,
with my snakeskin Nocona boots with the stelletto heels.

I am now permanently ,mentally scarred for life

 

[wagonwheeler]

Great stuff.
After about 3-4 minutes he got an anxiety rush and just had to put the snake down. He was trembling a bit and I've been surprised enough to understand a true quality fear that any snake can generate in me.

That's a long time to be holding one. You can't really adjust your hold and you better hold on tight enough...

Chaser

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Had a friend in high school who liked to catch rattlers and sell them to pet shops.

He shifted his grip on one.

I saw his hand when he came back to school about 6 weeks later. Size of a grapefruit, and purple. No permanent damage, but had there not been a chopper available, he'd have been buried.

 

[wagonwheeler]

No thanks. I'll adjust my grip after the head has quit calling the shots.

Not a particularly good pet idea, either.

I had a couple of flying squirrels until recently and at least when they bit my wife or friends it didn't kill them (wife and friends that is...)

Chaser

 

[wagonwheeler]

BRM are you in the Roanoke area? I've got a building under construction up there. East 460. Overlooks the town and the Parkway. Easy to spot. Should be done in Feb.

Regards,

Chaser

 

[smokechase II]

BlueRidgeMark:
Can't give a percentage, but I believe most bites are to the hands of males.
Jeff Corwin stated on his show that "70% of snakebites involve alcohol and the snake wasn't drinking."

 

[smokechase II]

OK, here is the best snake story I have. I wasn't there but I'll tell it like I was.
Mike Brasfield was on the BLM helitack crew and they were putting in fireline near the river. He reached down to grab a stick to toss out of the area that was to be fire line and a small rattler that he didn't see bit him on the thumb.
Got medi-vaced and treated and it wasn't life threatening. (Rattle Snakes in the NW are more hemotoxic and generally not as dangerous as more cardio/neurotoxic venoms elsewhere. Lots of lossed fingers, but a lower percentage of loss of life)
After about 5 days and a huge amount of swelling and discoloration Mike found himself at a second Physicians office in Bend Oregon.
Picture a Doc carefully looking over Mike's thumb and very lightly reaching out to touch it gently. This huge thumb, that was a tightly strung container of a bunch of rotting putrid flesh, blew up and spewed all over the Doc who threw himself back on his roller chair into drywall.
After a short clean-up period, the Doc recommended another Doc and stated, "I'm a bit out of my league here."
This story is only funny as the third Doc turned out to be outstanding and she saved Mike's thumb. The thumb is a little shorter, but you don't notice unless you look. The saving of a fellas thumb is incredibly important.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

"70% of snakebites involve alcohol and the snake wasn't drinking."

I don't think Sherman was drinking. Just overconfident. That's just about as dangerous!