Copperheads and rattlesnakes are on the move for food this time of the year. A good place for them to hangout is where mice are plentiful. And most rodents like woodsheds. I’m not trying to scare anyone just be aware if you are working with wood that may be felled ahead of time or digging around the bottom of the wood shed be careful where you put your hands. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thankfully is Wisconsin we don't have many venomous snakes, mostly Gardner's , pine snakes and red belly's.
I’ve seen mice while moving wood, but never a snake. One ran from the pile I stacked today. I know they are around and where there’s mice there’s snakes. Watched a huge black snake cruise through my stacks last summer. Copperheads will track down mice wherever they are.
The good thing about Copperheads is you know they're around if you smell strawberry where there shouldn't be any. No real dangerous vipers here either, occasional Timber Rattler, but they're rare. I was born in Arkansas & learned snakes from the time I could walk. Always stuck with me.
amateur cutter There are no poisonous snakes where I’m at. Too much elevation for them. There are rattlers down in the city and plains though. I remember being on vacation in Florida. driving down the highway near Orlando. There was a massive Boa or Python or something stretched across the highway. There are some crazy azz snakes in the south!
Strawberry? I've always heard cucumber...my buddy can't stand the smell of cukes...can smell a copperhead 50'away!
Thanks for the heads up. Seen plenty of snakes this year, baby garter snakes for the most part. We have copperheads here and luckily have never seen one around. Black snake pic.
Like Cash Larue stated we do have some rattlers here where I am at. Thanks JeWilson it is good advice.
I've heard both, maybe it's a difference in the way people perceive a certain scent? Whatever the case if ya ain't in a garden it ain't a strawberry or a cuke. Stop & look real hard at where you're gonna walk.
Killed copperhead right behind woodshed in July, first in 10+ years, just be careful, last I killed was trying to slither up under garage door when I worked late one eve and ex and step-son were in house-lost a co-worker several years ago when he reached up on his shelf in garage. It didnt specifically kill him but it was all down hill from there-just be conscious, and shake the boots upside down before you put them on-I’ll let every non-poisonous snake pass, but the slant eyes must die, I have pipe on ground defining parking and driveway areas, I filled them all with concrete, that helped a lot-and Copperheads smell like cucumbers to me, and I dont like them either…I bought a home defense shotgun just for the bastages….
I always have an eye out in the piles. Copperheads are around, but I haven’t seen one at my place. Across the road, my neighbor sees them often. The old man was bitten by one in his garage many years ago. He recovered but learned a lesson on reaching into shelves without looking first. I have some stuff I split a couple months ago in a pile at the moment. The pickaroon is useful to get them No reason to be grabbing with hands.
Around here we have mostly garter, blue racers and milk snakes. There used to be a lot of rattlers here but they are rare now although a friend got bit by one several years ago.
It’s been several years ago I was unstacking some wood. I’m always looking to make sure it don’t get bit. Sure enough I lifted a piece of wood and saw a baby copperhead curled up. I just stomped him with my brogans but had I not been looking he could have nailed me. My sister got bit by a juvenile copperhead and spent a week in the hospital. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yep, actually I just found a mouse nest in one of my piles that I was breaking down. The western half of South Dakota has Rattlesnakes but on the east side of the Missouri River we really only have Garter snakes.
