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Originally Posted by PeterM
Good onya Peter.
Curious what snake stick do you have? I bought a Raptor 500mm from this site http://www.snakehandlingequipment.com/ after we had 2 browns and a tiger in the Leyburn toilet building last year. Have you had to try it on brown or black snakes?
Thanks indeed
Peter |
I won't try to capture venomous snakes. Call me a woos (not sure about the spelling but I'm sure you can figure what I'm trying to say). Too bloody dangerous. We have browns and blacks mainly although there have been occasional taipans here over the years. But very few. The nasties tend to move off by themselves after a while so I make some noise, bank the ground/floor/whatever a bit and they will pick up on the vibrations and get the hint. Pity they're deaf. I waste some good expletives on them.
I use this stick only on green tree snakes, carpet snakes and the like.
It's just a broomstick with an eyehook near both ends and a loop of strong but light rope that is tied off at my end, fed down the stick to and through the bottom one then back the same way with a good metre or more of extra hanging out at my end. I form a loop at the snakes end big enough to move it over the snake's head then pull it sufficiently tight to prevent the snake from wriggling out. These snakes usually have enough of a head that once you get a loop behind their head they can't wiggle out - the snakes reacts to the tightened loop by rolling itself up on and around it which makes is easy to then lift the whole snake in a bundle and plonk it in a bin, box, bag, or whatever for removal.
Peter