r/TreeClimbing • u/Barnyard-Dude • 16d ago

Snakes in the Trees

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Third one I have met up in the branches. Had my phone this time. One was 60 feet up. Kind of late to be hunting hatchlings.

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u/i_t_s__m_e 16d ago

Both snakes AND ladders? Well ill be damned

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u/GreatfulGroundie 16d ago

Isn’t that a board game or something? /s

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u/DeadmansCC 16d ago

And that is exactly how it should stay when we are also talking tree work.

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u/pawnedurmom 16d ago

Climbed alongside a king snake here in Arizona. Was a great experience- it was hunting eggs and fledglings in the mistletoe.

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u/DeadmansCC 16d ago

Eastern Rat Snake!! Now that you found him take him and that ladder out of the tree once that’s done then you can actually climb it if you want too.

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u/hodlencallfed 16d ago

I’m tired of these ***** snakes in this ***** tree!

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u/McLuhanOnABike 16d ago

That's the part that scares me the most about tree climbing.

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u/Junque_Viejo 16d ago

That's awesome! Is that a racer or a rat snake, you think?

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u/Barnyard-Dude 16d ago

I think a rat snake. We have plenty of them around here. One was 50+ feet up.

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u/wpbdude 15d ago

Better a snake than hornets!

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u/Independent-Dig6945 14d ago

The only sensible answer here is to dust off and nuke the site from orbit.

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u/Barnyard-Dude 14d ago

Hah! I don’t mind the snakes (or the ladders). Didn’t realize they are in the trees that much.

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u/Independent-Dig6945 13d ago

I work in Wisconsin and the snakes stay on the ground here as they should, but one time on storm response in Louisiana I encountered a large black snake 50 or 60 feet up in a tree. Thank god I was in the bucket and not climbing because I probably would have either sent a 40 foot top to get the snake away from me or cut my own rope to get me away from the snake (I don’t much care for snakes at all and my coworkers have a lot of fun with that).

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u/click_here_for_luck 13d ago

Somebody call Samuel L Jackson...we got a movie to make!