Surprise under the truck hood.
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I used to work on buried splice boxes for the phone company. They would sit flush with the ground level. One day a coworker called me on the radio and said that he needed some help in one. I showed up and looked what was in the box. Right behind where he was working was a 3' rattler coiled up on a cable splice. He had gotten in and out of that box a dozen times but he was working on the other side of it 3 feet away and never did see the snake. I put my hand down to him to grab and pulled him up and out of the box, he then asked me why I wanted him out of it and I then showed him what was in there with him. Needless to say he didn't want to get back into that box again even after we got the snake out of it.
Another time I opened one of them up and saw one down in the bottom of it. I headed back to the truck to get a shovel and just as I got back the snake was disappearing down a hole under the side of the box that a parrie dog had dug. I filled in every hole that I could see before I went into that box.
After that we started jumping up and down on the steel lids and then would listen to see if we could hear anything inside of the box before we would even open the lid.
Another time I opened one of them up and saw one down in the bottom of it. I headed back to the truck to get a shovel and just as I got back the snake was disappearing down a hole under the side of the box that a parrie dog had dug. I filled in every hole that I could see before I went into that box.
After that we started jumping up and down on the steel lids and then would listen to see if we could hear anything inside of the box before we would even open the lid.
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Buzztails can show up in strange places for sure.
My Dad owned a duck club in Imperial Valley where there are lots of them. The club had pit blinds next to the ponds. I remember lifting the lid of a blind and preparing to get in and a rattler sounding off. It was still dark and luckily it sounded off or I could have got in the blind and got into trouble. After that we always turned on a light and looked in the blind before getting in. Yes we found several more over the years.
My Dad owned a duck club in Imperial Valley where there are lots of them. The club had pit blinds next to the ponds. I remember lifting the lid of a blind and preparing to get in and a rattler sounding off. It was still dark and luckily it sounded off or I could have got in the blind and got into trouble. After that we always turned on a light and looked in the blind before getting in. Yes we found several more over the years.
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I have pulled several from these said boxes and cellular tower boxes while hunting them in the Northeast...They really like them.
dirtclod Az.
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Rattlers in Az.love to swim across the lake and crawl in the boat.Have pics don't know how to download.Caught one bare handed /never again!
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I am familiar with that area almost took a job at the Power Plant in Alma some years ago. I have heard of people coming across timber rattlers up here in northern Marinette county but I have never seen one.
I was a Ironworker for 37 years and worked on the steel erection of the new Alma power plant. The old plant has been dismantled and all that is remaining is the smoke stack.
hunter25
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I was born in Kingsford, Mi. But moved over the river to outside Pembine when I was 9. Grew up in the woods but never saw a rattler. Just big pine snakes.
Moved to Colorado when I was 17
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dan maule
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I live about 15 miles east of Beecher on the Michigan side. I have never seen a timber rattler either but some loggers say they came across one about 15 to 20 miles west of Pembine. Realy gives me the creeps and I kind of wrote it off as some sort of tall tail. When I seen the pictures of the snake under the hood in Wisconsin it made me start to wonder.
hunter25
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Actually it was closer to Beecher where we lived. Used to be a store that's gone now right off the highway. Ma n pa liquors.
Lived a quarter mile back behind it.
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Lots of them around the cliffs on the Wisconsin Minnesota border. My friends dad worked for dairy land power for 40 years, they found lots if rattlers in those cliffs. Now my friend does the same work in the same area and has personally come across them too.
When I was a kid baling hay on the farm around Barron we would see gardner snakes everywhere, and big ones too, like 3-4' long. Since all the grass hay ground got tilled up, snakes are all but gone there.
When I was a kid baling hay on the farm around Barron we would see gardner snakes everywhere, and big ones too, like 3-4' long. Since all the grass hay ground got tilled up, snakes are all but gone there.