damn SNAKE trying to hitch a free ride in my Deefer

[weeds]

got a call over the radio at work that a snake was looking for a safe haven in the drive train of my defender

this is him entering the underneath of the defender
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/876.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/877.jpg


when i got out to the car park he had set up camp on top of the bell housing/gearbox

pic to come

after some prodding he decided to move along the engine
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/878.jpg

and set up camp behind the drivers headlight
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/879.jpg

a couple of more prods did not move him on so we decided maybe if we start the engine the vibration might make him more on

er nope he moved around a little and looked like he was settling in for the night

so we thought we would attack him from the headlight
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/880.jpg

this made him move....he poked his head up around the radiator, this is him halfway out
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/881.jpg

nearly out
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/882.jpg

[flagg]

What a beautiful snake :)

Good on you for carefully moving him along. I've heard of a few truck drivers killed by a Brown going for a ride.. looks like you got a cuddly python!

[woody]

What a beautiful snake :)

Good on you for carefully moving him along.

ditto!

[Landy Smurf]

no matter what the snake is i wwouldnt touch it oh and btw that was alot bigger then first thought

[blitz]

What a beautiful snake :)

Good on you for carefully moving him along. I've heard of a few truck drivers killed by a Brown going for a ride.. looks like you got a cuddly python!

Ditto X2

[rockyroad]

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I hate snakes as much as I love my Defender.

P.S. Hope the swear filter isnt oh holidays:p

[goingbush]

What a bloddy ripper, so thats what the serpentine belt looks like !

[PhilipA]

Good one!
Regards Philip A

[stig0000]

if that was my car,,, id be the guy screaming like a bitch running as fast as i can far away :angel:

[Sue]

Gorgeous Python.. and he obviously has good taste if he's hitching in your Defender! :)

[newhue]

I'm just glad ol mate had his high vis jacket and safety hat on, safety first.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I'm just glad ol mate had his high vis jacket on,

snakey did too:o:cool:
what a great colour scheme

[harry]

er, hello ami, it appears that something has fused in my defender and caused a fire, i'd like to make a claim.:o

[Tombie]

Beautiful snake you adopted there...

Glad it wasn't injured.


And much more user friendly than the ones I get here ;)

[weeds]

added a couple of more pics......in the first post

[bigcarle]

in 2010 at a display day for the car club im in, one of the members turned up with a python about the same length, draped over the battery on a Morris Minor Ute. a team of males gathered around to look and various bits of advice was being given as well as some of them trying to get the snake out (not me i was taking pics from about 10ft away) when one of the female members just walked up grabbed the snake and started to walk off with it to release it nearby when the owner of the Morrie said he had a bag for it to travel home in style at the end of the day

[85 county]

Not bad eating, a bit of lemon and salt

[austastar]

Not bad eating, a bit of lemon and salt

Seriously?

I gutted a tiger snake once when I was a bit short on tucker, but I thought the bone:flesh ratio not worth the effort of cooking it.

cheers

[85 county]

Seriously?

I gutted a tiger snake once when I was a bit short on tucker, but I thought the bone:flesh ratio not worth the effort of cooking it.

cheers

soup

[BBC]

A Carpet Snake, wadda bewdy! Thanks for caring.

Caught a few in my life. The longest was a 16 footer, crawling across the Lions Rd in the rainforest on the NSW side in the middle 1970s. Luckily Dad had his tape measure in the car so we could verify how bloody long he was...LOL...it was not easy trying to straighten him out to measure him. Dad held the business end and I had to unravel him. Unfortunately, no camera.

[bigcarle]

in 2010 at a display day for the car club im in, one of the members turned up with a python about the same length, draped over the battery on a Morris Minor Ute. a team of males gathered around to look and various bits of advice was being given as well as some of them trying to get the snake out (not me i was taking pics from about 10ft away) when one of the female members just walked up grabbed the snake and started to walk off with it to release it nearby when the owner of the Morrie said he had a bag for it to travel home in style at the end of the day

old rule "doesn't happen without photos"
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