Thread: Snake Stories?

Ha Ha, never understate the power of a woman mate! In case you haven't worked it out yet it was your fault, wasn't it!!

I have two stories
When I was a young bloke my folks had a holiday place in the bush with a old bus on it to live in.
It had a sink with a hand pump.
My mum was complaining the water is coming out with black specks in it , if not at all.
The old man goes to the ex army 20 litre plastic jerry can at the side of the bus thinking it was empty,and it was.
The picks it up and goes over to a water tank to fill it,........that's funny some thing is in the jerry can and he starts shaking it to try and get it out.
Eventually he picks it up above his head and looks though the spout.
After that I never seen the old man throw something and run so fast in my life.

A red belly black snake was looking back at him eye to eye.
The next problem was getting the now extremely angry snake out.
We killed it with boiling water..............but still had a hard time getting the carcase out of the jerry can.

Story no 2
This involves my Dad again and when I was only slightly older.
The Shoalhaven river has a deep valley much of it has sandstone rock ledges and bracken .
The old man and my self was looking for a horse.
We were searching a area and jumping from sand stone rock ledge to sandstone along a edge of a cliff though the bracken.
I was up the hill a bit in a flatter grassier area when it see the old man doing a tap dance on a small flat rock with a look of tearer on his face for a minute or two.
He had jumped onto a rock with a red belly black sunning itself.
Both him and the snake surprised each other and had no where to go quickly.
I think he changed his undies when he got home.

Remember on the news recently the guy in Thailand that was bitten on the old fella by a snake making its way up the S bend?
My old man lives over there - turns out it was a mate of his!!!!

Snake story. Hmmm....
Working up Cobber Pedy way when a call comes over the PA - Mike, please get to the LV park up. There's a snake.."

So I head up there with the Mine Boss in hot pursuit. We get there to find a 6' 6" Pit Boss looking rather flustered.

Seems he was doing his pre-start on the Troopie when he has stood on something.. Turns out to be an inland Taipan.
He jumped back, Snake took off and then turned around and headed back to the cover of the Troopie.

Just as I get there (and can identify the snake) it slithers up onto the gearbox under the Troopie.

Old mate refuses to drive the vehicle until we remove the snake - driving it would be enough , they just drop out once it gets too warm for them.

So there's me underneath, Boots, Cotton Drill pants and a T-shirt looking for the thing!

Got hold of its tail, gentle "reversed" him out and passed the tail to the Mine Boss who dragged it out across the top of my legs.

Walked it over to the compound fence line and released....

All in a day's work!

Warning- these might exist in another thread- may be warning myself as some of my more elderly rellies seem to tell me the same stories over and over and .... again

My yarn has an out house on a Central Vic Farm. My dad in dressing gown went out for a relaxing sit in the out house. His yell got all our attention. He was standing on the loo yelling about a snake which was poking its head in under the wall beside the loo. It was a 4-5 foot long eastern brown. Outside the loo I loaded 4 shells into a shot gun. Inside the loo my dad with dressing gown flowing behind him exited and he grabbed a shovel. Think superman with his cape but without his tights on and I will not mention the rest as you might be eating
Dad bang shovel down loudly on the concrete inside each time the head of the snake appeared. I let rip with a shot out side carefully not shooting the wall of the loo. ( might have been 9 at the time I think) poor snake took a few cracks to die.

Point one- poor snake had observed in the loo what none of wished to gaze upon- my dads

Point two- poor snake was between a shot and a shovel ride to nowhere due to it helping keep rats and mice out of our chook shed

Point three- when someone screams snake perhaps waiting for it to go away might be better unless you like rats and mice.

I like snakes- think they get a bad rap for killing rats and mice for us.

Yarn 2- High Country hike 10km south of Mount Hotham. After a few hours hiking and a very late night drive my mate ask for a siesta. packs off laying in the sun was easy to doze for a while. A slight noise got my attention and sitting up I found a red bellied Black snake moving away below my feet. I followed it for a few photos much to may mate horror.

I was about 7 or 8, on a sheep station out from Ilfracombe. The house was on low stumps, with a garden down one side. I was under the house, dropping ants into ant lion [ devil- devils] holes, totally engrossed by how quick the ant lion was, in grabbing the ant and pulling it under . Heard a rustle in the garden, came face to face with a huge head of a snake. Hit my head on one of the beams , ran inside yelling " Dad, Dad, big lizard!".He had a single shot Martini Henry rifle, and a rake. Well it was a huge King Brown, and Mum and I watched from the verandah, as dad & the snake did a merry dance. I swear Dad had more moves than a one legged river dancer. He got the snake in the end, held it down with the rake, and carefully shot it. That snake did not go away, he was very aggressive.

Not a snake but equally scary. When I lived in Karumba a four foot salty casually wandered onto the lock-up. The simple solution was for the copper to shut the door, keep the culprit in custody and wait for a "long tailed-short legged dog" expert to fix the problem.

V8Ian
When were you in Karumba?

Story #2

Our house in Doomadgee (not the current one) had a 3 piece sliding shower door, I had been working in the yard all day in 48 degree heat & decided a shower would be nice.
Went into bathroom, stripped off, turned on shower & tried to close the shower screen.
It wouldn't close, gave it a few good tugs & it still wouldn't close. Look at the bottom of the shower door & it all looks good.
Have a look at the top to see if it had dropped off the rail & there is a nice brown snake curled/wedged into the gaps between the screen door slides.

The snake was a bit angry because I had been thumping him with the door.
What to do?
I see a bit of his tail hanging down so I grab that & pull, it took a lot of effort to get him out & once out I find he is quite big & very upset.

So, now I have a large brown snake by the tail in a confined space, I'm naked, the shower is running & the room is filling with steam.
This is going to be fun.
I yell to SWMBO & she opens the door, takes one look, closes the door & holds the bloody thing SHUT!
Now I have an increasingly agro snake, I'm still naked & SWMBO is holding the door shut.
I try to get the snake around back of the head so I can handle it better, no go, he is really ****ed off now.
To stop him getting enough of his body up to have a nip of me I start swinging him around knocking perfume, creams & powders everywhere, meanwhile yelling at SWMBO to open the ****ing door.

Finally she yells she is about to open the door & that the back door is already open.
She opens the door, I come flying out snake still in hand into the back yard & fling the snake over the 6' back fence.
I am standing in the back yard breathing like I just did 10 with Ali when SWMBO comes out to remind me I have no clothes on & that next door are intrigued by what the hell I'm doing.

Still can't understand why the locals think I'm a bit mad.
And SWMBO was cranky I made a mess in the bathroom?

Jonesfam