A snake in the road can be easily and safely dealt with by careful placement of a tire or two.
I hope he gets well soon, @wesw, keep us posted on his progress.
Seriously? Trying to move a snake out of the road? Reminds me of the post here a while back where a woman parked her car in a lane of traffic to watch some ducks cross the road, with fatal results.
his wife didn t want to run over it…
a .410 in my experience is nor a slug, but pellets, like a 12 guage. I do not know if it is true but I heard shooting a rattlesnakes head off is easy because they sense the heat from the bullet and attack it. Also another possible old domestic partner tale, a rattlesnake is born with x amount of venom, and as it gets older the venom becomes diluted, so it is better to get bitten by a big rattlesnake than a little one.
Also another possible old domestic partner tale, a rattlesnake is born with x amount of venom, and as it gets older the venom becomes diluted, so it is better to get bitten by a big rattlesnake than a little one.
The way I heard it, an adult rattler will modulate the amount of venom injected to suit the job at hand, whereas a juvenile hasn’t yet acquired this skill, and dumps it all in at any opportunity.
Either way, the moral is being bitten by an adult rattler is better than being bit by a juvenile.
OK. Can we return to monkeys as opposed to snakes?
Based on the cxxp that seems to roll out of the Gas Monkey garage I’m not sure there’s any difference between monkeys and snakes.
The only real question is which of the above is closer to the ground… 
Quoting @sgtrock21 “A snake in the road can be easily and safely dealt with by careful placement of a tire or two.”
Several years ago, like 35 or so, a local Jr College psychology class did a study along those lines. They placed a foam rubber turtle in the tire path of a well traveled two lane local highway. Then the students hid in the shrubbery beside the road to take notes. Every vehicle that went by swerved either into the opposite lane, if there was no oncoming traffic, or put their right wheels very close to the edge of the road. They ALL missed the turtle.
Then they put a rubber snake in the same position. Almost NO vehicles swerved, and one semi truck actually locked up his brakes to obliterate the poor rubber snake. The newspaper didn’t mention whether they had a reserve snake.
AFAIK there are no poisonous shakes in my close proximity, although I know there are some within 50 miles. I will let snakes I see in my yard slither away, but the ones I find in the pool or skimmer have shortened lives, and bodies. Like Santa says HOE HOE HOE…
We used to visit the farm where Mrs Mc grew up when her folks were still alive. I went to the back pasture to feed the cattle with her dad. (Actually I did more watching than feeding.) There was a windmill and stock tank that attracted a lot of wildlife including rattlesnakes. I watched as my father in law killed rattlers on more than one trip. The last time, we was 78. He always kept the rattles. Must have had a hundred of them.
Me? I’d have used a gun, probably not a .410 slug. Yes @Barkydog, they do make them as well as 12 gauge slugs. Not highly accurate as the shotguns are not rifled to make them spin.
Taurus even makes revolvers that’ll fire .410 slugs. Definitely a “two hander” unless you have wrists like “The Terminator”.
Anyway, perhaps we should redirect back to crap TV cars shows? I would not blame Carolyn if she shut this one down. It’s gone way sideways.
Something else I don’t care for involves those high end shows featuring Chip Foose, Boyd Coddington, etc. The finished cars often bring big bucks and in my opinion are seriously overvalued just because of the name attached to them.
The cars are beautiful, no doubt about it but what about that 30 gallon barrel of body plastic used? One would think that a car valued at 150 or 200 grand would have zero or near zero Bondo on it.
I believe the Mr. Norm Hemi Darts are being recreated at something like a 100-125 grand. They buy late 60s/early 70s Darts and rework the bodies by hand using ZERO amount of Bondo on them.
It’s stated that each car takes about 400 man hours to do the bodywork this way but when done it’s as pure as the day it rolled off of the assembly line.
I wholeheartedly agree that those cars are very overpriced. And not always well done.
Beauty? Well, that’s purely subjective. To me “shaving” a car and “slamming” it are just cheap urban tricks and show zero creativity. Often the “slammed” cars are so close to the ground that they’re totally unusable, and often the “chopping + channeling + slamming” creates a car that only Gumby could get into. The windows on some of these are the size of a letter opener.
I’ve seen some truly well done customs, but not from these guys. Too much gimmickry for my taste. Sadly, true creativity in custom cars is very rare these days. Must be the economy…
I’ve got to agree on the bondo deal. They strip the cars and sand blast them, then cover the entire body with bondo and sand it down. Seems like a shame to me.
I don’t like snakes but mostly all we have around here are garder snakes. My mom would be running down the driveway in mortal fear of a garder snake. At any rate we were camping at Disney and I decided to wash the car. The camp sites are all wooded and secluded. As I got to the right 1/4 panel, a big black snake slithered from under the car and into the woods. Had to be at least 3" in diameter and 5 feet long. Don’t know what it was but I quickly finished up. They have both poisonous and non in those parts of Florida. Don’t allow fire arms.
In the case of Foose and Coddington it’s also a matter of some money people who have to have it and hang the cost. As long as they can say that they have a ___________ built by _____________ to one-up the people they know.
Personally, there’s no way I would even want to own an overpriced trailer queen. You have a car with 30 grand just in the paint job alone and which looks like foot deep wet glass. Then what?
Drive it around and risk rock and bug chips are maybe an inevitable fender bender with a 20 year old Ford Taurus beater…
The cars I like are ones like a friend here built. He found a '56 Ford Crown Vic sitting in a field with weeds up to the door handles, solid surface rust, both fenders and most of the interior missing. He got it cheap and managed to find an inoperative '56 Ford wagon as a parts donor.
A year later after a lot of late evenings it was done and flat stunning to look at. Hot pink and white exterior with a Continental kit and the upholstery had all been done in the same manner. It glowed in the dark…
The engine was original and untouched. He won a number of trophies with that car and the best part is that it never, ever went anywhere on a trailer. He would drive it several hundred miles to car shows and wipe the bugs off after he got there. The judges always liked the fact it was driven and would overlook bug and rock chips on the nose.
The way it should be done; driven and enjoyed.
I totally agree regarding the trailer queens. I know there are those who look at the cars as works of art, but if you take away the drivability, than to me they’re no better than the Revelle models I used to customize as a kid, just useless imitations of cars.
@jtsanders … I use a shovel to kill both copperheads (a lot) and rattlesnakes. It’s a technique I’ve used since I was about 10 years old so I’ve pretty much perfected it. I’m pretty much out in the country so I will use a “snake load” in my pistol if it’s an overly aggressive snake.
I’ll include this bit for the moderator: Years ago I had a friend help me tow an old Chevy to my garage in Georgia. A lady frantically pulled up beside my truck and warned me that snakes were falling out of the back of the car I was towing. I immediately pulled over and told my friend the situation. Instead of jumping out in a panic…he told me to drive on since we only had a couple of miles to go. I called another friend who cleared the rattler nest out of the trunk for me. He even found a few underneath the back seat. He milked the snakes for their venom and sold it to a facility in Miami. He went out every weekend to round up venomous snakes and curiously…he could never get anyone to go with him…including me.
I ve helped and been helped to tow a lot of vehicles. I am willing to flaunt the law a bit to do so, but I draw the line at riding with rattlers…
@wesw … I had the willies just thinking about those snakes even though they were 20 feet or so behind me. I wholeheartedly agree with your comment.
After 3 episodes I bailed mostly due to Blowhard Richard. What a jerk.
If clowns like those can get shows and get rich, why can’t I?