Lou: In better times I used to live and wok in Huntsville, AL, and met a few of them moccassins , however yours must have been especially long if it could strike accross the road, i.e. about 20 to 30 ft in your case. The longest critter of this kind I ever encountered was about 6 - 7 ft long and I helped him cross the road at night by using my leather jacket like a broom, and I was of course out of this jacket. Finally: instead of RG223 I would recommend piano wire - works faster. Regards, Bogdan.
Lou Gnecco wrote: > Brent, > > When i worked for NASA we also had water moccasins. They liked to get in the > cable trays and snuggle up next to the RG-9 coax cables, which were > indistinguishable from them. > > Those snakes were highly poisonous and very aggressive. They were also BIG. > they could strike clear across the ( 1 lane) road, and if you threw rocks at > them, they would actually chase you. > > If you ever run into this problem, one way to get them is with a CO2 fire > extiguisher. they hate the cold and it drives them off. > > Another way is to take a 10 ft piece of conduit, run a length of RG-223 > thru it, leaving a loop at the far end. Then you ease up to the snake, slip > the loop over its head and PULL, decapitating it. This takes nerve, because > to do this you must be well within the snake's striking distance. > > I never did it, but I have stood there (aghast) and watched one of our > technicians do it, several times. > > Do not try this at home. > > Lou > > At 03:47 PM 5/3/99 -0600, you wrote: > >Has anyone else noticed how rodents (Prairie dogs, squirrels, etc.) just > >_love_ polyethylene? They must think it's candy. Prairie dogs have chewed > >all the way to the center conductor of the coax at a couple of sites I've > >run and back in my Forest Service radio tech days we had to use C wire > >impregnated with a chemical that made it taste bad to the squirrels or they > >would chew it up. > > > >Sorta EMC related....... > > > >Brent > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > ><snip> > >> 7. Ants and rodents. (You are only one step short of a picnic.) > >> Ed > > > > > >--------- > >This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > >with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > >quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > >[email protected], [email protected], or > >[email protected] (the list administrators). > > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
