As wildlife biologists, my wife and I invited many poisonous snakes move each year as part of our work or favors to friends and neighbors. As we herpetologists capture snakes, identify, weigh and measure them, and then publish it to a safe place and sex of buildings and roads. To achieve this, we must use a variety of professional snake handling equipment, always keeping in mind that many cases of snake bite, when "professionals" or "experts" appear become complacent. We have always tried to minimize the danger to us by minimizing the actual touch time with the snake and the use of high quality snake handling. Experience has shown us the value with the best equipment for our work. A snake hook or pliers that bends under the weight of a good sized Texas Rattlesnake is not a good tool to have in your arsenal. The equipment that we use is designed with our safety and that of snake in mind. Our hooks and pliers are made with aircraft aluminum, so it would take quite a torture to damage them.
We are often asked what would be the best tool for moving snakes, especially poisonous snakes. The simple answer would be brain! Inexperienced persons should not be moved poisonous snakes and if you can not tell whether it is toxic or not, leave it alone. The best approach would be to simply enjoy the snake in their habitat and when you are done, walk away. If a snake has to be moved, we recommend a combination of hooks and pliers. Commercial snake hook in size from 24 to about 50 inches in length, while commercial snake tongs vary from about 24 to 60 cm in length. With tongs, is shorter better as far as control, but we realize that most people probably do not get that close to a venomous snake. The longer of the forceps, the more difficult it is to handle. To lift an adult rattlesnake with a 52 or 60-inch tong, most people would have to obtain a second hand on the shaft, which would negate the advantage of using the longer tong. Long tongs better used for pulling snakes out from under bushes or buildings.
Keeping these things in mind, we recommend using a snake hook 40 and 40 inch snake tongs for lifting snakes. The probe should be the widest possible grip jaw, as this pressure is distributed over a larger area of ??the snake have the body, reducing the possibility of direct pressure between individual ribs and the risk of injuring the snake. The wide, gentle jaw allows faster gripping which is a huge advantage for handling or capturing species of water snake or trees live snakes, which are notoriously fast and difficult to tame.
Before you try to record, be a snake sure you made a safe container with the lid and ready to receive the snake. To this end, radiator and open bucket not a good choice. We use five gallons dog food bucket with screw top lid, which in many pet stores. We drill air holes in the lid and attach a handle that will allow us to screw the lid on tight. Always remember, not the finger near the air holes as rattlesnakes and other venomous snakes can put beat through the holes.
To move or capture a snake, the snake with the tongs in the first third of the body behind the head should be grabbed. This allows the controller. The hook should then be used in the back half of the snake for the support. If you pass the snake's tail half grab with the pliers, you can use the hook to pin the head of the snake until you can manipulate the pliers on the right end of the line. Several companies are now collapsible snake hook for easy transportation while traveling or walking on the field. Use this hook for pinning snakes down during recording. You are responsible for lifting and moving the snake, not pinning and they come to the joints loosen, when pressure on them during the pinning process with nasty results if the snake is poisonous or hostile ships. After the queue limit in your container can be made and released it in a safe place away from buildings and roads.
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