For you old oil haulers: What about Rattlesnakes?

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  1. Slowmover1

    Slowmover1 Road Train Member

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    Buy some quality snake boots and write off.

    Chaps otherwise.
     
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  3. skellr

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    Snake boots are for sissys.. I wear flip-flops.
     
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  4. misterG

    misterG Road Train Member

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    Aren't you a poor door slammer with SWIFT though?
     
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  5. dieselpowered

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    If your that worried I recommend some leggings, and tough boots. Be aware the people I hear getting bite from rattlesnake ain't always in legs seen them bite someone on face. How example the stick there head under where the wheels are a snake got in between the dual tires and bite him as he stuck his face in there check tires. that's one example another is those cross members a snake can be complete upside down still be fine seen them do that and land inside a boat and the driver jumps in the water from a boat in a dock.
     
  6. Dadetrucking305

    Dadetrucking305 Heavy Load Member

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    They’re definitely out there.I’m also super paranoid about them and even more now that my coworkers have shown me videos of a few on the ranch we are working on in South Texas.Was also on a Conoco job not too long ago that one big ##* one had been killed the day before.
     
  7. Dadetrucking305

    Dadetrucking305 Heavy Load Member

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    Here ya go on the pipeline over By Smiley Texas.Went past some brush into an area that looks like an old sand or gravel pit and found this sucker sound asleep.Woke him up with a barrage of rocks.
     

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  8. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Caught in Monahans Texas, 80 miles from Big Spring, a Humongous Diamondback Rattle snake!!!
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  9. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    I wonder how big it would have gotten if they had just left it alone.
     
  10. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    They didn't kill it.
     
  11. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    Did they let it go?
     
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