You think your job has dangers?

[ditchdr]

The town I live in , as well as more the 40% of my lawn stuff is done in, is called Hanahan, We are pretty much a swamp. Now being a swamp we have a lot of "wild life" every where. Here are just a few shots of the "wild life" I have ot deal with. The sad part is most of them dont give a flying flip if I am trying to mow or not. Most will just lay there and play chicken with the mower.

 

[dadofthree]

Then there's the water moccasins and timber rattlers, oh and copperheads. Then there's the wasp, yellow jackets, fire ants, brown relcuse, black widows ...........

Glad I don't have to deal with them

 

[GsxrBots]

brown relcuse, black widows ...........

No thank you... I'll stay here in Milwaukee...

 

[nybryan]

what kind of a noise does the mower make when you run over one of those bad boys. (was that out loud )

New business idea "lawn and exotic boots"

 

[BusaBret]

You need to be on Swamp People :-)

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[Busa1166]

Then there's the water moccasins and timber rattlers, oh and copperheads. Then there's the wasp, yellow jackets, fire ants, brown relcuse, black widows ...........

Glad I don't have to deal with them

I agree lawn care is easier here than in Australia I imagine

 

[ditchdr]

I can tell ya a snake make a real loud FWAP soun d as it is slammed against the mower deck lol. Have not ran over a gater yet. Come close to having moma gater run me down cause i got to close to a nest. Was pretty scarry. Last year was bitten by a coper head, this year a swarm of wasps, were takng a bet on if it will be a gater or lightning next year.

 

[broeresbusa]

and i thought ny was tuff.time for a lawn service

 

[Sum Beach]

Damn! Be careful. Its jungle out there! haha! Well it was funny in my head anyway. . .

 

[Malicious]

you have spinning blades, if one ever trys something, just lift the front wheels up... might not kill it depending on its size, but youll wreck its day forsure

 

[880jedi]

Napalm will take care of that.

 

[chrisjp]

nice pics!!!

 

[busastalker05]

ok ok you win and just when i thought my lawns were bad

 

[ditchdr]

Man I am gonna start carrying a cam with me and taking pics of the strange stuff I see on a regular basis at work. Normal to me, but maybe I have been doing this far to long lol

 

[dk55belair]

This song's for you. Crank up your speakers.

Hatchet Live 1979 - Gator Country‬‏ - YouTube[/url]

 

[red1100cc]

:idea: :goodidea:

 

[Fastfrog007]

Hire these boys

 

[2hip]

The ones u can see aren't the ones to worry about. How big are the full grown daddies? Seen pictures of people's claw marks in the clay where a gator has taken them in for a death roll...that is the stuff that just makes me arse quiver....

 

[lil charlie]

I got a paper cut once.

 

[ditchdr]

The little one in the pics above is about 4 to 5 feet long, maybe 60 to 100 pounds, the bigger ones are between 7 to 8 feet long maybe 200 to 400 pounds. Biggest i have seen here is between 12 to 13 feet. Flipping head on them monsters a HUGE!!! If one that size got a hold of you the best you can do is hope you taste bad and it spits you out. A good way to guess the size it kind of measure the distance from their not to eyes. lets say it looks like 6 inches from the nose to eyes usualy means its a 5 to 6 foot gater and so on. I live on the river and there are a good many in there. Once saw a big big gater swimming with a smaller one in its mouth. Guess its a dog eat horse world in the river.