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1. 60 feet up, rattler bites tree trimmer
Abstract: LEWISVILLE — A tree trimmer was working 60 feet in the air when he was bitten by a rattlesnake. Fernando Cerna, an employee of Right of Way Specialists of Longview, Texas, was trimming trees for a power company Wedne ...
Date: 07/19/2005
Score: 0.49
Section/Page: Arkansas
Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
I live in Colorado and when I get into huge Cottonwoods, I think of every possible critter in a tree. I never want to encounter a rattle snake up there. /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
If you think Rattlers are bad.Think about meeting this bad boy or girl shes even bigger 30 meters up a gum tree The Nothern tree funnel web(Hadronyche formidabilis)has possibly the strongest neuro toxin known to affect humans and a temper to match.If you take a hit from one of these you may as well say good bye Native to north east Austrailia.I have had a few run ins with the Sydney Funnel web in the past but I don't ever want to meet one in a tree

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Keep two long 16ga. insulated lead wires handy - coiled-up under the hood and capped one end, on the ignition coil on the other end. Apply to bite wound and take two charges.

Completely renders the venom useless.

Or take a chance and lose some massive tissue. You have five minutes max to get to that truck.
 
I've ran across snakes several times in trees. Just touch em and they fall to the ground.
 
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They probably tell each other the same thing about us.

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You two (you and MB) have both got a (great) way with words. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
A snake in a tree, yes. A rattler, NO. They just aren't tree snakes.

Neither are copperheads. A friend of mine back home saw a brown snake in a tree, picked it up and got bit 4 times. He thought it surely couldn't be a copperhead because they don't live in trees. Sometimes, I think the snakes forget to read the snake books.
 
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A snake in a tree, yes. A rattler, NO. They just aren't tree snakes.

Neither are copperheads. A friend of mine back home saw a brown snake in a tree, picked it up and got bit 4 times. He thought it surely couldn't be a copperhead because they don't live in trees. Sometimes, I think the snakes forget to read the snake books.

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So, was it a copperhead?
 
Oh, sorry, yes it was. And he had copious amounts of alcohol in him at the time. No hospital, just a lot of pain. Copperheads are bad but not that bad.
 
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Tree trimmer runs into trouble 60 feet up
posted: 07-19-2005

The last place a Hempstead County, Ark., tree trimmer expected to run into a rattlesnake was 60 feet above the ground.

Fernanado Cerna was in a pecan tree when he reached around to grab a large limb and was bitten on his left hand by a rattlesnake.

Six co-workers used a long rope to help get Cerna to the ground after he was bitten. He was airlifted to a Little Rock hospital, where he spent three days.

A man killed the snake. Cerna got the rattler as a keepsake.

That type snake is not known for climbing trees.

"I've seen them up 10 to 20 feet, but not 60 feet," said business owner Ron Coleman. "We feel like the snake went up the tree with vines and went over to that one."



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