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  1. 20th April 2013, 03:11 PM #1
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    The python that lives above my workshop in the Leopard tree came down for his yearly visit last night and I found this around the lathe/sander/shelving this morning still moist. It usually uses the back of my tool peg board to help get the old skin off, it has a mixture of nails and screws sticking through, but this time the shelf strap support must have been perfect. The first time I have got the skin in one piece. It has grown a fair bit since last year, that roller door opening is 2.1m high, and the head is still missing .
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    Great find Neil you can keep your snake though






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    You know the rules Neil, if it looks like it can be cast then you are obliged to try it lol.
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    what he said and dont send it over here please

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  7. 20th April 2013, 09:43 PM #6
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    Hey Neil

    Nice find mate looking forward to seeing how yours turn out ;-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nai84 View Post
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    Nice find mate looking forward to seeing how yours turn out ;-)

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    Could be waiting a while, last year's skin is still waiting , and the last one I did with shed skins was this one https://www.woodworkforums.com/f69/sh...in-pens-50348/ six years ago
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    All I can say is that is going to be one BLOODY BIG PEN!
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    Hey Neil

    Lol if I had of known that thread was there along time ago I would of read that before I started doing mine lol those pens look the goods mate well done on them sorry I am a bit late but better late they never pmsl

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    I am envious, I could do with a nice considerate snake like that
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    also found a shedded skin today and scard the crap out of all at my club in amongst a trailer of timber a 4 ft eastern brown skin , dont know where its owner is going to send it over to ian
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  13. 21st April 2013, 09:01 PM #12
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    Yes Troy, a Bown is not the same as a Python, don't really want it hanging about.

    Personally I have no fear of snakes, but a healthy respect, especially the Taipan that has been cornered in my front entrance way twice over the past couple of years. Last time he reared up too . I tend to make a lot of noise, especially when looking through the wood piles, usually scares anything away.
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    A taipan in the woodpile screams 'shotgun' or for Nai's sake, Pete the snake catcher (online). Those buggers will chase you if they get annoyed - hope you can run fast.
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    Quote Originally Posted by plantagenon View Post
    A taipan in the woodpile screams 'shotgun' or for Nai's sake, Pete the snake catcher (online). Those buggers will chase you if they get annoyed - hope you can run fast.
    I agree Greg a cornered snake is a very deadly one weather it's a python or a venomous one. If a wild python bites u it can become infected if not treated and as for the venomous ones well dont think I need to go there let's me just say a strike from any snake is quicker then any human will ever be trust me on that one considering I have been bite a few times by my own pythons and I have had the pleasure of dealing with a few agro tigers aswell (never be biten by a venomous by the way coz I respect the snake) but all that said I would rather deal with a snake any day compared to some people thats for sure lol especial working in retail P
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    Oops forgot to say all my snake bites where my own fault due to me not washing my hands while handling there food then going to get the snake out of the enclosure and they bamm got ya lol I dont think I will ever learn thoe pmsl
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