I have rented heavy equipment within fifteen miles of Navarre and Pensacola for almost twenty years. The options are limited. I usually bring my one ton dump and bobcat when I am working on a commercial project. However, the ride is a killer with the bouncing around, and I am not in a position to do that anymore. So I am looking to bushhog about five acres which I did just five years ago after I had fully recovered from the lung removal. Well all the rental places do not have clearing equipment because folks tore it up. I have a couple of people who have tractors, but I prefer a skidster with foot controls and a brushcat attachement. Not having much luck.
Today I got a commercial mower and did some preliminary cutting to outline what I have to attack. Well the way my luck is going an hour into it I find a two foot by two foot by two hole that some trenching equipment dug when putting in a sewer line which had grown up with grass......pop.....I am stuck and I have no strength. I walk down the road a bit and find a construction guy working on utility poles and he immediately stops what he is doing hops in his truck and helps me get unstuck. He refused to take my ten bucks when I offered to buy him lunch, but I insisted that I am sick, weak, and old, and if he refuses to take my offer, I will feel like an invalid......he took the ten bucks....I was going to suggest a whataburger, but I figured he would get what he wanted. Good people and I do feel like an invalid now.
Here is my question. I was crazy in my younger years and did not give a rat's tail about snakes when I was out and about clearing. With the cooler weather, I thought the snakes were done for the season. I was wrong. Apparently that hole had a big old snake which almost got the guy as he was pushing the mower and I was driving. He clearly was scared to death at the close call. I will be working on clearing about two hours a day in early November, and will there be snakes or will they be hibernating with the cold? I will be around water and already see I have a gator slide, and I just do not need fighting snakes, gators, and no seeums as I attempt to clear. I will find out in April if the financing and concept plan will work with this property, and I am trying to tie up some loose ends......but that snake which I did not see surprised me.
Today I got a commercial mower and did some preliminary cutting to outline what I have to attack. Well the way my luck is going an hour into it I find a two foot by two foot by two hole that some trenching equipment dug when putting in a sewer line which had grown up with grass......pop.....I am stuck and I have no strength. I walk down the road a bit and find a construction guy working on utility poles and he immediately stops what he is doing hops in his truck and helps me get unstuck. He refused to take my ten bucks when I offered to buy him lunch, but I insisted that I am sick, weak, and old, and if he refuses to take my offer, I will feel like an invalid......he took the ten bucks....I was going to suggest a whataburger, but I figured he would get what he wanted. Good people and I do feel like an invalid now.
Here is my question. I was crazy in my younger years and did not give a rat's tail about snakes when I was out and about clearing. With the cooler weather, I thought the snakes were done for the season. I was wrong. Apparently that hole had a big old snake which almost got the guy as he was pushing the mower and I was driving. He clearly was scared to death at the close call. I will be working on clearing about two hours a day in early November, and will there be snakes or will they be hibernating with the cold? I will be around water and already see I have a gator slide, and I just do not need fighting snakes, gators, and no seeums as I attempt to clear. I will find out in April if the financing and concept plan will work with this property, and I am trying to tie up some loose ends......but that snake which I did not see surprised me.