coopec
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I live right on a beach reserve where there are only a few settlements for several hundred kilometers. One of the joys is sharing the workshop with the wild-life. Two months ago I was attacked by a lizard and bitten on the toe!!
Can someone tell me what this tool is used fo?r
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Lakesailor
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I think it's to stop drill bits going rusty. It's worn out though.
rogerthebodger
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Anti theft device.
Works where I live anyway and not illegal and it would not be a local snake. ( cannot keep local snakes but can keep imported)
Works where I live anyway and not illegal and it would not be a local snake. ( cannot keep local snakes but can keep imported)
alahol2
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Flexible curve ruler? http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pages/routacc3.html
Graham_Wright
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Looks like a bilge hose cleaner.
zikzik
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Unreliable profile gauge?
AngusMcDoon
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It's used for mousing a line through a mast so you can get a halyard threaded through. You find a willing mouse, attach a light line to its tail, put it in one end of the mast and threaten it that if it doesn't run through the mast with the line you will get the snake to chase it through. Suitably encouraged it scuttles along the mast and out the other end, where the snake is waiting, which promptly eats it. Tough on the mouse, but the snake is happy.
Sans Bateau
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It's a good excuse not to start the job!
coopec
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galadriel
You got it in one!
(Hope the little bugger has gone by tomorrow)
You got it in one!
(Hope the little bugger has gone by tomorrow)
AngusMcDoon
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Is it a dangerous one, or do you not hang around long enough to figure that out? I know Oz has most of the world's lethally poisonous critters, but there must be a lot of harmless ones as well just looking for somewhere to kip.
coopec
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AngusMcDoon
I'm almost certain it is a non-venomous python, not so much because of the looks but because of its manner. It is not frightened, does not hide and is quite happy to bask in the sun, in the open, for days. I had one behind the shed for a couple of years. This snake is quite small but a few months ago I escorted a 2 meter python across the road because I thought he would be run over. There are lots of venomous snakes around and occasionally they come into the backyard but these days I just "shoo" them on. The lizard that bit me on the toe was only 2 ft long but I saw one a few years ago that was around 2 meters long and as it was standing on it's extended legs it's head was about as high as my shoulder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614hIg2lNM8
I'm almost certain it is a non-venomous python, not so much because of the looks but because of its manner. It is not frightened, does not hide and is quite happy to bask in the sun, in the open, for days. I had one behind the shed for a couple of years. This snake is quite small but a few months ago I escorted a 2 meter python across the road because I thought he would be run over. There are lots of venomous snakes around and occasionally they come into the backyard but these days I just "shoo" them on. The lizard that bit me on the toe was only 2 ft long but I saw one a few years ago that was around 2 meters long and as it was standing on it's extended legs it's head was about as high as my shoulder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614hIg2lNM8
AngusMcDoon
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Eek! Wouldn't like to be a wabbit in Oz. Think I'd rather take my chances with foxes and eagles here.
Lakesailor
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Your assurances will not help Mrs Lakesailor become any warmer towards Australia. My brother married a strine-speaker and moved there.
jwilson
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A bit closer to home almost stepped on two adders basking in the sun in the corner of the boatyard at Ridge Wharf Wareham last year, just under the transom of a boat. I wanted to put my ladder there, and they were not that keen on moving.
Killed a king cobra in the kitchen once, but not in England....
Killed a king cobra in the kitchen once, but not in England....
Sans Bateau
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Was that so you could play snakes and ladders?
TheEcho
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That is a young carpet python. I have a pet one called Axminster. In Australia you can tell the pythons from the dangerous nasties because pythons have vertical pupils like cats whereas venomous ones have round eyes. That doesn't work outside Australia though, as European vipers also have cat like eyes.
Carpet pythons eat rats, mice and lizards, and captive bred ones make excellent pets. Just work round it, and if it gets defensive just take a step back.
Carpet pythons eat rats, mice and lizards, and captive bred ones make excellent pets. Just work round it, and if it gets defensive just take a step back.
Hadenough
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Staying at my mates place in the Queensland rain forest I was sent down to light the barbie. It was dark and I walked into a spiders web the size of a double bed sheet. Oh b****r I thought and stepped back trying to extricate myself. While doing so I felt the owner of the web walking across it towards me! I've never lived down running back into the house screaming!
coopec
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I've just checked and happy to report he has moved on. I was going to use one of my wife's old hair dryers (that I sometimes use in fiber glassing) to encourage him to move on.
Hope I have a better day today: my shares crashed yesterday too
oldbilbo
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Snakes, of all shapes and sizes, give me the full-on eeby-jeebies! I've never quite got over the several weeks I spent in the coastal swamplands of NE South Africa, up near the Mozambique border, on a Survival Instructors' Course. The chief instructor had a sideline in collecting snakes' venom for medical research and anti-toxins, and that's where he did his collecting... "The densest concentration of poisonous snakes in Africa", he'd say, before describing the unsavoury and oft-lethal practices of the likes of the 'rinkhals', the 'mozambique spitting cobra', the 'boomslang', the 'green' and the 'black mambas'....
I lost quite a lot of weight on that course, for I was 's****ing myself much of the time, much to the amusement of my erstwhile colleagues, most of whom had grown up with such critters in their backyards....
Then there were the 'poffadders', which were everywhere. Their habit is, unlike most others, to remain lying in place/ambushing as someone/something approaches, in grassland, on a path or on the other side of a fallen log. Step nearby, and they strike. Horrific necrotic wounds with progressive tissue destruction....
I lost quite a lot of weight on that course, for I was 's****ing myself much of the time, much to the amusement of my erstwhile colleagues, most of whom had grown up with such critters in their backyards....
Then there were the 'poffadders', which were everywhere. Their habit is, unlike most others, to remain lying in place/ambushing as someone/something approaches, in grassland, on a path or on the other side of a fallen log. Step nearby, and they strike. Horrific necrotic wounds with progressive tissue destruction....
coopec
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oldbilbo
I share your dread of snakes.
When you said "Mozambique border, on a Survival Instructors' Course" it reminded me that about 10 years ago the Army was on a training exercise and they camped about 10 km from here (quite near the beach). Overnight a snake crawled into one of the Army Reservist's sleeping bag. He tried to get out of the bag but he died before he could. Apparently he was bitten 27 times.
I thought you'd be safe sleeping on the beach but just recently I saw a tiger snake (one of the most dangerous in the world and quite aggressive) just meters from the water
http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/location/the-10-deadliest-snakes-in-the-world/
I share your dread of snakes.
When you said "Mozambique border, on a Survival Instructors' Course" it reminded me that about 10 years ago the Army was on a training exercise and they camped about 10 km from here (quite near the beach). Overnight a snake crawled into one of the Army Reservist's sleeping bag. He tried to get out of the bag but he died before he could. Apparently he was bitten 27 times.
I thought you'd be safe sleeping on the beach but just recently I saw a tiger snake (one of the most dangerous in the world and quite aggressive) just meters from the water
http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/location/the-10-deadliest-snakes-in-the-world/
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