Last year I had partially cleaned my shed it was overdue temperature was in the mid 30's. Mid way through the clean up I sat down to have a drink and decided to check out what was happening on PA. As I was reading post's related to Snake gaiters I looked up and here's a small brown heading straight for me. I jumped from the chair, this thing had it's mind set on me I'm sure. It had made it 5 metres into the shed and was about 1 metre from me when I saw it. Before I could coax it out it made it to the back corner which I was going to clean after my break, that never happened that day anyway. Never saw it again.
Year's ago my daughter (now 25) and her cousin aged about 12 called to say there's a snake in the shed. When I got there it was a large brown curled up next to a jerry can at the bottom of the stairs. The girls were standing on the 2nd step. When I told them the brown snake can launch itself upto 3metre's and they where only about 1metre away they took off like a bullet up the stairs. It's funny now but shook the girls up a bit at the time, they have always been vigilant since that experience.
Not the first snakes in the shed and I'm sure it won't be the last.
Had a black snake at the front door a few years ago, it managed to get under a door to a storage room next to the front door. Only problem that day was the storage room light was out and the wife had it chocked to the roof :N:. Took me 2 very slow careful hours to clear it and find the snake. At the other end of the storage room is another door leading into the house. From inside the house this door is blocked off and the bottom is sealed with steel wool, prevents the mice coming under the door. My problem was I couldn't remember if the bottom of the internal door was sealed or not and I didn't want to clear everything from inside the house incase the snake ended up in the house so I had to work from one end. Once the snake was located at the rear trying to go under the door to end up in the house. I grabbed the mop bucket and mop, 1/4 filled it with water then added a bag of ice and let the mop get cold. The next thing was to put on some welding gloves and get an old milk bottle. With all the gear ready I placed the mop over the snake and cooled him down to slow his mobility, if your not confident don't try it. Once I'd cooled him down I just grabbed it behind the head and coaxed him into the bottle and put the lid on. Then he was relocated to the bottom paddock to live another day :Y:.