Hello Henry .
This is the real bad ass in this area . We have always called them timber rattlers.
Yes I have grilled rattle snakes and fed to a large group of police swat team members in the North Carolina mountains. I told them they were eating rattle snake but I think none believed me .
I have been asked what rattle snake tastes like and I answered " bout like a copper head "
That’s uglier than a tared up intake manifold!
Wayne that makes me glad I live in Minnesota. I would be willing to see it on my plate after it’s been grilled though. I’m assuming the one you have on your lap has already seen it’s fate prior to the picture?
Bees: My older brother and I made napalm when I was about 7 (making him about 12). We used the melting-packing-peanuts-in-gasoline-until it-is-thick-and-sticky method. He sprayed down a yellow jacket (hornet) nest with it, taped a match to the end of a stick, and lit it up… Yellow jackets can fly SURPRISINGLY far while on fire… I don’t suggest it as a method…
For the record, hornets ON-FRIKKIN’-FIRE are MUCH more scary than normal hornets… One could even say that normal hornets “can’t hold a candle to” ON-FRIKKIN’-FIRE hornets… (Hehehe)
Your’s were just some form of Bumble Bees. 
Good pollenators and (normally) not very aggressive. I guess that getting run over by a brushhog doesn’t qualify as “normal” though.
Snake: Holy crap… Where was that big bugger hiding? I’ve always wanted to try grilled snake but all we have around here are “Garter Snakes”. Maybe 18 inches long and around 1/2 an inch at their fattest. Not worth catching. Non-venomous, just eats bugs and maybe a worm or so.
Brian ,
I had wood gas visitors yesterday and we were coming back in my drive way ( about 1/4 mile from the house ) from a demo . The snake coiled and stood his ground ( poor choice of words , held his ground ) My poker rod for the gasifier just happen to be a little longer than his striking capabilities.
These things are noting to play with . A few years back I went out of the morning to find a dog with a head the size of a basket ball , two dead dogs and a dead rattle snake in the yard .
Thats a good looking Skin. The last one I cured I used anti-freeze ,salt and neat’s food oil, didn’t work out so great. I’ve been told Glycerin works well.The last one I killed I gigged with a Frog Gig, that wasn’t one of my smarter moments.
From Midwest Permaculture.
I have eaten rattlesnake when I lived in FL. I really enjoyed it but have no idea how to cook bees. I have turned up 2 more batches of bees, one in the truck hungry for wood and some ground hornets at the base of my woodpile that was a beauty Wayne lots of good eating there and a belt to boot or a boot to belt.
Life goes on - this is a bit of what goes on when I’m not working on woodgas. Played with bluegrass band Kentucky Blue last night for the opening of the Simpsonville outlet mall. Courier Journal got a decent photo of us and some video (5 seconds at least!)
Way to go Chris ,
Good picture , good sound !
A real good sounding 5 seconds, Chris.
Pepe
All dressed up too! Did you drive there on wood? If so you are getting good knowing where the dirty parts are and staying away from them:-)
Love it.
Stop by when you do a show in Branson.
Great job, and tour.
Got any links to more?
TerryL
Flip won’t upload to youtube anymore. it says I need to encode first, what ever that is. Is there an easy way to get MP4 to youtube?
Carl,
I’d skip the Flip software. Copy the file right onto your computer, save it somewhere you can find, and upload it from there. https://www.youtube.com/upload
Youtube loves Flip mp4 files, I’ve uploaded hundreds of them.
will require 4-1/2 hours to upload. Is that normal? It’s in MP4 now, but here’s the message I get: “Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable file format. For more information, visit our Help Center.” And the help center just says the same thing,
How big is the file Carl? What’s your upload speed? (speedtest.net can tell you).
Upload and processing are very different - processing happens only after it’s done uploading.
MP4 is a good choice for Youtube. Not sure why it’s complaining.
Upload speed is killing me tonight. All the neighbors must be playing solitare! I’ll check on it again at breakfast. Good night.
Edit: Next AM: up = .3M down = 1.3M
