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I went to look at an interesting house on some nice whitetail property and first thing went up into the attic. The Princess stayed behind talking to the owner as I went up the ladder and walked the trusses all the way to look for issues with the roof. It had blown in insulation about 5-6" deep in between trusses @24". First thing I saw made me crack up laughing as there was a 5' snake skin at the top of the ladder,( Princess has heart failure at anything longer than an earthworm)

I knew upon seeing the first skin that this house was NEVER going to be a resting place for her highness, but hey the guy met us and it was only polite to give it a good looking over if for no other reason than to have a comp for other houses in the county...

With each step I started to get creeped out as the insulation had 2" diameter holes every 6" or so everywhere you looked and there were not dozens but perhaps HUNDREDS of skins in between every 2x6 laying on top and halfway in/out of those "snake holes" in the insulation. I am not scared of snakes BUT... this was way over the top. The smallest was maybe 4' long and the best skins were 6-7'. by the time I hit the end wall I was wanting to be anywhere but in that particular attic. I kinda high-stepped it back and was VERY happy to go back down that ladder!

Now these snakes are not going to be a problem for me as the closest I am ever going to be is in a tree stand a half mile away! What in the HOLY HELL could you do to get rid of that snake population? I have zero doubt they are down in the sidewalls as well--- the crawl space appeared to be snake free, and yes, I looked VERY carefully before going in that confining of a space.

You would'nt want to kill them as the stench would be simply unbelievable. Am I being a closet pussy and you macho guys would sleep soundly under worm bedding crawling with 6' worms???

What does a snake live trap look like? I'm envisioning about a 15' length of 4" pvc pipe with a mouse decoy in the middle and twin trap doors at both ends. I told her highness that I would love to set a game camera upon there to see just what it looks like when all is "peaceful" and they come slithering out.

And yes last night I had dreams. Snakey ugly dreams!

Mothballs. Big freaking mothballs.

Burn it down

Might be the only way.

Get a mongoose.

Black rat snakes ?

Another for mothballs lots of mothballs.

And some time.

Look at the bright side. I bet there's no mice in that place. Snakes move in.... Mice move out.

If that many snakes (predators) you probably also have lots of prey like rats and mice. Sounds like a chamber of horrors.

Yup...Lite it and burn it into its foundation.

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Would it be same to assume there are very tall tree's the snakes are climbing and entering through the roof peak louvers? Cut the tree limb back after hiring an exterminator.

Princess has issues with pretty much everything but dogs... I told her the same thing NO MOUSE WOULD COME NEAR US!

Buddy lives a few hours away and he assured me they were not there now, they are out hunting for the summer, they will return in the fall... Even with that we did NOT make an offer!!

I grew up with snakes have no issue with snakes ( not really) but I have never seen anything even 1/10th of this...

I'm guessing when a guy who self identifies as SLUMLORD say burn it down... well that says a lot!

No mice?
Bullschit. That’s why they are there.

I’ll take snakes over mice, but it’s almost always a pair.

Hanta virus turds, rodents and snakes.

Ohhhh and baby snakes too. 🤣😭🤦‍♂️

A flaming arrow.

Sounds to me like that would make a very good, saleable horror movie script.

Hmmmmmm.

Unsuspecting city couple buy a remote house in the country to escape the drudgery of the city. And then .......


L.W.

I think you are spot on as the crawl space had no sign of being used but a large tree actually touches the roof and the fascia has large rotted holes in it for ease of access without going in from the bottom. The old couple died which led to it being for sale no word on whether they were mysteriously strangled in their sleep...

black snakes will find the smallest hole in the wall to get in. doubt they're using the tree. my camp had a snake problem and i sealed every damn hole i could find but still had them. then one day i came around the corner and there was a 5 footer sticking out of a hole under the siding. i ended up tearing the whole back wall off the place and finally cured the problem. nothing like coming face to face with one on top of the fridge first thing in the morning to motivate you to fix the problem once and for all.

but if its as bad as you say, i'd burn or bulldoze it. doubt you'll be able to fix that.

Where is this?

NOPE!