HUGE Rattlesnake Found Under a Backyard Grill!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2023
- This is about as big as they come in Arizona. Follow Bryan as he is called out on two rattlesnake removal calls, and one gets interesting!
Timeline:
00:30 First Rattlesnake Removal of the Day
01:13 Bryan Removes a Huge Rattlesnake
03:52 This is a Sticky Situation
6:28 Bryan Measures the Huge Rattlesnake
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The fish I catch shrink when they get close to a tape measure as well.
Tape measures cause many things to shrink, they're dangerous 😁
Beautiful Rattlesnake Bryan! My guess would be 30 to 40 year old pit viper!
One day you might consider a large, climate controlled greenhouse...300-600 square ft and enjoy watching your favorite Rattlesnakes in a semi natural environment. You will learn a lot of new and amazing things over the years, interacting with them. The differences in personalities alone is worth watching up close!!
Thank you for protecting our earth buddies! The more people learn from you the less they will fear!
That’s a lot of sneck!!❤️❤️🐍. I’m sure he’s saying “you better feed me a big rat for putting me through this” !
Just awesome, what a beautiful creature. Thank you for looking after this one.
Eastern diamondbacks get much larger an thats a fact
I've been waiting to see this video..ever since you posted a picture of this snake on Facebook
Awesome that you rescued "Grandpa Diamondback." Beautiful old snake.
Great show. I nearly stepped on a WDB while camping at Picacho Peak campground. It was the size of the one you caught, I was guessing it was near 40". M. H. (breeds bushmasters and such in Kingston NY area.) and I saw one a few miles from there, past a large cattle farm, up in the boulder field. It was pushing 60". If the both of us hadn't worked with them for decades, we would not have believed it. Maybe it was from OK on vacation.
Wow, I had no clue they could get that old. Kinda crazy to think that there are snakes out there that are way older than me (22). Some of them might've been around before my parents even met lol
I so appreciate what you do in relocating the snakes and Gila monsters. I live in northeast Pennsylvania and we do not see as many snakes here. There is a small town north of us called Noxen and they have a rattlesnake round up every year. People can go to see the snakes and it is very enlightening/educational. They do release the snakes back where they were caught. I have learned a lot from your channel. Thank you for what you do!
Never knew PA had rattlesnakes interesting
Timber Rattlesnakes are found in PA……
@@ruthlaubach6564 and eastern eastern massasauga rattlers.. seen those up near North Bangor PA on a fire tower access road back like 40 years ago when i was a kid hiking up there
30 years old ?!? Sheeesh, its been around longer than the internet .. surly is a beauty
I don’t care what anyone says, at almost 5 feet long to me that’s huge! Plus they bite! Love your work, Mike from Montreal.
Awesome so old and big and beautiful! Ancestor snake❤
incredible animal... and what a treat to be able to actually touch it. so beautiful.
When I was in Tombstone area, this last November. I was out riding a horse and came across a diamond back that large. It was the largest rattlesnake I had ever seen. It was amazing.
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That was a really healthy grampa snake indeed. Where did you take him in the end?
Your tats look good, too. Take care.
HOLEY MOLEY! Beautiful snake, Bryan. "I think I need a bigger bucket."
Your excitment of catching that large diamond back was palpable! So glad I found your channel. I moved from a place with only garter snakes to a place with with rattlesnakes so I wanted to learn what I needed to do if I ran into a rattlesnake. I've learned so much. Thank you for your videos
Ouch! I hate snakes but I prefer garter over rattle lol 😂 I think that’s why I love the east coast
Love love love what you guys do. Educational and caring for the snakes 🐍 male or female?
Thanks! It’s a boy.
AMAZING 🤩
Beautiful, healthy specimen.
Appreciate the education of why you aren’t releasing it immediately. I know you will take excellent care of it while you are examining what it can/can’t do in relation to your snake proof fencing, etc…
I also liked how his rattle seemed super loud and it kept rattling the entire time (seemed to get even louder) when Bryan was reaching in the “tongs” to grasp him- it was like he was saying “this dude is not getting the message to leave me alone.” 🤣🤣
what a huge and beautiful snake Bryan!!
beautiful snake-a lot of our Eastern Diamondbacks don't get that big, anymore.
Absolutely Beautiful snake !
Good job and thank you for what you do.
I used to work at Prescott regional Airport and relocated many off the airport every summer as they would go into peoples hangers.
When you first talked about measuring it, I thought that you might have a length markings cut into the floor.
On a table would work, too.
I live out on the edge of the Santa Rita Experimental Range and rattlesnakes are EVERYWHERE. I have a 24/7 drip style watering station that draws all kinds of wildlife into water. There is a direct correlation between ambient temperature, water, prey availability, and of course cover. I see what looks like pack rat droppings under the grill so this homeowner has multiple issues. I'd get rid of the packrats first and immediately adopt the habit of being hyper cautious in and around the back yard especially when turning things over or placing hands into blind spots. As careful as I am, i still have occasional close calls. The other night i saw a rattlesnake drinking out of a terrace cota watering dish with a Gila monster about two feet from it.
Edit: The Mojave rattlers tend to be way more cryptic and very slow to rattle. Those are the ones that worry me the most.
Thank you this was a fascinating episode.
Plenty of rat poop in there @ 3:32.
SNAKE: So I moved into this nice big BBQ shelter where I could really stretch out, and my dinner was ready when I got there!
That is HUGE!
Old Man Atrox! Nice of you to offer him a comfy and safe retirement home.
Ty I enjoy watching you videos and now watch TH-cam I can't see you on TikTok ❤
It's been so great watching your channel grow! I'm not sure if I missed it.. how much does that big boy weigh?! The Diamondback, not Bryan! Gosh..
It’s happening fast now! I didn’t weigh the snake but I should have.
Florida Eastern Diamondbacks re: size: "Hold my beer!"
Just wondering if you weighed the snake or if you even do that. Incredible find. I work on a golf course and see a lot of western diamond backs I have never seen anything like that . Love your channel.
*GORGEOUS!!*
Beautiful example of the Western Diamond back.
That is one big beastie there! Gorgeous old guy.
May I ask the reason for the blue tape at one end of the tube? Is it just for quick size reference, or is there any functional benefit to it?
Often times the manufactured edges of the tubes can be a little bit sharp, or can crack. The tape helps us out with that.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Big beautiful boy!!! 😮
Sure, it doesn't compare in length and especially girth and weight compared to the rattlers on the east coast, Timbers/Canebreak and EDBs can grow much bigger, not just longer, but much thicker, especially the hybrid of the two, "batwings". But for a western, that is huge. .
The biggest Timber I think is like 6'2, something like 23lb. All though there have been reports of some at 7' and closer to 30lb. And the biggest EDB was 7'8", 34lb;
"Batwings". hybrid Timber/EDB, usually can get around 5'5"'-7' and like 15-25 lb. But the max size of the hybrid is still unknown since it happens so rarely in nature and more recently have been bred more in captivity. And some are reported at like 8' and close to 40lb, likely due to hybrid vigor, which is when they get the top size, weight and strength genes from both sub-species. Not necessarily better in terms of survival or health, and definitely not age. But when in captivity the genes don't have to be tested against nature.
Congratulations on your subscriptions, seems like just a few months ago they were under ten thousand. Wish you would post more herping segments which included non venomous snakes. I feel vlogs get successful because they contain interesting content but more importantly they show interesting people doing non traditional jobs. Suggestions for vlogs include interviewing people who got bit by venomous snakes and how it happened. Keep up the good work.
Hey Bryan, way to go. You guys rock!
Best of TH-cam, I'm excited to see rattlesnake in there habitat. I have zero interest in messing with them
So great you educate your customers on what the snake actually is. As an avid MTB'er I've seen several as big as this one. Love to find them, take pictures and leave them alone. Let me know if you'd like to see pics. Have a bunch of them.
New sub, love the channel!!!❤❤
He's beautiful and pretty chill considering. It's like he's confident in himself. Of course I would be too, being that age etc.
Awesome!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing...
30 years old and going strong? Amazing! Does that mean he injects a lot more venom than a small snake?
For where you live he's huge, way to go big boy
Wow.. awesome save guys keep it up!👏
I appreciate the respect you have for such a magnificent snake. Been a long time since I've seen a live timber rattler here in East Texas. They are on Texas' endangered list here. Saw a highway kill about 12 years ago. I'm sure other counties may have a more robust population but not here.
I bet this is the one vehicle Cops never try to search if they pull you over.
That was one majestic diamondback!! I love them. We have Timber Rattlers here. They’re so placid and almost docile. I would love to build a lifelike enclosure for that big diamondback for it to live out the rest of it’s years in peace.
Have you ever watched any of Tyler Nolan’s videos? He has 2 of the biggest rattle snakes I’ve ever seen. They’re hybrid bat wing rattlers.
That was an amazing snake. As a child in the 1950s we moved to N Florida. The locals regularly hunted what they called Timber rattlers but were Eastern Diamondbacks. They would kill them and hang them from light posts, which upset me and my father very much. I remember how huge they were…to realize old the poor snakes were makes it even more distressing. Now, of course, they are in danger of extinction. The whole time we lived there no human was ever struck…only one cow, which died, and triggered a hunt that included sending all the kids home from school based on the myth that it would hunt us. I’ve refrained from using the language in my head.
That’s a big un!! I think the biggest snake I’ve ever seen was only a couple feet!!
When I was a kid (60's So Flo) we had an 8' Eastern Diamondback swim across the Loxahatchee River up into a neighbor's yard. That was the Biggest Rattler I have ever seen !
In the mid 1960's I caught a 5'2" Pacific Diamondback in Topanga, Ca. It was an accurate measurement, my father made me kill the snake, the area we lived in was heavily populated there wasn't any safe place to let it go at the time.
I live in an area with alot of farms fields in Arizona. One day driving on a road with dense brush on the left and fields on the right, I ran over a snake that was about half the width of the lane I was in so I estimate around 5 ft. The snake more then likely got hurt but I turned around to check it out and it was on its way back into the thick brush and didnt seem phased about being ran over.
Curious what the cost is to remove a rattlesnake?
Why do you not usually find snakes this big during relocations?
There are a few factors that come into play here, but for the most part it’s because the average size of an adult Western Diamondback is just smaller in the populations where most of our relocations occur.
In the mid 60's I was statiioned at Davis Monathan AFB and worked at the remote missile sites and spent my down time catching Rattle Snakes and the biggest one I ever cought messured 5 foot 8 inches and I donated it to the dessert museum.
That is so awesome!! Hes such a beautiful 😍 snake 🐍 !! Theyre such anazing creatures !! He must hang out at alot of packrat nests 🪹 and eat a lot of jackrabbits 🐇 !!
How much do y'all charge for coming to get them?
Could that large Diamondback be a snake that was kept in captivity and released by its owner for being too big and dangerous to keep?
That snack is as long as I am tall.
What a gorgeous animal. I totally realize how lethal they are, but I don’t know how anyone could destroy such beautiful creature. Most people don’t realize just how essential these reptiles are to our ecosystem. Their initial instinct is to kill them instead of just having them removed so that they can be relocated back into nature where they belong.
Exactly that. The attitudes towards these animals is a study in culture and personal identity more than anything else. When somebody comes here to tell me, they would kill it or something similar, we know that comment has nothing to do with snakes.
In a while back video you mentioned you were getting some ink. It would be cool to do a "my tattoos" after the busy season is over!
No snake fence? Dang. Here in SW Texas that’s an average WD. These dang things here get 6 + feet and as big around as a man’s calf. Yes I’ve measured many.
That snake is a great grandpa or great grandma, that’s an old big animal
Come to the SE states. We have some monster Eastern Diamondbacks here.
9:10 Let me be clear...Is that a BIG snake? (Probably the 20th time it was stated!)😊
It seems Rattlers are like bedroom snakes. When the tape measure comes out....
Are you and your team going to be at an event with the snakes close to Mesa?
It is not uncommon for us to have events in the East Valley, depending on the season. Follow us on Facebook, that’s where we usually post updates on our educational events.
Housewarming snake!?
(Edit: typos argh)
Amazing snake. What kind of habitat would be looking for if you were to release it?
I just moved from Mesa, to Texas. I went hiking looking for a rattler and never saw one
What is the approximate strike zone of this rattlesnake, or a snake of this length?
you think HE'S big, come to southwest MS and let me introduce you to our EASTERN diamondbacks !
5 - 7 feet is common !!
Local timber rattlers run appx 5ft
I love all the comments about "that's nothing", you should see the 25 ft long Diamondbacks we have in Texas or Florida or wherever from somewhere back east!!!!
LMFAO!!! childish competition!! Well how ever big the snake is where you're from, the one in AZ is always gonna be 1 inch bigger than yours!!! SO THERE! WE WIN!
Yeah that was the size of the snake if not larger when I lived in San Diego. It was rattling right next to the sidewalk as we walked by. Pretty scary.
Is that tape around the bottom of the tube?
A neighbor of mine told me that the reason why where I live doesn't have rattlesnakes because we have california king snakes around here 😅 they eat rattlers. Also mostly gopher snakes too (around phoenix mountain preserve)
You're really just gonna not show us how you get the snake out of that tube?
It’s not interesting really! It just crawls out the other end into a bucket.
How many years can they live for ? And how do you know the big one is 30 years old ?
How did your other relocation folks react to this snake?
Great snake. the guys that claim they have encountered 6-7 foot western dback rattlesnakes are the same guys that had the state record fish on until they lost it at the boat and the same guys that claim they regularly break 80 golfing. 🙂
Bryan... have you or any of your staff ever had a snake get loose in your car while being transported?
What is the charge to remove a rattlesnake?
I went to Arizona for vacation a couple months back, and my biggest fear was running into these 🐍
Why did you leave the tail out ? It is part of the snake. I would say it is 5ft, it is a BIG snake. I hope you reply back. Please.
Absolutely beautiful snake, but it's definitely not something I'd be confident being near
I doubt it’s 30 years old. That would be abnormal for a wild snake. But, I’m certainly not the arbiter or western diamond backs so…
9:28 tell me about it
I’d seriously consider another job after that.
We exagerate. lol
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It's amazing nature made such a dumb creature so deadly.
Not so huge he even says little guy I understand those are the most dangerous
If you think that is a big snake, go to Texas
I hope you let it go. It's obviously been doing well without you. To keep this snake in captivity would be cruel.
It has been, or rather was doing well when subdivisions weren’t taking the place of it’s home range. That’s not the case any more. The plan is for release when we can find a place where it can establish itself and not have to run into this problem again.
How do you get the tube off then? Can you tell I’m nervous?
@@vannemocilac274he said that they just crawl out.
I guess it's big to him, but that is a common size for a full grown Diamond back. I think his comments are because he plans on put this on TH-cam. That's an average Rattlesnake.
It’s really not. There are professionals who measure them, myself included. In Arizona and rattlesnake over 4’ verified is a very large snake, and any over 5’ is a very rare individual.