How'd ya like to run up on THIS in the woods :P

[W. Gray]

I found this explanation on the web. I supposed the same answer applies to wheat shocks.

Corn shocks standing in corn fields were once
a common sight during harvest. This method
of drying corn was replaced once mechanical
harvesters appeared on the scene.

[ddurbin]

Regarding the photo---it appears to be 'real' and probably is.  However, the location is in question.  I first saw this photo 2-3 years ago and it was reported to have been taken near Medicine Lodge, Ks.  The next time I ran across it, it was credited to somewhere in Colorado.  Now it's Georgia.  It's kind of like the photo of the mountain lions that were reported to have been around Rose Hill, then South Dakota, then Minnesota.  The internet is a great place to spread the truth as well as mistruths. 

[pamsback]

Yeah it said Georgia on the one I got but I don't care where it's from it's a big-ass snake lol

[flintauqua]

Regarding the photo---it appears to be 'real' and probably is.  However, the location is in question.  I first saw this photo 2-3 years ago and it was reported to have been taken near Medicine Lodge, Ks.  The next time I ran across it, it was credited to somewhere in Colorado.  Now it's Georgia.  It's kind of like the photo of the mountain lions that were reported to have been around Rose Hill, then South Dakota, then Minnesota.  The internet is a great place to spread the truth as well as mistruths. 

Brother Dan,

Do you think it is an Eastern or Western Diamondback?

Either way I agree with pam.

[srkruzich]

Regarding the photo---it appears to be 'real' and probably is.  However, the location is in question.  I first saw this photo 2-3 years ago and it was reported to have been taken near Medicine Lodge, Ks.  The next time I ran across it, it was credited to somewhere in Colorado.  Now it's Georgia.  It's kind of like the photo of the mountain lions that were reported to have been around Rose Hill, then South Dakota, then Minnesota.  The internet is a great place to spread the truth as well as mistruths. 

it is possible its from south ga around uhmm waycross or tifton.  I don't recognize the type of housing that is there.  Its awful flat area to be georgia but it is possible if its near the florida line.

It is a diamondback that you would find in georgia especially in the  okefenokee swamp. 

Pretty fella isn't he.

[indygal]

What I know about snakes you could write about on a matchbook, but I have to wonder: is it possible to hold a 100 pound snake the way the man pictured is doing? It doesn't look like he's a big guy but he's not straining even a little to heft up that heavy snake. I don't think I could hoist 50 pounds of anything, dead or alive, that way, and he doesn't look like he's twice as strong as me.

[frawin]

I don't have a clue where this picture might have been taken, but the snake looks like the rattlers we had in West Texas and they were called "coon tails", as the black and white resembles a coon's tail.  Let me tell you, we have seen some VERRY BIG rattlers out there and in dove hunting season, we always wore snake chaps when we were out on the hunting lease.  Even on a warm day in Dec. or Jan. you might run into a rattler sunning himself when you were quail hunting.
Myrna

[dnalexander]

This is one of the tall "tail" internet hoaxes. The picture is real. It original appeared as being from Texas which would make it a Western Diamondback rattler. It also, has appeared as being from Georgia, West Virginia, and North Carolina which would make it an Eastern Diamondback. I think it probably is from Texas. Since the Eastern Diamondback is the largest rattlesnake let just assume that is were it is from. According to SeaWorld Zoo in San Diego the average Eastern is between 5 and 8 feet with a weight of between 5 and 10 lbs. The biggest report of an Eastern Diamondback is an unsubstantiated report of a 20lb. Eastern from the 1930's. I would say that the guy holding it about 5'5 which would make that snake at most 8 feet long. My guess is that snake is closer to 9.7 than it is to 97.0 lbs. Still a very impressive snake. The largest (by weight snake) is the anaconda:

http://anacondasnake.org/blog/anaconda-snakes/the-anacondas-world%E2%80%99s-largest-snake/

The average length of the anaconda snake is about 20-25 feet, its girth is about 13 inches in diameter, and it weighs around 150 kg or more. As per records, the biggest anaconda snake ever found was over 37 feet {11 meters} long. There may well be larger anacondas in existence.

David

[pamsback]

Geez lol  I just thought it was a huge snake, I wasn't vouchin for the story that came with it...it's just the version I got! It's just a picture of a big-ass rattlesnake!

[larryJ]

flint, thanks for refreshing my memory of off loading hay wagons and finding parts of snakes hanging out of the bales.  Then you start looking around for any other parts of snakes you might have already stacked. 

Larryj