Tiger snake pit in his back yard!

Ian Norton is Tasmania’s very own Snake expert. He has put years of near death experiences into running workshops to teach people to manage and relocate problem snakes.

[@AoiTheLaughingMan]

"This one here is extremeeeely quiet. PSSSSHHHHHH -that was close."

[@richardharris885]

This guy from Tassie is awesome.First time I have ever seen.A snake handler.Have so many gadget's.To protect himself.And best of all.First time ever.Ive seen a snake handler.Show he carries a emergency bag.With radios.And a first aid kit.No one ever talks about that.They seem to have to gung ho attitude.She' ll be right mate.10 out of 10 for this guy.Awesome

[@straya4837]

I remember the snake man at La Perouse in Sydney in the 70's. Best days of my life. Love Australia ♥️

[@paulrummery6905]

Have you read this book? John Cann, George Cann's, (one of the la Perouse snake men ) son wrote a great book about the La Pa loop and the snake culture there..its a cracker.

[@KanyeKetchup]

He was still there in 2007

[@booth2710]

"we carry radios' Snakes find listening to the radio quite soothing

[@RebelFilms]

Probably like the shock jocks🤣

[@SnakescatcherAu3095]

Good humble bloke

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

Great bloke, very skilled. 🇦🇺👍

[@SpencerHHO]

That tiger snake is absolutely beautiful.

[@waltersobchak7275]

Good dude. I love snakes

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

How dare someone have the audacity to move? No wonder they bite!

[@TheManOnTheRail]

I have walked many remote hiking paths in Tasmania and frequently come across tiger snakes on the paths or amongst the button grass. I'm always aware they are around but every now and then they spook you and leave you a bit on edge for a while. I always find a clearing to camp and am cautions on entering huts or abandoned settlements. I once did disturb a number of tiger snakes on a river bed as I was trying to make my way out of a canyon and they were on a slope of shale that came down as I was ascending. My lasting memory was watching three or four literally pursue me as I hopped from boulder to boulder along the river. PS Aussies go into the bush wearing thongs armed with a snake bite kit.

[@RebelFilms]

Great story Hick. Best to be cautious..., although I am guilty of only wearing thongs on my 5 day bush walks 😬

[@straya4837]

Would love to have a yarn about your exploits & drama's. I still call Australiahome, but am an old chook living in pommy land now. All the best, darl!!!

[@straya4837]

@@RebelFilms here in the UKthey'dthink you meant slinky undies if you say 'thongs'......now that'dbe a site for sore eye's! : D Xx

[@TheManOnTheRail]

@@straya4837 Oh I wear those too. :)

[@jimcrawford5039]

Snakes don’t pursue you, these were going the same way!

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

Thats my pop Ian Norton

[@RebelFilms]

Cool...what a nice Pop to have

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

@@RebelFilms hes awesome. If you watch a show called bushwacked you can see me in one of the episodes where Ian captured the snakes in my mums house.

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

@HorseDentures Ardern thanks man.

[@sallyjohnson5985]

Great informative video. Love these demos but makes me cringe. I older I get the more fearful of them I get and we have quite a few of them around our district. Always chilling to read how some people manage to get bitten even without realising the cause. That’s the danger when no immediate action is taken.

[@RebelFilms]

Nice Guy Scare me too!

[@JBplumbing12]

A lot of snakes around my area too. Several locals bitten before seeing the snake.

[@Beamin-vt7jm]

He is very casual around those snakes 🐍

[@spacewalktraveller1]

The Tiger snakes in Tasmania are less venomous than the Tigers snakes on the Australia mainland. I've seen a lot in Australia while out walking and I've seen a few in Tasmania. I've never had one chase me. The closes I've put my foot next to one was about 15cm. When I saw it, my heart rate jump up. I was lucky it didn't bite me.

[@bogtrotter10]

He’s got some beauties

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

Hes my pop

[@premanandamalik9767]

80th you want it all 00weoo_d80eko Elf8d(dsq9e0spdp3OPPO

[@pearlharris1881]

I want to meet this guy so I can learn how to relocate these scary snakes....

[@Steven_Rowe]

What a great place to hold political venues. All politicians welcome.

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

For every lie they tell we throw another snake in! I'm all for it.

[@adriankingdon3055]

I was bitten in the pit once, never going out with her again...

[@RebelFilms]

Feel you pain bro

[@jamessim1858]

Sicko!

[@commissary4196]

that pack was so overkill but he probably knows more than me fair game

[@margyb7469]

We were out horse riding, about 4/5 people when a tiger snake started making it way towards us. I have been told tiger snakes can be aggressive in mating season. Tiger snakes are one of Australia's most aggressive snake, beware when your out walking. Saying all that, I was once out horse riding on my own when my horse side stepped a puddle when I looked down I was a tiger snake, coiled up only a few inches away from my horses foot, never striked her, maybe because we were both calm as we didn't see it till the last minute, another time had a small tiger living in our chook pen, again didn't know it was there when I moved to he chook laying box to clean be and my young 5/6 yo son stated there was a snake there and said it do calmly that I didn't believe him at first, but sure enough it was there coiled up, I had to shoe it out of the shed and it didn't act aggressively. My favourite snakes are red bellied black snake.

[@RebelFilms]

Yes, staying calm is the key...but they do give you a fright. Last week I turned over a sheet of corrogated iron to reveal three red belly blacks. Nice staoty thank you

[@sherwoodd1]

True, red bellies have a good temperament. I nearly stood on one fishing, didn't see it until I saw it moving under me. It was just going on its business.

[@straya4837]

Good one!!!

[@jimcrawford5039]

Very interesting indeed.

[@Xanduur]

I happy we have only four (4) native venomous snakes here in the US and only three (3) are a concern.

[@RebelFilms]

Plenty dangerous ones here

[@MrDeano-eu9rg]

Plenty of other problems there though mate.

[@andydavies381]

Great bloke

[@charlieleonardo]

Cool!

[@TIGERGUTS]

A snake bite repair kit is a bodybag. Mitch Hedburg.

[@bellcstu]

Yeah mate

[@damogug9376]

How high are the walls of the pit?

[@RebelFilms]

Bout 1.5 meters

[@mrchango7510]

@@RebelFilms how deep into the ground are the fence panels buried

[@RebelFilms]

@@mrchango7510 Hmmm I really have no idea

[@falseprofit4u]

Relocated snake via 32mm poly pipe.

[@SteveSmith-zz4ih]

i have no trouble with tigers, blacks and copperheads down our way BUT i don't like Browns - super fast and sometimes jump /airborne when they bite. Bad feckerz. i remeber walking into an old ruins years ago had a good look first and within a minute i look down and there's a big tiger beside me - i jumped one way and he took off the other. Scared the the living bejeezis out of me.

[@Carefreeblues]

Why not carry some antivenom in the pack? Or is not sold freely?

[@Abstractivity_]

it is a long process to collect and then properly synthesis the antivenin (yes it is spelt that way). It also isn't possible to have it on hand because it needs to refrigerated and administered similar to the way a blood transfusion is done. Or so I am told.

[@straya4837]

Eastern brown or is it Taipan?

[@RebelFilms]

I think they’re all tiger snakes

[@high_runner]

O they must make a lot of noise, while he walks.

[@randomfpv22]

Oh crud. I just started managing a caravan park. Better put away my long handled shovel and do some learning

[@drizzle669]

DANGER NOODLE

[@stuarth43]

how does anyone know which snake is the most venomous? I could name 30 that are all claimed MOST

[@RebelFilms]

Beats me.

[@andrewmcewan7381]

Easy mate. One that kills you the quickest is the most venomous.

[@whatnow9288]

@@andrewmcewan7381 And there is only one way to find out! lol

[@andreasnidras1946]

I'm always scared of snakes, i don't think I will survive a snake bite, damn

[@rabbitssuffolkmccoury1125]

You are quite the badass

[@peternibbs5190]

I've been tagged a few times not a great experience

[@gregorchard7881]

We used to raid their nests in the hayshed as kids, Take the young ones home....Wouldn't do it now, 50 years later...

[@HT-vf7ok]

The best thing you can do with those snakes is let them go back into the bush where they belong.

[@marilynbarker8255]

I wanted to visit Tasmania until I saw those snakes!

[@RebelFilms]

Dont worry, They are all over Oz

[@SuperEdge67]

Marilyn Barker There are heaps in Perth. I live opposite a park infested with them.

[@marilynbarker8255]

Scary!!

[@SuperEdge67]

Marilyn Barker Leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone.

[@marilynbarker8255]

Is it that simple??!! I suppose if I were on a tour they would know to keep us away from snakes! I live on Long Island in New York. We have NO snakes here except maybe a harmless garden snake! I've always been drawn to visit Tasmania.... we'll see!! I've been to mainland Australia.

[@cobbsta88]

First time I've seen a snake catcher use so much equipment. The ones I see just kind pick it up by the tail and drop it in the bag.

[@RebelFilms]

thats nice to know

[@cobbsta88]

@@RebelFilms that's not a facisious judgement

[@RebelFilms]

@@cobbsta88 No worries Cob, I have heard his technique is a little old school and other snake handlers do as you suggested. Cheers

[@wuggawugga9965]

2:51 ahahaha

[@grassyfieldz4578]

"extremely quiet" almost gets bit

[@adamwuksta3255]

My worst nightmare! Can you not carry anti venom in that pack?

[@RebelFilms]

Hmm I think just pressure bandage

[@DerNoobster]

anti venom is insanely expensive

[@slimnics]

got to do something to provoke it, like moving, geeeez

[@darrenjpeters]

If it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid, you were just lucky.

[@jimcook2715]

Glad that's your hobby not mine! I race cars that's dangerous enough

[@jackhogan3181]

Some of the worst Snake Handling skills you’ll see

[@briannabonfiglio4189]

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[@dagnabbit6187]

Allegedly the Mojave Desert Rattlesnake neurotoxic venom Type A is more potent than the Australian Tiger Snake. That is what I read .

[@CatManCatClan]

No thank you!

[@americantarmacker514]

Did his snakes kill him yet ???

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

No! He's my pop and he's still Alive and he got rid of the snakes

[@jaykaye7025]

Is it true that you can get snakes in the city sometimes?

[@bushratbeachbum]

Why did he get rid of them?

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

@@bushratbeachbum because he didnt have the time to look after them. He released them back into the wild tho 🙂

[@ChristianContemporaryMusic02]

@@jaykaye7025 yeah if the city is located near bushland. My pop Ian who is in this video lives in the countryside so he sees snakes quite often in the summer

[@nicks4107]

He get bitten one day

[@adamc4655]

Definitely not a hobby I'll be taking up

[@Chance-ry1hq]

It is amazing he hasn’t been bitten more. He seems rather careless.

[@RebelFilms]

He’s a pro

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

There's plenty of people here in Tassie who have been bitten, they just take it in their stride. I was talking to a tree feller who has been bitten numerous times, showed me the marks. He said it's not uncommon to fell a tree and a whole family of tigers emerge and one or two will stand up and have a go. Tuff as nails these blokes.

[@christophera556]

One thing would finish a tiger snake a twelve guage shotgun from a distance of fifteen metres.

[@andrewmcewan7381]

Do us a favour and use that on yourself champ. 👌

[@stinkeye460]

I hate pythons and Water snakes in America.

[@shibbymiyah6614]

I hate snakes...they are so dangerous that it scares the shit outta me

[@andrewmcewan7381]

They probably hate you too. And are scared of you too.

[@frankwhite6482]

Yeah but a king will have it for a snack

[@jodiridley6087]

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