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I have a snake hook right now and it works but I want a field hook now. My current one was a smaller snake hook I bought and took the wood handle off of and taped it inside a old golf club that I took the head off of, then electrical tape together. I got this newer (possibly better and cheaper idea when me and my dad where at the hardware store and he wanted a small paint roller. I looked at is and it was almost the perfect shape for a hook. And only 2.99 it is a small paintroller. I think if I take of the beautiful handle (rubber grip and all) and put the rollers metal piece in either another old golf club head or a nice piece of circular wood. I think this time I will put caulk in the hole before I put the end on. what do you think?
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thanks Josh

0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
2.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 possibly het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1.0 black and white kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 hooknose snake
mice colony almost able to keep up with snakes.
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

As long as it's not too flexible and doesn't hurt the snakes in any way it should be okay. Make sure you grind the end down so it's tapered. Maybe you already mentioned it and I missed it.

Years ago I built several from 1/4" brass rod and old golf clubs. They really took a beating out in the field.
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Current snakes:

0.0.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - Java locale (green)

2.2 Gonyosoma janseni - Seleyar locale (all black)

I looked into the paint roller thing too. They're not really gonna hold up in the field if you do a lot of prying with the stick. I suggest that you buy a potato rake. They're like $8, heavy duty and you can cut the handle shorter if you get a wooden handled one. You can do like I plan to do and chop 2 of the 4 prongs off the end, maybe the inside two. Now you have a great rummaging stick and a decent snake hook too if you need to grapple with one in the field.
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

I actually made my snake hook from a pice of 1/4" aluminum rod. I just used a pipe to bend one side into a workable hook. For the handle, I bought a 1 foot length of thick rubber hose from the same hardware store. Then I just taped it up with electrical tape then added a layer of cloth tape for a nice grip.

The metal rods aren't much more than a couple dollars usually...

I've used it quite a bit to turn over rocks and such, and its held up fine.
Mind you, this isn't a huge stick either. Here in MA, there aren't many large snakes to catch...mostly little guys. But I did use it to pick up a MONSTER watersnake yesterday. That was about the only time I've ever had a REAL use for it.

...now to see if the rumor of the giant black snake down the street from me is true, and I can use it a second time!