I would never stick around long enough to kill one. I almost sat on a baby rattler when I was about 10 playing hide and go seek. It was behind an antique stove my parents had on a cool patio when I lived in the San Joaquin Valley Desert. I was scooting in .... first to sit in the crevice between the stove and patio wall ... but then it rattled! I was screaming so loud my mom had to slap me across the face to get me to shut up to find out if I had got bitten or not.She pulled it out with a hoe and chopped it's head off.
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Yep! That would do it for me.....off with his head! I would have to let someone else do it tho.



Sorry....hope you do not lose any more trees.