Can a Snake Really Cross a Horsehair Rope? | You Asked For It
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2024
- Under the prairie stars, a cowboy rests, trusting that a deadly prairie killer won't cross the horsehair rope around him, but an experiment with rattlesnakes debunked this superstition, proving that snakes cross horsehair ropes without hesitation.
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The test confirmed beyond question that snakes will immediately exit a horsehair circle. Definitely safe to sleep in there.
That's a great comment!
Just one more reason why I will bug in rather than bug out. Snakes, spiders other critters, that's just a big NO.
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Trust thu sciunce!
I'm LOL!!! Just put down the rope, give it a minute for the snakes to get out, and get in.
It works. You just need to wrap the rope in copper wire and hook that up to 240V circuit.
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Can't remember exactly which
cactus has the 240 electrical outlets, and which ones are 110
Yeah, and then roll over on it while sleeping 😂
Haha funny asf
Even as a thought experiment that wouldn’t work because the rope/wire would be grounded and no current would flow around the coil. Electric fences are insulated from the ground.
Mythbusters before Mythbusters
I checked the comments to make sure somebody was on it 😂
This brings back memories. I grew up in the 50s and 60s. You asked for it was one of my favorite tv shows.
That was my first thought, too. 😄
Loved that show ...
Same here...
It obviously works. Every single snake went outside the rope, making inside the rope the safest place to be.
Exactly....wrong experiment.
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You're right. I think they think its a bigger snake, and the assumption that it was bc it was rough was an erroneous one. They don't want to be surrounded by a bigger snake. They got the hell outta there fast.
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lmao!🤣
Wow, I am 80 and grew up in the Arizona desert. My Father was a water well driller when we were growing up and we often camped at the sites of his wells. There were three of us brothers and my Dad told us that if we put the rope around our bedrolls we would be safe from snakes. My Dad and two brothers slept on the ground and I slept on the back of the pickup. That was my bed!!!
Smart move❗️👍😂
So, if you are worried about snakes coming into your blanket at night, then this is a good thing to believe in -- you don't have many options, in the vast majority of nights snakes are not going to slide into your blanket while you sleep, anyway, and this will make you feel safer and sleep better. So, magic rope for the win!
Smart Kid !!!
well after all it was the truck bed so why not?
You were a lot safer there. Probably I’d be more worried about the insects like scorpions than snakes. Snakes I hear will snuggle up for heat but they move away in the morning if it comes down to the worst. (I just wouldn’t sleep on the ground without a zippered tent around me for security against general varmints).
The cowboys would sleep inside the rope…once the snakes left.
LOL!
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Exactly. They create a total snake exclusion zone.
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It's not the rope that they're afraid of. It's the space inside that rope that's poses the danger. They had to get out of there before the aura of the encircled space destroyed them.
I worked in the field doing survey work for 15 years. I saw a lot of snakes in that time and every single one of them was trying as hard as it could to stay away from me in any way it could. It's taking them by surprise when trouble can happen.
I see harmless snakes at a place they live on a walking trail here. Trying to get a good pic with my phone camera is tough! They're shy and like to slip away. It seems to me that snakes generally aeen't an issue unless you corner them.
The problem was that it gets cold at night and the snakes would get in cowboys bedrolls to stay warm.
Also, being a nice warm lump in the sand on a chilly night
Snakes trying to stay away from you when you are standing/walking or making noise says nothing about what they will do when you are asleep lying on the ground.
@@wownewstome6123 They aren’t going to mess with you. Also, they can smell. They know what you are.
I’ve certainly have seen my mother-in-law cross the horse hair ropes
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Lol😊
Clearly she isn't deadly or venomous, as you survived until now. I here they do get nasty dangerous if you divorce.
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Can we get back to these types of shows? Please? The world is on fire.
I agree!
Impossible. They would not be able to do a 3 and a halve minute show without mentioning global warming, pro trans propaganda or giving any political commentary.
Oh brother, i was thinking that EXACT same thing! i felt so calm and relaxed watching this. No being forced to pretend to believe in something or else taking the chance of being attacked for thinking for yourself. What have we done to ourselves?
but that would be normal common sense thinking we can't have any of that you must follow the brainwashing screens message.
@@mathewhunt81Even better, not having to hear about how global warming is creating a shortage of horsehair ropes and increasing the attacks of rattlesnakes on humans because of a shortage of their normal prey.
I liked the derpy music they played for the sidewinder as he was trying to get out
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a cute little bugger. lol
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I wonder if that "derpy music" would be playing in your mind if it started crawling your way!
I ain't exactly afraid of snakes (more of a healthy respect) but I'd definitely be tap dancing out the door!
I bet it was a female snake lol
I have never seen a Rat Snake (we call 'em Black Snakes in NC) cross a garden hose. I thought grandpa was kiddin' when he told me that about sixty years ago, but in all the times Jake has turned up in my yard, he never has. The last time I had to irrigate the garden, I walked out to move a sprinkler and a big one, over six feet, just laid there beside that hose. I even stepped on his tail to get him to go over, but he just struck at me and wouldn't budge. I backed off and watched him, he eventually climbed up one of the Pecan trees, and over the hose to the Dogwood and back down. I guess he thought, "I ain't crawlin' over that dude man, he's 250 feet long, and he'll kick my ass!"
In our stable in Ohio, not only was there ambient horsehair, but two garden hoses: one in the stable, the other in the paddock. Because field mice love grain, they infested the place, and because black snakes love mice, they were frequent intruders. When we or a horse spooked them they slithered at flank speed over the hoses and into the woods.
The horses didn't exactly freak out over a snake, because they realized pawing the dirt floor skaddadled them.
I had a bay gelding that was pretty good at splattering mice running on a low horizontal brace on the wall. The down dide was he often kicked loose wall planks.
@@spacelemur7955 if I was Jake, I'd probably bust a move over what I thought was another snake, rather than face certain death by being trampled by a horse....ain't I seen you on "Leave it to Lemur?
I also live in North Carolina and black snakes are black snakes. A rat snake is all brown and we have those type of snakes also.
@@madamerican7135 All the tobacco field subdivision transplants call black snakes "rat snakes" around here. I call him Jake, he's your friend if you have grain fields on the farm. They DO eat rats. I walked up on one down at the pond putting the squeeze on a boss hoss bullfrog. What county do you live in? Harnett here.
They forgot the part about soaking the rope in kerosene first, then lighting it after they formed the circle with it. That works pretty good for a while.
Keeps you & your bedroll toasty.
If something is soaked in kerosene or gasoline, that will keep snakes away because they don’t like the smell. But why would anyone want to sleep with kerosene stink all around them? I sure wouldn’t.
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oh oh oh Johny Cash Johny Cash!
@trinawhitener7753 I think you missed the part of the joke where he said you set the rope a fire & that the flames would keep the snakes away for awhile.
When I was a little kid this show was on air after I got home from school. All the kids my age talked about it in school, but my mom wouldn't let me watch it. Bummed me out. As an adult I asked her why? She said, "You wanted to watch "US Fort' and you knew that we didn't let you watch any war shows." What?!? She thought I was saying 'US Fort' instead of, "You Asked For It." Okey Dokey.
Parents always think the most ridiculous stuff will "ruin" their kid. When the most likely thing to ruin a kid is not giving them a good grasp on the world so they know right from wrong. But I guess their parents failed them on that too as they think tv shows are wrong.
If watching violence made you violent then everyone would be a killer, cuz not only would there be a large section of the pop watching violence, but then they would be committing violence IRL and everyone else would be exposed to it too.
Its like people put no thought into things but base their lives on them anyway.
You mom was wise. I used to watch every episode of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It turned me into a stone cold coyote killer. I bought every rocket Acme sold. Hard life.
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@@WillieStubbshahaha… perfect response Willie 😂
Nowerdays kids watch everything.
Years ago, I heard snakes will not cross a lariat rope. I did not know if it were true, but I did know how difficult it would be for a cowboy to fall asleep on the ground while worried a snake might crawl into bed with him. The rope thing eases the mind and lets the cowboy rest in peace, that is, until he wakes with a snake. Then things get exciting. Until then, he saws logs.
TBH, they probably got more protection from the warmth of the firepit than the rope.
That being said, most snakes don't do so well at night, so as long as there's not a snake in there when you go to bed, there's probably not going to be one there the next morning either. Especially, if you're getting up and going to bed to avoid the worst of the heat.
Maybe the rope let the snakes know to be polite and leave before the cowboy wakes up.
@@clawsoon
A gentlemen's agreement of sorts.
The snake is better than coffee to get up and out of bed in the morning.
@@LSwick-ss6nm
You're morning wake up call, Ssssssssir.
You gotta sleep with a mongoose and you're ok👍🏻
or a roadrunner
I keep one in my pants at all times just in case.
No, mongoose vs rattler usually has a bad ending for the mongoose. Rattlesnakes fight very differently than cobras.
especially if it's named riki tiki tavi!
@@margaretwordnerd5210 How about Guinea fowl?
*What I found most interesting was the fact that each of those snakes went in a completely different direction of each other!* *Like a perfectly cut pizza!*
well its not like they are friends.
@@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive 🤣 *True, true.*
I wonder if they would have ENTERED the circle.
@@SlickArmor *And perform a snake dance!*
@radicalrick9587 *only* *if* *you* *play* *a* *flute*
A herpetologist told me one surface snakes don`t like are smooth surfaces . They feel vulnerable because they can`t get belly traction . Makes sense to me .
🙃 Reticulated Python Owners putting Glass Panels on the Floor to safely re-capture their escaped Pet.
🙃 lol now I wonder if this would actually work
I have a ball python, he loves trying to climb the walls in his enclosure. Snakes are dumb and have horrible eyesight, to them, it was just a weird rock.
I don't know one way or the other about this, but just keep in mind that anybody can call themself a herpetologist, and this sounds a lot like people saying snakes don't like crawling over horsehair rope because the fibers tickle their bellies. That made sense to a lot of people too, but we just saw the reality of it.
I can’t get traction on the bathroom tiles when I’m crawling back to bed after drinking all night.
It would have to be coated in oil to keep a snake from climbing it. They can climb any type pole. Plastic or metal.
Hey, thanks for that video!!! I did some cowboy'in back in the 1970's in Kansas and Montana and I'd ALWAYS hear that horsehair lariat thing about keepin' snakes away while you're sleepin' on the ground. I never found one in my bedroll, but I can guarantee that if we'd seen a snake during the day, somebody would bring up that story and one or two of the crew would lay out their rope around their bedroll. The only "intruder" I ever found I'd slept with was a big black scorpion that dropped out of my blanket roll as I shook it out one morning in Florida. I'm really glad I didn't roll over on that! Believe it or not, I didn't stomp it. I just let it go on living its scorpion life, since it didn't sting me during the night.
One good turn deserves another! 🦂
@@h.calvert3165 True Dat!! It's kinda' been my theme of life. I'm 68 years old been a soldier twice, a journalist, farmer and judge. The old "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" is a good course to steer your life by.
@@h.calvert3165💚💯✊️🪶🐾👣👍😁
I had a scorpion in my sleeping bag once in Florida when I was a kid. Got me 9 times. Found another in silverware drawer a few years back. . Also woke up to a stinging sensation between my legs one morning in my bed. I knew what it was instantly. Threw off the covers and there he was, ready to zap the twins one more time
@@georgeburnett358 Forgive me for chuckling about "the twins." But it's such a great story and would immediately catch the attention of every guy who ever stumbles upon it. Glad you survived!
In India, many poor farmers in rural areas sleep on a mat directly on the ground. They also have an incredibly venomous snake there known as the common krait which hunts rodents mostly at night. These snakes may seek the warmth of person sleeping and will curl-up next to them. The person rolls over on the krait which then bites them. This snake's bite is so painless that the person doesn't even wake up from it and they die in their sleep. Believe it or not.
That's awful! I can't imagine how I'd feel if I woke up dead. I'd much prefer to wake up before I die.
@@moodymac so clever
It sounds like a better end than what's waiting for most.
@@mmaaddict78💚💯✊️🪶🐾👣👍😁
Thats quite a nice way to go actually
I ran this experiment at a science fair one time and came up with similar results. However, the judges were not impressed.
It's like MythBusters 1955
You asked for it! Man, I have completely forgotten about that show. I remember watching that show way back in the “50”s when I was 8 or 9 yo.
Happy to bring back the memories!
Same hear remember it well
I'm a few years younger than you. I might have seen it, but it must be before I turned 5. I don't remember it.
I have a magic rock that keeps away tigers
It really works. I've never had a tiger sneak up on me
How old were you when you got this magic rock, which works so well? 🪨 🚫 🐅
Because you live in Iceland?
I have one that keeps piranha away.. Works very well at the beach.
Yet.
Ok Lisa
Used to watch that show all the time as a little fellow. 77 now and time to bring back a show that’s actually informative and a teaching moment. Goodbye street thugs and violent killer robots.
What prime time to be a human, mid-forties til the mid 70's. Drugs ( cocaine, heroin, then crack ) started violence among the weak, while unregulated bankers and venture capitalists started the violence among the middle class. Now we have thugs and killer robots as you mention. I feel sorry for the kids today, but can you imagine what they will feel sorry about for the younger generation when they become old? I'm of the belief this is why we live about 80-90 years, the changes would be unbearable, as they almost are now. Best to you Dave.
I agree. 72 here,
Yes please!!
yep!
@@sandspar Amen!
My grandfather, who was deaf in an age long before any closed captioning, loved this show because it was very visual and he could understand exactly what was going on without any sound. Strangely though, his other favorite show was "Divorce Court" which was just people in a courtroom talking, and without sound, I could never figure out what he got out of that show.
when i was in film school, he told me
"if you can explane everything in a sence wikthout a word you did it right"
i think alot of movies forget about that little trick
Folks got pretty animated on Divorce Court. Maybe that make it easier to understand?
Communication is only partially sound... ☆
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Can you imagine running around that set catching all those rattlesnakes.
Even worse. That was actually the desert, lol.
And those where snakes they caught in the desert this was back when you could mess with wildlife in America like Steve Irwin now everyone gets upset when somebody fishes
I bet they just let them go
First of all it looks like a set. Second of all you can't just release random rattlesnakes from different parts of the country in one new spot.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman Like we just watched them do...😒
The snakes: "Let's get out of here, I heard cowboys like to sleep in circles of horse hair just like this one!"
Sometimes all it takes is marking your territory, so the critters know where they will and won't get in a fight with a human.
There is going to be a lot of cowboys getting a restless night's sleep for now on!!
I wouldn't worry about it. Someone probably just sold him a donkey hair rope but called it horse hair to get a better price. Don't believe everything you see on the internet. Just make sure it's genuine horse hair, and you'll be good.
I don't know that they still sleep on the ground without a tent. These days, there are quads and helicopters and the ability to set something up that provides a bit more protection.
Sidewinder is like where is everyone
It was showing of by going over the rope sideways instead of straight like the others.
Funny hearing people who were born in the 1800s talking about "old-timers"
That's me now as a 60's bay🙂
Let us not forget that a cowboy's meal would often consist of 'beans', so maybe it was the effect from their 'tooting' that kept the snakes away 💨+🐍=🪦
There is a bit of a difference in circumstances though. In "myth" the rope keeps snakes out. Snakes which would be in there natural habitat at there own leisure and without outside stresses like being confined within a box for who knows how long and then dumped into the center of some random place with other snakes of various species.
A snake that isnt panicked or upset may be less inclined to cross such a barrier than a snake which is fleeing or angry
I thought the same thing
@@mudbug535 realistically i think it l was just a nice thought or comforting lie that would allow more timid folks to get some sleep a bit easier. I cant see any snake being aware that they were even crossing any sort of barrier
Yes this experiment didn't really test the claim.
Its not the rope keeping the snakes out, it is the very large predator sleeping inside the rope that the snakes are avoiding.
A creature far too large for the snake to eat; and whilst a venomous snake with potent venom could kill that predator the snake gains nothing and only expended venom it now has to replenish when the snake could've easily avoided the large unswallowable predator.
in case it wasnt clear enough the predator = human(s)
@idminister The very act of that predator touching the rope and the rope being embedded with the predator's skin cells and smell can send a signal to the snake to understand the nature of the perimeter.
Very interesting. Sometimes the old shows are better than the new ones.
And if this show were on today, there would have been commercials breaking up the program before they could finish!
Would have been a RUclips hit!
I guess it was for comfort more than anything, I know I would feel more comfortable laying on the ground if I thought a rope would save me from snakes 😂
I know huh. It not like its a circle of salt after all.
What about scorpions?
@@seeharvesterScorps love climbing, there are also many arboreal species, they would easily climb over this.
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No kidding! That's why I always sleep in a well zipped up tent. I did discover a snake under my tent one time though.
That was exciting!
That cute little sidewinder was not only determined, it was also hilarious. 🐍 🤣
I heard a British veteran of the North African campaign say that they would pour Diesel fuel on the sand in a circle around their tents to discourage snakes from entering, I'm not sure if that included Scorpions, though.
Makes sense. Pour diesel on grass and you will have a bare patch for a very long time. Diesel is poisonous with a very strong smell, and does not evaporate like petrol. Not many diesel powered horses in the old west though.
I loved this show as a kid. So I sent my request to You Asked For It to explain the mystery of how manufacturers put cereals into a box LOL!. My young mind just had no clue how they did that. Sadly, YAFI sent me back a very nice reply saying (paraphrasing) “thanks for the idea but we won’t be doing a show on boxing cereal.” I was such a nerd.
😂😂😂 I hope you got your answer later in life nerd.. that's so cute😂
That little sidewinder wasn't scared, he was just small enough that he felt he needed a little more of a run to get over the rope.
they all wanted out of the circle.
I'd consider that effective snake repellant.
Exactly, that was a bum test. The rope is to keep snakes out not in. And look all the snakes left the circle immediately. Once they were out, not one of them returned. So I'd say go ahead sleep on the ground inside the rope circle, the snakes hated being there.
I really hope this is a joke, but considering that 70 million people voted for trump, I can safely say that a lot of people really are dim enough to believe this.
in case this isn't a joke, the snakes left because snakes don't hang out in open areas after some giant dumped them there after they were stuck in a box. They would have left even if you had food and no rope there. Animals dont like to be contained in boxes. Its pretty universal that they run away as soon as they are free.
In eastern Europe shepherds have a similar myth. They put a strip of wool around them to stop snakes - probably works just as well as horse hair.
Things would turn out differently if the rope was made from Chuck Norris' beard hair.
That would have its own practical problems, though.
This only proves that the rope won’t keep snakes inside the circle. It doesn’t prove that the rope can’t keep the snakes OUTSIDE.
Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. They got out of that circle mighty fast. Maybe there’s a reason for that which would apply to them NOT wanting to be inside that circle. Well, anyway, some cowboys slept better for their belief!
..."That leaves, uh, NOBODY!!"...😂😂😂😂😂😂
This test is flawed, the rope is supposed to stop the snakes getting in, not designed to stop them getting out 🤷🏼
I'll credit you with pointing this out before
i did but will leave my comment as it adds to the narrative.
You obviously have some critical thinking ability, so, did you take the jabs or say no thanks?
@steverichardson6920 Right or wrong, you make one Excellent point.👍The snakes inside that circle, not only being confronted with other, even Different, snakes, they have not even the least amount of 'cover'. Of course they would want to get 'out'.
So certainly NOT a conclusive test.
Hmmmm....😯🧐
The snakes are suddenly dumped out of a box into a strange environment so they are going to feel threatened and even panicked. Information gained in such a manner as this must be considered inconclusive at best.
I wondered about the same thing. If there was food inside the rope, would they have gone in?
Then again, I spent a lifetime in maintenance, so I want to know how it works.
Today there's 987,643,675 more snakes in California because of these four that were released
And 1 billion less rodents
I thought most of the snakes were in Washington DC
they also evolved into the venomous Californian wokeheads
You are correct 👍
And they all are bred to cross horsehair ropes. Good job TV guys...cowboys are less safe due to you.
Snakes are no respecters of boundries
The plus side is that they don't actually 'hunt' humans; however, I could see if the weather was a bit cool, they might want to curl up with a warm human...OUCH!!
@@culcune Like in an old episode of "The Rifleman."
That just proves that the snakes can get out, not that they would go inside.
Will a snake cross a rope? What did you see?
@@moregrouchy Well, the sidewinder didn't want to cross it at first. He was desperate to get out. If he wasn't trying to escape, then he might not have even attempted it thinking it was a snake or a part of the cowboy sleeping inside the ring.
There could still be some truth to it just not in the way they expect. It's not just if they will cross it if that's their only option. It's if they will be willing to cross it to slither over a big cowboy on the other side. Snakes usually try to avoid people but can still end up in a bed by accident looking for something warm or just traveling through. If the rope inconveniences them or makes the sleeping cowboy look more like something they want to avoid, then it can help.
@@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 I think you're right 👍
the myth was they would not cross the rope. They all crossed the rope. I cant believe how many of you are just like "why would I believe my own lying eyes when i can just move the goalposts and stay wrong?"
I hear people talk about how beautiful snakes are. Nope, I hate them!
I feel the same way sbout dogs, actually. I guess we are all different. :)
Depends on the eyes of the beholder, I have over 20 Tarantulas and I hear the hate word all the time.
Maybe there's a difference between daylight and night when it comes to a snake crossing over the rope.
perhaps
No.
Maybe we all need to go back to wearing suits on TV?
And shopping and flying
Maybe! There's definitely something classic and sharp about the way people used to dress on TV. It might bring back a touch of elegance and formality that we've lost over the years.
Back when society was polite
People still dressed up to get on the airlines back in the '80s.
@@CIintB3ASTW0oD I didn't.
They'll get out, they just won't go in... ha ha.. didn't test that
boy, I haven't thought about "you asked for it" for many years. what a great show!!!
That sand was scorching hot, they all wanted to find some shade.
They did it wrong. It's said that snakes will not cross a rope into a circle, not that they wouldn't cross a rope to get out of the circle. 😂
no, they said the snake wouldn't cross the rope. it did. they all did. You are just mad you believed bs. Or you're mad to find out daddy isn't always right. Either way. grow up.
A snake hunting at night is different to bunch of snakes tipped out of a box in daylight.
Of course they would cross a rope 😂 They have to cross over long sticks in the wild and that would look basically the same for them haha. This show looks so awesome!
I live in the desert...snakes go where ever they please 😅🤣😂
Exactly! We've got a few here in Australia. "Snake barriers" might make you feel better but the snakes couldn't really give af 😂 all snakes can climb trees and swim and pretty much go where they please
They forgot that the cowboys drank a bottle of whiskey before sleeping within the rope. Drunkenness is the key!
What this proved to me was that I will be extremely safe in my horsehair rope bubble. They fled that thing like a sinking ship. Sweet dreams.
Today I learned that snakes can indeed cross horsehair rope when highly stressed and are fleeing from humans, how this have anything to do with the safety of using rope for safety when sleeping at night remains unclear
the myth was they would not cross the rope. They all crossed the rope. I cant believe how many of you are just like "why would I believe my own lying eyes when i can just move the goalposts and stay wrong?"
@@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive Yes in this specific set of circumstances they have proved that snakes will cross the rope, highly stressed and fleeing from perceived danger, not to mention that snakes like to stay in shelter during daytime. But the context of the myth was all about how it would keep you safe at night (when it's dark and the snake is relaxed).
It's like claiming that the rat park experiment proves that rats will become drug addicts and overdose if given the choice between drugged and clean water, while in reality if you just give the rats some toys and friends none of the rats will do the drugs. Or how the rat utopia experiments showed the effects of overpopulation, while in reality the rats were probably just bored out of their minds due to having zero stimulation. The circumstances of an experiment will have drastic effects on the outcome, and the researchers conclusion. This experiment with the rope is so far removed from the circumstances of the myth that's it's practically pointless in that context.
It was about if snakes would cross this rope. But I agree that it should be if a sleeper is safe from snakes inside a rope. I think a snake (who rely on smell) would nor cross a boundary reeking of dirty cowboy.
A cowboy named Jack Stubendorf? C'mon man !
And from Massachusetts....
That sidewinder is me trying to make up my mind about anything 😂
Cutest little dude 🥰🥰🥰🥰
What's a snake? Somthing you make a circle out of to keep the ropes away.
They will exit the circle but, not enter.
Love the side winder, looked funny trying to get a run😂😂😂
And they're off! After spending last three months ending every evening with an episode of Have Gun Will Travel, I can say we need a lot more of these old time clips. I swear my next horse and dog will be called Paladin and Hey Boy. ❤
So the safest place to sleep is in the circle after all!
The trick to that is the cowboy would char the rope in the fire so the snake would smell the fire
Snakes fear fire because they have hard time escaping
now you are just making up your own myths...
I've even seen snakes wear fire retardant condoms and asbestos respirators. They do hate fire.
Different question. All the snakes in the box together got me wondering why the snake species didn’t bite or attack each other?
Most snake species aren't aggressive.
So long as it's for a short while and the snakes aren't too agitated upon collection they'll be fine with each other for a few hours.
Professional courtesy.
@@tywebbgolfenthusiast8950 Same reason they don't bite attorneys, right? 🙃
Also rattlesnakes are one of the few snakes you can cohab. they are surprisingly social.
Boys most cowboys used Hemp rope, it was more available and hangmen would use nothing else, so I think that's what was used. For added measure some peed on the part of the rope they didn't handle as much.😆
Maybe the cowboys were not attacked because THEY did not threatened the snakes while being asleep!?
Wow! I remember this as a kid. Glad to see it again....
It works if you soak it in kerosene and light it up
One of the best videos I've seen on RUclips for a while. thanks.
LOL :)
GREAT VIDEO, GREAT CONTENT!
KEEP PUBLISHING MORE SUCH PERLS OF THE PAST!
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Smoke or soak the rope with sulfur. The rotten egg smell goes away, but the snake will still be repulsed. I learned this from my grand mother. She had a length of rope at all entrances. Was grandma correct? I have confidence she knew the old tricks.
Um snakes eat eggs, pretty sure they aren't picky on the age of the egg.
@ntal5859 respectfully, eggs are not made from sulfur. It's not the smell. It is the sulfer. When we dry figs or apricots, we sulfer smoke them, quickly, before laying them out in the sun. This keeps the insects off. Maybe the same applies to snakes.
“That’s a piece of foolishness, you’re showing your ignorance there Cogburn.”
Okay I've just been blown away.
The first host of You Asked for it I ever knew was Bill Burrows. That was shown on syndication here in the 1970s.
This is a window into a whole history of the show I never knew about.
I guess I'm a new subscriber. 👍
I dont know how it reached my feed but Im glad it did. What a cool video.
I question the methodology. Bright summer? day and the sun beating down on the open ground. Snakes lead solitary lives. Several different species of snakes mixed together in a confining box. All they want to do it get far away from each other and find a cooler hidden spot to access their new habitat. In the dark, the snakes comes upon a horse hair rope. Does he cross it or is there an ingrained instinct that alerts the snake to the fact that there large hoofed animals in the area. Or does it stand out as something not normally found in his habitat, which puts him on the alert. The decision is made by the snake to explore left or right, but crossing the rope is just not a good idea.
All the points you made are good ones! Especially about the sun beating down on the open ground.
Snakes are crawling around on hot sand. How sensitive can that skin be ??
That little sidewinder was too damn cute. I love their little wiggle dance crawl.
Sidewinder figuring out he needed to approach the rope from a different angle is quintessential animal kingdom intellect 👌
The snakes can go out of the rope circle but can they go in !???
Likely more psychological than truth !
It gave Greenhorns a chance to get some shut-eye !
Otherwise, they'd fall asleep in the saddle !
Something you can't have on a Trail drive !
There might be some truth to it actually. The bushmen in australia would piss in a circle around their camping site. Snakes hate the scent of humans, we smell like predators or something probably and they will actively avoid our smell given half a chance. I dont doubt the rope method works, on the condition its soaked in fresh urine.
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Interesting....!
🤔....?
Maybe that's where the expression,
" Go Piss up a Rope " came from ? 😉
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@@RealitiesCookiejar I had a teacher long ago tell our class that a man studying wolves in the wild had accidentally picked a spot to camp where the wolves walked through nightly, but once he started marking his territory with urine each evening, they would go around it.
@@wownewstome6123 There was a movie about that, Never Cry Wolf, or at least he does the same thing.
This was Awesome!
Gosh, I loved watching YOU ASK FOR IT way back in the 60’s.
Always liked this old show.
🤣Yeah but will they go back in?
Not one came back inside. There is your answer.
what an awesome show format
Thanks. This show was a classic in the 1950's. I think it influenced me to question assumptions. Bravo.
This is the original Myth Buster show.
I guess the ones that actually tested this never lived to say it didn't work
Along these lines - I was always told that a mouse won't cross a 3-inch white line. Back in the day, farmers painted these around their granaries.
Back when I was a boy, there were old-timers still around that believed snakes had legs under the scales of their belly.
You can SEE the vestigial legs on some modern day snakes. Snakes had legs, and lost them due to evolution.
You can see for yourself. Search Some snakes have legs! dnareptiles95
Some snakes do use their ribs kind of like legs and you can sort of see them poking through the skin. Then there's the even weirder legless lizards that are lizards, but they appear very snake like. Only things such as eyelids and externally visible ears distinguish them from snakes.
This taught me on thing. Snakes don’t like humans OR other snakes.
Snakes taste the air with through their tongue. This is their sense of smell. a cowboys rope spends most of its life on a horse being handled by humans and used on cows. It may be that odor that acts like a deterrent. More testing is needed.
Yes, that is being practical.
Love this
Snakes have perfect sense of smell, the only explanation is that horse hair rope smells like horse and horses kill snakes, so horse smell drives them away.
I guess real cowboy rope stinks snakes away 😂