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 What hook should I use???
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it really dosen't mater i don't think. i have a grip one hook that i bought at a reptile show. but u can make by cutting off the end of a cheap walmart golf club and cut off the end of a paint roller and and take the handel of the club
an the roller part of then weld or solder or take gorilla tape and go around about 5 pases and that should hold them together my friend did this with duct tape and it didn't hold but gorilla tape is the second strongest tape on the planet and can be bought at walmart
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They have a good one on sale should I buy it?
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| ya!!! i bought mine for $23 its 32 or 36' and there good for warding off evil snow men (dont ask it just happens) oh and i bought it at herp show
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| Snake hooks have limited use in the field mainly because it's so tempting to use them to lift and pry heavy objects that they were never meant to deal with, and break or bend them in the process. There is a tool, however, that's made specifically for field use as both a snake hook AND a tool for moving rocks, logs, tin, etc. Midwest (check out their website at: http://www.tongs.com/ and click the 'WHAT'S NEW' tab near the top) makes a great tool called a Pro Field Hook. It comes in a standard length of 45", has an aluminum shaft and titanium end for a combination of being overall lightweight yet having extreme strength. The 'L' angled end cannot be bent by any human -- it's that strong! The inside of the 'L' has a roughened surface for gripping the edge of tin or plywood (for instance) -- an nice improvement over the old Furmont 'Stumpripper' of days gone by. The Pro Field Hook can do what a snake hook can do, but so much more, that I consider it the ideal tool for the field. Here's one in use by a friend.... 
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Bill Love / BLUE CHAMELEON VENTURES
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agreed feild hooks like that would be best
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1.1.0 nicaraguan boas0.1.0 amazon tree boa0.1.0 jungle carpet python1.2.1 corn snakes0.0.1 ball python1.0.0 rose hair T0.0.1 pinktoe T (A. avicularia)along with 31 other herps at work 13-14 years for meJustin Smith
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it depends if its your first time herping than a tong would work best but tongs.com makes good ones. The Mark O' Shea custom hook is one of the best.
Current Collection
1.0 Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Atua)
R.I.P.
Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Bottecelli)
Aphonopelma eutylenum(Grape)
"Why, our descendants will ask, by needlessly extinguishing lives of other species, did we permanently impoverish our own?"
-E.O. Wilson
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 i have a standerd and a mini i HATE THE STANDERD and i love the mini i move stuff with the standerd but use the mini on the snakes wayyyy easyer to monuver snakes i olny use the standerd if im dealing with an uncoprative rattler other than that its mini all the way for me for ppl jus gettin out in to the field the a standerd FIELD HOOK should b more than sufficent
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I don't know how you could hate the standard.
Current Collection
1.0 Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Atua)
R.I.P.
Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Bottecelli)
Aphonopelma eutylenum(Grape)
"Why, our descendants will ask, by needlessly extinguishing lives of other species, did we permanently impoverish our own?"
-E.O. Wilson
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