Dear Mr. Pillstrom,

"Your tongs recently kept a coworker and me out of a very sticky situation. We were harvesting snakes, mostly larger rattlers, from a ridge along the backside of our ranch in Texas. The ridge is punctuated by long and deep running crevices along its full length, almost honeycombed by the caves. As we were working one set of holes, several large rattlers plummeted down from above us where we had disturbed them at their denning area. They slid down the steep embankment and all around us, crawling quickly in all directions - including on top of us as we eased along the craggy cave entrance on our bellies!

Needless to say, we truly appreciated the Pillsrom Tongs as our dependable and trust "best friends" on that memorable day!! All the snakes were controlled, no bites occurred, and we can now laugh about the scene—we often wonder about what we would have looked like on video scrambling around to protect ourselves and crawling willy-nilly to catch all those big guys that came our way!! Thanks again for building and providing us with such a great tool!"

Best Regards, Bayou Bob Popplewell Santo, Texas