• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Video tour of the facility

I'm sure many have wondered what your set-up looked like....Thanks for the "peek" into the backrooms of Serpenco! I never realized the extent of your operation!
Rich, you and Connie have made a lasting mark on the corn world and I personally want to thank you both for your labors...now we see just how HUGE that kind of commitment is. Enjoy the retirement! Well-earned for sure!
 
All I can say is a well deserved retirement and there just are no words to cover how much hard work you must have put into SerpentCo!!! Thanks for it all, now go have fun!
 
I probably need to take a video of the now animal-less buildings.

Actually I wanted to take video of the Friday when Mark was here and we were bagging up 950 adults and subadults, but I just couldn't find any decent place to mount the video camera. I would have needed to either be on a tripod, which everyone would have been tripping on, or I would have had to mount it at a spot about the work area where my balding head would have been the most prominent focus of attention in the whole darn video. :roflmao:

I guess I will miss having all those living gems to take video of every June through August, though..... That WAS a lot of fun for me.
 
I have a feeling you won't be able to stay away completely. Cornsnakes have played such a huge role in your life that I'd bet you'll end up with a few high-end pairs just for the pleasure of it. Sooner or later anyway. That was a nice peek into how its done in the "big leagues". Thanks.

Scott
 
scottsquatch said:
I have a feeling you won't be able to stay away completely. Cornsnakes have played such a huge role in your life that I'd bet you'll end up with a few high-end pairs just for the pleasure of it. Sooner or later anyway. That was a nice peek into how its done in the "big leagues". Thanks.

Scott
Click to expand...

Hell, after touring Mark and Kim Bell's place, my place was not even a drop in the bucket in comparison.

Yeah, who can say what the future may bring. Maybe someone will develop something completely outrageous that I will HAVE to have.... :shrugs:
 
Rich Z said:
Hell, after touring Mark and Kim Bell's place, my place was not even a drop in the bucket in comparison.

Yeah, who can say what the future may bring. Maybe someone will develop something completely outrageous that I will HAVE to have.... :shrugs:
Click to expand...

Sunkissed Amel Ashy Tesseras? :D I'll get started on it right away!
 
W0W!!!:bowdown:
And I thought that I saw it all.:eek:

I am truly sad that you retire and wont continue with your amazing project.

Best luck with whatever you decide to do next!

:cheers:
 
Tunovich said:
W0W!!!:bowdown:
And I thought that I saw it all.:eek:

I am truly sad that you retire and wont continue with your amazing project.

Best luck with whatever you decide to do next!

:cheers:
Click to expand...

I think he's watching his car getting fix!!:sidestep:
 
Lennycorn said:
I think he's watching his car getting fix!!:sidestep:
Click to expand...

Man, you got THAT right.... Since having it towed from the first guy working on it (who wound up putting old parts back in and charging me for new), the turbos have had to be replaced, many of the things the first guy said he did either weren't done or were done in a slipshod manner, had to replace the valve covers, have the engine pulled out again right now to replace the oil pan gasket bolts that were a bit too long and causing an oil leak, and an apparent head gasket blowout. When the heads were pulled they found that a washer or something had been dropped into one of the cylinders that caused some piston damage, requiring it to be replaced.

Been over 17 months now since I first took it into the shop to have work started....

As for the "facility" you all wouldn't recognize it now. Carpeted the floor, painted the walls and set up one of the rooms for me to play around on my keyboard (music type). I'm going to get cable run over there so I have internet service there. And Connie is going to set up one of the rooms so she can do her yoga stuff...

Honestly it is just great that we don't have to rush around like maniacs because we have to fit everything around the grind of working with the animals. I'm just surprised that it didn't kill us before we could escape.
 
Rich Z said:
Man, you got THAT right.... Since having it towed from the first guy working on it (who wound up putting old parts back in and charging me for new), the turbos have had to be replaced, many of the things the first guy said he did either weren't done or were done in a slipshod manner, had to replace the valve covers, have the engine pulled out again right now to replace the oil pan gasket bolts that were a bit too long and causing an oil leak, and an apparent head gasket blowout. When the heads were pulled they found that a washer or something had been dropped into one of the cylinders that caused some piston damage, requiring it to be replaced.

Been over 17 months now since I first took it into the shop to have work started....

As for the "facility" you all wouldn't recognize it now. Carpeted the floor, painted the walls and set up one of the rooms for me to play around on my keyboard (music type). I'm going to get cable run over there so I have internet service there. And Connie is going to set up one of the rooms so she can do her yoga stuff...

Honestly it is just great that we don't have to rush around like maniacs because we have to fit everything around the grind of working with the animals. I'm just surprised that it didn't kill us before we could escape.
Click to expand...

Wow, sorry to hear this. You're a patience man.

You could update this thread and do an after shot of new music/yoga rooms!! Before/after type of thing. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, maybe so. But my "music" room looks like hell right now. My main computer over in the house crashed and burned, so I had to send it back to the manufacturer. That meant I had to yank my other computer out of the music room and cart over to the house so I could do my taxes on it.

Some of Connie's sister's stuff is in her room right now because her sister lost her house when she lost her job, so Connie is storing some of it for her in the meantime.
 
Hats off to you Rich having that many snakes takes alot good luck with anything and evreything you want in life....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top