You any good on a treadmill What’s the most bottled water you’ve bought in one sitting . Have you ever been on a motorcycle older than 1983
again... tail, you are NOT going to hurt them, and if fast enough, they are not going to hurt you. whatever you do, dont kick them on the edge of the shell, to move them. the edges are sharp enough to cut leather. i have moved, caught enough of them, in my lifetime. some of them bigger than the lid on a 16 gallon drum. Ski
You can dislocate the bones in the tail by doing this. It’s connected to the inside of its body as well. Never pick a turtle up by its tail. You have a chance of hurting them. Considering that snapping turtles can be big and heavy you more than likely will cause damage and hurt them. Just as easy to pick them up at by the back of their shell.
Whip out your cordless drill and put a small hole in the shell near the edge and put a leash on it. That’s what we did when we were kids.
Saw a video last week of a Canadian woman biologist showing how to move them. She grabbed the edge of the shell with her left hand above the rear leg then stuck her right arm under the belly and picked it up from the bottom. The demo turtle wasn't that big so wasn't that heavy, I'm not sure you could pick up a big one that way. I wouldn't be brave enough to try it.
I won't get anything I want to keep near the damn things. Stick or better yet a shovel. A little snapper, maybe 8" got into my lower pond. He had all the sunnies cleared out in a month.
We did a similar thing with squinnys. We would take a ten foot piece of string and make a slip knot on one end and place it around the hole then when it poppped it’s head out we would pull the string and then walk it around like it was on a leash. LOL.
Isn’t the OP, @Steeltoe deftly afraid of snakes and spiders? Carlton is not getting any where near, let alone, picking up a an aggressive ass reptile with a shell on his back. His man-card has been placed on “double secret probation”
Panfish ... like bluegills , Sunfish, Red ear sunfish , and Pumpkinseed . You just proved you don’t fish