I was hanging around here at school yesterday waiting on some of my baby corns to eat. I went out in the hall because I had noticed earlier that the people that feed the schools snakes and clean their cages and stuff were working. I like to stop in when they're there because I enjoy seeing some of the snakes that aren't out as often. One of they guys had a red tail boa out that was about 6-7 feet long and id say around 30 or so pounds (there were several people right there with him just incase though, they dont let anyone have any of the large snakes out with out a few people there)while it's cage was being cleaned. Since he has seen me working with some of the snakes he let me hold it for a while so he could take a break. Until that the largest snake i had held was 40 somethin inch ~1100gram ball. I deffinatly see now why people encourage two people for larger snakes. It's amazing the power you can feel when a snake that large is just moving around. A year ago I would have never seen myself being comfortable with a snake like that, but now i look forward to eventually being able to have some of the larger species. It will be a few years though. I plan on trying to work more with some of the larger snakes we have here for the experience, so I'll be more prepared when the time comes to get mine.