So, I know nothing about snake rescue, or any non lethal snake handling tools, but several times a year need to get the rat snake or copper head out of the chicken coop or feed room- tell me, grabbers, tongs, whatcacallems? best bang for money? one size fits all?
I have hoe, shovel and 22, but, She thinks we can re-home these slithering pests.

https://www.aestoney.com/product/snake-tongs/

These are the best followed by the Midwest gentle giants and M1.

Avoid like the plague pilstroms, any designed like pilstroms, or any sold by tomahawk.

42" or 48" ? longer? why, and how far from head to grab?

42 for me. Longer is for those skeered of snakes and to cumbersome to use in tight quarters. The trick is to grab the front third. If you do that none of our snakes are long enough to come up the tongs at you.

Thanks.
I don't like snakes, especially over head, but I'm not 'fraid of them either, I'm much bigger and uglier than them. Was thinking more reach and maybe wanting a second hand to support those big black egg eating buggers. Reckoned those 5'+ units would just complicate things.

Look at Ebay, they have a lot of different kinds...

One year I relocated a bunch of big black snacks more than 5'. They was catching our baby chicks and ate a nest of baby rabbits right by the house. I was telling a guy about it and that I was going to kill them. He has a lot of copper heads at his house and he said he would like to have them . So I used a homemade coyote catcher made from pvc pipe and plastic covered cable. Things went well until I had one down in a well and caught him and put him in a bucket and released him and was putting the lid on it and he struck me and got me with both fangs. That was my fault as I was getting over confident by then. I was pretty sure he wasn't poison even tho he was in water in a well. I didn't even swell up but it hurt like heck. I had took the guy 8 big ones and that was the last. I got my reward that fall when he showed me a picture of one of the black beauties( not total black) with about 6 inches of a copperheads tail sticking out his mouth.

I've used the cable catch pole a couple times but it ain't all that good at releasing when pulled plumb tight on blackie.

x2...and I use a snake hook at times to pull them outa places if i'll be able to just grab them.....wearing heavy welding gloves, that they can bite onto, making grabbing them behind the head easy peasy, IF its non-venomous.

I have used a paint roller wire on a golf club stick for years the I was still breeding the little buggers. No Idea where that thing ended up and I'll probably make another one for just in case when we move to TN.