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  1. moley
    bloody hell woodga , you are alive, there were rumours that you had eloped with rob sharpe to gretna green and married in secret, then set up a retirement home in broxburn for all the old rabbits you cannot catch
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    it looks like no one uses them
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    bethel rhodes make or a very good trap, i used to use nothing else, i would find it difficult to beleive they have started making shite traps after all these years, Hi Moley, now i know nothing about traps really, but the wire is so soft it is very very easily bent. Perhaps they have changed their wire? Who's to say. Were the ones you used very soft? they were easily adjusted , but certainly not soft wire and well put together, one trap that i had to make another trigger bar for was probably over 10 years old when i packed up and still going strong , they were probably a few m
  4. moley
    bethel rhodes make or a very good trap, i used to use nothing else, i would find it difficult to beleive they have started making shite traps after all these years,
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    i found a broken set of false teeth once in a mole hill , found the odd bit of pottery and bits of broken clay pipe , but nowt worth owt
  6. moley
    You've got yourself mixed up you are talking about enviromental payments. Farmers still get subsidies based on historic payments but as I said to achieve the amount you are talking about would need a very large farm or large numbers of sheep. This enviromental payment you are on about is supposed to benifit everyone, more birds for birdwatchers, more pretty flowers for walkers and to allow more trees to grow and produce good clean oxygen for everyone to breathe etc. They pay what seems like large payments to cover the loss of keeping less stock. In reality if the farmer was to sell 600 sheep
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    sako, the farmer i,m on about does get 90000k a year and these days farmers are not paid on headage,they claim the subsidies thru other ways , taking sheep off the hill , not grazing certain area,s etc,i have spent all my life working for farmers one way or another (exept the last 3 years)so i have experience of farmers and the way some farm, believe me i have seen some pitiful sights one lad on here says his wife gets £15 per hour for doing a job most of us couldn,t stomache, think back 10 years , foot and mouth , farmers getting £15 per hour to clean up there own shitty farms , the mor
  8. moley
    i don,t get subsidies for anything i do , so why should he? when i trapped moles for a living, if i was frozen or snowed off , no f****r gave me a big hand out don,t kid yourself that farmers make nowt off thier stock ,sheep and cattle are making good money in the marts at the moment he is a hill farmer so don,t need half the stuff you listed plus there is also all the profit off the stock he sells and he doesn,t have 3000 sheep to feed so dunno where you get those figures, why should my taxes pay for him to buy more houses than he or his family can live in or £25000 on a tup an
  9. moley
    a lot of farmers work hard 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year (not 5 days a week)to keep their property wether it be handed down or not. Or even tenanted :thumbs: alot of farmers do f**k all but fill in subsidy forms and drive round in fancy range rovers while thier stock dies in the fields and the walls and buildings of thier farms fall down, yes , plenty of farmers work hard , but so do a fair few of the rest of us and don,t get paid for doing nowt, i know of 1 farmer that gets £90,000 a year before he strikes a bat and he,s the most miserable tight fisted twat you have ever co
  10. moley
    yes unblock the one end they need 2 c straight through the tunnel r u close 2 a river or brook they don,t need to see thru a tunnel at all, one entrance is ok if you using bait, try baiting with eggs if thats what they are taking
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    But then again moley, you've caught more moles than your average mole catcher so you have an unfair advantage i have bin kwown to catch the odd one or two they used to say that for ever 100 normal moles there was a white one, i reckon more like 1-10,000, Now your just showin off i suppose so law of averages , if you catch plenty , at sometime your gonna get an odd colour, the whites came off 3 area,s over about 6 years, the brown one was off a farm that had produced a brown one to another moler years before and the sivers were off two farms mostly over a fe
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    But then again moley, you've caught more moles than your average mole catcher so you have an unfair advantage i have bin kwown to catch the odd one or two they used to say that for ever 100 normal moles there was a white one, i reckon more like 1-10,000,
  13. moley
    over the years i have had quite a few odd coloured moles , about 6 albino,s, 1 brown ,probably about 12 silvers and quite a few with a white under fur and almost black tips, i have also had 2 ginger rats , i,ll have to sort some pics out
  14. moley
    so the uk version of the wcs tube trap costs about £25 each to make ? i find that a bit hard to believe, but if thats what people want to pay , its up to them, i wouldn,t pay that much
  15. moley
    Moley, i havent a clue what the mark up is on these traps, but i doubt it is as much as you would think when all is costed in. [/quo havn,t a clue meself , but when i looked into trading a few years back the mark up on most stuff was 60-70%, i,ll let you do the sums
  16. moley
    i,m fairy sure we are not allowed to use any spring operated snares in the UK,
  17. moley
    Dont quote me on this, but i think the tube trap for the UK market isnt the same as the one used in the US. Probably a spring change or something. Import duties + shipping costs + some profit for bothering etc all adds up! If these traps are so unaffordable, why not ask "logun" to make you some for £2.99 each inc P+P the uk tube trap is a bit different from the us version , but not 3x the price different, if someone is buying trade then they get a fair bit of discount from the rrp , so add up the trade unit price+ shipping+import duties +summit for profit, i cannot imagine it still
  18. moley
    beats me these prices, in the US you can buy wcs tube traps for $19 or about £15ish, over here they are £50, i know theres export and shipping charges , but bloody hell, they are expensive
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    Trammel Nets

    moley replied to Rolfe's topic in Longnetting

    pm netrigger, top man
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  21. moley
    good to see your back,
  22. moley
    seem s some folk think moles spend all day pushing soil in front of them , the reason the traps are plugged is cos the mole knows its there and either goes round it or usually under it , most plugged traps are filled from underneath which is obvious by the new tunnel under the trap, my findings anyway, i cannot see moles being different in different parts of the country
  23. moley
    it isn't, taught by an old skool keeper, with more experience than your age, he knows his shit p.s would shoot any lurcher on site nuff said
  24. moley
    that will be a male or buck mole
  25. moley
    Sounds,..er,..a tad complicated.... sounds like bollocks
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