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    You can grind bits to cut latger than thier diameter. On the cutting edges of the drill grind one side slightly longer than the other that will give you a larger diameter of hole than the actual drill bit. TC
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    As has been said it has no place ferrting in this day and age. That said they are still used even today. I had this handed into me a couple of years ago she was found wandering and picked up. God knows how long she had been wandering round unable to eat or drink. It had to be cut off. TC
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    Andy, I have some fun with the wifes Sh!t machine (pom), she is dead keen on rats, loves them. I have a line of fens for the rats coming to the bird feeders, they are all under boxes. Every morning I let her out down the bottom of the garden and she will mark which boxes have a rat in. All she has to do is see me put the rubber gloves on and she goes frantic, it really is great fun. TC
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    Searching up in the attic today for something I came across a box of books I had put up there about 10 years ago. They cover nearly every subject to do with country sports. I will start with some of the fishing and fly tying books. All postage is at cost. Stillwater Flies how and when to fish them. John Goddard 1989 HB reprint 199 pages no dust jacket good condition £10 + P&P. Fly-Tying Illustrated for nymphs and lures. Freddie Rice 1976 1st edition HB 112 pages no D J light staining to spine G condition £8 + P&P Uptide and boat casting. Bob Cox 1985 1st edition HB
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    Tiercel, i am surprised at you as well, you will be using a ferret finder next! I can see it now,, Ole Tiercel posting about the 3ft Digs !!! Only kiddin Mate A.T.B. Do the words Hell and freeze over ring any bells? :laugh: TC
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    Or a And use a sheet bend. TC
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    Carric bend.
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    Brimmer, The reason you cannot make the knot the same as on the loom made nets is, as they pull the knots tight the knots get a burst of steam, nylon shrinks when it is heated so when the steam is put on the knot and the knot pulled tight it shrinks into place, that is how they can get away with only single knotting it. I would take tomos advice and use a Carric bend. TC
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    Doesnt anybody worry that there is an automatic fine for trespassing on a railway? And a heafty one at that! TC
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    It looks to be carrying the merle gene (blue left eye) so I would say there is collie in it. The rest is anybodies guess? TC
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    Depending how fast you can knit a row properly so that there are not slipping knots say as an example it takes you 2 minutes to knit a row of 14 meshes and with a 4.25" mesh there are 34 rows to a rigged yard of netting so that would equate to each yard of net taking you 1hr 8 minutes so a 25 yard net would take 28hrs 20 minutes constant knitting to complete the body of the net. To be honest, don't even think about how long it will take you. Just knit when you feel like it and enjoy it. Don't be afraid to put the net down and leave it for a couple of days, you will find that you will knit
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    Twine?

    Tiercel replied to Thequietman's topic in Longnetting

    The easiest way to find out how much 4z twine you will need is to weigh your 4z nets. A 200yard sheet of 4z net weighs roughly 2.2kilo so that would take 5x500g balls of 4z twine. As for knitting a net with nylon, I would rather stick hot needles in my eyes. Contact Nigel at Agouti nets and get some of his long net twine far better to knit with and he will tell you how much you need. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQjBAwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agouti-nets.co.uk%2Fcategory%2F34-twine&ei=qaCNULKVLcbJ0QX2
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    Bob, Everyone gets different ideas now and again, you try them out, some work some don't. Never let that stop you having ideas, try them out, it may not work for the initial idea, but it may come in usefull for other ideas. Its is all experience and with that experience comes knowledge of what works and how nets actually work to their best advantage. TC
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    I have dabbled with the rigging of nets in almost every way possible. Yet still come back to the same way of rigging nets, as it is the best way. A larger selvedge is of no advantage at all, except meybe to give you a little extra depth on the net. The reason being, when you stretch out a net the maximum distance a mesh can achive is the size of the mesh, for the sake of an easy explanation we will say 4".. If you were to use a 2.5" board to create the selvedge row then all you will have done is create an inch of slack on every selvedge mesh. but that slack would not be of any advantage to t
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    I have a great deal of respect for you Brimmer ( even more for your father as I am lot closer to his age than yours. ) Even though I do not think that digging to ferrets is ferreting, although, I must admit that on shallow warrens it is very effective. I have long been a believer that too many ferrets spoil the broth, one ferret that really works can clear a larger warren in the same time as 5 but without the digs. As to the rabbits being reluctant to bolt on a day, I have a theory about that too, just wish it would work every time, not just most of the time. TC
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    When I first started I used cut down fishing nets. Usually old nets as I was a fisherman, they had joins and repaired holes everywhere but they still caught rabbits. You can put a selvedge on if you want. But, if you don't that does not mean the the net will not work properly. As too the idea that a double selvedge is better than one it just does not hold up. Think about it, Some say that the friction of the net running the lines will cause the net to wear where it is in contact with the running lines. Is the friction any the less for a 25 yard net than a 50 yard net? Yet the 50 yard net h
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    That is me. I am only doing a single knot as that is all it takes with that twine. the net is a 100 yard rigged double stranded spun poly, with a Agouti purse net twine as a slevedge. The net set up ready to start the selvedges. One side done. Both sides done and ready to be dyed. TC
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    Yep, a lot of people get confused between meshes and rows. It takes two rows to make a mesh. Adding a selvedge mesh. TC
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    Adding a selevedge row top and bottom will make the net 15 meshes deep not 16. TC
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    Lol , yes must be something in the pic so weber an idea of the size , IE ferret finder , Umm. What about a tape measure? TC
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    I had been ferreting down in pembrokeshire quite a few years ago and still had some ribbits hanging up in their skins. A mate called he was on his way home after a weekend hawking in the dales he still had rabbits in their coat in the van. every rabbit he had was at least a good pound in weight heavier than the rabbits I had hanging up, some of the bucks were even bigger. Many years ago I remember talking to Fred Taylor he was the hawking club president. He told me the biggest rabbit he ever caught was from the dales and its front teeth had grown through the top of the rabbits mouth and th
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    Found this intresting photo and read. John Gaunt rat catcher. John Wheeldon, better known as John Gaunt. He lived at Sawmills but worked for the Midland Railway Company, travelling the lines as a ratcatcher. He is the only person known to have successfully trained foxes to 'rat' for economic use, and claimed they were better than terriers becaused they could hold five rats in their mouths at once. The ratcatcher had to be quick because, unlike a terrier, foxes did not kill the rats outright. His best two foxes, however, were killed accidentally by gamekeepers. Such was his national fame
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    The sad thing is that nothing will be done about it. As the people who glean profit from these companies, are the same people who make the rules! TC
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    Photos like those do not just happen.....The time put into getting those shots is well worth it. Thank you, your photos alway make my day. :notworthy: TC
  25. Tiercel
    Spot on. Also if you can, approach the rabbit from behind the net not from the side or infront. That way you will push the rabbit into the net. TC
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