stella123

My spade and fork made from square tube and wing nut to stop them coming apart.

I like her. Hope she does well for you. atb

Cheers. amazes me how they dig them so tight in the first place.

Last one for us. After a long day of walking we get a mark on the edge of a field. After some time locating & pauses in baying we decide he's digging on. As we've had 2 others In this earth already earlyer in the season, & know it's a very tight spot. After 2 hour or more we grow impatient and decide to open a hole up. No fox in sight. Jack was not giving in but simply could not get through the earth. Although he hasn't got the biggest of chest. I went and got my small jack Russell, more of a family pet as she was my brothers. She's around 6 or 7 and is more of a bolting dog as she doe

Thanks, same to you also.

Cheers thanks for the comments, and will now be taking it easy with him.

Pups first dig. His always been keen dog, searching the bushes checking earths etc. around a month ago we found a fox to ground with him. Went in had a little bark but nothing consistent, and came out after about 10mins. A surprise to us as we thought he was going to hit the ground running. So we entered a more experienced dog. A few weeks went by still getting him out checking earths, with a another dog double checking. Anyway this time we took him out on his own as the others needed resting up. Wasn't till mid day, just letting him run off the lead he goes down a bank and enters an eart

Thanks, his from gouldy line.

Well done, sounds like you had a good day

Thanks, good luck to you as well

Last few weeks out, got a mark on the edge of a field. late in the day at 1.2m before long breaking through in a very tight tube to dog and vixen. Had another in a large earth that starts at the bottom off a bank, lucky enough we located down on reasonably flat ground at 1.4m. Ground was really lose sand, easy going but very dangerous, & had to be very steady at the end. This time a small vixen. A photo of buck after doing his job.

Yh really handy!

Pics

Out again with dogs started about 9:00 looked around for a few hours with no luck. Decided to check some earths on reasonable steep bank. Let buck enter, he knew something was home and was moving around quite a lot to start with. After about half hour we got a mark at 3m. It was right next to a big tree, the roots to start with was a nightmare. After a few hours digging I knew I needed to call for back up, my brother came and joined in. We carried on into darkness, and eventually broke threw to a very big vixen. Dog removed and fox dispatched. Thanks brother the beers are on me!

Nice result well done!