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  1. mole trapper
    Bit early, but I've just opened the first bottle of cider I've ever made. Not very carbonated, just a hint, flavour is complex, what definitely came through is a banana flavour which one of the apples I scrounged smelt and tasted strongly of. Will try to leave the rest of the batch to mature.
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    Hah, no pressure there then! In that case don't forget day after it stops bubbling rack off sediment carefully and , then either wait a day and bottle, or bottle immediately. If you don't sweeten with a non fermenting sugar at this point it'll be as dry as a nuns "you get the idea"! Also add 1tsp of caster or granulated to each 500ml bottle or equivalent, depending on bottles your using. Needs to stay in the warm for about a fortnight then put it somewhere cool and forget till the summer. On the brewing forum people have been tempted to sample after a couple of weeks and been disappointed, t
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    What's in your recipe?, if it's in a warm place it'll be fermented out in about seven days. Mines about to go out to the shed tomorrow to cool and condition.
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    Love my lgu! Don't think I've owned a 97 or 77 but can't be sure. The build quality of the lgu is phenomenal, it's heavy, it looks and feels gorgeous.
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    Never tried talpex or putanges, been duffus all the way bar a dozen of Steve albanos, oh and a couple of fenns scissors. Must try and get hold of some putanges when I'm over in May though to give a spin.
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    Come on Darcy, stop sitting on the fence! Lol
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    I'm not sure about the rules and regs in France, but here in the UK if you remove 'waste' from a clients premises, you need to register as a waste carrier, and pay for disposal For me, it's simple. I'm paid to catch moles. When I've caught them, they belong to the customer and are therefore their waste For domestic customers, they can chuck them in the bin (or I'll do it for them) and for farmers, they can do with them as they wish. Interestingly, 'wild' animals are exempt from the Animal (By Products) Regulations....... that's the rules that stopped them doing on farm burial of l
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    He's doing a spectre for me at the mo, can't wait. When I rang about something else before ordering this I couldn't get him off the phone lol! Rather different to most shall we say.
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    The Mrs likes to use a rucksack, but I find it too much of a faff. Much prefer the mk1 plastic five gallon buckets, when I was doing farms still I would do the same as Matt and carry two, trouble is with my noodle arms it used to seriously bugger my elbows and shoulders. The great benefit with buckets is over the course of a season I've probably accumulated 2cwt of prime soil in the bottom of the buckets which I put on my raised beds.
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    Funny enough stepped on the first bit of the year yesterday and thought, aah, spring is on its way.
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    Yep another vote for Vista, even had some T,s done by them once! If you really want to get busy on the moles, go to the livestock market and put them under all the wind screen wipers on every 4x4.
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    Fair comment Matt! Now if we're discussing pest control in general, ie black box checking, eu regs, loss of rodenticides etc then I'm right with you, only saying to Mel the other night that I can see a time not too far off where I say stuff it, no more contract work. It seriously bores the crap out of me, add that to ever increasing paper work, it just isn't worth it. Probably another five years at most and I'll flog the contracts, and just do rabbits, moles and the one off,s.
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    We're thick with them down here! It's a constant battle to keep them under control on some of my contacts.
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    It's a difficult one muddy! It's like a snowball, more wom more work, more wom and before you know it your thinking this is killing me. It's a great situation to be in but.......! Some on here know that I had some health issues which to be honest have left me with far less stamina, plus I ain't no spring chicken anymore. I now try to work smart concentrating on domestic stuff, there is ocean's of it out there, but as I'm sure Matt would tell you , you musnt be a one trick pony. Domestic one offs, like fleas, wasps, clusters etc seriously boost your annual income.
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    Forgot to mention, half tsp of splenda per bottle to sweeten a bit and one tsp per bottle of caster sugar to bottle condition and plenty of fizz.
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    Well bottled it up last night, 45 bottles, 6.6%, not the 7+% it should have been because there was supposed to be only 40 bottles, "school boy error", hopefully haven't lost to much fireyness or depth of flavour. Worked out 33p a bottle.
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    Fair play to you! I,'ve turned away all farm jobs for about eight years now, I loved driving around the fields enjoying the views and sounds, but I was losing too much money doing it, and it was killing physically, my knees, back and right shoulder were buggered after a mole season. When I say I was losing too much money, I mean that by say spending a week clearing a couple of thousand acres on a dairy farm and say earning four or five hundred, I could earn significantly more by doing say ten domestic gardens in a couple of days with no physical effort and still have the rest of the week to e
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    Only pulling your piddler mate! I find the biggest flag vandals to be rabbits, bleeding things nip off very close to the wire so you've really got to search for them then. I honestly find on non public places putting the diver of turf on the top of a mole hill three feet to one side of the trap site the best visual indicator. Dave, unfortunately she's not used to EVERYTHING being large, lol
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    Bloody he'll Matt, you must need sunglasses to look at them flags! I reckon NASA could check tour traps with those. My Mrs likes BIG flags on her traps, she ties a whole nitrile glove on each.
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    I'll be over again in mid may, I think I'll make a concerted effort to source some this time.
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    Hmm, it was obviously a long time ago, but I know John was directly involved. I know they were selling all the coypu traps. I have a lot of old trap catalogues here, I'll see if I can find them.
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    That's a shame, lovely old chap, New how to tell a yarn.
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    How the he'll are you getting tinternet down there in dingly dale? You must be Sat in a pub somewhere using their free wifi!
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    Damned if I can remember the name of the company, they are farmers really over in Cambridgeshire if I remember correctly. Not directly related, but a couple of your traps sorted out a tricky garden job again today in a very sandy set where the only suitable place was under some slabs.
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    I will, I will! Trouble is I've only had it three days and it's already lagged.
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