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mole trapper

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  1. Nah, she's not stainless , couple of times I've not wiped her down end of the day and she's been completely rusted in the morning.I am quite ritualistic about wiping with the towel even between sets let alone jobs, shiny! Mmmm
  2. Oh yes, she's a beauty! Bought it from a company John lill was/is involved with, he's the guy maff had for trapping, coypu for example, I did some basic pesty qualifications with him. The probe used to have squared off sides and be maybe 5ml thicker, the granite in the soil and hundreds of thousands of dibs have worn it down.
  3. Definitely worth it, New hw80 delivered to your door for £240 over here £330, no brainer, looking at bringing in two rifles myself at the mo.
  4. My bar, I've made probably forty to fifty percent of my living the last fifteen years or so using this bar, if I ever lost it I would be inconsolable, it's an extension of my soul. Cutting instruments I change occasionally, this knife though has been my tool of choice now for about eight years, not bad for a cheaply axminster tools jobby.
  5. what you trying to say about me? Yep, picked her up, bloody scarey place though that Manchester! Everywhere you looked wall to wall burkhas and so many coppers, all toting h+k mp5,s! Thought the train had pulled into down town Beirut.
  6. Started 5 gallons on Sunday, piece of p+#s to make and only a tenner to make. 2 kgs of fresh ginger grated, 2 orange, lemon, lime zest and juice, 3kg of sugar, 23lts of water and a sachet of champagne yeast. Bubbling like a train, should be fermented out in about eight days total, bottle with teaspoon of caster sugar per bottle and cap. I'll be putting in half a tsp of splenda as well to sweeten slightly as I don't like ir too dry. You could drink in a couple of weeks but massively improved if you leave a couple of months to bottle condition in a cool place. Mine should come out between 7
  7. Remember when I first started out I used to wander the fields with one of them old dears shopping trolleys, dressed like wurzel gummidge, thank god nobody took any photos! "I hope"
  8. Well I'd like to have been out using any kind of trap today, but no, my sodding van decided it wanted to have a day off again! So that's bloody it, I'm off to Bolton of all places to pick up my new van tomorrow. But that's fine, I'll only be another three days behind than I already was. Grrrrrrr Might get meself some of them talpex when I can afford it again "about 2020"
  9. Nah, that's one of them things the girls in night clubs dance around!
  10. He kindly sent me a vhs version, trouble is I don't have a tv or a video machine.
  11. No no no, if you can catch one in those catch alive clear plastic square jobbies sold in large diy stores, Then, you can catch with anything.
  12. Let me tell you TC; I recently filed last year’s accounts and realised I’d earned at least 50% from moles – so, for good or ill, I am a molecatcher. I’ve spent the last three weeks doing nothing but moles, and I’ve spent a fair amount of that time in the gardens of million £ plus houses; usually while the owners are at work. So, while there in London working their bollocks off I’m wandering around the plush gardens they’re paying for, in the spring sunshine, occasionally catching the odd mole. You find it hard to name a better job than that Exactly! In a nut shell.
  13. Timely comment by Matt! Today amongst my scheduled mole jobs I had a small garden job near newquay, when I got there, numerous obvious signs someone had already been "having a go" with a swing shovel by the look of it! Anyway chatting to the customer I casually ask, freind had a go at these? Without batting an eyelid he says no I've been trying to catch this bugger for weeks, but decided I needed to get an expert in, I do all the garden mole jobs round the local villages for beer money, don't usually get this problem. So, not only do we have a messer, we now have a messer that knows the real
  14. Ha ha ha, classic!You may just get a better response rate by putting an ad in good old yellow pages than on a hunting site, just a thought.
  15. What new mole hills? Ain't no new mole hills when I've been! Only pulling your chain.
  16. Thank god it's a lefty! Boy I'd be happy to find room for a right hander.
  17. Never a truer word said!I've been daft enough this week to do a small school playing field locally way cheaper than I'd normally do one, only because I wanted to take it from someone who gets up my nose though, even so it's seventy quid for half hour.
  18. Quote for each individual job for what I want to be paid for it. Far too many people getting into mole trapping since the filthy strychnine went making things difficult for themselves by using weird pricing structures! Just charge for what you think its worth.
  19. Tried the pasta sachets, that's my go too bait. The farm next to this one I do use fenns in boxes, but this farm "his brothers" I tried and stopped as after promising faithfully he'd check, empty and 're set he didn't, forty miles from me so can't keep calling in to do it and he certainly wouldn't want to pay what I'd need to charge him for it. No, I'll just do the same, shoot out this clever lot a few times till the weather warms up. Just wish it hadn't come to a head now.
  20. Thank you! Mad thing is they're both taken on my cheap phone.
  21. Should be back on night time rabbit jobs this week but I've had to waste precious dark nights shooting rats that will not take bait in any form or shape. The farmers have admittedly provided perfect conditions for them using big bales to separate different feed stuffs. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the night rat work but not at the expense of losing good paying nights on the rabbits.
  22. Only problem with using this type of fencing stake is when you catch the big beggars like this one! If the Springer had been down more than one night the plastic would have taken on some memory and not been able to lift this one.
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