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  1. OldTrapCollector
    If your neighbour is Death then you have more important things to be worried about my friend. OTC
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    Mine is self explanatory I think OTC
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    I have the following books for sale, please PM me if you are interested – All hardbacks in good condition, with dustwrapper unless mentioned Prices include postage to UK, payment by cheque or PayPal Grouse Shooting and Moor Management – 1936 1st Ed – B Cazenove W/out DW £15 NOW SOLD The Moorland Gamekeeper – 1977 1st Ed – J Spottiswoode £10 Practical Pest Control – 1986 1st Ed – George Hogg £18 NOW SOLD Pugs and Drummers – 1978 1st Ed – John Marchington £28 The Poachers Handbook – 1950 1st Ed repr – Ian Niall £15 Animal Traps and Trapp
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    I am rubbish with HTML - here it is www.bethelrhodes.co.uk/traps.html OTC
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    All very interesting Chalkwarren - I will look forward to seeing what they are If you want to try Bethel Rhodes traps click here OTC
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    To be honest Tomo, they are made from Solardry fabric so will dry out when they get wet pretty quick. If it is going to pour down on me all day then that's where the goretex comes in. Mine are just plain Craghoppers Kiwi trousers. OTC
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    I wear Craghopper Kiwi trousers every day and I have found them to be the best all-round trouser available. I have tried the full range of Rohan trousers, and The North Face, but even though they are cheaper I have found them to beat them all. Shop around for them - I have bought them for about £20 a pair new from eBay. OTC
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    I'm not too good with earwigs, exposed height or children's dolls but not a lot really scares me. I have a mate who's terrified of cotton wool, and a relative who cannot bear balloons. All very odd I suppose. I was told once that the only fear that you are actually born with is falling. Where's Mackem? He knows all about this sort of thing OTC
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    Both FENN and SPRINGER are approved for use in the UK. Also traps marked SOLWAY are approved in the same manner. OTC
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    Just to stir the waters more - in old time trapper and MAF parlance traps set 'open' were traps set away from holes on runs etc. Open trapping is anything that is done without a covered trap (by a tunnel of sorts). Gins were often set open and some later attempts at producing a humane trap were designed to be used this way. In fact - I think I am right in saying that the early approval orders actually allowed open trapping of rats and mice with the first approved spring traps, but the wording was altered on later AO's. OTC
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    What a great disguise - who'd have thought there was a tractor hiding behind there?? He looks like a good steady shot too . . . . OTC
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    I saw some good well made ones on eBay for about 6 quid the other day OTC
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    Cats and foxes catch them and play with them without eating them sometimes - same goes for shrews. They must taste funny or something? OTC
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    Moles can swim They push up molehills head first They appear to have 6 toes on the rear foot when X-rayed but this is a Tibial appendage not a true toe OTC
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    I used to use fir cones soaked in coal-tar creosote - just roll a few down each hole - it stinks for ages OTC
  16. OldTrapCollector
    Elastic size for it is 3/16" but 1/4" if you are feeling strong. You should find it on eBay if you look OTC
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    They were cast aluminium - a light rub over with fine wire wool will bring back its shine a little OTC
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    Does anyone know the origin of the word 'moudie' which is the olde English word for mole?? I don't but I thought maybe someone would? OTC
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    Thanks mate OTC
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    To sell yes but to use no - they are a heap of junk Hundreds of Thousands made and so far as I know only 7 survive - the reason - they smashed themselves to bits when they fired. Total junk! OTC
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    Hundreds of this type were tested by the Ministry and failed in the run up to the banning of the gin trap and none of them really managed to make it right. The Juby and Imbra were a result of countless design alterations and drawing board changes. The original patented traps look far derived from the ones we know and use today. If it were easy to make a good, light, cheap, effective, killing spring trap then where is it? Why are we importing DOC traps from NZ? Why do our own traps not kill quickly enough?? I would say that an undersprung compact rabbit trap with slotted curved jaws would i
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    Have you got a photo Micky - I cannot think what type you mean? Unless it is an imported US made trap OTC
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    They are still under test by the GCT - why I don't know as they have already been approved by the Ministry You can get them direct from NZ from the manufacturer though OTC
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    They are no longer approved for use so would not be legal any more OTC
  25. OldTrapCollector
    The were not for sale long T-R - they did not work very well for long Several different people made them, in different sizes too OTC
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