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  1. Nicepix
    Gottit! Don't forget to PM me your address.
  2. Nicepix
    I'm looking to buy some more and have arranged to collect them direct from Flatpack next month. I'll let you know what they are like.
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    List is updated. Final date for orders is 9th November to be certain of getting them, and payment need to be before the 15th so I can print the address labels before I travel over. I'm going away from today until Sunday so can't read the forum or answer PMs until then,
  4. Nicepix
    Best double up your order then
  5. Nicepix
    Ha-Ha! To be honest when I first saw them I wasn't impressed. How can anything so simple be effective? And looking up videos on Youtube didn't help as the French pros use a totally different method to what you and I are used to. It involves a dirty big spade and a small dog But the more I used them the more I started catching and for some jobs they are indispensable. Now, I wouldn't be without them. It is my hope to put a short video on Youtube in the next couple of weeks just to give an idea of how I set them up and use them. Hopefully once some of you more experienced lads get to use
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    List updated. Pliers added to Bry's order. I can accept payment by bank transfer to a UK account. PM me for details. I'm just about to go off for a few days, should be back by Friday.
  7. Nicepix
    Personally I prefer the pliers. But the lever type setting tool is perfectly adequate, but slightly trickier to get the hang of initially. List updated.
  8. Nicepix
    List updated.
  9. Nicepix
    Ended up with 43 moles for 60 traps, two fields and his parent's holiday home. He took over half out of the traps and re-set them so I shouldn't grumble. Cheque is in the bank already and a lamb due after the next abattoir run. Job's a good 'un
  10. Nicepix
    I think it is more about getting value for money. A sprung trap won't catch until it is emptied and re-set. If he re-sets the trap it might catch again or so he believes. But, we all know that if it isn't put in right then it won't. We've had 21 out of 43 traps up to now so he's got his money's worth
  11. Nicepix
    I've updated the list.
  12. Nicepix
    Took another 8 out of the traps today so it looks like he's left them alone over the last couple of days.
  13. Nicepix
    Hi Jamie, Do you want the pliers or the flat lever type tool?
  14. Nicepix
    Thanks for the replies and PMs. There is no rush. I'm not travelling over until mid-November. Because of the difficulty of getting the right traps at the right price I thought I'd put the thread up in good time. I've got enough traps to cover the orders so far.
  15. Nicepix
    I know what you mean. After spending most of my life in service industries where the customer is King I now please myself. If I don't like the punter they don't get another chance. I don't need the money or hassle. Good innit?
  16. Nicepix
    Have you thought about a second career in the Diplomatic Corps Phil?
  17. Nicepix
    He's always followed me around checking on things. First time I trapped for him he followed me for about fifteen traps then walked back to his truck. Five minutes later he's at my side to tell me that the wires were up on the first two traps I'd set. Then when he sees wires up or Talpex activated on the day between my visits he thinks that by emptying and re-setting the traps we have more chance of catching more. What he doesn't understand is that a pro' mole trapper reads the traps and can figure out a pattern to be able to move traps or add some more. But he can only do that by checking the
  18. Nicepix
    Thanks for the replies. Payment can be PayPal (as a gift) or posting a UK cheque to me in France. I'd like payment before the 15th November please. PM me for my PayPal details or postal address.
  19. Nicepix
    Sorry - No more orders can be accepted at this time. If anyone else is interested or anyone wanting to buy some more please PM me and I'll pass on your details to my Brother-in-Law who will have the remaining stock to sell from next weekend onwards. I'll be posting the orders below out this coming Thursday by Hermes Parcels. If anyone has any queries about their order please PM me. Thanks to all concerned, and remember: Tie the feckin' triggers on! ***************************************************************************************************************** I'll be coming
  20. Nicepix
    Well, I'm more of an optimist myself. Always look on the bright side and I love doing mole trapping. But today, my glass, or to be specific, my bucket, was not half full or half empty, but totally empty. Four hectares of recently drilled grass and clover. Millions of molehills all following straight lines along the wheelings. Field looks like a map of the Underground. 43 traps set on Monday, a combination of Talpex and Flatpacks and I'm back today checking them and not having a good time of it. First seven traps checked for nothing. No wires up. No handles spread and no signs of moles tunnelli
  21. Nicepix
    I've got a theory that this sort of thing is widespread in all walks of life. Someone identifies a genuine need for a problem to be fixed; disabled access, pesticides getting into rivers or reports of animals suffering through poor trapping practices. A department or committee are set up to deal with the issue. They sort the problem and then what? They aren't going to let it be known that they haven't any work to do so they start poking their noses into other things and gradually over the years they are forced into meddling with all sorts of minor issues that aren't really a problem just to ke
  22. Nicepix
    This would have made me jump. But I knew that it had been dead for at least 24 hours: I've come across salamanders in tunnels and unless you can see their legs they look just like a snake.
  23. Nicepix
    Big thanks to Dirksdonuts for helping me out. Two E-Snap traps arrived today and they are just the job. Thanks Derek.
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    According to my brother-in-law; leaving the painted trap (or old fishing reel as that is what we were discussing) for a week in a sealed tub with some Acetone, not covered, just enough to wet it, will make all the paint soft and easy to remove. The secret is to use a tub that doesn't dissolve. We've been using ice cream containers with acetone in to clean our brushes this week and that has held up to the Acetone so that should be OK.
  25. Nicepix
    I could do with one of those at the moment. The other night we heard some strange noise and then it seemed like there was someone wearing clogs dancing in the attic. Last night the clog dancer was back. I'd removed a nest from under the eaves the other day while repairing the guttering and thought that it might be a fouine or beech marten so I jammed some wire mesh into the gap where I thought it was getting in. That sound the other night was it pulling the mesh away to get back in. Little bu99er! I'll have to cement up the gap, once I'm sure that I'm not walling it in that is
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