Artificial`s Earth`s

[x38 179]

any one use them ....ive put 4 in last year,,, only to have1 fox useing one of them .........had some success out of some bails and out of pipes in which i have run them to ground in nowhere near as meny as in 2009/2011 but that snow helped.. how`s your season going all good i hope atb x38

[Barky 24]

Iv got one i put in last season but nothing gone in yet, hopfuly this year i will

[hedz31 1,308]

we've got a few here we had very little from them holding for the first year or 2 now we get them now not alot granted but they hold and are worth a check i think ye are best putting them in and forgetting about them for a couple of year's completly then checking them that's just my opinion but we may of just built them shite i found they like a bend or 2 in them and more than 1 tube to the bed area and they like them without the wind blowing up the tube

[vinnie 3]

the worst thing you can do to an artificial earth is put a terrier in it, they're there to do a job, draining rods all the way imo

[Mrquinn 106]

Good for pups seen a few belters what hold regular

[old timer123 367]

had a pooh bar season

[skinz 11]

the worst thing you can do to an artificial earth is put a terrier in it, they're there to do a job, draining rods all the way imo

 

im very intrested, so..........how do you rod round a bend, then through the chamber and so on?

[pernod 466]

the worst thing you can do to an artificial earth is put a terrier in it, they're there to do a job, draining rods all the way imo

 

Maybe in your area mate. We've a few in my area that are quite extensive and were put down years ago by the local hunt.

Although i've not done any digging for a couple of years, when i did, they were the ideal place to start a keen pup. Our local ones held regular. Some of them almost always held. Only my opinion of course.

 

Yours in sport Pernod

[vinnie 3]

just speaking from my experience as a hunt terrierman where we were hunting some bits of country fortnightly and if you used a dog to check pipes regularly they were tainted all the time, also as regards rodding nearly all our pipes had caps on chambers

[paulus 26]

always a safe bet with a young dog got to know where they are first though

[skinz 11]

just speaking from my experience as a hunt terrierman where we were hunting some bits of country fortnightly and if you used a dog to check pipes regularly they were tainted all the time, also as regards rodding nearly all our pipes had caps on chambers

 

so, marking with a terrier and entering if theres one at home to bolt has more of an effect then disturbing the earth, opening the chamber and then rodding. From my experiance, artificials that are messed with hold less than ones worked by the terriers.

[pernod 466]

just speaking from my experience as a hunt terrierman where we were hunting some bits of country fortnightly and if you used a dog to check pipes regularly they were tainted all the time, also as regards rodding nearly all our pipes had caps on chambers

 

I see where youre coming from mate.

I was only ever a 'pleasure' digger, so to me they were ideal to use the dogs in. Each to their own

 

 

Pernod

[hedz31 1,308]

Get a book wrote on them :laugh:

[paulus 26]

easier to keep chucking corn in to attract vermin as vermin attracts vermin

[waidmann 105]

90% ofman made earth building is the positioning ( the "perfect site" is no good if the foxes don't run near by).

 

checking an earth with a terrier has not seemed to make any difference ( no need for the dog to enter if he doesn't think an one is home)

shooting/dispatching a fox in the earth has ruined them ( iput this down to the fact that concrete pipes hold the scent/ pherhormones etc better than soil/sand of a natural earth).

 

the building material seems not tobe that important either, i have used plastic pipes,drainage pipes ( peforated) ,concrete pipes,clay pipes,slabs,bricks nad even oak planks ( which held a good ten years in sandy well drained soil!!!). they have plus and minus points( access to a lay up,water retention/condensation etc etc)

man mades are a goodmethod of controlling foxes efficiantly ( lots of earths in a short space of time) and you would be surprised what you find in there (feral cats,pole cats,martin's,raccoon,badger................).

 

waidmannheil!!