How To Backfill A Fox Den

[blitz87 49]

Just curious of how you backfill a hole after reading an article of someone leaving a den in a mess and it never being used since do you need to keep tunnel open if so how do you do it or will fox open it back up

[leethedog 3,071]

I think he means do you place something over the pipe to stop back fill filling tube up

[marshman 7,758]

I always to try and cut a bit of turf to put over break through then I backfill .

[leethedog 3,071]

I'm just getting back into digging did a bit with me dad as a kid he used to put sticks over brake through area and always carried a news paper in his bag and used it to cover the sticks with

[blitz87 49]

Ok so sticks or sometbing to keep it up then abit turf on top of that then just backfill cheers

[fat man 4,741]

If your terrier is working its fox tight enough then you wont be blocking the tube,just shorting the stop-end,and using sticks is a bad idea as eventuallt they will either fall through or rot then the backfill sinks.A lot of the problem with backfill is pure lazyiness.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Good post fatman, taking that extra 10 minutes to sort it makes all the difference.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

I fill halfway up with Sod's then use to loose soil to top it off in a nice pile. Sticks is just lazy.

[leethedog 3,071]

 

I'm just getting back into digging did a bit with me dad as a kid he used to put sticks over brake through area and always carried a news paper in his bag and used it to cover the sticks with

The dog foxes will enjoy the little vixens on page 3

I think it was the sport

[leethedog 3,071]

I fill halfway up with Sod's then use to loose soil to top it off in a nice pile. Sticks is just lazy.

seemed to work for him if it works don't fix it he dug the same earths for years Edited February 22, 2015 by leethedog

[undertaker 831]

Fatman is right putting sticks in is not a gud job They rot and sink and then your in bother with the farmer

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

 

I fill halfway up with Sod's then use to loose soil to top it off in a nice pile. Sticks is just lazy.

seemed to work for him if it works don't fix it he dug the same earths for years

 

Each to there own mate. Once the ground settles its back to normal that way and any animal can dig threw it again if needs be. Ive dug countless burrows in the same place over this way and its easier to dig threw and open up again for an animal than it would be if sticks are jammed in the tube.

[dillydog 8,469]

Put the soil back in and if your short take any spoil heaps and make sure to mound it up higher than it was before you started, then put the sods back on. Sticks and logs for deeper digs was the way I was taught but it's a shit way that more often than not sinks or falls through, hence the terrible state some old earths are in from your "good old ways"

Edited February 22, 2015 by dillydog

[young man 225]

I was tought to bridge the hole. But now I always fill with just soil that was extracted then if its short dig a few sods n place them back over. The problem is with bridging the hole has already been stated but another more serious problem. So I was out for a dig one morning with my terrier dropped her in fox out. She stayed with another one. Pushed it up into a lovely we tight stop end that some absolute scumbag had bridged before so as we started to open the bitch went quite as we got deep we had quickly realised that the bridge had collapsed and suffocated my lovely little terrier.

[foxbolter 447]

Good flat stone is the best if u got some out of the dig