Interesting Find This Season...

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

To the untrained eye its an oak tree, to a tree surgeon it looks like a beech tree.lmao

[dillydog 8,469]

It looks like a challenge to me, it would be rude not to try it. the location systems have come on so much locating the terrier wouldn't be an issue, i'd take a few decent tools and plenty of monkeys to dig it for me while i took in the view.

[leethedog 3,071]

Now technology has moved on would any one drop a dog in there??edited to say dd you answered as I asked

Edited April 17, 2015 by leethedog

[dillydog 8,469]

The only problem being i'm to tight to put the diesel in to get there

[peterhunter86 8,627]

Would ir be worth the risk losing your dog that could probably never be replaced someone put that sign in that tree for a reason

[Dabhand 887]

I bet its only 0,6

And a chap done it back then to keep any chavs from wrecking the place

[Zilverhaze 1,627]

1 holer into a rock face whuldent be dropin my dog in ther

[neil cooney 10,416]

R.I.P. Viper.

[fireman 11,012]

Just shows how old some earths are, id love to now the exact age of some earths or seen how many times theyve been dug over the years. I bet that tree was a lot smaller 34 years ago lol

On a local shoot they have kept vermn records since 1953 and for the last god knows how many years between 2 weekends in febuary a fox has been dug or bolted from one of the earths there,the keeper came round to my home and told me "it's either this weekend or next that we'll have our fox",the next day was a saturday and a vixen was bolted from it and shot,the dog fox was accounted for 50 yrds up the bank in a new pulled out place i found on the beating line one day..It allways make me wonder how they find them and why they still use them but it's good they do,makes finding the buggers easier thats for sure .

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

I would have to see the place for myself in the flesh but if it didn't look anything out of the ordinary I wouldn't be able to walk away from it, if I did it would eat me alive until I went back and dropped a dog and seen for myself what the crack was. Reminds me of a place not far from me. Most men won't and don't let a dog into it. Anytime I've been there I've never seen anyone elses digs apart from real old ones, so it always holds. I've dug it every year for the last 8 years apart from last season. Got some gruellers in it and some handy enough ones. One guy well known for his terriers told me I was mad going to that place with a dog. Each to there own but i wasn't aware no one went to it until word got about I had been getting results from it. Just thinking back I've only ever dug one other mans dog from it the once, all the rest it was my own. Still waiting for a reason why everyone avoids it apart from it can run deep and like iron in parts. I've my own thoughts on the matter.

Edited April 17, 2015 by THE GENERAL

[chilli 381]

The only problem being i'm to tight to put the diesel in to get there

I'll give you the money

[Cleanspade 3,324]

not a chance. get a digger in and pull the tree up. see where the roots are running.. in case they have opened the rock. bravado is easy.as its the dog that risks all. it would be interesting to find the dogs owner and find out the curcumstances. but i for one wouldnt ignore something like that. no way hozay

[neil cooney 10,416]

They say Fortune Favours the Brave.

There used to be a place near me where the entrances were at the bottom of a 20 foot high bank.

We used to dig them at 4 foot out in the field.

And, the other side of the coin is that the easy looking place can often be the opposite.

 

But then again, you could walk away from that place saying "the tree was right".

[dillydog 8,469]

I've been to dozens of old wives tale earths, deep as hell, don't put a dog in there, bla, bla, bla. I'm certainly not knocking the old boys I'm just pointing out the terrier location is light years ahead of what it once was. Even the tools these days are far better, heavy grafts, sharp tooths, round mouths with kick plates and so on, even some of the men aren't on 60 Benson and Hedges and 10 pints a day anymore.

[foxbolter 447]

How do they know the dog was killed they must have got the dog to know or did the dog just not come back out and they classed it as killed they probably had about 12 terriers in and one didnt come back out in alot of parts there terriers going to ground in rock and knowbody knows the outcome and its undigable and a bolt will happen with the right dog if one dog entered unless they kill quarry and get stuck the other side they more than likely will get out most of the old terrier rescues you read about there were more than one terrier entered butcher and badger ect