devvo 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 What a day! Got set off at 9am, on our permission for half past, the owner off this land got me a 50 yard longnet for christmas so thought we would try it out. As soon as we pulled up the wind got up to what must have been 40 mph plus! Anyway we were here now and would have a go. I saw a rabbit dash into a small stack off silage bales, so out with the long net, set it up as per stubbys helpful advice. one bolted after a couple of minutes, my mate hadnt pushed the peg in hard enough so it fell over just as the rabbit bolted! BUGGER! so set her up again and waited and waited ferret came out, so i gave the order to collect the net in, then the jill went back in and bolted another! Not a good start anyway got her out and onto a soil pile which the owner really wanted us to do, (what the longnet was bought for) by now the wind was playing havoc with the long net so gave that up as a bad job and just purse netted up. In with two jills left them for a good half hour, nothing happening so out with the locator, got a mark at 4ft so got the spade out and began to dig, after a foot i checked to see if she was there but had moved so left it 15minutes and got a mark at 10ft waited another 10 minutes to see if she would move again, but no, must have them arsed up so out with the spades! after 7feet off digging the farmer turned up and couldnt stop laughing by now it was 12:45pm and i was getting a bit annoyed, then i heard what i thought was a tractor fire up, but out came the jcb! Two bucket fulls out of the hole i dug made it alot better! mark at 2 feet so id dig this with the spade, broke in too find two rabbits bottled up and a ferret on the end off them! The other ferret wasnt far behind her so took them out and moved on! After 2 hours digging i was all set for going home but pressed on and got 5 more out off nice easy setts! Only one bolt all day but got out and about with the ferrets and got a few. Il never live it down! Ferreting with a JCB! Sorry no pics, forgot the camera ( Good job if you ask me) Quote Link to post
danielt 1 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 thats one thing you wont fit in your ferreting bag, a JCB ! Quote Link to post
auld salmon 28 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 What a day! Got set off at 9am, on our permission for half past, the owner off this land got me a 50 yard longnet for christmas so thought we would try it out. As soon as we pulled up the wind got up to what must have been 40 mph plus! Anyway we were here now and would have a go. I saw a rabbit dash into a small stack off silage bales, so out with the long net, set it up as per stubbys helpful advice. one bolted after a couple of minutes, my mate hadnt pushed the peg in hard enough so it fell over just as the rabbit bolted! BUGGER! so set her up again and waited and waited ferret came out, so i gave the order to collect the net in, then the jill went back in and bolted another! Not a good start anyway got her out and onto a soil pile which the owner really wanted us to do, (what the longnet was bought for) by now the wind was playing havoc with the long net so gave that up as a bad job and just purse netted up. In with two jills left them for a good half hour, nothing happening so out with the locator, got a mark at 4ft so got the spade out and began to dig, after a foot i checked to see if she was there but had moved so left it 15minutes and got a mark at 10ft waited another 10 minutes to see if she would move again, but no, must have them arsed up so out with the spades! after 7feet off digging the farmer turned up and couldnt stop laughing by now it was 12:45pm and i was getting a bit annoyed, then i heard what i thought was a tractor fire up, but out came the jcb! Two bucket fulls out of the hole i dug made it alot better! mark at 2 feet so id dig this with the spade, broke in too find two rabbits bottled up and a ferret on the end off them! The other ferret wasnt far behind her so took them out and moved on! After 2 hours digging i was all set for going home but pressed on and got 5 more out off nice easy setts! Only one bolt all day but got out and about with the ferrets and got a few. Il never live it down! Ferreting with a JCB! Sorry no pics, forgot the camera ( Good job if you ask me) well done mate not many folk have the help of a jcb ( lol )would be handy but would put a lot of expense onto ferreting kit a extra £40 grand haha Quote Link to post
auld salmon 28 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 well done mate not many folk have the help of a jcb ( lol )would be handy but would put a lot of expense onto ferreting kit a extra £40 grand haha nice of the farmer to buy you a net and dig the ferret out 4 you should ask him along all the time Quote Link to post
devvo 0 Posted December 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 well done mate not many folk have the help of a jcb ( lol )would be handy but would put a lot of expense onto ferreting kit a extra £40 grand haha nice of the farmer to buy you a net and dig the ferret out 4 you should ask him along all the time Its not his thing mate but they enjoy watching for a couple of minutes Quote Link to post
richie 1 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 nice one.... seven foot ! you legend.. just goes to show how useful a locator is.. do you have your long net set up a quick set ? richie Quote Link to post
COMPO 54 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 did you back fill??? Quote Link to post
MikeTheDog 153 Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Classic! You were lucky your mate was there with the digger.. Quote Link to post
the fezz 44 Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 What a day! Got set off at 9am, on our permission for half past, the owner off this land got me a 50 yard longnet for christmas so thought we would try it out. As soon as we pulled up the wind got up to what must have been 40 mph plus! Anyway we were here now and would have a go. I saw a rabbit dash into a small stack off silage bales, so out with the long net, set it up as per stubbys helpful advice. one bolted after a couple of minutes, my mate hadnt pushed the peg in hard enough so it fell over just as the rabbit bolted! BUGGER! so set her up again and waited and waited ferret came out, so i gave the order to collect the net in, then the jill went back in and bolted another! Not a good start anyway got her out and onto a soil pile which the owner really wanted us to do, (what the longnet was bought for) by now the wind was playing havoc with the long net so gave that up as a bad job and just purse netted up. In with two jills left them for a good half hour, nothing happening so out with the locator, got a mark at 4ft so got the spade out and began to dig, after a foot i checked to see if she was there but had moved so left it 15minutes and got a mark at 10ft waited another 10 minutes to see if she would move again, but no, must have them arsed up so out with the spades! after 7feet off digging the farmer turned up and couldnt stop laughing by now it was 12:45pm and i was getting a bit annoyed, then i heard what i thought was a tractor fire up, but out came the jcb! Two bucket fulls out of the hole i dug made it alot better! mark at 2 feet so id dig this with the spade, broke in too find two rabbits bottled up and a ferret on the end off them! The other ferret wasnt far behind her so took them out and moved on! After 2 hours digging i was all set for going home but pressed on and got 5 more out off nice easy setts! Only one bolt all day but got out and about with the ferrets and got a few. Il never live it down! Ferreting with a JCB! Sorry no pics, forgot the camera ( Good job if you ask me) :laugh: feckin hell ferreting with a jcb , classic . well done mate Quote Link to post
devvo 0 Posted December 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 nice one.... seven foot ! you legend.. just goes to show how useful a locator is.. do you have your long net set up a quick set ? richie Not a clue mate did you back fill??? its alot quicker back filling with a jacob mate! LOL Quote Link to post
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