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    Latest success. Sent in by one of our young customers
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    Nature never lets anything go to waste. Here's an interesting clip from my CCTV cams... https://www.trapbarn.com/foxchomp/
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    Useful information and I guess this confirms that rats don't like moving around in the open and will go the some lengths to avoid it. With your agreement, I'd like to mention your story on my rat trapping guide at www.trrapbarn.com
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    View Advert 25 x Fenn Mk4 traps from £6.75 delivered New product release ! NEW - Camouflage covered tunnel for Fenn traps. Free promo gifts with minimum spends. Check out these and more at https://trapbarn.com Advertiser Tomdhu Date 24/06/18 Price £169.00 Category Miscellaneous  
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    Fenn Mark4

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    View Advert Fenn Mark4 New Fenn Mark4 traps from only £6.75 each delivered ! Until 15th May, Trap Barn is doing a deal on bundles of 25 Fenn traps. You will ot get a better price anywhere. Purchase direct from www.trapbarn.com Advertiser Tomdhu Date 27/04/18 Price Category Miscellaneous  
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    Some young friends, who are very much in love with hedgehogs, were asking me about the risks to hedgehogs from spring traps that are deployed to kill rats and stoats. I said that most kill traps, like Fenns, by law have to be used with a tunnel to minmise the risk to non-target species but they weren't entirely convinced - particularly as I couldn't provide them with the size of the aperture to the tunnel that would exclude junior and adult hedgehogs whilst allowing access to a full sized male stoat or rat. Can I ask what advice you might give on a suitable tunnel size and what recommenda
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    I'd go with the Fenns but the challenge is to sort out the genuine Fenns from the cheap Chinese imported look-alikes. The imported ones are not approved by DEFRA under STAO (2102) ans are illegal to use. If you buy on Ebay the regular sellers of the geuine ones are itsareal1, moorlandspoultry , opuk2008, the-trap-man, 2013betsieboo , pestuk0118. fourteenacres and maverick060390. There are two only two other brands that are" Fenn look-alikes" that are made to the same specification as the Fenns and are also approved. These are Springer and Solway. You can buy these with confidence.
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    Here's a design you might consider. The trigger mechanism is entirely inside so you can use it in a bank. Looking at the picture , the hinged end of the stay is on the red braket and the stay is mounted upside down. To to set you lift the door up and liftt the stay up so that the RH end latches on the peg. A tug on the cable pulls the stay off the peg. The bungees slam the door down and the door locks shut with a simple latch. If you dont like the cable round the roller, then you could use a tilting treadle plate coupled to the stay with a rod or a cable. Then you could hang your bait from
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    The shopping trolley variant is more than ample size because the key feature is the strong bungees. They slam the door shut so fast and forceful that if the fox is even part way out, it will shove it them back inside. The door only latches when fully closed so you will never get one half in half out and screaming blue murder. Have monitored with a night cam and it is more than ample size. Have not had one escape yet. The only criticism I would have of it is the weight so I'm going to take the angle grinder and increase the size of the holes in the mesh and also take out some of the re-inforc
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    Yes there is. For £100 i'd rather buy a proper one than have my garden look like the bottom of a canal. Why knock it? It works a treat and it cost me nowt. Has since been painted in "Nato Green" matt , clad with some green astro-turf and located under some laurels. P.S. I wish I was as rich as you. Could you spare me an odd £100? I didn't knock yours. I knocked jok's. Quit being so sensitive. Anyway, I can guarantee one catches a lot more than the other. That's why they make them. And if I choose to spend my money on the correct tool for a job, surely that's m
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    Yes there is. For £100 i'd rather buy a proper one than have my garden look like the bottom of a canal. Why knock it? It works a treat and it cost me nowt. Has since been painted in "Nato Green" matt , clad with some green astro-turf and located under some laurels. P.S. I wish I was as rich as you. Could you spare me an odd £100?
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    It's easy to make your own if you can get a discarded shopping trolley and use an angle grinder. Plus two bungee cords. Look up Youtube to see how it's done. Here is mine Door is held open by the black pipe which has a notch cut near the right hand end. Notch is hooked on mesh of trolley. Taking the bait unlatches notch and so door falls down and latches. Door action is fast due to the two red bungee cords.
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    Not passed for use in Scotland either and unlikely to be becaus eof the Red Squirrels having Section 5 protection.
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    Goodnature recommend that they are eplaced 10cm above ground. Good height for rats, stoats, hedgehogs and red squirrels. Putting them higher would minmise hedgehog kills but it would still make a mess of red squirrels. Tom Then you wouldn't use them in an area populated by red squirrels the same as you wouldn't use a fenn or body grip or Kania etc etc etc ....... But if you are after stoats, what do you do because stoats and red squirrels often co-exist in the same habitat? Or they certainly used to when I was growing up in the Highlands. Just noticed on the goodnature websit
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    Goodnature recommend that they are eplaced 10cm above ground. Good height for rats, stoats, hedgehogs and red squirrels. Putting them higher would minmise hedgehog kills but it would still make a mess of red squirrels. Tom
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    They are designed to be low maintenance in their native New Zealand. That does not necessarily make them a low maintenance trap here. The gas cannisters have a life not measured in time but applications. if for example two were set in different locations. One on a hill side for stoats and one in a pig shed for rats. Would they both last six months? Until you can come up with the actual laws regarding the use of the said traps, I would say speculating is not the way forward. TC The law that applies is the Spring Traps Approval Order 2012. They achieved approval via Statutory Instr
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    They were deliberately designed to be low maintenance - hence the log life lure and the gas canister for auto-resetting. The cannister can have a life of up to six months. These requirements were for use in remote environments where daily inspections woud be both impractical and costly. They are intended to be "set and forget". My guess is that if someone shelled out for one at £133 each, they wouldn't want the hassle of checking it every day.
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    I write to on a matter of concern relating to Britain’s native wildlife. Under the Spring Trap Approval Order (2012), last year, DEFRA approved a new vermin “trap” - ostensibly to kill stoats and rats, but DEFRA overlooked the fact that it also kills red squirrels and hedgehogs. What makes this trap lethal for endangered species is that it is non discriminatory and has the ability to auto-reset. It is powered by a compressed gas capsule which enables it to make the kill, release the body and then reset itself automatically. Again and again for 6 months! This kill trap cannot differentiate b
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    Paragraph 3 of the Spring Traps Approval Order (England) 2012 states ...... (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a spring trap is equivalent in all relevant respects to a spring trap of a type and make specified in the Schedule if it corresponds to the spring trap so specified in construction, in materials, in impact force or momentum, and in all other respects which are relevant to its effect or manner of operation as a trap. In my view the key words here are "impact force" as it is in this area that the so-called clones are deficient as they have weaker springs -certainly the o
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    No answer as yet despite being on line this morning? "Curiouser and curiouser said Sandra." TC No mystery; it's just that I don't spend every minute on the forum, so apologies for the delay. There is no contradiction. I got rid of the first in January and the second in March - both to Wimbledon Common. But doing it was a right PITA as on both occastions I had to get up early to do it in the dark to avoid issues -using a cover over the cage Plus there was the need to clean the truck as they got so scared they sh1t themselves. So next time, it will be easier if I can get a more ex
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    Result...
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    All counterfeits are illegal to use under the Pests Act 1954. They have not been approved under Spring Traps Approval Order (2012) and anyone using a non-approved trap can be prosecuted. Unless they are classed as clones.......then they are perfectly legal... Here is the link to the "Approved List", and if they are not on that list, then they are illegal.... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/13/pdfs/uksi_20120013_en.pdf This is where the problem is. If you read the bottom of the pdf (Article 2 specifies approved traps, namely those listed in Column 1 of the Sch
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    All counterfeits are illegal to use under the Pests Act 1954. They have not been approved under Spring Traps Approval Order (2012) and anyone using a non-approved trap can be prosecuted. Unless they are classed as clones.......then they are perfectly legal... Here is the link to the "Approved List", and if they are not on that list, then they are illegal.... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/13/pdfs/uksi_20120013_en.pdf
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    Couldn't see the 10 for £86 The regular sellers on Epay who supply genuine ones are moorlandspoultry, itsareal1, opuk2008, the-trap-man, 2013betsieboo and pestuk0118. Cheers mate,they are on there 10 for £85.66 posted just checked atb Dave If these are the ones at £86.55 for 10 then they are genuine Fenn Mark 4. Key points are:- 1. Big link chain that is but-welded. 2. Brass dog that is stamped with Patent Number. Also brass notch. 3 Square corners on the plate 4. Plate is stamped A Fenn MARK 4 MADE IN ENGLAND
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    If you post a photo of one, I will let you know but, if they don't have a patent number on the brass dog then they are most probably imorted counterfeits. Another little pointer is the corners of the plate (tongue). If the corners are cut square, they are genuine Fenn. If the corners are slightly rounded, they are counterfeits. All counterfeits are illegal to use under the Pests Act 1954. They have not been approved under Spring Traps Approval Order (2012) and anyone using a non-approved trap can be prosecuted.
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