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on my kennel, all treated so waterproof, should last good 10 years. Had a chippy do it for me he done few jobs before. Nice and warm in there, both dogs got heat lamps, and sleep on horse blankets from of my neighbour who keeps horses and alpacas and sheep. They both got there own beds and own space. ?

the way I see it the majority are true dog men who know the score and behave. the other are just common crooks who have dogs.

f**k em..

Had a mooch out this avo. Heard a bit of a commotion....... local beagle pack had lost ten couple hounds. No one to be seen and they were hunting like stink so I went with them for a good while and had a bit of hunting before finally getting hold of the huntsman.

Put my tawny and kestrel boxes up last month, nothing yet but still early... Had plenty tawny activity on trailcams feeding on roadkill rabbits and pheasants I’ve put out trying to attract buzzards... Will be putting some boxes up soon for woodland birds, I’ll keep the holes plugged up on a few until the redstarts and flycatchers make an appearance and hopefully get them nesting in boxes.

As someone who runs dogs I understand you saying you wouldn’t shoot dogs but if it was costing me and my family my lively hood I’d shoot all the hares and rabbits and deer on any land I keep livestock if it’s atracting them sort of people or I’d shoot there dogs , and befor everyone starts with the your a scum bag saying you’d shoot someone’s dogs blah blah your a scum bag if your going out ruining someone’s lively hood taking food of that mans kids table, ,, nothing wrong with sneeking on taking some for pot and off again but when people ramming fences and nicking fences and batteries to wei

To put it in perspective we are 5 or 6th biggest economy in the world and we are responsible for just 1% of the world's carbon. ...WE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

I might be wrong but this is how I understand it... ....they arnt banning wood, log burners or fires.. They are banning coal, which is mainly imported from China and Russia anyway. You can still burn smokeless, which isn't that much more expensive and it gives out more heat. On a 20kg I pay a quid more for smokeless. This is cleaner, gives out more heat and is safer in wood/solid fuel burners. To sell wood it will need to be kiln dried or assured to be under a certain moisturiser content. This wood will again give out more heat and prolong the life of your liner /woodburner.

Have a few of these out for the barn owls and have a dozen small nest boxes in the shed waiting to go out

where i hunt ,im great friends with the farmers ,tyla here can vouch ,when he was over we walked in 2 different areas and theres no hassle,if i was cheeky enough i could call in and ask for dinner ,i am friends with most folk that own the land i wander on ,i think as ive aged ,the farmers dont have an attitude when they approach ye ,i park in their yard ,i chat with their wives ,kids ,family ,and go where and when i want ,i never have to tell anyone im thinking of going ,...i just turn up and away with me ,and take anyone i fancy with me ,trust has been built up and if i had to do what these s

Was regular visitor to the garden till we had about 8weeks of snow and often at minus 17 degrees about 10 years ago took its toll on the wildlife

I used to be a chimney sweep (now finished thank feck). Most people never read the manufacturer's instructions as to what temperature to burn at and consequently either have the thing slowly smoldering 'to keep the fire in' producing a load of creosote and soot and filling the street with smoke, or too hot on coal wrecking the appliance and starting chimney fires I've looked at a few wood drying kilns and wasn't very convinced by them. Customers that had bought kiln 'dried' wood said it wasn't at all dry and not worth the money. Most modern homes are well insulated and draught proof and I rec

Just to add - on the occasions we find lads doing it the ok way, we just smile, wave and drive on. Or have a quick chat and tell them where they can go and not go if they want no hassle. They always look confused as f**k, when the farmer rocks up in his truck and starts asking about their dogs and how they bred haha.

....as has been said, most people here have no TV licence and 4 weed plants in the loft.....do you really give a fck. I bet half of us will start burning tyres just to be rebels ??

After getting a phone call from the sheep farm informing me that a fox had been spotted in with the lambs I told him I’d be up tonight, now the wind is strong but we can deal with that, so I picked up longshanx and headed to the farm, on arrival we noticed that the wind had got stronger and it had started to rain, by the time we got to the top field the rain was heavy and sideways so we tucked up behind a hedge and gave it half an hour with the mouth caller, by this time the wind and rain was mental so that was the end of that, back to the car, I stopped off at the lambing sheds to tell the fa

Woo woo, just think you can spend all day lambing and then all night waiting for the gingers, you will never see your family again

Make two cuts with a junior hack saw carefully down to the leather strap. When you are right through give the strap a light pull. it should pull away as seen. Don't go any further cut the strap before pulling any more out so you do not put the whole of the strap out. I have in the past broken the resin sides doing that. carefully and slowly ease the new strap in place. Glue with Araldite. r Hope this might help somebody. Cheers Arry

One of my pet hates is a bully. When you’re the one in the wrong, to resort to threats of violence - makes you a true scum bag. The keepers, farmers and land owners around here don’t have an issue with hunting or running dogs - they have an issue with how it’s done. One said to me lately - they are just scum, the lowest of the low and deserve nothing but contempt. Same bloke has no issue with me running on his ground.

From a slightly different angle maybe the badger was depressed and just hung itself after spending nights watching packem tripping out his box naked,perhaps a candle lit vigil and a live performance of don’t look back in anger would be more suitable in the situation

What do you all think of the laws coming in to try and do away with woodburners and open fires, another dig at country folk, and making sure nobody gets anything for nout.

It's very quiet tonight. Cheers Arry

Out again the day in Blizzards three lads seven terriers one pointer 104 canny day. Pud

If you go for one try and get a fresh one that’s not been on display, the thing Phil is talking about in an above post is that the main cause of problems is messing with the power while cocked... it wrecks the internals! not a problem altering the power just make sure it ain’t cocked if you buy one?

I can see they will be able to ban Coal but I don't see how they will be able to control the sale of logs. Where are they going to get all these smoke police from they can't even police the country ffs. If you have a wood burner and I do then it's in your own interest not to burn green wood. So nothing changes really. Cheers Arry

I agree plum and apple are good. But Walnut mate they a proper tree get real big and they are lovely trees. I could have bought a whip or a more established tree, that don't do it for me. I foraged them nuts at the same time she was born and planted it so its exactly the same age as her. Also that nut was forming on the tree at the same time she was forming. Its just them little things that give it a bit more meaning if you get where I'm coming from. Atb. Cheers Arry

The guy who invented spell check died today. May he rust in piss.

I admire your dedication stav but your mad,, the weathers been pure sh1te these last few weeks! I was thinking the other night when I was stuck in and board stiff its been over a month since ive had a walk out with a rifle due to the rain or horrific winds. been invited on a keepers vermin day today, theres gonna be five of us with a lot of ground to cover.. looking forward to it but its howling outside! we must all be a bit unhinged, ive spent all week working in it and now ive got a day off im gonna do it again

Good point, I'm sure Brian May would be more than happy to play at the event, perhaps Ricky Gervais could compere...

The lads on here won't let the TV licensing man in so what chance has the bloke who wants to check that their wood is dry enough to burn? ?

Lost a mullet tonight, a good one aswell, but now I know the bay the are sitting In. The top of the river goes to a series of 4 tunnels that run under the road and ends on the other side of the road where the 4 tunnels feed into a bay. I'll be hitting that bay now on the High tides as it floods with water, I'm sure there's a few deep gulleys in the water there. But it's also very shallow there in areas. Still gutted I lost it but I still got 2 months here. Work wise I'm here with the army but attached to the infantry so I got my little workshop to sort out the vehicles for the infantry l

Have had a spotted flycatcher the last two summers nesting against the side of the house. Local ringer ringed the chicks last year. I put up an open fronted box for them last year and they built a nest on top of it !

I'd really like this to be true but there was plenty of shit things going on before the ban too. The ban definately made it worse but wasn't the cause. The problem is that some people are f***ing morons and you can't legislate against stupid. There are plenty of farmers and keepers around shooting out any quarry that will attract that element. It's a terrible shame for the quarry and the countryside in general but what else can they do?

The old man planted these when my sister and I were born. They've kept a lot of people in cooking apples over the last forty something years. My dogs are buried there as well.

Still blowing a hooley here on the east coast but I have just popped over to my quarry perm to fill the squirrel feeders................NO WIND so a session on the rabbits is in order if the rain keeps away although we do have a roof on one of the hides and with that in mind, perhaps we should get one on the other hide. Where there is a will, there is a way. ? Phil

in fairness its asking a lot ,to expect a farmer to turn a blind eye to that kind of damage ,and get abused or even physically beaten on his own property by thugs with dogs ,the hunting folk dont need that kind of carry on in the sport,its going to be the end of hunting freedom for all the decent lads ....

They are keen alright! Never stop going about going out.

It is true that one person every now and then doesn't get on with the Impact or they fart around tuning and tweeking without knowledge of the gun and do damage then blame the gun which has happened BUT the vast majority of guys find the gun to be just what they hope for. Have a good look at it DB and then you can post a photo of you holding your new Impact..... Phil

I would go and buy it tomorrow, Iam sure you will love it

It's just to stop lads making a few quid selling firewood for cash, they want big firms who can kiln dry it and pay tax,laws are made to be broken they can't inforced the laws they already have so pointless making any more.

Just spent three days clearing rats off a traveller site from a mountain of waste that they dumped there and the council had to remove ......

Had a good walk with a lad i haven’t seen for a bit and our kid a couple of terriers and a dog i had as a young un Wheaton whippet don’t c a lot of these about atb longers01

Tomorrows shooters ,keen ready to learn and happy and mm no bledddy playstation in sight awesome

Couldn’t give a f**k they are banning the sale of it can’t stop you collecting your own which to me is the essence of having one, ie free heat

Cracking pictures almost makes me want to take a couple of kids hostage just so I can take them out shooting ??

Walk, walk, walk and then walk some more, there's no legislation on walking, even if you're caught out snooping about on private land man up and ask for permission to hunt the land. I'll tell you exactly how I got 90% of my land bear in mind that times were different back then and although immoral it wasn't illegal. I'd walk anyone's land I wanted to it added to the experience ?? I'd find a nice fox earth and crack on and dig it, no harm done. On the odd occasion a farmer or land owner did come to me the conversation went something like this "WHO'S TOLD YOU, YOU CAN C

Lads don’t be jumping to his tune, it’s all anti propaganda and you fell for it from the start, straight away accuses hunters for killing it, most likely a road kill victim. Yes prob not the best thing to have on your gate but people are sick of his anti bull crap, and just a pity it wasn’t him on the gate

some amount of bell ends on here,