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  1. Caravan Monster
    @jigsaw SAK = Swiss Army Knife. I've got one of their multitools that I must have had for 30 years and the mechanism is still tight and the blade holds a decent edge, even if I've lost the tweezers and bent the corkscrew I was looking at their range for a smaller one as mine is now deemed 'illegal' in the UK and noticed they also produce a single locking blade hunter designed for the US market which might suit your needs. I'd be confident about the quality and the wood and rubberised handles look ok. https://www.knifecenter.com/series/victorinox-swiss-army/swiss-army-hunter-pro
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    I live on a livestock farm and so the lurcher has to be trustworthy and I've thankfully never had any problems although the current one took a while to earn my trust. However, any dog around new lambs sets me on edge. Their jerky movement and rushing around has to be a big temptation for any predator, especially a running dog, and I'd rather just keep away from them.
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    Hares are coming back now round here, they get a hard time here over the winter being the only permission of an enthusiastic marksman. This one came in quite close to see what the dog was screeching about, dog wasn't happy
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    Well looked after second hand kit can be good value for money, especially for occasional users, but it's a bit of a lottery with ebay. Ideally collect from the buyer to check it's decent condition and not nicked. My neighbour had a second hand stihl ms261 in very good condition for about £250 I think it was. One of those would be fine for coppicing with a short bar and would cope with ringing small and medium trees for firewood. Those battery chainsaws look ideal for pruning or even coppicing and no need for ear defenders must be a bonus.
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    When the kung flu panic is over, go to doctor and ask for blood test for uric acid levels. It's an underlying hereditary condition, not caused by eating venison and prawns - that just makes it worse and brings on the attacks. Get it treated because the uric acid crystals can chew up your body from the inside even if you feel ok. You might have to go on tablets for life, but that's better than wrecking your joints or dying early from heart or kidney diseases that gout is now understood to cause.
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    I've got the Sportdog tek 1.0, they don't use maps but work well enough in the midlands although I can see how useful maps would be in more mountainous terrain. It just works, none of the bother with maps and updates. The downside is that they are designed for US trail hounds and the collars are really big on a lurcher, the collar just about stays on my skinny saluki x and I can see it bouncing around a lot as she runs. It would fit fine on big bull xs and suchlike with big necks. Also the signal transmits something like every 10 seconds and struggles to keep up with the speed and the rapid ch
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    To answer my own question, the vet sold me afoxolaner / milbemycin oxime tablets which are tablets which kill a wide range of internal and external parasites and are safe for collie blooded dogs. Can't say I'm all that keen on giving the dog a tablet strong enough to kill parasites for a month, particularly when the vet couldn't find mange mites in the skin scrapings.
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    What's the best way to treat for lurchers with collie blood so can't have ivermectin? I've got one here I'd better get tested, she has irritation / scabs / flaky skin on an ear and elbow. I thought it was a bit of thorn I couldn't find but it's gone on for a few weeks and she's in the hay barn every day where she could have picked up mange.
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    People find it difficult to conceptualise how energy dense petrol is - I recently spent the day cutting oak for a friend that had been left for 5+ years and was so hard it was more or less impossible to split and had to be sawn into burnable size lumps. With a well set up 70cc stihl chainsaw I filled 4 cubic metre bulk bags with logs using about 5 litres of petrol. To cut and split that much by hand would be days of work, but most drivers wouldn't think twice about using that much fuel for an unnecessary journey. The £200 billion HS2 is going to end up costing could have been used to dev
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    To be fair it's not always that way, when I was doing chimneys there were a lot of houses that didn't seem to need a fire and had the central heating so hot the sweat would be dripping off me whilst working. They even put tiny little closed appliances in new builds which were clearly for show with the small rooms, insulation, double glazing and draft proofing. Some of the villages I was doing were quite affluent, so they probably weren't watching the cost. It's the ones that have the air closed and the wood smouldering that are bad for air pollution. Apart from the f*ckery of dealing with the
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    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
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    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.
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    I've got an old VW LT35 panel van with the 2.8 engine that is still going strong. Mechanics keep telling me to hold on to it for as long as possible because the newer Crafters and Sprinters have many problems. Might have to start looking at small crane lorries the way I want to take the business, not liking the sound of the extra costs. Iveco seem a popular choice for the job.
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    +1 get to learn a bit about Irish politics through looking at threads like this, hear nothing about it in England. Same for Scotland as well, learn more off hearing normal people discuss things on the web than from the news media.
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    Also goat hunting thread in general talk about his gritty coursing type that he would have liked to find a good bitch for, although old and might not have any lead left in his pencil...
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    This was a strange one, utter w4nker anti brexit barrister kills fox trapped in the wire of his chicken pen in central London with a baseball bat and is stupid enough to post about it on his prominent twitter account. The incident is then used by youtubers with zero actual on the ground knowledge about hunting and the quite complex issues surrounding the ban to make features on what they deem to be the barbarity of mounted packs fox hunting. Today's headlines, tomorrows chip paper, but the laws arising from these low information opinions have had life changing consequences for otherwise law ab
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    @skycat had some a while back. If memory serves they were imported from the states because only show type were available over here.
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    Phones and many digital cameras record what is called EXIF data with every photo. It is a file which records technical photographic information and also time, date, gps location, camera id etc. The danger is posting photos on the web without editing or removing the EXIF data file. If the photo is on a windows computer I would guess you can find and delete the EXIF data before posting by right clicking on it and going through the options. I just looked on an android phone, where camera > settings > more > turn off location should stop it recording gps coordinates. It's worth googling t
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    I wouldn't expect much democracy from the Tories either, least worst betrayal of the referendum maybe. Assuming they win the election I predict we will see a 'brexit in name only' that leaves the UK tied into the federal European Union in many ways, not the OUT result won in the 2016 referendum. I also suspect that history will show the destruction of UKIP, that was starting to gain a lot of votes and traction, to have been at least partly a product of establishment dirty tricks. This election is about the future of government in this country, not soon to be forgotten random manifesto promises
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    Get with the times, every political party and it's politicians hate the little people. Labour highlights including Emily Thornberry's disgust at a constituent's van and St George's flag in his window, Gordon Brown caught calling a constituent 'that bigoted woman', Lord Mandelson's 'we'll rub their noses in diversity'. That's before we even start on the momentum sixth form politics club that want to supervise the little peoples' lives by way of communism. Forget the class warfare comrades, Labour politicians are just as well connected and from the same backgrounds as the Tories, Brexit Party, L
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    Agreed he was taking a stupid and even bigger risk going lamping without permission whilst under a court order, but the point remains that something is motivating the police and courts to prosecute very harshly and they are justifying it with reasoning as dubious as the origins and enactment of the ban. The Rural Crimes Coordinator for Dorset says: Is it now acceptable for authority figures to prejudge an entire group of people on the basis of very little knowledge or experience? For every tw@t with a lurcher or terrier, there are many more otherwise law abiding people that kill quickl
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    We had a spate of sheep thefts in the area recently, as many as 50 a night disappearing obviously an organised gang. The police put up signs saying sheep were being "attacked" and to report suspicious activity making it sound like "poachers". I found the police in the yard late one night and asked them what they were doing to which they replied they were looking for lampers, not sheep rustlers. People running the land really isn't a problem around here but I've been stopped whilst walking the dog a few times in recent years (never been in trouble with the law otherwise). My guess is the d
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    I've got a couple of containers that I use for all sorts and one does have a pop hole going into a run and a lurcher size sleeping box inside. I made a tin roof for mine with 100mm insulation boards sat on top of the containers. The roof keeps the heat out in the summer and stops the condensation in the winter. The dog hides out in the sleeping box out of choice in the summer because it is cooler in there although she never looks that pleased about going in there during the winter. You might struggle to find a container with a steel floor, generally newer ones have plyboard and older ones have
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    Different local planning authorities take different lines on it, so local research is important. Making friends with farmers might be helpful as planning regs around converting redundant farm buildings to residential were considerably loosened a while back and they seem to be able to get away with far more than most. Normal houses are better structures to live in and easier to maintain a decent standard of living in than caravans. Around ten years ago I saw no end of people living in caravans and yurts hidden in bits of forestry on the outskirts of the Lake District National Park, lots l
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    Mine is mostly coursing dog with collie /grey added a generation or two back. She has plenty of speed and above average desire to find and catch but doesn't have the strength or fire to be an all rounder and I would actively avoid the forbidden beasts even if it was legal.
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