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    I helped my Father with some bees this morning. I moved the brood box and supers to one side to be able to replace the floor of the hive. I had a cheap veil with a hole at the rear and long red gloves with no elastic at the lower arm and weliies. I got stung three times, once under my chin and I pulled that sting out so it was not too bad, once on my left wrist where the bees had gone down the inside of the glove and once on my right ankle because there were so many bees on the legs of my overalls some fell down into my wellies. After antihistamine cream the one on my wrist was the worst. Fi
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    I searched and found this review on the US site and from which one of those recommended is this one on Amazon, who don't like copying of their web sites. http://www.gardentoolreview.com/hori-hori-soil-knife-review/ Tomita Miyamato Hori Hori for £21.45. (Which is easy to pronounce after a couple of beers) They also sell the cheaper Fiskars aluminium one for £10.
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    I use garden kneelers, blown polystyrene rectangle from garden shop, cost me 25p each in a sale. Similar to this. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GARDEN-KNEELING-KNEELER-FOAM-PAD-MAT-CUSHION-KNEE-SUPPORT-BOARD-/221505056300
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    Get 10 Talpex and try, they rarely fail with me. Talpex are dead easy to set although take longer to set as once set in the soil I trigger the treadle plate to ensure the legs spring closed. With clay soil the legs can slowly close as they cut through the soil. Also it is a good way of checking for stones.
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    I'll wait to see what the revised product looks like. I was thinking about buying some more, but I'll wait now for these to be made.
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    Matt, What do you dip the FP traps in? Mine are starting to go rusty in places on the body. https://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/16678037386/ This is my set up. Two buckets and a probe and a garden kneeling mat which cost 25p. Builders trowel sharpened at the edges, they last a couple of years before they break at the weld. Cheapest ones from B&Q. The wire going into the file handle is a coat hanger about 10" long, I use it to scoop soil out of the runs each end of the section of turf I removed. Saves getting a trap full of soil as the mole pushes the soil upwards, most usef
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    www.tripledeuce.net 50gr Nosler BT with 21.5gr of Vit130. CCI BR4
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    I use The Flat Pack traps, but now losing one or two so looking to buy a few more (10-20).They are now £45 for ten plus post. Not tried Bethel Rhodes and no prices on their web site. Getting down the Talpex as well and they are £82 for ten from flat pack. Which are the best value?
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    Yesterday I put a body grip in the loft with peanuts and Coop peanut butter and put three cage traps outside. But no wire or foam. Got a call today that one was in a cage trap by the bird feeder. So went to have a look and went in the loft as well. One was in the bodygrip. Reset the traps and left. See how many more are in the loft. They said they'd seen two or three. SunPat Extra crunchy peanut butter was recommended as the smelliest by the council pestie but i could only find Crunchy. Got some Nutella as well just in case. Squirrel pie anyone?
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    Thanks for all your comments. I am going there tomorrow with chicken wire and foam and the traps to see if I can persuade him to let me put some traps in the garden and a bodygrip in the loft with some peanut butter on it. I have trapped some in gardens etc but not in an attic before, and they are a pain generally. Access into some parts of the loft is very constricted, and the insulation fibres get down your throat.
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    Two houses merged into one with 5 loft hatches. Sounds heard early morning. The daughter bangs on the ceiling to move them along. Had a look, two sort of nests but nothing compellingly nest like. One area where storage materials has been chewed. The insulation is fibreglass type stuff and so loose to move around. some of it is flattened but there are no destroyed areas to form a nest. So it seems to me that the squirrels have not made a proper home, yet. Chewed electric cable and overflow pipe for one water tank in one of the loft areas. Saw two sets of droppings, smaller and rounde
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    Bisley 12G presentation cleaning kit. Used one set of patches. Tins of oil are not opened. Cloth has not been used. All the jags are good. £25 + £3.20 postage. Please PM if interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/10756243743/ http://www.guns.gb.com/contents/en-uk/p1952_Bisley___Parker_Hale_presentation_cleaning_kit.html
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    Honda GX 160 generator. 110/240V output. 5.5HP, 2.7KVA Not used for the past five years, not used much prior to that. £125 collected 12 miles north of Bristol. https://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/11494791493/ http://m.engines.honda.com/models/model-detail/GX160
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    Honda GX160 Petrol Generator with outputs for 110V and 240V. 5.6HP. Not used for five years and little use before then. Reliable workhorse. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/11494791203/in/photostream/ £150 collected. 12 miles north of Bristol between M5 J14 and 15.
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    Black Walnut stock blank dried to 14%. Length: 819mm Thickness: 54mm Width at thick end: 222mm Width at thin end: 64mm Waxed on the ends to prevent moisture ingress. Pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/11888511054/ £100. Shipping: £10 to via Parcels to go. 12 miles north of Bristol, 6 miles from M5 junction 14 or 15. PM if interested.
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    Bisley 12G delux cleaning kit. Used one set of patches. Tins of oil are not opened. Cloth has not been used. All the jags are good. £20 + £3 postage. Please PM if interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/10756243743/
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    Picked up three old boxes but no keys. What is the best way to open them, can you get the keys or is there an easy way to open them. I use two small screwdrivers but it is fiddly. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/9506872877/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/67356568@N05/9506872993/in/photostream/
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    I have already seen queen wasps this year by nest entrances. I saw the first ones about a week ago. I thought they were produced much later in the year, October onwards. They are obviously larger than workers so definitely queens. I am surprised that I am seeing them this early.
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    If you have good reason, they you should get what you want. That is the legal position but plod is a cautious chap and likes to retain their pensions by not taking risks. BASC have a guide to the application form (101) on the web site: http://www.basc.org.uk/download.cfm/docid/6DADB271-D8D5-4EEF-B71B486DEB7A38C2 What ever the FEO may say get it in writing from the bureau. Forces should allow 22LR for fox but won't specifically say so on the FAC.
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    That's what I did recently. Four traps and caught six. No reds though in the area. Cage trap costs £17.
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    Finally caught five in the larsen trap on Sunday, there had been four locally. After I had tried different locations for the trap, the one which worked was directly under a huge Pear tree where they had been congregating. Since I caught these, there have been four to five around the trap, but none caught. The bait is cat food in a small container on the top of the larsen and some more cat food inside on yoghurt lids. It is hot and this may have an effect, but I am surprised that I have not caught some of those which had been loitering with intent. I guess the next step is t
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    Cheers lads
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    Terraced house in a village with the chicken coop in the back garden (20 feet wide by 60 feet long) in a corner next to an outhouse with untidy wood pile in it, the outhouse backs onto the coop and the run. Three Bantams in their coop three feet off the gound, door left open, the door is usually shut, a rabbit sized hole into the ground in the run some 8 feet away. Netting over some of the run. All Bantams taken one night, a bit of blood and a few feathers nothing else left. Garden has 6-7 foot high wooden fences around it, a chicken farm with 100 chickens down the lane. So hard for a
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    Section 7 of the 1992 Badgers act allows for the killing of Badgers in the defence of property, but if it is apparent before that point in time that the Badgers are causing damage to property then you need a licence to kill them. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/51/section/7 No licences have been issued since 1997.
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    On the BASC web sit there are a lot of guidance sheets and one for FAC application. Well worth reading. http://www.basc.org.uk/en/departments/firearms/certificate-forms-and-fees.cfm
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