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    A great find! Possibly dumped by Canadians after Ww2. They were known for that sort of thing ,probably saved paperwork when they were in a hurry to get home! Or used as target practice when it became redundant and buried on site. Some obsolete army vehicles were used as flood defences , buried under dams or apparently used to fill military earthworks after training exercises .
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    We've had boars and sows and never noticed any taint. I imagine that an old boar might have more bucky taste but as ours are in the freezer by 7 or 8 months it has certainly never been even a consideration. Thinking about it the very first pigs we had were boars and due to an injury one had antibiotics . The withdrawal period coupled with a busy abattoir meant they were nearer 10 months when they went to slaughter . There was no problem with the taste. We found having to rely too much on commercial pellets when our supply of condemned veg dried up certainly had a negative effect
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    Wise words from Phil......For a "thinking" dog ; owner input ,schooling ,earning the dog's trust and building a bond from a very young age leads to a harmonious relationship of a type you won't get by relying on pedigree alone or bribing with tit bits. As for picking a puppy .I wouldn't necessarily pick one just because it was the supposed "pick of the litter" unless l actually felt a liking for it's character or had a good feeling about it . But each to their own I pulled this little man from a litter of seven- week old puppies because while his mates were scrabbling a
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    An update. After the test launch on the farm pond l finally found time to take to the tidal river for six hours of proper paddling. My intention was to head upstream with the rising tide and make the tidal limit which is as far as l can legally go . To be honest at that point the river becomes virtually unnavigable anyway. The last mile or so was a bit of a slog . There were so many fallen trees , overhanging branches and underwater hazards to negotiate l almost gave up. After working my way up some narrow, reed -choked channels l reached the official tidal limit . Believe it or not
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    Wtf

    comanche replied to wildman's topic in General Talk

    You mean like a GI Joe Klan member???
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    Wtf

    comanche replied to wildman's topic in General Talk

    I thought creating images of humans was against Muslim teaching . Clearly l am wrong.
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    A man gets talking to a woman in a bar. After a few drinks he confesses that he's a masochist and enjoys pain; fully expecting the woman to be shocked . Instead she gets very excited and admits that she is a sadist and invites him back to her flat. Once there she strips him naked , chains him to the bed and stands next to him with a lighted cigarette in one hand and a riding crop in the other. "Are you going to stub your cigarette on my private parts and whip me?" the man asks gleefully. At which the women finishes her fag ,throws the crop aside and says with a smile "No
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    Either he was caught on the spot for an answer or was/is having a laugh .... It does beg the question though ; of why someone would match expensive thermal thingybobs with an " old BSA Meteor". It could be he has other guns of course and was just out for a casual poke about .
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    Bare feet

    comanche replied to Greyman's topic in General Talk

    I had persitant planter faciitis a few years ago . Wisdom was that bare feet and thin soles were to be avoided due to lack of support and impact damage. I was pretty good at doing the prescribed exercises but nothing really worked particularly well. I took a break from my cross country runs with the dog but that made no difference either. I guess the causes vary. After a walking holiday during which l covered miles every day and didn't drive l was fine . I worked out that , in my case , too much driving during the wasp nest season was the likely cause due to having my fee
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    I had to get a bit personal with a nest in a wall behind thick ivy . I was fully armoured-up but it didn't stop the jaspers taking their anger out on my equipment. Three of them found themselves in trouble when they couldn't release their stings from the rubber bulb of my hand puffer
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    You can get monitoring blocks for use in rat boxes . You check them regularly and once they show signs of gnawing they are replaced with poison blocks. It saves having poison baits laying about unnecessarily or being wasted by being eaten by slugs etc They appear to be made of flavoured rubber or something similar . A little chunk cut off the corner makes a long lasting and reusable snap trap bait. I've never tried it on a rat trap but it works well for mice. Or wrap the bait in little package of foil?
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    The second one does look very useable . It will definitely have a trial.
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    My lovely daughter presented me with a couple of traps today.She saw them on some budget shopping site for a couple of quid each and added them to her order. Well one is clearly designed for something a bit beefier than the use against mice it was advertised for. It also looks somewhat illegal for anything else. More like a mini amputation device. In deference to my fingers l worked out that the safest way to set it was to stand on it! A neat talking point though The other is a rather powerful rat sized variation on the usual break-back design but without a wooden or metal bas
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    As far as l'm aware it has " Low mammalian toxicity" and is cleared from the body quite quickly. It's not good news at all for anything cold blooded. It has a residual effect in clean situations but exposure to damp and dirt renders it inert after a while . Think of it as decent quality old fashioned ant powder like the stuff your Mum or Gran could buy off the shelf in Co op forty years ago. In fact they probably really were buying Ficam ! It's mosly chalk dust with a weeny bit of active ingredient. That doesn't mean you should sniff it or lick it with impunity. Wear gloves ,avoid
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    Hmm, if a drone can shoot flames it could certainly squirt a blast of insecticide . Less damaging to the house! The blades of the drone were covered in bits of wasp when it came down . Don't know if they actively attacked it or just fell foul of the scything effect as it hovered over the nest.
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    Really tall house, no firm ground for the ladder, couldn't get to the nest from the loft and the access hole was out of sight behind the gutter. The customer was itching for an excuse to put his camera equipped drone to good use! ?
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    Pigs

    comanche replied to BobDown's topic in General Talk

    I can't remember the slaughter and butchering costs as l just looked after the daily care of the pigs while the farmer friend who l shared them with dealt with the finance side . I had great sources of sackfuls of free fruit and fruit and veg for several years. That dried up and we had to use more commercial food which affected the cost and taste of meat from our last lot of pigs. It pretty much negated the aim of quality home produced food. And l think any small scale livestock keeping is more about the ethics and satisfaction of getting decent food from decently raised an
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    Round here l expect a few worthwhile calls in the first week of June but it was a worryingly slow start this year. The nests seemed couple of weeks later than usual . They've made up for the slow start though. As you noted DIDO multiples are common. In fact single nests are a minority . One lady had eight nests in a tiny bungalow all at the same time. I've dragged the Duststik out for getting through the low nests quicker. The last week has been 12 to 14 hour days on them . I don't know if l'm alone but new tub of Ficam has given real problems with blockages . Done the usual st
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    Looks nothing like a lion . Tail's only about a foot long for a start!
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    Coz when they get on that platform together they churn out pages of boring cock measuring drivel that turns interesting threads into shit baths. Just saying ?
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    The original Araldite that took 24 hours to set gave a far stronger bond than the 5 minute stuff you get now. Whatever claims those knock off epoxies claim on the carton have to be taken with a grain of salt . Give it time . I have had some Poundland stuff that didn't set and a mate's wife who was a chemist told me why . It was a technical answer l've forgotten but basically it was probably old. Apart from that l've always been happy to use it .
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    Yes, we had a puma rumoured to be on the loose in our area back in the 70s. On the balence of probability the reported sightings may well have been true for various reasons . Who really knows what is ,has been and may in the future be out there? At the moment a sensible person can only go on probabilities. The naysayers to a breeding population of big cats tend to err on the side of balance and conservatism in their opinions rather than rabid opposition(maybe FD excluded). Whereas on the opposing side there seems to be a cadre of folk on a crusade to persuade us that
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    Well that shows how little this Rick chap knows. Pumas do on occasion actively hunt and kill humans as has been shown several times in America. Two incidents coming to mind are the puma that had lain in wait to ambush a high school athletic as he circled a playing field and wasn't at all keen to relinquish its kill when faced by armed police. Another was the killing of a lad in Banff. A mate was ice climbing in the area at the time and though the official line was that the chap was "mistaken for a deer" - yeh like pumas are short sighted- the local consensus was that he was simpl
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    We'll never know. But there were rumours that contractors engaged in the clean up after last year's Chelsea Flower Show found the remains of Alan Tichmarsh stashed in a tree . However this picture taken in Sussex proves beyond doubt that gardeners form the diet of big cats in the UK (OK,being pedantic pumas aren't technically Big Cats even though they are quite big). Note the way flesh has been stripped from the bones by the cat's rasping tongue . There can be no doubt on the matter now . Though the cover-up conspiracy stretches far beyond the Government as even the Daily
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