Tiercel
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Feck you must have given the poor dog a fair whack. TC
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Just found this, How to grow your own nematodes at home. I will be trying that this year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningequipment/8675592/The-war-on-slugs-starts-at-home.html TC -
And give them the martyrdom they so desire? Better still, segregate the prisons and send them to a Christian prison, that would be sheer hell for them. TC
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Thats the point I am trying to make,if it suits you, use it, no matter what it is made of. Just because stainless does not suit me does not make it bad for end pins. No more than my rusty black mild end pins will suit anyone else. I just stated what suits me thats all. TC
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But you did try them, and that is what it is all about. Unless we try different things we would still be using flint for knives. TC
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First off, there is nothing what so ever wrong with stainless end pins, they are just not for me. No matter what your sport the longer you do it the more refined to your own personal tastes your kit becomes. It's like a dart player preferring one set of flights to another, they both do the same job, he just likes the ones he uses. As much as he can tell you why he likes them, so can the chap who prefers the other type. It is personal choice, what suits you. But the only way to find that out is to try other items of kit to find out if they suit you better. TC
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Personally I do not like stainless for end pins, I know they look good and will last forever, but give me good old mild steel ones every time, preferably rusty ones. The reason being that the stainless point on the pins is too slippery to grip the net when it's hanked on it, one lapse in concentration and the whole net is on the floor, as I found to my cost as the first ones I made were from stainless. My preferred metal of choice now is 6mm black mild steel left to go rusty then rubbed down with fine wire wool, it leaves just enough roughness for the net to grip on the end pins and stop i
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Did you get all the pith out of the centre of the antler then fill with resin before drilling and fixing? TC
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I cut sticks in Dec,Jan & Feb but you can cut them all year around, they just take longer to dry when the sap is up, It takes about a year per inch of diameter to season with winter cut sticks, and about 6 months longer for summer cut ones. As to the length whatever suits you is fine. TC
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To get a clean join with no marks to the bark of the shank I was given this tip. Put masking tape around the top of the shank, but before you do press the masking tape on your trousers to take away most of the tackiness of the tape and that stops the masking tape pulling bark of the shank when you take it off. It does work. TC
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I will stand to be corrected but I think that is a musket not a spar. TC
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Each time anyone does a stick they progress, your coming along well Gaffer. Those are none to shabby either Ross. TC
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Some of my mates used the transistor radios back in the 70' with Deben collars. But they had to guess the depth by the volume of the transistor. TC
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Thats all a dog working with a BOP can really do, for the dog it's always like being the bridesmaid as they do all the hard work and the hawk / falcon get the coup de grace. TC
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What advantage do you foresee that the dog will bring to the table? Unless the dog can hunt up and drop to flush there are none that I can see, but a few disadvantages. Especially with the Harris hawk, they just do not like strange dogs, and by strange I mean any dog that they do not see on a daily basis. TC
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You do not want to mess with her. Hard to judge by the photo but it looks like a big female to me and they can be mean barstewards when they want to. TC
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Really?? Yes and as a supposed excellent trapper who knows everything about traps, trapping and the general wildlife of this country I find it incredulous that you do not know how BOP work. I am not denying that Red Kites and buzzards will take young of any species that are indigenous to this country. But the fact is, a raptor will not hunt until it is hungry and once it has a meal it is incapable of hunting again until it's weight drops enough. (Ask any falconer) TC
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Have any of you thought why Buzzards & Red kites are not used in falconry? I will tell you, as you do not seem to have given it a thought. Cos their feet are too small and they are too slow. Yes they will take young birds and animals, but they do so to survive not for sport. You fecking lot need to get a grip, if you were hungry and there was a meal on a plate in front of you would you ignore it? I would not! As for the people who produce chickens that can fly factor the loss into your business plan. I bet rats, fox, stoats, weasels and disease take far more of the young than any b
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Les have a look at these colours they have all the pantone numbers with them. http://www.pantone.co.uk/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx Type in green in the search box hundreds come up all with the pantone numbers. Another chart with numbers. http://executiveapparel.com/528-2 Typed in pantone 371c into images and came up with this. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pantone+numbers+for+fabric&biw=1366&bih=640&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lBCoVNf8N4Op7AaUqoHIAQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=pantone+371+c I think c or cp is the code for fabri
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Chelsea Hoe With Welder/ Anglegrinder
Tiercel replied to GruffaloGriff's topic in Countryside Skills, Craft & DIY
Brilliant job, will last a lifetime. I like that a lot. TC -
I am not sure, if you look at the link in the post, http://www.kemtex.co.uk/dispersedyes.html it shows up next to the Lincoln green. It calls it the product number in the link. TC
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I have had some success dying spun poly, it never comes out the shade that the dye states but it will take a lighter shade. You have to use what is known as a dysperse dye available from Kemtex if you ring them up and tell him what you want it for he will send you a sample. My sample was enough to dye 150 yards of net . You have to boil the net for at least half an hour then rinse well, the boiling will not harm the spun poly. Before dying. After dying when still wet. When dried out the final colour. The colour I used was DYSPERSE LINCOLN GREEN EGB 1418
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I have followed this thread all the way through, I just want to wish you all safe hunting for yourselves and your dogs. TC
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Again no, the price of the tanalised wood increased to nearly double what it was and to be honest it was just not viable any more. it would cost me more to buy the wood now than what I could sell them for. Sorry, TC
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Rustic bird tables. Again to add to the craft section some rustic bird tables I used to make out of tanalised timber. All glued, screwed, dovetailed and biscuit jointed, I made two types a free standing and wall mounted. I did well on them till ebay changed the search parameters to include all the garden centre shops selling the cheap Chinese ones for a fiver. Free standing one. Wall or shed mounted. TC
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