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    Result. Hope that's the end of that now.
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    Wood is rougher than steel but I'm sure some of you lads use a good moisturiser.
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    The thing about wooden handles is that lads abuse them. A wooden handle is warmer in cold weather, is lighter to carry and both metal and wood are a pain in the ass when things get sloppy. (A good terrierman always grabs his wifes favourite tea towel on his way out the door). Also, if you get a bad welder then a metal handle is as weak as any wooden one. Wood is meant to be used in a downward force and will last forever if it is used that way. But lads throw them over ditches landing flat and when they come to a rock they try and prize it out instead of digging around it and lifting it out.
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    Yes, anyone that's at it more than a few years will have their favourite. My favourite is getting fixed at the minute and feck do I miss it. I had a hard one on Sunday and nearly cried for my favourite graft and shovel. There's 1000s out there like them and some lads might think they're pieces of crap (they wont be when Jim gives them back to me though) but the graft cost me nearly a weeks wages when I was 15 and the shovel was given to me by Glyn (Pickaxe) when I was over with him. It became my favourite after it's very first dig. Not because of how handy it is but because of the dig. I mi
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    I see your point Mackay, but the topic is about Hancock dogs, good or bad. If everyone was to start talking about bad ones of all breeding I would think that the WWW is not big enough, LOL.
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    Had a similar one last week Fireman. I put a dead pheasant in run in a hedge with a snare on it. He came in from the other side through the hedge and knocked the snare with the dead pheasant in his mouth. He ate the pheasant out in the field then jumped up on a round bale and left a sign to say he'd been.
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    All this talk of shovels when the real secret is the man behind it. Some lads would shift more with a teaspoon than others would with a JCB.
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    By the time you've taken the wooden handle out of that and welded some lugs onto the head of it it would be easier to order a proper shovel. I wouldn't like to be relying on that for a good dig to a terrier.
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    You're right Dawn, but those two letters K and C are the difference between £££ and £££££££££. Also the words Breed Standard have two completely meanings between those work their dogs and those who think they know what they should look like (for nothing more and nothing less.). So the KC adopts what they see as a dogs "ideal" standard but it's fashionable judges that dictate what's fashionable and what's not. If this wasn't the case then no type of dog would ever have changed in appearance over the years. Simple as that. It all boils down to money, money ,money and maybe a bit of uneducat
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    The story's not funny. Not for him being filmed or for those who filmed him. But the fact the location is the Butt Road Cemetery is hilarious.
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    Judge Judy

    neil cooney replied to j j m's topic in General Talk

    I've always presumed they were all actors, same as that Jeremy Kyle thing.
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    Sorry old chap my mistake it was 'Bar & Shovel' on another site. Change your name to Inspector Clouseau.....haha... LMAO, brilliant.
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    That's interesting about the flyball etc. and it would explain a lot as to how the man is still in business. And that's what it is, a business. Funny enough it was Plummer who had a big contribution into Mr Hancock starting off and Plummer was SO outspoken against puppy farming. And as we all know Plummer was no hypocrite. Even if Hancock did breed many good ones early on in his business one thing I do know is that it takes hard work and continuous testing of dogs to keep a line of workers going combined with an understanding of breeding and if, as a lot of you say that no testing goes o
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    Good advice Bosun. I always use this metaphor and don't apologize for using it again. If you got a gallon of ice cream and put one tea spoon of shit in it, stirred it all around, what have you got ? It ain't ice cream and would you chance a spoonful ? Breeding for work is the same. Put one teaspoon of shit in the mix and the shit will come out eventually.
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    I don't know which I'd rather see, a flock of sparrows or a sparrowhawk. The sparrow hawk I would think must have a very high success rate. I seen one a few weeks ago ambush a flock of linnets. I wasn't sure if he was successful so I walked over to the hedge to see if there was a victim. The linnets were all frozen in the undergrowth paralyzed with fear. I reckon I could have picked some of them up. I seen that sparrowhawk make three kills that week.
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    Lucky you to get a pic. I see Kingfishers most days, the river beside me has a healthy population, but I've only ever seen them catch 3 or 4 times.
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    I wonder is the Jack Russell in safe hands ? Let's face it but the JRT was the original badger digging terrier and was the type that was being used to dig badgers when the coloured terriers were still in the lakes being used nearly wholly on fox in un-diggable places. I know badger digging is now illegal but IMO if the JRT is to be anywhere near it's original standard (Badgers, not 14 lbs by 14 inches.) it should be the ultimate fox dog. Is it ? Yes, I know there's plenty of good ones out there but are there many lads out there with kennels of them ? Also, with some lads they seem to move
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    More shite talk. This is true, an English terrierman that lives over here had some mates from home over for a weeks sport several years ago. Anyways, they were enjoying a few pints one evening when an ol' farmer who loves to see some digging came into the pub and sat with them. One of the English lads said he could smell shit. Then they all started complaining of the smell and some one asked the farmer had he shit his trousers ? He said no. They all then said he'd shit his trousers. He still said no. One of the lads asked him to prove it. The farmer stood up (in the pub) and started to u
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    LMFAO, it was only when I read the last line of your post DillyDog that I realised the terrier was the culprit, not your mate.
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    I thought of your post earlier Lutra Lutra as I was looking at the thread on the General forum regarding the under 12" Jack Russell possibly getting KC recognition. I was going to mention your post on there but decided not to (which is not like me to keep my mouth shut) but compare the constitution of the terriers you describe to those sorry looking Parson show ponies of today. A pity.
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    Trunk, no one complained about your posts on here, in fact most lads said they enjoyed them, myself included. The first comment that was made was about a video you have up on FaceBook. Regarding "Bigging yourself up" ? I used that term first. What I said was that you don't need to big yourself up as it's obvious you're out every chance you get with your dogs. Fair play to you. Regarding using lurchers being used in Northern Ireland ? Whether you like it or not you are hanging on to it up there by a thread. There seems to always be some politician at any time in the North with an anti hu
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    Good post Lutra Lutra, 8 days is a long time to keep looking. It's different when you've a mark, then you'll keep digging but to keep searching is what we owe them.
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    I actually know a farmer who done that in his overalls and only realised what he'd done when he sat into his car. Then to make it worse, he told somebody.
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    Can't beat a bit of Sheikh, Rattle and Roll............................................................sorry.
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    You sure were, great pics.
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