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  4. Finally Begun

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

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    Digging out for the base of my kennel block, only took me a year get round the wife lol. New build house so it's like digging in a tip with all the crap they chucked down under 2inch of topsoil. I'm beginning to sound like my dad, don't make em how they used to. lol

    any thing buried should have 600mm cover of sub soil and 150mm of top soil but as dc says as long as it looks pretty to sell they don't give a f#*k
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  7. Dodgy Digs.

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

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    Mole,agreed mate it ain't a good memory for me 27 years on .

    Another time we ran a fox into what is known locally as a swallow hole ,a hole at the bottom of a bank that drains the field in heavy rain .The field was slightly v shaped which would funnel all run off to this place .It was drizzling when we entered a dog and I was relieved to track her with the finder and level out back under the field .5 ft in heavy clay was hard sticky going then the heavens opened .We were plastered but only 18 inches to go or there abouts on the old deben .We noticing water trickling down into the dig from the clay soaked fields which gradually got worse to the point we were baling out water with the shovel which is never good or practical .We tried to create a dam but it seeped through and things were getting bad to the point I dreaded breaking through to what I might find .Water could be heard gushing further down the hole .we dug on ,shitty clay up to our ankles that was getting deeper .Panic set in a bit and we dug like idiots knowing we couldn't keep it up but we did and broke through to a dog and dead fox .Terrier got covered in slime but unharmed .We went from there broken men but just happy to get the dog back .Never backfilled that one I'll admit and the whole lot had caved in next time I saw it .Farmer dumped a load of topsoil on it which was washed away and totally gone next time it rained .God knows how deep the main drain went or where it went but its still there to this day .

     

    Somewhere else that we now avoid is an old sewer works where there is a miriard of tunnels that the foxes loved .Wed worked this for years before the day in question .Nets on dog in and stand back .Baying was heard as the terrier travelled hot on the foxes heels but in an area previously unvisited ,ever .Silence and we wondered if Charlie had bolted unseen in the trash

    .Box on but nothing and despite calls no terrier on top .We decide to dig the last spot we heard the dog and were soon down on top the clay pipe which I broke .Nothing so a shine either side with the torch and faint splashing could be heard and whining from the direction the terrier went in .Found and broke the pipe again before another panic session set in as reality dawned on us .The terrier was in a concrete tank full of water .Dug the top off and luckily it was only covered by tin sheets which were quickly thrown aside .Terrier was about 3 ft lower and fully submerged save his mouth and nose totally knackered ,paddling very slowly .Got him out and dried him off and luckily no harm but we never went there again .

    Had a dig with water issues last season , water was following a seam of clay and started pissing in half way down the dig,all we could do was keep a sump hole open in the corner to bale the water out of.Everything turned out alright in the end but it wasn't the most comfortable of digs

     

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  10. Second Time Round

    in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control

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    Nice going mate .Word of advice though ,if your putting pics of your set up make sure the deer stops in place and its a free running design .No slure intended just a thought .

    Quite right mate , got to play by the book , using micro locks so totally free running with a nice fast action & stops fitted even though there's no deer local to me.
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  11. Second Time Round

    in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control

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    When I've had a vixen in a snare or wire at this time of year, besides putting some wires down, I always stick the dead vixen on top of a trap. He'll come to see her?

    never thought of that , you had much success like that ?
    Once or twice, but also if you go back later with the lamp, if he's not in the trap, he'll be nearby, pacing around the cage calling in a low "voice". He might even turn up at dusk if he needs to be with her? Drag her around the ground a little, get her scent about the place
    something to bare in mind mate cheers ?

  19. Second Time Round

    in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control

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    When out on permission with the dogs one day I noticed a tidy little run that seemed to be taking some traffic ,I'd been speaking with the farmer and he said he'd seen a fox or two about so I thought id have a go with some wires,set a couple of ghost snares which were down for a week without success so I lifted them with the intention to try again at a later date. Had a bit of time off over Christmas so decided to give it another go , set the run again with just a couple of wires , first night nothing but the second night picked up this nice vixen ,happy me , happy farmer ☺ post-58824-0-76297000-1484047246_thumb.jpg

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