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    Nelson

    terryd replied to ferretman89's topic in Longnetting

    first page here http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/288275-genuine-netting-suppliers-and-net-makers/ for you
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    Glutton for punishment mate
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    In this neck of the woods the rabbits just aren't in numbers that a farmer would put his hand in his pocket. Saying that as a kid a market gardener used to pick me and my cousin up take us to his farm pay us a pound a rabbit and let us keep the rabbits. Make us tea and sandwiches and drop us back home oh they were the days
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    I hope so but I doubt he will ever stop squeaking and whining. Not his fault mind if he had been out from a pup 6 years ago he would be a cracker so eager to please. He is here till the day he dies so might as well keep at it as you say
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    Another one in the bag this morning. New bit of land for me and in full view of the house so I kept the cocker on a long lead so they didn't see him run around like a headless chicken. Soon as I stepped in the field two rabbits hopped in the hedge but the holes were too difficult on my own so I started walking a thinner bit of hedge row. A rabbit broke cover on the other side ran 20 yards and went to ground. I let the dog find the line and he ran around trying to find looking every where apart from the big hole right under his nose. Eventually he spotted the hole stuck his head in and gave
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    I used to live near walpole wisbech as a kid I remember the big ploughed fields full of hares rabbits and pheasants. Remember the orchards too acres of plums and apples bet the place has changed now a days. Sod all help to you but can't beat a bit of reminiscing
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    yea sure your right there jj I have not dared do the maths. My plots cost 50 quid a year because I am greedy I got 2 but this year was free because I started end of may, spent 60 on net and a 100 quid on a tiller. Say 40 quid on seed and plants because I was late starting. Got all my seed for next year though apart from spuds and a freezer full of veg but not enough variety to avoid buying some bits inc spuds. Next year pretty expense free apart from 10 grand on slug pellets I think next year if I do it right I can be self sufficient on the veg front and at least break even not that i
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    Thats great love colour on that casserole
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    Amazing how far rabbits go once they go into the cover some times they can end up fields away and a lot seem to sit out in the cover around here. Real needle in a hay stack some times with out a bushing dog
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    looking forward to see what they turn out next year. Time is flying another couple of months and off we go
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    My attempt at a repair today certainly didn't look like above thats for sure. Bit of practice though we will get there. Should tangle a rabbit hopefully and as a backup it would probably die of laughter I think I go wrong at the cutting a section out part Well I think between tc's post and the picture here on post 11 http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/39470-repairing-long-net/ then the splicing lines post here http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/86720-splicing-nylon-twines/ I should be fine in the future. The long netting section makes a good read from the beginning p
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    I have to admit 4 oclock in the afternoon last thing you want is your terrier 6 foot under a tree giving it large on a fox
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    Picked up some raspberry canes off freecycle this week so used them to fill in the gaps in my new plot ground is still to wet to get the second plot dug over but I keep nibbling a bit when ever I go there picked a few bits for dinner the sprouts won't win any prizes for looks but they taste nice
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    Seems to be a common theme for ferreting dogs get them out young around the holes. No risk of over doing them as long as you don't make them walk miles. Used to carry mine on site and let him waddle around. One day thump thump under ground rabbit exploded out in front of him and from that day on ferreting was his thing.
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    Nice pictures there looks a cracking spot. Must be heaven to ferret such a place
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    Very helpful chap doubt you will go wrong with him
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    That looks a nice little net tc I can see the benefit of that too. With 3 x 50 yarders in my coat and a load of pegs I look like santa hardly low profile
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    Same time as I had mine darbo if only we could do it all again
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    do you not get problems with the terriers digging rabbits (me personally I wouldn't use an earth dog for bushing)but each to there own mate Mine would go to ground on a fox but not rabbits he had a enough sense to know that was a waste of time and that was what the ferrets was for. i remember once he went to ground in a rabbit bury in an old black thorn hedge. I thought this is odd very out of character but it turned out to be a charlie squeezed up tight in there. But he was bought up on ferreting so new what was what.
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    cheers darbo its like my gardening quality not quantity
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    Pinched the wifes cocker this morning I keep hoping he will be a useful marker and I think he is slowly catching on. I had him on a lead at the time which slowed him down enough to check over the holes properly. The first bit of woodland had been done by some one else by the look of it. Holes had been blocked with boulders for some reason and people had been digging. But I new of a set of holes tucked away in some cover so I went for a look. The cocker showed enough interest in one particular hole for me to be confident some thing was at home. Entered my hob which is still starting out and
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    My old JR had a nose like a hound watching him follow a line was a real pleasure. never forget him zig zagging backing and forward when the scent got faint until he picked it up again. If a rabbit bolted from an unetted hole the chances of him losing it were pretty dam low. He would be waiting by a hole some where waiting for me to do the job properly this time Perfect bushing dog he weren't know pheasant fetcher but sure he could of turned to it I asked it of him
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    sounds and looks a cracker that one
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    cheers folks I think that was a cow pat but I could be wrong, I did have my eyes tested this week mind
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    why don't you go to pm so as not to cock up Mitchell1982's thread
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