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    You are very likely to get hit with the import duty mate, which I think is 20%. then if you're using someone like royal mail they charge an extra £8-00 for collecting the import tax. I don't want to put you off, but importing things isn't always cheaper; as I've learned, to my cost. atb.
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    I found this little chap in one of my mole traps yesterday. Think I might be setting the traps a bit sensitive.
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    Thanks jack, so you use it for what? Rabbits yes? I’m just trying to work out if it’s worth me spending money getting qualified for something there might not be any real call for; or if pest controllers with the new gassing ticket might start being quite sought after. Hi MMK, They’ll certainly talk a lot about legislation, but I’m not sure the level 2 rsph allows you to actually ‘do’ anything. In fact I’ll put my card on the table here: I’m fairly sure the level 2 is largely just a piece of legal protection that big companies can put between themselves and the pest control an
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    So far I’ve never got involved with using phosphine, I’m of the opinion gassing moles lacks a certain skill and fineness. But I do understand that it’s used it to control rabbits/rats on farms, particularly this time of year. I also understand that a new qualification for aluminium phosphide use will soon be needed (possibly already is needed). So my question is: A. Will the new qualification mean more agricultural work for pest controllers who do take the exam? B. Will anyone on here bother taking it? C. When will/did the new legislation kick in? (I’m being quoted dates in
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    Mate, unless it’s changed in the last 18 months the BPCA online course I’ve seen was just text cut from the BMP manual and pasted on the internet with a basic multiple choice quiz; serious rip-off. The BMP manual (or something similar) is well worth getting before you even start. You might find you lose interested in pest control after wading through legal and technical stuff you’ve got to know. Then again, if you genuinely enjoy reading it you might want to take it further.
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    Cheers Mate, glad you like it. Just shows how lazy them pike are. Unless you've put your bait in the right place you’ll be very lucky to hook one.
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    Hi Matt, Can you attend anyone’s PC meetings, or only the parish where you live?
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    Those are some nice looking fish mate! I did a dive with pike last year. Here’s the youtube video my mate took of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZrt4ZK8Pk
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    Hi Micky, What make of traps are they?
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    Thanks Plank, This is exactly the type of post I look forward to reading on here, informative without just showing off, no real use to cowboys and adding something (in this case the 24 hour exclusion) to my own knowledge. With regard to sharing tips, yes it’s important to share tips among your peers and it can’t be right to take knowledge to the grave with you. But I also think it’s important not to tell every single thing to everyone and possibly deprive yourself of work. It’s a very, very fine line and I don’t always know where it is myself, but it does exist and I’m sure it’s the s
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    Oh well, can't teach an old dog....
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    I think I know the answer to this: Apparently, when a mole is running along his tunnel his front feet are at least half way up the tunnel wall. So if you set the traps ‘prongs up’ he’s much less likely to touch the copper arms with his claws. & Mat, here’s one small advantage of trapline/ Putange traps over duffus: If you find any vertical shafts among the tunnels you can set a trapline in one. Try it, I think you’ll be pleased with the results.
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    I was told by a mate there's a drink called ‘slider’ which is made with cider and the pulp that’s left over after you’ve made sloe gin. So my question is: A. Were they just taking the piss? B. If there is a drink called slider how’s it done? Do you just mix the sloe pulp with a bottle of strongbow or put it in the cider press at the very start or what? C. Has anyone tried it? Would be interested to find out.
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    ‘pièges à taupe Putange’ is the name of the French ones you’re after mate. By the way; did you know that in part of France they sometimes swallow dead moles to cure their headaches………..they call it Paris-eat-a-mole
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    No, not an entire thread aimed solely at you I’m afraid mate. Even I don’t have that much time to waste. Like I said, just a bit of fun and a good excuse for people, including me, to post some mole pictures. That said I would have been surprised if you didn’t want to post something, what with all the flack you’ve been getting. If you want to post pictures on a forum you right click on them then you can copy the image’s address. To get your images online in the 1st place open an account with someone like photobucket (that’s how I do it anyway). I hope that helps.
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    Public liability insurance is an absolute must around anything to do with traps. Without it, if someone sues you you’re buggered, whether you’re just at it for beer money or not. But qualifications for molecatching? Come on, you can’t honestly expect anyone to take that seriously can you?
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    Is that sort of home made DVD? Bloke with a tash up North? Very good DVD it is too. So that’s Moley is it? Nice to put a face to a name.
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    It’s only meant as a bit of fun (and a good excuse for people to post their molecatching pictures). Then again if anyone thinks there wasting their valuable time posting on this thread: just don’t post on this thread!. Even I can work that out and I read the Sun ffs
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    I’ve now read a few of the mole catching threads on here and seen just how passionate people can get re; molecatching. Before I add any more comments to other peoples’ posts I thought it’s only fair to show I’m catching some. So here’s the few moles I caught on a domestic job this morning, with today’s paper to show that it actually was this morning. Why don’t my fellow newcomers post their catches? It might help stop any bad feeling or misunderstandings.
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    They’re £50 mate. I know he’ll also do them in gold or gold plate, but I don’t know how much he charges for that.
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    So have you had the chance to 'bird ring' one of those then Pete? (I don't mean the pigeons)
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    A good friend of mine makes these peregrine falcons. I thought they might be of interest to you falconry lads. Here’s the link to them on his website: http://www.btowstore.com/epages/Store2_Shop2158.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Store2.Shop2158/Categories/Birds
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    In MMK’s defence; if I didn’t think he knew what he was talking about I wouldn’t have bothered pulling him up about it. Anyway, for future reference, if anyone wants to catch moles they will need to use: Sonic mole chasers. Scissor traps stuck in the side of molehills. Exhaust from the lawn mower. Garlic bulbs. Motor oil. Paper windmills in the lawn Glass, razor blades and other shit stuffed down the hole. Hose pipe down the hole. Oh yes, and those plastic traps that look like a bit of drain pipe. I think that’s molecatching advice sorted. Do let me know if I missed anythin
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    Hi, I’ve got a question re: the clostridium Bactria; is this the same Clostridium Difficile that kills people in hospital? And if so are people touching moles or molehills (specifically me) at risk of infection? Also are you suggesting that the soil from the molehills should be removed from the site if there are livestock or horses present? Thanks.
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    Mate, I just had a thought. If you’ve still got one of the dead birds have a look at the back of its head/neck. Stoats and weasels have got teeth like a little tiny dog’s bite. Rat’s teeth are more like a rabbit and they sort of nip chunks out of things. That might tell you if it’s only rats (which I’d but poison down for incidentally).
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