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    I've got two, large and small with the cook sets. You can make meals like Irish Stew, Corned Beef Hash and Sausage, Bacon & Egg breakfast on them. If I'm fishing and making a stew or baked potato sort of thing I take a couple of charcoal briquettes with me and put them on after brewing up. save having to keep adding sticks to the fire. Easiest way to clean them when you are out and about is to use handfulls of long grass as scouring pads. That gets all the soot and dried food off.
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    The two incidents are several months apart and the pool is sunken into the ground. The damage is at the deep end so whatever did it has climbed up around 6 foot to get above the water line. They haven't got squirrels and if they had they'd be red ones. No greys here. I'll get a photo next time I go over there if Ted hasn't put another sticking plaster over the hole.
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    The liner is stiff like a thin plastic and there is some sort of insulation between it and the concrete wall. The pool is uncovered at the moment and in the past there have been frogs and mice getting into it. A heron strike could be a possibility, but the owner hasn't seen any herons in over ten years that they've lived there and I couldn't find any scat.
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    No pics, sorry. That is why I described it as an irregular rectangular hole.
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    I think there are several issues here that aren't as described. Police Intelligence is an oxymoron. They can't be bothered to keep tabs on real criminals so I doubt that they would be involved in tracking Underdog. I think the FLO has probably meant to have a quiet word of advice, but has mentioned things that might or might not be true and this has given an incorrect impression of the situation. Just take it as a quiet word of advice. If they had any evidence they would have seized all weapons and ammo. I've said this before to you and I'll repeat it again; please don't leave as your co
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    Heard a cuckoo this morning while picking a friend up in the Dordogne. Also, there are swallows everywhere now. Spring has sprung! ?
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    I've just been out to one of my mole trapping customers who has become a good friend to my wife and I. While I was there he mentioned something about a problem in his swimming pool. A hole has appeared in the plastic lining just above the water line and a couple of inches below the concrete lip. The hole is about 2cm x 1cm and is irregular without being ragged or having any signs of having been nibbled. A similar hole appeared last year in the same price. It looks to me like impact damage rather than having been gnawed. If it were a crow or similar bird then it would have to lean right over an
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    There are some .303 calibre air guns pushing out about 40 ft/lb on sale on the Continent. Wouldn't be surprised if that massive pellet wasn't from one of those.
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    There are some professional mole trappers who would prefer to keep the dark art of mole trapping secret from people like you who just want to trap a few moles and not go into it full time with full and paid for accreditation from the self-appointed Guild. They are living in the dim and distant past. How many of us do our own decorating, or service our vehicles, or know someone who will do that for cash in hand? How many have looked on youtube or a specialist forum to find out how to fix something? Anyone who has never taken bread from a tradesman's mouth step forward now.................
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    That's it! Great idea. My next Putanges video is going to be called 'Putanges - What Next?' Book your seats now folks ?
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    You mean Saint-Kevin? The so-called professional mole trapper who obviously worked for nothing and never made a penny out of the job. The guy who joins a public forum and then berates anyone who discusses snaring, trapping & pest control - the object of the public forum ?
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    Its only mugs like McWhinnie who buy two traps for twenty quid and then moan about the price. ? Everyone else is bright enough to contact the seller direct and negotiate a better deal. ?
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    Just shows how much fun you can have in wellies! We've had a weekend toiling in the garden; digging some of the veg' beds over and then planting some feature plants in an old pond that we filled in last year. As a reward we had the first BBQ of the year;' rib eye steak cooked over charcoal, par boiled potato and celeriac wedges brushed with duck fat and then sprinkled with sea salt and herbs de Provence, and a salad. Oh! and a few tinnies to wash it all down ?
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    Aye, the self-appointed founders of the Guild of Mole Trappers like Trusted Traders and all the other many parasitical organisations sucking money out of hard working tradesmen. Leeches the lot of them! The thing about McWhinnie is that he is always telling people that they are doing it wrong or he would do it differently, but he never says how he would do it, or offer any constructive advice. It is always negative and undermining, never constructive and useful.
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    If he's now saying that they are too easy how does he explain his negative ebay feedback of " Most poorly designed & awkward too set,( so called) mole trap ive ever tried ! " ? Poorly designed? - How come they've been in use for over 300 years? Awkward to set? - Look at the videos - its child's play! He's ever tried? - He also claims that he hasn't used them! Its a sad indictment of how care in the community has broken down. There used to be safe places where people like McWhinnie could be kept amused by care workers without him offending or bothering the public. ?
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    Another 100 of those useless stainless putanges on their way to Yorkshire this week........
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    He was dissing putanges right from the outset, which is at least three years before he actually got his hands on some. And then when he did get some, and despite his claimed wealth of experience and ability to make traps from scratch, he can't work out how to use them. ? And he wonders why people on here don't take him seriously and are pissing themselves laughing at him. ?
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    Strange how I've got over 200 of these stainless traps permanently in the ground, and another couple of hundred for one-off jobs, and I've not had one that I couldn't fettle in less than 20 seconds using a bench vice. He's got two out of two that he claims to be unusable, but yet he declined the offer of a full refund for return of the traps. Hmmm! Something doesn't seem right somehow ?
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    Trouble is the Internet is full of bitter, jealous people like him all trying to be regarded as the forum experts but having nothing to contribute except bile. The sooner the Mods pull the plug on him the better this forum will be for it.
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    Its all Commanche's fault. ? He just thanked me and McWhinnie can't stand that so he's broke out of the straight jacket and padded cell to lock horns again. Thing is; I've got him on 'Ignore' so won't be reading any of his posts let alone answering them. ?
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    Hi Commanche, Arouze is as you thought, a trade name of an old, traditional manufacturer.... https://www.vintagetraps.co.uk/shop/vintage-mole-trap-french-1920/ There are many types of putange mole traps. I made the point in the other thread that there are no genuine putange mole traps so by default there cannot be any fakes. They have been used in the current form for over 300 years so there is no chance of anyone licensing or patenting the name or design. It is a loose description of a type of trap like a car is a type of vehicle. Over the last four or five years I have bought, exami
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    The thing with lawn mowers, like many other things is that a lot of them are the same product with a different name and livery. Mountfield and Atco are two old established British companies but they are now part of the Global Garden Products company along with Stiga, Alpina and Castel Garden. If you look at the similar models from each of those companies you'll find that they are actually identical and all made in the same factory in Italy. Even the web sites are the same design. GGP also make mowers for retailers such and can be branded with a different name, but will have GGP somewhere on th
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    Now you tell me! I've just bought another 100 of 'em ?
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    Brexit

    Nicepix replied to ginger beard's topic in General Talk

    The way I see it is that the EU have stonewalled every proposal the UK made in the hope that by not agreeing a deal the UK would change its mind and remain. May has not allowed Davies and the other Brexit Secretaries to stand up to the EU. If Thatcher had been in charge things would have been different; "Let's see M. Juncker. You sell twice as much to us as we do to you. How much will you pay the UK to access its markets?" Instead May has fudged every negotiating tool the UK has had. The only chance now is for the UK to crash out on a no deal. No deal is the only way the UK will now get
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