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Ah, but you're not in the Putange Club
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I think everybody knows except you
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Stop trying to guess. I've already told a couple of people and its not criminal
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I would love to see your pm box right now. TC Nothing to see. Empty.
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There are actually two uses for the Putanges that haven't been mentioned yet. One is that if you get a client who has a dog or cat that is likely to disturb a Duffus or Talpex, or you have trap robbin' vermin around, you can slip these in, replace the turf and discretely mark the spot so Fido, Brock or Dwaine doesn't know they are there. The other use is just something that is better not spread about in public knowledge. Nothing naughty, just better kept to ourselves.
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Remember that I mentioned buying some Putanges that were much stronger than the norm'? I pulled one out today and it triggered as I was withdrawing it.......... Reminds me of a girl I used to know
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In my short experience I regard those hidden runs where you just get a bit of crumb pushed up in the middle of the lawn, no sign of molehills past or present, just an unexplained eruption of soil, as Paydirt. They are the ones that many generations of moles have been using and will continue to use for years to come.
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Its already here, its called "two taplex traps" And still cheaper than one of those Dutch traps. -
To be honest I dismissed them as being useless when I saw them in supermarkets and garden centres. I had seen videos of French pros using them and it wasn't what I was used to. They use a dirty great spade and lift a huge clod out, put the traps in and replace the clod. Then they check the traps using a dog that indicates any kills. All the pros use these traps. It was torchey on here who championed them and because of what he wrote I bought a few. Initially I was sceptical but the more I used them the more they caught. The reason I don't use them all the time is that checking them means o
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" using a Dremmel with a grinding wheel,....." , well, thats getting rather 'technical' for me.Im not that 'handy', so im never going to have alot of tools, a vice, workshop,etc,....ha ha.Usually got by, with a few pair of pliers,though,.....lol I'm useless at DIY. I used to file them manually, but Lidl were selling power tools at €17 so I use that now. The vice was a tenner. Just bending the wire doesn't solve the problem of swarf from the cutting machine causing the trigger to hang at the last point of contact.
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One of the problems is that anything of quality manufactured in the UK will cost more than a similar item imported from the Far East. And while anglers and shooters will happily pay over the odds for an item of tackle mole catchers seem reluctant to spend a quid more than they have to. 200 stainless Flatpacks would cost in the region of £1300 and would probably last over five years of hard use. That's just over £250 a year some of which could be wrote off against tax. Its a packet of fags a day for a month.
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The Duffus is 150mm long by 60mm across. Same as the 'regular' Flatpack is now that I've squashed it. The stainless FP is 150mm x 65 after squashing, 150mm x 74mm prior to being altered. Regards tuning; Using a Dremmel with a grinding wheel and small pliers I can do a Stainless FP in under two minutes. Then about 30 seconds to a minute a few weeks later. After that it doesn't need touching. The regular FP was a matter of seconds. Just push the loops forward with thumbs. But I haven't used them for long enough to know whether they will need a re-tune.
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Ah well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. It's a shame that it didn't work out. Looks like the van will be full of them when I come over later in the year. I'll set my brother-in-law on flogging them on eBay
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I'm no metallurgist, but, there was something on telly the other day where they formed something out of steel that was quite malleable and then tempered it by heating it to red hot and dropping it into a cold water bath. When it came out it resisted being bent. Is that worth a try?
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I haven't got a micrometer and to be fair, the old Duffus has suffered a bit of corrosion on the wires but I'd wager that the loops on the modern S/S Flatpacks are a tad thicker and of a harder temper than the Duffus. I form this opinion based on filing the burrs off the trigger latches and bending the trigger wires. On a FP I have to use pliers to hold the top of the loop while I push the bottom of the loop forward. And it is a hard push. With the old trap I can do it just using my thumbs. I'm only talking about the stainless wires on the FP. I found the regular version of the FP traps had mo
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The plot thickens. Apologies to Phil Lloyd. Most of my traps are out at the moment. I've just got about 12 Flatpacks and a few Talpex at home.The Flatpacks are all less than 30 months old and other than the five regular type Frontbum sent me, all the others were ordered as being the 'Ultimate Stainless Traps' in three separate batches. I started squishing all the Flatpacks I had this afternoon to get them around 60 - 65mm, that is 60mm for the regular and narrower stainless type that are made at 70mm wide, and 65mm for the wider stainless that are 75mm wide as shipped, as they are hard
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I'm still not sure what or why any adjustments have been made to ease the manufacturing process. Perhaps Matt could explain? As an aside, a friend who hails from the Keighly area and personally knows the gaffers at Bethel Rhodes asked me if I wanted any traps bringing back last year as he was driving over for a short holiday. I didn't want any, but another guy asked him to bring three or four for him to use in his garden. Apparently he got the traps for three quid apiece direct from the factory. I haven't seen them so can't comment on their quality but I intend to have a look when I'm next
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Not got the tools to check them. The pressure needed to set a modern Flatpack is more than to set the old Duffus as gauged by hand. And the wire looks thinner on the old trap and it is much easier to bend the triggers so maybe the temper or hardness is different too.
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I was disappointed with their response when I contacted Flatpack about the changes. The first lot I got were and are superb traps. The second lot were wider and had a more grey finish as though they had been galvanised. At that time they advertised three types of trap; regular, ultimate stainless steel galvanised and ultimate stainless steel. I order the latter. The company were a bit off hand when I asked them about the differences and when I ordered a third batch again specifying the stainless steel, none galvanised version I received the same traps as the second time. These last two batches
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Regards the recent posts about the original Duffus trap being better than the later incarnations I gave my traps a good coat of looking at this morning. I've got a second generation Duffus, marked J. Duffus & Son, but not the Patent. It needed a bit of fettling as you would expect for a trap around 40 - 50 years old, but really it was only the wires that needed rubbing down and the usual mods made to the triggers as it was unadulterated when my mate gave it to me. My mate who gave me this trap and some others including a similar, but unbranded Duffus type trap from the s
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I bought two Talpex type a couple of years ago. Both worked fine for a few weeks then both started jamming. Scrap metal now.
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One of my local garden shops does genuine Talpex at €9.99 and with the current exchange rate that works out at £7.35 so quite a bargain at the moment. I've got just over twenty but I'll stock up on another ten before the exchange rate drops again. Most of my trapping is either in claggy clay or stony ground and so I can't use them as much as I do the Flatpacks
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They pinch out some fur and then spread them along a length of waxed thread. When the thread is wound round the hook shank it makes the fly's body look hairy just like a natural fly.
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That white one is a ringer. I hope the farmer didn't pay you for that one.
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I think you are looking at the wrong reason for your traps being filled. Millions of moles are trapped every year using Duffus traps with unadulterated triggers.
