Nicepix
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Thanks, but I'll pass on Pest Stop traps having seen some a customer had brought over. I just with I could find some of the original, unbranded Flatpack traps that I bought in 2012. They were far better than the subsequent ones, but even they are better than anything else I've seen. Some worked OK from new, but I reckon they wouldn't last long.
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Thanks. I ask because I sometimes get offered traps that people have bought and then find that they can't trap moles. Most of them are absolute crap, but I haven't yet found any that are better or even as good as the Flatpack traps I've got, some of which I've been using for 9 years.
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What do you use?
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I've had a similar thing happen a couple of times on tuned traps. It is down to a mole trying to wriggle through the trigger loop rather than pushing it. You have to rotate the mole 90 degrees to get it back through the trigger loop. Same happens with Putanges. Some moles are caught sideways on due to them rotating onto their sides to get through the prongs.
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The older Aldi stuff was fantastic value. I have a waterproof coat and a fishing bag marked Crane and they are still sound after 12 years. Best value were their fishing reels. A Crane 3000 baitrunner for £11. It is exactly the same reel as a Daiwa costing four times as much. Same with power tools. Their own make was exactly the same as Bosch. Same spec'. Sadly their cheap stuff is now just cheap stuff.
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It didn't start with Saville. 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards and Arthur Mullard were both know nonces. And then there was Captain Pugwash rodgering the cabin boy.
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I thought that you and Barry Bennell got on pretty well when you were coaching the kids teams ?
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Confolens this afternoon. €1,44 a litre
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Might be Diane Abbott. People will really believe her when she says that she had no idea.
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Wild Camping, Hiking, Back pack, Tent talk, Mini camper etc.......
Nicepix replied to hawki's topic in General Talk
Looks like the same as I had. They are a bit too bulky and heavy for hiking unless you were hiking back from the Russian Front in 1945 that is. Ideal for laying out in the woods waiting for poachers though. One of those and a poncho strung over it was ideal. I had an American Army poncho made for rubberised material that is 100% waterproof, but not breathable so better as a tarp. A mouse got into my van a few years ago and ruined it. Last week I bought a job lot of fishing stuff and found an jdentical, as new, one in the bag. It is useful for when I'm fishing a long way from the car as it -
Wild Camping, Hiking, Back pack, Tent talk, Mini camper etc.......
Nicepix replied to hawki's topic in General Talk
I had a German army one with a waterproof back, slèeves and a handy zip that meant you could have a crap without taking the whole thing off. Sadly it was one of the things that got lost when ae moved. It was ideal for night watching in the pheasant season. -
Pedal faster!
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The brother in law is a HGV lorry driver. He was made redundant a couple of years ago and really struggled to get a new job. Every time he applied for a position the job had already gone. In thd end he took on a job on 7.5t vehicles at a lot less money. There is something not right about this story.
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I've got four mowers, only one of them works. Last year an old John Deere self-propelled that a customer gave me and I renovated threw a bolt after the alloy engine casing cracked. No bother, I had another that I had been given and renovated. Today the ride on stopped working. I couldn't get it started even after fitting a new plug and cleaning the fuel system so I had to push it back to the basement and get the second old John Deere self-propelled out to finish off. Ten minutes later the wheel fell off. The bolt had sheared meaning it isn't a simple fix. Into the depths of the basement and ou
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Without AUKUS Australia could not act as a base for British ans American submarines. Now they will have an operational base in the southern hemisphere. That is a massive statement to China and Russia. And New Zealand made their own decision, nothing to do with Australia. I'm not so sure that China would honour that exclusion any way. Servicing nuclear subs isn't all about the fuel cell. The whole boat is diffferent so, as I said earlier, without AUKUS the US and British boats could not be serviced in Australia. That will increase patrol times in the southern hemisphere without an increa
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You started out saying that Australia could have serviced the American and British subs if they had continued with the French deal. But without AUKUS the Aussies wouldn't have the technology, knowledge or facilities to service nuclear subs. Then you said that AUKUS would exclude New Zealand from the protection yet it is New Zealand themselves that chose not to allow nuclear powered vessles in their waters. Now you claim that AUKUS is dead. What planet are you on?
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The whole point can be summed in one word: Deterrent. China .v. Australia and France with some diesel subs and a couple of French boats or China .v. AUKUS with 3 x nuclear subs. Which is likley to deter China the most?
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In WW2 England acted as an aircraft carrier for the Yanks. They could not have contributed to the European campaign anywhere near as much without UK airbases and army bases. Australia under the new pact could be the US & UK's naval base in the southern hemisphere. Nuclear subs need to restock with food, change crew and be serviced and if they had to return to the UK for this it would impact on their operational time in the southern waters. This deal is more than selling hardware.
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Once Macron is gone France will act differently to the UK. It is only the Brexit aspect that is souring Anglo-French relations at government levels. The French people are pro-British. It is only the French government that hates the UK and that is purely down to the UK cash cow having left the EU's control. People still haven't grasped the massive impact Brexit is having on the EU and how much it will negativly influence the EU's future strategy. France is going through the same industrial hardships that the UK did in the 1970's. Unions are too strong and the money is running out. Renault
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The French defence industry are in deep merd. They thought Musk was a clown, but he's taken all their lucrative miltary satellite business and the Arien rocket upgrade is a massive liability. It is overdue, over priced (there is a theme here), and now does not suit the loads it was designed to carry. Basically it is redundant before it is finalised. The rocket builders are Airbus who have taken a massive hit with the airline business goint tits up due to Covid. Airbus may well go under as a result. They are laying off thousands of staff. This impacts on their nuclear submarines and ships as Ai
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Its seasonal out here. At the moment it is fouine (pine marten) season with a lot of young foxes getting squished too. Badgers tend to be unlucky in winter and barn owls and coypu cop it in spring. Hedgehogs seem to prefer summer time to die on the roads even though they are active all year.
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I fancy one of these. We came across a small rally of them at a large lake in France. They just drove down a ramp into the lake and out at the other end three miles away. Strangely nobody trolled a lure for pike.
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Can't do with any of them green / fragrant teas. ? We have a regular supply of Yorkshire Tea smuggled in from my customers and I take it unsweetened and without milk. As for coffee; the best tasting coffee I get is when I take a few whole coffee beans out of the bait freezer and make a brew on the river bank using a Kelly Kettle and a one pot percolater. I crush the beans using a multi tool, pour on hot water from the KK and then let it sit in the embers gurgling away until the coffee looks dark enough through the percolater top as it surges through. Poured into an enamel mug and drunk on
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Non stop here. It gets a bit quieter from August to October then its full throttle for nine months. 14 calls tomorrow, 15 on Saturday and 6 on Monday. I haven't advertised for over two years, but the enquiries keep on coming. Only another two years then I can retire - again!
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Mole-Patrol has been closed for annual holidays, but the office kept taking enquiries. This was the view from the office window last week. Back to it tomorrow.
