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If they will let you borrow it for a day you can make a plaster of Paris mould from it and then cast your own using fine grade fibreglass and resin. Spray it with bronze paint and put it in a weatherproof wooden frame.
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I think the sunken jar method was of Roman origin. The jar had holes just below the neck to allow water to escape so the trap didn't fill up. When you look on youtube at how the French pro's dig a trap site for a pair of Putanges you would think they were burying a bus let alone a trap.
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The 'original' Duffus didn't have metal barrels. But the first ones put into mass production did. That was the success of Duffus traps - they could be mass produced. However, after Duffus himself sold the company, the new owner still stamped the traps "Duffus & Son" so I have no idea whether the trap I have is from the time that the Duffus family were running the company or after. My mate got most of his traps and shooting stuff from a company called Farmstar near Doncaster, but he can't remember where the tunnel trap came from as he also was give a lot of stuff by other people. It i
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Funny you should say that. I don't want to make anything of it, but I had an 'incident' the other day that could have lead to a clearance sale of old traps and fishing tackle. It got me thinking that I ought to catalogue all the old built-cane rods and vintage reels otherwise she might sell them off for what she thinks I paid for them ? If you don't see me posting for a while get yourself over to the Confolens Charity Shop ASAP ?
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I'm not sure about it being THE original type of Duffus trap. I read somewhere once that there were several variants and I seem to recall that the type I have is a later version. I could be wrong. It has been known ? I have used them both in my garden. Can't get on with the Fenn, but the Duffus has caught. I think the Fenn might be better on those shallow tunnels where the mole has made a reverse furrow by pushing up the turf. Just cut two slits for the trapping wires and a small hole for the trigger and leave the body of the trap above ground. I think the newer version with the Talpex ty
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This is the trap. It was given to me by a friend along with some mole traps including the one marked Duffus
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Scissor / claw mole traps
Nicepix replied to bunnyboiler's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
You are better off using Putanges rather than Nomol in my opinion. I have bought some and they aren't a patch on Putanges. -
The old Fenn trap that I have has a wire trigger hanging down inside, between the catching wires. This type has a better arrangement, more like a Talpex.
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Just use a small, rough file to remove the burr from the bottom of the trigger latch. I file a small angle so when the trigger loop goes forward to that point there is absolutely no chance of it hanging. Then I bend the trigger loops forward a bit and make any adjustments necessary to the angle of the trigger loop latches. No need for a vice. Just a file and needle nosed pliers. The only time I use a vice is to squeeze the width of the traps in a bit. At one point Flatpack were sending traps out that were around 9mm wider than the normal ones so they got squished in the vice to get them back t
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Had two last week that had wriggled through the trigger loop and then set the traps off. Both were aligned with their shoulders horizontal, but had to be rotated 90 degrees so the shoulders were vertical to be able to remove them from the trigger loop. They must have turned over on their sides to try and get through the gap in the trigger loop.
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Scissor / claw mole traps
Nicepix replied to bunnyboiler's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
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For countries like France and Spain their only economic option are the Irish waters as the Dutch, Belgians and Germans will have the eastern North Sea sewn up and Norway aren't playing ball. Looks like bacalao will be your only option from now on ? (I had some at the Palau de Mirador in Torrella de Montgris last year. It was like eating rehydrated tissue paper)
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Cod is a cold water fish, which can be found on continental shelves and in coastal waters throughout the north Atlantic. Cod reach sexual maturity at between three and five years, and can live up to 25 years. The heaviest cod ever recorded weighed just under 100kg. Their average size at maturity is around 100 cm, with weights in the 5-12 kg range. Older specimens can measure as much as 200 cm. They are demersal by nature, preferring to live close to the sea bed in waters less than 200 metres deep. In the Baltic Sea, however, their behaviour is pelagic (they inhabit the mid-water) due to the la
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Because France and Spain have no cod fisheries of their own historically they fished off the Grand Banks and dried and salted the catch on the American coastal shores. This was the case for hundreds of years until the good old EEC, aka EU invented The Common Fisheries Policy that gave French and Spanish boats licence to fish in the North Sea. Then the UK joined and because of the geographical position and the fact that most adult cod are found off the UK, they began to exploit those fisheries. The Dutch then started buying up licences wholesale and grabbed the majority of the quotas using much
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The biggest European markets for cod are France and Spain and neither have any cod fishing grounds of their own. Norway is controlling how many EU boats can fish in their waters so most of the cod fishing boats are now concentrating in Irish waters as that is the only EU cod grounds worth fishing. If Scotland get independence they will take 60% of UK fishing grounds with them and the EU will then control that sector. At the minute there doesn't seem to be any clear understanding of the fishing quotas under the Withdrawal Agreement. Fishemen from every country seem to be claiming that they
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I wish that you had Jamie. Then I wouldn't have had to and so would have been able to spend more time fishing, and my knees wouldn't be knackered! ??
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I think that we are missing the bigger story here. Was it .177 or .22? That is what everyone needs to know.
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Steady on. I'm certainly not offering anyone a job. ? If someone with mole trapping and pest control experience wants an easy way into working in France I would consider selling the business. At the minute with Brexit and Covid there aren't many coming over here. But the latest pensions forecast suggests that the optimum time for me to retire from this business is the end of 2023 so there is no hurry. I ain't taking anybody on and I ain't training anybody who doesn't know how to do it. They'll get a list of contracted customers plus almost as many again wanting the same service and a
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Sometimes with a little probing you can find areas where the tunnel base is over harder ground and that is a good place to put a trap. Also, if you are not using a tool to cut the soil open and using your hands it pays to unroll the turf both ways from the middle where you make the initial opening. That way you can roll it back over the end of the trap if you have opened it out too much.
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Great personal space! ?
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He was a fantastic footballer in the day. RIP ?
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I don't get this "You can only criticise if you've done better" suggestion. Does that go for everything or just your heroes? Plummer was a man of his time. An educated man in an uneducated world. That made him unique. Look at all the books written on field sports before him and it was all salmon fishing and fox hunting written by toffs and retired First Sea Lords none of who went ratting. Back then, to get published, you had to submit a manuscript typed justified and double spaced. For 20,000 words you'd be looking at a hundred pages. And when it came back with all the editor's changes an
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He was a school teacher in a world of people who looked up to teachers, doctors and the like thinking that they were above their level and never questioned them. That's how he got away with talking bollox for so long. Most of the people that he mixed with wouldn't know a ferret from a rat. I met him a couple of times when he lived locally and he knew nothing about dog behaviour and dog training. Terriers kill things naturally. Long dogs chase things naturally. That is as far as he got. When he tried to breed white GSDs because he thought that colouration had more intelligent genes h
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You'll probably see a suitable knife offered for next to nowt in charity shops or car boot sales. It needs a solid spine and a wide blade. I got two for nothing when a customer asked me to dispose of some cutlery for her.
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That is Farmer Speak for "I've got you the cheapest traps I could find."
