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I used to always use a cut down border spade. But for the last three or four years I cut 99% of the holes using a large meat knife. It is a lot lighter and less hassle to carry around.
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Yes, you are right Gnasher. But, this was inevitable from the time when the equality card was being played all over the public services. Any senior police officer has to follow the trend in order to be considered for the next rank up and every decision made by senior police officers is based on getting to the next rank. It is easier to prosecute people for social offences than to investigate real crime. So, the police were directed to prioritise things like Facebook incidents where someone's ex's new partner called her a slag on FB or threatened to kill her despite it obviously just being
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And who exactly is going to enforce this curfew? ? Some of those vulnerable women perhaps? She really hasn't thought that through has she?
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Exactamont! There are enough laws already to protect men women, children, dogs and cats, but if someone is going to break one law then what is the point of bringing out another law that they will just as readily break? Instead of heaping layer after layer of stupid laws one on top of the other why can't the ones that we have already got be backed up by meaningful punishments? While ever there is no deterrent laws are useless.
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Dyneema on ebay is about a pound a mile. Treat yourself.
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Use braid line, not mono. If you tie the line to the corner of the trigger opposite on the opposite side to the gap it shouldn't end up anywhere near to the gap. I have never had one slip off in the way that you describe. Put the line around the flat part opposite the gap. Tie a Granny knot over the line, not the trigger so you are lassoing the trigger. Pull that really tight. Then place the gap end of the trigger over the prongs with the trigger laid flat and take the other end of the line up past the far end of the eye by about 2". Cut that off and then tie three Granny knots around the
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Dyneema Braid fishing line of about 80lb to 100lb is cheap enough and does the job perfectly - other than in summer when the mice nibble through it. I can imagine problems in placing the traps down tricky tunnels with roots and / or stones in the way with a long tail of cable tie trailing.
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I've blown up a few beavers in my time. It was more fun than that. Especially the ginger ones.
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Scotland only has one hope of getting EU ascension and that is the fishing rights that the EU desperately need. But, as has been pointed out; the Spanish are not happy with Wee Jimmy for giving a Catalonian politician refuge and protection from prosecution. Also, it is not in Spanish interests to support a breakaway state as that would give them problems with their own wannabee breakaway state; Catalonia. If you go to northern Spain virtually every town and village are decked out with Catalonian flags and independence slogans. Scotland would find it very hard to justify the EU's fiscal c
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Like Katchum has said; you can't diagnose problems unless you are there. But one of the biggest problems newcomers do (based on the failed mole trappers who have then paid me to do it) is to place traps near to new molehills. When a mole makes or repairs a tunnel there can be a long period where the tunnel is subject to subsidence and the mole has to bulldoze soil that has dropped in every time it passes that way. This soil being pushed in front of the mole can cause the trap to go off, or cause a blockage with soil lodged against the trigger. In either case the mole then digs under the
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There is one poster who ruins just about every thread he touches. When he was banned or suspended there were no issues. But, the site owners earn money by the number of clicks they get and that member generates the most clicks in one way or another. The problem comes when enough decent posters get fed up with it all and go elsewhere. Then more will follow in increasing numbers and this section will collapse all on its own.
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That is basically all I do now. I don't do the clearance jobs unless they agree at least a six month contract and I've only ever had one that didn't convert to a full time contract after six months and only then because she had sold the house. I have three routes with around 15 calls on each route. Each customer pays the same monthly fee and I check the gardens every two weeks. 90% of the time that is enough, but if somebody has a new mole that has come in a different route to where the traps are I'll call back in the week between my regular routes. In practice, by the second year all the trap
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The phone always used to go mental at this time of year. People venture out into their gardens after the long winter and discover all the new mole activity. And the moles are busy moving back from their winter quarters into more open places. Add to that, the new hatch of moles arrives in March and it used to be full on until after June. One year it was September before I got through the work, just in time for the second peak in October. These days I leave traps in permanently and regularly check them twice a month. I might have to go back to a few if they have new problems, but generally
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I have a customer who read something about flooding the tunnels to get rid of moles. Come the time he needed to empty the swimming pool he put the hosepipe in the nearest mole tunnel. He didn't get rid of any moles, but he lost three square metres of garden that washed off the bottom edge where it drops off into woodland.
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The ones that you are talking about were tiny, cramped rear engine jobbies with instruments that looked like they had been nicked from a kid's toy. Yet, they had a good following. When the first VW Skoda came out one Skoda owner moaned that you wouldn't be able to change the engine on a wet campsite on the dark like you could on the old model. The salesman said: "You won't have to. That is the point!" But, when you look back at what Skoda produced before the Russians got their hands on the factory they made some lovely looking cars. And guns too. The Russian designers were hopeless.
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I bought a 15 year old Berlingo van for £1,000 with 115k on the clock, ran it for six years until it failed its MOT, by then it had almost 230k on the clock. In the time that I had it, apart from brakes shoes, cam belt and tyres all it needed was an alternator, clutch and front suspension linkages. THe only fault is that it was like Bambi on Ice off road. I now have a Berlingo Multispace with 4WD. Five seats, enough room behind the back seats for my mole trapping tackle, almost 50mpg and goes like sand off a shovel. Took it out last week to look for some new fishing places and it took me
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Compared with the Berlingo / Partner the Nemo is cramped and has a choppy ride. Check out the load area, it is tiny.
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An old colleague of mine used to freeze all the moles he caught and take them to local raptor rescue sanctuary. And I've lost loads of traps to foxes and found a few that have been dug up and the mole has been half eaten,
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Yes, it is strange how some people never grasp it. I have a friend who is a wizard at repairing garden machinery; qualified B&S mechanic, can take a hedge trimmer carburettor apart and repair it blindfold, but cannot for the life of him set a mole trap. But, then again; I can't mend, repair or make anything. DIY is short for disaster in my world.
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Certainly in the past mole trappers would have created an air of mystery about their craft. And, that to some extent has been carried on in modern times. There have been pro trappers on here who have taken umbrage about tips and hints being given on the forum. The answers given on the thread the other day about how to use new traps would have caused a furore a few years ago. From what I have seen there are a few gardeners who can turn their hand to mole trapping given a few tips they might pick up online or in books. But there are many, many more who couldn't do it while ever they have a
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The thing is that whilst you can catch using traps straight out of the box, or when not set right, or even when using a crappy trap, you will catch more if a good trap is set up right and placed correctly. And most people on youtube don't film their failures. I didn't ?
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And this is what is behind the chaos with import duties and delays when a free trade deal has been agreed. The EU are deliberately being obstructive so as Brexit didn't get off the ground running all smoothly. They are desperate to look like chaos to prevent other countries from seeing it as a means of their escape from the EU.
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I found that the trigger latches on mine had a small lip caused by the way the wire had been cut. First thing I do is file the bottom of the latch so there is nothing to cause the trigger to hang when it is being pushed forward. Then I do what Smithie has said. If you don't bend the trigger loop you will get a lot of foul captures.
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Works the other way too. There are ex-pats in France who have ordered goods from the UK and are being stung for duty plus an €18 courier fee. One woman bought something from a UK company before Jan 1st, had to return it because it was faulty and the replacement attracted €80 duty so she refused it and sent it back. The seller also refused to pay duty on the return so they haven't refunded her. Also read that they are burning thousands of returned goods where the buyer have refused to pay import duty and take delivery. And I thought we had agreed a free trade deal?
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So, the boss blames the deputy and the deputy says that his plans were run by the full Commission before being published. The boss has a history of blaming others and has refused to answer questions on the subject other than by a private meeting with hand picked delegates. Not looking good for the boss.
