Earths

[mickyatch 37]

Recently read the thread about rock earths and it was a cracker .... i was just wanting to see the types of earths people work as it is astonishing just where you find foxes so all pictures welcome and story and tails of the strangest places youve dog bolted and found charlie

[Chid 6,830]

strangest place ive had one bolt from was the cab of a scrap hgv ... was in work and getting the window winder off the door , i was 15 and wasnt into hunting back then , needless to say i shit myself an ran like feck the opposite way...

[mickyatch 37]

haha brilliant looks like this thread is gonna be another slow on hawey lads anyone got any pichas of rock spots or earths in embankments that holds fox year in year out ?

[terrierjohn 49]

underneath the concrete stairs leading up to an old railway platform 2ft fox eventually bolted after 30 odd minutes

[mickyatch 37]

bet ya were pleased it bolted mate ?

[diggory 130]

underneath a foot path bridge that spanned a motorway !

[terrierjohn 49]

bet ya were pleased it bolted mate ?

wasnt too fussed mate i already started to budge one of the stairs so i would have got there

but was handy that it bolted

[tearem 31]

We were at an island in the IJsselmeer polder, searching the whole place over. They had a lot of problems with foxes and a special licence to destroy them. It was a peninsula with I don't know how long a dyke through the big lake (former sea) as a connection to the island, surrounded with dykes.

Of course the water level over there was just 50 cm. into the ground so they could make no earths.

They had been digging into the dike previously, taking out big basalt blocks weighing heavier than a fox, and disturbing all the nests of the different, partially rare duck breeds nesting there.

But since the hunters kept an eye on their newly made earths, they abandoned them.

After having searched about the entire island and especially the dikes and reed fields, and not having found any of the mythically huge fox population above ground, we came to the farm and empty stables of a widow living in a farmhouse.

There was a huge pile (5 meters high and 10 meters wide and 40 meters long) of old car tires at her yard, things which had once served to keep the beeds and other cattle feed under plastic, in place.

There, my terrier Peyote found seven foxes hidden in the lowest region. No dog, not even the smallest, could get at the foxes, so I and every one present threw the tires off the pile until Peyote, accompanied by Cajun a small terrier, bolted one and cornered up one after the other of the remaining foxes, which refused to bolt but could be shot, and retrieved some alive. We got them all in the end.

[kingnewport 19]

Cracking story mate, where to is that?

[james t 36]

underneath a shop missing air brick was sat in car across road an guy kept comin out of the shop looking round scratting his head dog was baying like feck under his floor

[freem 25]

We were at an island in the IJsselmeer polder, searching the whole place over. They had a lot of problems with foxes and a special licence to destroy them. It was a peninsula with I don't know how long a dyke through the big lake (former sea) as a connection to the island, surrounded with dykes.

Of course the water level over there was just 50 cm. into the ground so they could make no earths.

They had been digging into the dike previously, taking out big basalt blocks weighing heavier than a fox, and disturbing all the nests of the different, partially rare duck breeds nesting there.

But since the hunters kept an eye on their newly made earths, they abandoned them.

After having searched about the entire island and especially the dikes and reed fields, and not having found any of the mythically huge fox population above ground, we came to the farm and empty stables of a widow living in a farmhouse.

There was a huge pile (5 meters high and 10 meters wide and 40 meters long) of old car tires at her yard, things which had once served to keep the beeds and other cattle feed under plastic, in place.

There, my terrier Peyote found seven foxes hidden in the lowest region. No dog, not even the smallest, could get at the foxes, so I and every one present threw the tires off the pile until Peyote, accompanied by Cajun a small terrier, bolted one and cornered up one after the other of the remaining foxes, which refused to bolt but could be shot, and retrieved some alive. We got them all in the end.

 

Is that near Hoorn?

I worked on the other side in Almera, laying fiber-optic cable - plenty of wildlife about

[lukey 1,621]

My bitch bolted a couple from under my old house, they were always in there and in the end I just blocked it up.

 

[fat man 4,741]

In about 1983 they built a new housing estate in the town i was living in then.My mate and i were out for a mooch at the back of the houses.They had left the original ditch in and it used to hold a couple of earths,that we had completely forgotten,anyway my dog went to ground and could be heard hard at his quarry right in some guys back lawn under the kitchen window.We tossed to see who would go and ask if we could dig up his lawn to retrive the dog and my mate done the deed.The owner of the house thought we were mad but when we showed him where to listen to the dog he was quite excited.We dug and had him out in no time only 2ft and left his lawn the way we got it apart from 2 dead fox,he was amazed they were there.