What Quad

[the goat 642]

 

The honda pioneer 700 is what you wana be travelling in these days men..some machine and holds 4 men and a good bita room in them for tools and terrier boxes at the back.

In fairness the best quad is your 2 legs, you just can't rip around on quads unless you have good ground to work over that covers something worth talking about. Did lads not have to dig you and your van out off a lane last season ? No quads about then.

So that's why 90 0ercebt of terrierman in the UK use quads then...because your two feet is better? You can use your feet when you jump off the quad but you can't use a quad if you don't have 1

[the goat 642]

Percent

[Wales1234 5,425]

Pack I was with last year we would never of got by with out a quad

[neil cooney 10,415]

Most registered packs in Ireland use a quad but it's used as much for stopping and fencing as it is for getting to a mark.

The fact is that a quad is not practical here because most farms are less than 150 acres in size. Most terriermen here would probably have several farms connected together for his mornings sport but he'd still have to get back on his quad to go back to the road and up to the next yard to go into to the earth which might have been only a field or two from where he was before.

It's handier to park once and walk for a few hours checking holes.

 

It also solves the question as to why Irish terriermen and their terriers tend to be fitter than their British counterparts.

Sorry, but it's the truth, LOL.

[Pirate 9000 675]

Digging off a quad is far better you can carry far more equipment terriers are safer out of sight, I just put wicket gates in from farm to farm so don't need to travel on roads very often.

[M r b 37]

How do you manage to carry shovels grafter sharp tooth bar big bag of nets water and walk the dog ?? May seem abit much kit but it all gets used most digs

[THE GENERAL 1,975]

As Neil says the terrain and the way farms are in certain places you park up tools and dogs out and go on your 2 feet that's just the way most do it over here. Whats hard to understand about that?

[THE GENERAL 1,975]

I know a lad that bought a quad and used to go everywhere on it, I was out checking a bank one day and the farmer came down and said to me had I a quad? I told him no, he said some bollocks is ripping around here a few weeks back on a quad with terriers driving over all my ground without permission and when I catch up with him he'll know all about it, but your dead on. No worries mate, then he went on about his business.

[Daniel cain 42,889]

some places you can drive truck and park up next to the holes... be f****d trying to walk to some of the other places we do... quad is a God send... Dogs and gear in the trailer and away you go. Atb dc

[walshie 2,804]

I crashed mine and broke my wrist a couple of months back. Quad was fine.

[jackthelad 1,855]

That's a belter of a pic DC

[M r b 37]

I understand it doesn't suit everywhere as we have places you can't get to on the quad but do you find your self leaving the bar or grafter behind because you simply can't carry everything?

[Daniel cain 42,889]

That's a belter of a pic DC

there's some good views in God's Country lol . Atb dc

[neil cooney 10,415]

How do you manage to carry shovels grafter sharp tooth bar big bag of nets water and walk the dog ?? May seem abit much kit but it all gets used most digs

The best man I've ever seen to dig is a Yorkshire man living over here.

He'd carry a mattock and shovel in one hand and the terrier on it's chain was in his other hand.

On his shoulder he'd have a small bag with a torch, nets, a bottle of water for the terrier and his locator.

Most digs I had with this man were 7 and 8 footers but believe me if this man was on his own he'd still have gone to the same holes and on several 10 footers we had he'd do most of the digging.

And remember, with a mattock they're not much use after 4 or 5 feet so it was the shovel after that.

 

Sometimes I think terriermen like to try and invent crap that's not really needed.

[the goat 642]

Most registered packs in Ireland use a quad but it's used as much for stopping and fencing as it is for getting to a mark.

The fact is that a quad is not practical here because most farms are less than 150 acres in size. Most terriermen here would probably have several farms connected together for his mornings sport but he'd still have to get back on his quad to go back to the road and up to the next yard to go into to the earth which might have been only a field or two from where he was before.

It's handier to park once and walk for a few hours checking holes.

 

It also solves the question as to why Irish terriermen and their terriers tend to be fitter than their British counterparts.

Sorry, but it's the truth, LOL.

Id say it more sums up that the Irish are definetly backwards ?