cousin jack

Where CJ's from, denim shirt and 'tache is thoroughly modern.

I can categorically state that I have never worn a denim shirt or sported a moustache, anyway I thought Redruth boys were the trendsetters down 'ome

Nice style to you to Sir ... black and white eh, makes my denim shirt look thoroughly modern

I don't think colour had been invented back then

Is that a young mr mankee on that steed,nice pic matey.

Long time ago Bri, I can still ride well, just the horse would have to carry an extra 2 stone

I was a bit slow there Jack, thankyou for the offer though. I am moving to Scotland next week to start a new job and there isnt many squirrels where im going! I am taking all my larsen traps though!

Never mind, all the best with the new job

How about this one

Wow, nice style there Dave,

Great thread this, given me loads of ideas, I've just got another 70 acres to play with, and the owner will be up for this sort of thing

Great to see another one on here! We could take over the world yet:thumbup:

If this is still available I would be very interested, regards Dave

Yep, send me a pm with your details and I'll put it the post, CJ

A few lines from a poem;

"there are men both good and wise, who hold in a future state

dumb creatures we have cherished here below,

they shall give us joyous greeting as we pass the golden gate, is it folly that I hope it may be so;

for never man had friend more endearing to the end, truer mate of every turn of time and tide, should I think we'd meet again, it would lighten half my pain"

mines better

Yep, that trailers got character

Mark Cavendish, just awsome!

Big Fell, The manufacturer of the multi catch squirrel trap is Roguard, it will hold about half a dozen at a time, if you want this one, you can have it for the postage, CJ

That normally means the PM box of the person you are PMing is full.

Ah, thanks for that

O/T sorry to butt in here, but message for Lindisfarnecharcoal, did you get my pm to you last night, I have a feeling something may not be working correctly, I have sent 3 pm's in last 24hrs, but my sent messages say none. Once again sorry for the intrusion, CJ

I was under the impression Bumbles where all protected?

 

If not they darn well should be, and have always treated them as such.

 

Mitigating the habitat loss after felling the reamining stump long after the first frosts with readily avaliable bumble bee houses, say two or three to replace the habitat would be a good and "inclusional" approach, im sure the client would agree?

I'm afraid bumble bees are not protected, although I do agree, they should be.

BBC News - Trees felled in Devon and Cornwall amid disease fears

 

Nice bit of retro footage of dead elm felling near the end.

Love the bit where they're running from the falling tree, wonder what LANTRA would make of that

Yes, me and David found a realy good healthy colony in an old Oak pollard at staverton this summer, was a joy to see. strong hive, the last time i saw that level of activity the swarm was 100,000 strong, estimated by a keeper.

We had a wild colony in old Oak as well here on the estate, the old keeper said it had been there when he first came to Hales, over 40yrs ago, 3 yrs ago it died out, he thought due to varroa.

I'm glad there are still some wild colonies surviving.

If anyone wants a crane/winch type trailer, I know where there is one for sale, currently horse drawn but would be a small job to fit a hitch for tractor.

4 ton winch, 3 ton load capacity, Dumfries area.

wow thats cool, how much can the horse pull? it looks built like a tank, great looking horse.

Load and forwarder combined, 3 tonnes. Someone once asked me what sort of horse I had, I said "a Sherman tank on legs", true eh!

CJ is correct, (never thought I'd see those words in the same sentence:lol:), the workers will all die off by the end of summer and only next years queens will survive by hibernating elsewhere. So, if you can leave the tree for a few months then all will''bee'' () well - assuming the nest is still dry.

I have relocated nests before, best done in the late evening when all the workers are in the nest. They can sting, but have to be really provoked before they do.

Yessssssssssss!

I was just thinking you've been quiet lately, I will be down sometime this summer, so I'll drop in for a beer

can horses reverse jack? this is a serious question or do you have to make turning routes in the forest:biggrin:

Yes they can, she can back it up if empty, not with a load on, but a pair would, although not uphill. It's pretty good for turning though, 10yds diameter and it will come around no bother.

I have to say i have never caught a hedgehog in one of my squirrel traps, so I either set them in the right place, and only bait with whole maize, or probably because we have very few hedgehogs around here, the badgers have eaten them all, (but thats another story). Also, I would not set kill traps in areas where the Red is still in existence.[/QUO

 

Sorry Jack that wasnt a slight against you, just read it back to myself. Do you know who manufactures the multi catch traps? Thanks

 

No worries , I did'nt take it as a slight, I still have it kicking about somewhere, if I dig it out I'll let you know.

Hi All,

 

Running a firewood business in West Wales and looking to buy a timber trailer with a crane! Any recommendations of makes, models and dealerships.... Thanks for your time

James

Hopshill Firewood

The horse ain't for sale though:biggrin:

We despatch around 1500 squirrels a year, mainly with tunnel traps and a few squirrels bashing shoots a year knocking out dreys and we still have trouble keeping them in check

 

Could do with a huge mutlicatch trap which catches them all at once and then gas em

You can get multi catch traps, I have tried them, preferred the single catch tunnel traps meself.