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More likely they were trying to pass them off as genuine at a car boot sale. -
Oh, that's a bit new fangled for me, I had about a dozen around the estate that I had to inspect, I looked forward to June when I put out the baited hoppers and didn't set the traps for a month.
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Commercially visiting a trap line twice a day is expensive, more so in that the 12 hour interval puts one visit outside the working day,
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In that case they probably were not stolen 🙂
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Okay, I get you now, I associate tunnel traps with how one sets a Fenn to kill rats or squirrels but avoid birds getting in. They cannot be used where polecats or reds are about and the entrances need to be small enough to keep hedgehogs out. Live trapping I associate with "cage" traps. I Didn't like having to kill greys from one as it was all too easy to fumble it and the beast escape or not get a clean kill. I really disliked the family cage traps as it was horrendous trying to get them out one by one. If I caught three I would stand it upright walk off 20 yard and then let fly with number 6. It is 50 years to the month when I last used cage traps for squirrel.
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Really, how does a tunnel trap avoid catching polecats, hedgehogs or the reds?
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I have had a dive bottle full of air since 2006, I expected to use it for blowing off saws on site but never did, can they be re certified? I cleared out the flat of a son of my late girlfriend after he overdosed. The police had purloined the air gun. If anyone wants to collect it I'll let it go for a small donation to his brother's 4 year old son whose dad died of leukemia earlier this year
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On a similar theme have a look at this video: Are those Stihls at 3:04 clones though?
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Yes it looks like the whole tree has dieback rather than some fronds with blight or canker. It's a big tree so a bit surprising, some kind of aggressive pathogen like honey fungus??
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I don't know anything specifically about this engine or carburettor. Could the main jet have become loose?
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oil burning is normally blue or grey, sounds like a massively rich mixture which would explain both cylinders affected
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It depends on length, straight 6' lengths will be about 30% air space but the spindlier they are the less wood. Longer poles more air space. Also sweet chestnut is very light compared with big hazel, oak or beech coppice. Processing small diameter poles that don't need splitting is slow.
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Not a joking matter but 😂 Hope it gets better soon Pete
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Brushcutter Advice/starting out strimming etc.
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in General chat
I suspect the blade will file a bit more once striking something a bit hard sets up a shimmy in it. -
Brushcutter Advice/starting out strimming etc.
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in General chat
Are you sure the correct drive washer is between the blade and the drive shaft. On my stihl it looks much thicker. BTW Whilst I always used the cup under the mulch head or tri point grass blade I did not with saw blade, -
That's inexcusable at your age 🙂 Whitelaw Brae is halfway between Badlieu and the Fruid reservoir
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I am in a discussion about mounting for more tawny owl boxes in a local park. The owl people specify mounting the boxes to the tree with a foam plastic sheet between the box and bark with four galvanised steel coach bolts securing the 12kg boxes to the tree. This is a bit of an anathema to me so I was wondering about a cheaper than cobra bracing with similar resistance to sunlight to give a 10+ year life. I was thinking using it like the way we used hollow braid rope passed through itself to attach flying bollards, thoughts anyone?
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15km due north of Moffat
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Have you worked on felling the plantation in preparation for Whitelaw Brae wind-farm?
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Sounds grim, best wishes
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Hope he gets a decent barrister because that is an abuse of whatever tree valuation scheme was used even though it was reprehensible vandalism.
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It isn't a squiggly it's just squiggly because I had no idea what it should be called.
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That's what I said squiggly and definitely master left eye, all very well knowing what's needed another thing finding a way to do it on mass produced shotguns at a price I'm willing to pay. I discussed this with @gobbypunk but took it no further. I doubt I will ever shoot for the table again and never moved in the circles to be invited to a "shoot" indeed I am not the sort of person that gets invited, period. I would quite like to waste a few boxes on clays just to see if I can still hit anything. Anyway a cross over is a car that purports to be suitable for lots of purposes and is no good for any of them.
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I'm beginning to think the same, mind I am a few years behind you. I have been trying mounting off my left shoulder and it doesn't hackle. I need a squiggly butt to bring the barrel up for my left eye which isn't likely to happen for my current guns and eyewateringly expensive for replacement.
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Need help with Tree Identification / classification
openspaceman replied to GeddyMort's topic in Tree Identification pictures
I guess sycamore on left, cherry on right then weeping willow. possibly sallow in the middle somewhere. Need pictures of leaves and bud of each tree to be definate
