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Cutting trees with a axe and a crosscut saw
peds replied to Guns the tree climber's topic in Rigging and roping
I had to do a bit of work with a rusty auld bowsaw a few weeks ago. Shitty blade, definitely needs replacing, but still... I bloody love chainsaws. -
Ahhh, I can't hear the word deglove without recoiling. Grisly stuff. I can't imagine the relief you must have felt after that episode. Well I just got home, 2.5hr drive from the hospital, in an automatic though so no big deal. Now to feed the chickens, water the plants, and wrestle the cats. Life goes on.
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Yep, sliced open front and back, Sunday and Tuesday, to wash it all out. No, luck had nothing to do with it, the only thing that saved the hand was timely and skillful surgical intervention. It would have been lucky if the antibiotics alone did the trick. Anyway, nothing is certain yet, until the cuts have healed and the course of meds is complete.
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Noble, focused, slightly-psychopathic gaze on them there. Handsome animal.
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Handsome wee fella. How would you go about training to encourage ratting behaviour? I'd definitely like to move towards canine pest control instead of feline, they are so much less destructive to an ecosystem. I'm leaving hospital this morning, the wife sent me a photo of the poor hungry kitten looking dejected on the doorstep. So he's not been scared off by the ordeal, anyway. Also, I suppose my future hopes and dreams of being a hand model can be thrown in the bin.
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It depends what enclosure she's chosen, really. Meerkat... smart enough. Leopard seal... not so much.
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I was on the edge of my seat waiting for them to go over a weir or be swallowed by a carp or some other catastrophe, and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Very interesting. There is a small population of wild rabbits up on the hill behind our future house, and I'd like to try and encourage their numbers however I can. It's common ground up on the mountain, but I'm not sure how the neighbouring sheep farmers would feel about that. I've seen things like old kids' sandpits, upturned and buried with wide drainpipes leading into them, as ad-hoc warrens. I think 2 rabbits per dog per week is a good target, plus a few eggs as necessary for calories and fat.
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That answers that question then. I'll stick to cats for now, but I do intend to bring a Jack Russell or similar on board in the future to take over the ratting. I put a bell on the male of my two housecats for a while because he seemed to be bringing home more birds than rats, but it's not ideal. I'll be farming rabbits (for dog meat) one day too, so unless I do a really bad job of it and they all escape, I shouldn't expect to need ferrets for that either. Interesting to think about though, thanks for the suggestion.
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So here's a question. Will a ferret go after chickens, chicks, or eggs, when kept free range, and can a ferret itself be kept free range, for round-the-clock rat protection? How devastating are they to other, more desirable wildlife? I wouldn't be at all averse to including ferrets in my menagerie if they fill the niche.
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Very funny, but I'm actually wondering if this could be a quick and easy way to restrain a rooster, for when you need to bring kids or guests into the run. I'll give it a go and report back.
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No, I can't blame the cat one bit, he was a cornered animal fighting for his life. He did bloody well.
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Yeah, all my cats have come home with ballooned scrapping scars before. I wonder if it helps with hunting, too, by slowing down and killing any slightly injured prey that escapes, although I personally wouldn't want to eat a sepsis-swollen rat after finding it three days later.
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He's a good ratter, and he's the only one brave enough (I have 2 feral and 2 housecats) to take on the hated big tom from up the road. It'll definitely come up in his annual performance review though.
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Hey, don't say that too loudly, I don't want him to get much more confident...
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As in, the big spiky ones, third from center, top and bottom, found on most carnivorous and omnivorous mammals. Lost a few chunks of skin to the claws as well, but it's the teeth that harbour the most exciting options for infection, which is why I'm having the pus scrubbed out from the various layers in my finger and palm. Surprisingly filthy mouths, cats, right up there with komodo dragons and humans. Though I suppose I've never seen one brushing its teeth, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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No no, just a regular feral mog. Cats punch well above their weight though, I'd say each kilo of cat, when pushed, can easily win against, say, 15kg of human. Anyway, even though I took three canine teeth to the knuckle, I still won because I've still got my balls. All it cost me was (is, ongoing) two or three rounds of surgery, a week in hospital, and several hundred euro. Winner!
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I won a fight against a cat.
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Sorry poppet, didn't mean to confuse you.
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That explains why all the doctors are legless.
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...but I think this one must be broken. Because there's bloody loads around here.
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Righto, you only support the decade and a half (or longer) of abuse, neglect, and torture of an unwanted child by a parent ill-equipped and poorly supported to raise it. Got it. 👍
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And yet... you oppose abortion.
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I'm disappointed with the lack of updates in this thread. Is there anyone local to the guy who can see how he's getting on?
