Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 07:20 PM
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BigBob
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Some people just don't care a rat's patooty about anybody else. Know anybody with a decent metal detector?
Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.
Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.
Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 07:24 PM
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Finster
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Plowed under and run over. It's happened to me many times and it's part of doing business. It's not that the they average farmer doesn't care. They are very busy people and probably the last thing on his mind was your traps.
I BELIEVE IN MY GOD, MY COUNTRY AND IN MYSELF.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 07:26 PM
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Getting There
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That sucks! I guess the only thing you might do next time is cut the saplings and strip some of the bark and place in the area to remind the farmer. But that does not help now.
To Old U.S. Army 60-63 SGT.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 07:27 PM
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That sucks! Sounds like a lack of communication to me. (not taking any ones' side on this topic) Farmers are at the mercy of the weather to plow and till and plant. Trappers are at the mercy of opening and closing dates for the Season. It would have been nice of the land owner to inform you about the plowing - if he knew about it.
I don't know about PA trapping laws, but if he signed a permission slip for you to trap, you definitely should have been contacted before the field was plowed.
jim
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 07:32 PM
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I had that happen last year. It was my fault though. I was trapping a pumpkin patch with three lanes running through it. the season ended and I neglected to pull my sprung traps in a timely manner. The farmer plowed early. It took me half a day but I actually recovered all six traps and a dozen stakes. It was a pumpkin patch in February, in March it wasn't: It was needle in a haystack type stuff made tougher by near perfect camo. There's a trap covered in mud directly below the hammer handle: Another one (left of the hammer handle):
Eh...wot?
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 08:14 PM
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BigBob
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Just trapping for fur, or were you doing him a favor by trapping predators?
Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.
Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.
Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
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Re: Plowed traps
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01/09/20 08:18 PM
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Look Do that in my area you would not get permission from local farmer’s again.
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Re: Plowed traps
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01/09/20 08:20 PM
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Look Do that in my area you would not get permission from local farmer’s again. X100
I BELIEVE IN MY GOD, MY COUNTRY AND IN MYSELF.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 08:22 PM
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danny clifton
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get a metal detector and go get your stuff. you can probably fix most of them
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 08:26 PM
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Happens often I set a place just last year 2 traps along a fence line and 2 at the end of a tree belt, first the guy mows the fence line but missed those 2 did not see where he mowed anyplace else. Later he makes 1 pass spreading manure next to the trees running over one and burying the other trap.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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