CH started playing up yessdi so simply switched it off. Done a bit more digging and changed the pump-overu-stat.
Made no diff.
Checked at the pump, no mains to it.
Flipping heck!
I will have to carry on digging but at least I could wire a mains lead into the pump and switch the flipper on, so we get heat.
Having checked it requires normal 230V AC.
Programmer and boiler working fine.
Our system is beginning to be very home made!!
Made no diff.
Checked at the pump, no mains to it.
Flipping heck!
I will have to carry on digging but at least I could wire a mains lead into the pump and switch the flipper on, so we get heat.
Having checked it requires normal 230V AC.
Programmer and boiler working fine.
Our system is beginning to be very home made!!
Off to get a rake so I can try and find a rat!! 
Well I raked around the area where he seemed to have run off to.
No luck, and there was a heap of old leaves, bits of old trellis etc where he could have gone. All under overtgrown laurel bushes big weeds and other stuff in a part of the garden we no longer use. (Thankfully slabbed so will be easier to clear.)
Got ready to go back, but thought to move a bit of ply that has been leaning against the fence for a long time. Just as I pulled the top slightly away to look behind...
...the little, (well not quite so little) flipper beetled off in the other direction. Not massively fast! So he is still alive, hain't moved out of the area, I may have winged him.
So the hunt is back on!!
No luck, and there was a heap of old leaves, bits of old trellis etc where he could have gone. All under overtgrown laurel bushes big weeds and other stuff in a part of the garden we no longer use. (Thankfully slabbed so will be easier to clear.)
Got ready to go back, but thought to move a bit of ply that has been leaning against the fence for a long time. Just as I pulled the top slightly away to look behind...
...the little, (well not quite so little) flipper beetled off in the other direction. Not massively fast! So he is still alive, hain't moved out of the area, I may have winged him.
So the hunt is back on!!
Stone56
Well-Known Member
Set a rat trapWell I raked around the area where he seemed to have run off to.
No luck, and there was a heap of old leaves, bits of old trellis etc where he could have gone. All under overtgrown laurel bushes big weeds and other stuff in a part of the garden we no longer use. (Thankfully slabbed so will be easier to clear.)
Got ready to go back, but thought to move a bit of ply that has been leaning against the fence for a long time. Just as I pulled the top slightly away to look behind...
...the little, (well not quite so little) flipper beetled off in the other direction. Not massively fast! So he is still alive, hain't moved out of the area, I may have winged him.
So the hunt is back on!!
Hain't got one unless we drive for 35 mins to get one off dottir. W was convinced we had poison but she can't find any. (Which of course meant I had to look for it as if anything disappears it is always my fault.)Set a rat trap
For Stan - enjoy.
Stone56
Well-Known Member
Have you got polyfiller or some plaster if so mix it with some dryed dog food and place it under cover where you know it is , keep it dry it will eat it and then get thirsty the rest is written in stone , or set in stone
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Trump or Pootin?Morning All.
Ruddy cheek! The Paper's gone up by another 10p.
Bright but cold here.
Have a lovely day.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Thas a nasty way to do it.Have you got polyfiller or some plaster if so mix it with some dryed dog food and place it under cover where you know it is , keep it dry it will eat it and then get thirsty the rest is written in stone , or set in stone
Stone56
Well-Known Member
No different to poison perhaps you would like to contract wheelers disease
Hippo
Lord Hippo
There's humane quick options available. Pollyfiller going hard inside them causing internal pain for many hours or even days before they die ain't humane.
Stone56
Well-Known Member
Poison causes them to hemeridge bleed internally that takes time to , best rat is a dead rat , my frend got wheelers , so don't preach to me ,
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Dun't be silly. There's no need for cruelty. Bleeding to death is far qiucker than bunging them up wiv pollyfiller that stops them being able to feed and causes internal pain during a slow death.
Well I raked around the area where he seemed to have run off to.
No luck, and there was a heap of old leaves, bits of old trellis etc where he could have gone. All under overtgrown laurel bushes big weeds and other stuff in a part of the garden we no longer use. (Thankfully slabbed so will be easier to clear.)
Got ready to go back, but thought to move a bit of ply that has been leaning against the fence for a long time. Just as I pulled the top slightly away to look behind...
...the little, (well not quite so little) flipper beetled off in the other direction. Not massively fast! So he is still alive, hain't moved out of the area, I may have winged him.
So the hunt is back on!!
You'll need to rat him out..
My Uncle Pete caught that when canoeing on the firth n forth canal, he was 6ft 4" & quite a big chap also was really fit being a copper he went down to 6 stone
Lucky to survive it but years later developed a brain tumour & has been going down hill for the last 6 years now just passed away a couple of months ago, im not sure if the two are related. Still a nasty disease.
Best thing is a snap trap or leccy zap one, or dispatched with a dog or shot. Ive had to use poison before & I hated using it and I did feel really bad as I dont like to see things suffer, FFS my misses has made me suffer for 20 odd years.
