AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING AND CAMPING FORUM

Reply #190 - Dec 2^nd, 2006 at 7:02am

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G'day mikel, I just looked up the price of ankle jewellery on eBay and even the common ones are worth $10.00 each so you have a tidy sum hanging on your wall.
I did a job at a derelict house yesterday and apart from picking up several old rabbit traps found a cast iron loaf pan or baking tin if you like, hidden in the long grass, its very rusty but not beyond recovery.
I have never seen a cast iron one before and when its cleaned up it can replace the "Willow" tin one I use to do meat loaf or cake in the C.O. At this rate I'll have to tow a trailer to carry all the paraphenalia I take with me on trips..... pd.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #191 - Dec 4^th, 2006 at 9:12am

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Just be aware guys that possession of rabbit traps is illegal in Victoria and carries a significant fine per trap. Sure, there are millions of them hanging in sheds around the country, but you'd hate to be the unlucky bugger to get a DSE officer on a bad day serving it up to you. Cry

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Reply #192 - Dec 4^th, 2006 at 11:39am

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Ausyowie, I did'nt realise rabbit traps were totally illegal (in Vic), here in NSW I believe the are banned in metropolitan areas because people were setting them to trap cats whose owners let them wander at night. (No comment)
I have several traps which I use to catch and relocate 'possums that live in peoples roof space. I believe this is also illegal so I'll remain anonymous.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #193 - Dec 5^th, 2006 at 8:36am

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PD,

Yes, mere possession of rabbit traps is illegal in Victoria. You don't have to use one to get into trouble. Although, disabling the trap by welding it to render it inopperable is acceptable to the law.

I think that you'd be pretty stiff to get caught if you had a few hanging in your shed, but I certainly wouldn't have them in my car, around camp or where I could be deemed to be using them.

As far as trapping possums goes, you'd be hanged, drawn and quartered yourself if you were caught using rabbit traps to catch them. Personally I'd use a cage trap which doesn't harm the animal, then release it a long way from home. Check with your local shire about the relocation of possums as I'm not familiar with NSW legislation. You may even find that your local shire has the traps for hire, alternatively look on the net for a suitable design and make one yourself. I used to use one to catch feral cats years ago when I was running a chook farm. If you make it long enough, you may even catch Basil Brush.

No, I'm certainly not a greeny, but I am very cautious when it comes to the law. Personally I hate cats, but I'd never use a rabbit trap to catch one, there are far more reliable methods available. Grin

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Reply #194 - Dec 5^th, 2006 at 11:26am

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Hi guys send em all up to me they are not illegal in QLD so I can hang them in my shed for you (see how helpful we can be up here in the FREE state
Cheers Furphy

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Reply #195 - Dec 5^th, 2006 at 7:52pm

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In case anyone got the wrong idea I use a cage trap to catch 'possums and it does'nt hurt them. When you transport them some are quite placid others get a bit cranky so I stand well clear when I release them. Signed the anonymous 'possum trapper.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #196 - Dec 6^th, 2006 at 12:31pm

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Hey Guys new I could get us back to the Galah so here it is

Cheers Furphy

PS PD If I remember some used to say that possum tastes better than rabbit "Not that I would know" Furphy

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Reply #197 - Dec 8^th, 2006 at 8:37pm

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Have never tried Possum. Have eaten most of the local population in my time roo, emu, snake, goanna, dugong & witchety grubs .
Fruits napan, quandong & snottygobbles
Emu egg omlette say no more
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Reply #198 - Dec 28^th, 2006 at 7:51pm

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What at one sitting Soot that must have stretched the freindship amongst other things
Grin

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Reply #199 - Dec 28^th, 2006 at 8:40pm

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Well I'll be Buggered.
I was only thinking this morning that the Galah thread had finally died , then Furphy comes along and here we go again.
Not in one go Mate, that was just a normal day's feed when I was a youngen.
2 Emu eggs and a small roo for breakfast, whatever was handy at lunch (used to call it dinner) usually a Emu drum stick and a couple of Goanna's or a large Carpet Snake. The night time feed (that was Tea now called dinner) was the big meal, A scrubber bull, or a mob of emu's or roos along with whatever desert in the way of snottygobbles etc was the usual fare. Lucky that there was only the TWO of us to feed hey. Usually had a 5 gallon billy of tea at each feed too.
Speaking of Scrubber BULLS, I get the feeling that there is a fair bit of BULL involved in the previous half a dozen lines.

I'll still be Buggered,
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Kev

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