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Exmoor Trapper
United Kingdom
Приєднався 25 лют 2013
Welcome to The Exmoor Trapper!
My name is Matt, I've been known as 'Matt the Rat' since childhood and spent most of my working life in the Pest Control Industry, running my own businesses and also holding senior management roles in 2 of the top 5 pest control companies here in the UK.
In later years I gave up general pest control work and concentrated on catching moles only. Sadly, failing joints and family pressures meant that I needed to give up mole trapping.
I now focus my energies on living a frugal lifestyle trying to be as self reliant for food as I can, whilst maintaining an interest in traps and trapping and the traditional rural lifestyle I have here in Devon (UK).
Most of the films published here are about the countryside, the 'Words from the Shed' series are mainly me venting my spleen and having a good rant about the issues of the day.
You can also follow me on Twitter, @CorduroyThe
My name is Matt, I've been known as 'Matt the Rat' since childhood and spent most of my working life in the Pest Control Industry, running my own businesses and also holding senior management roles in 2 of the top 5 pest control companies here in the UK.
In later years I gave up general pest control work and concentrated on catching moles only. Sadly, failing joints and family pressures meant that I needed to give up mole trapping.
I now focus my energies on living a frugal lifestyle trying to be as self reliant for food as I can, whilst maintaining an interest in traps and trapping and the traditional rural lifestyle I have here in Devon (UK).
Most of the films published here are about the countryside, the 'Words from the Shed' series are mainly me venting my spleen and having a good rant about the issues of the day.
You can also follow me on Twitter, @CorduroyThe
Chainsaw Review
A quick review of the Ryobi cordless chainsaw.
Link to saw:
uk.ryobitools.eu/garden-tools/tree-cutting-and-pruning-tools/chainsaws/ocs1830/rcs1830-140b/
Email me at Countryman.matt@aol.com
Link to saw:
uk.ryobitools.eu/garden-tools/tree-cutting-and-pruning-tools/chainsaws/ocs1830/rcs1830-140b/
Email me at Countryman.matt@aol.com
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Відео
Vlog - May 2023
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Vlog update I've got wind! Email me at: Countryman.Matt@aol.com
A Lidl Rant
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Me having a lidl rant about sustainable woodlands. You can email me at countryman.matt@aol.com or find me on Twitter, @grumpy_not.
Home grown tobacco made into cigarettes.
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In this film I describe in detail the process of creating a cigarette from UK grown tobacco. Please note that this film is for interest purposes only. It is not intended to encourage people to smoke.
Vlog20220726 Parched Earth and #ER wastrels...
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Problems in the garden; your help and suggestions welcome. More soon!
Vlog20220712 -The Pill for the Pox?
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A bit of controversy, and a progress report. Potting Tray: amzn.to/3zyoDMT Watering can: amzn.to/3x6zF9c Solar Panel: amzn.to/3NYivRX Solar charge controller: amzn.to/3mcXIy2
Quick Update
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Apologies that I've not put any films up; there is a reason, watch and all will be explained.
Shear Joy of Summer
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More ratty nonsense Potting Tray: amzn.to/3zyoDMT Watering can: amzn.to/3x6zF9c Solar Panel: amzn.to/3NYivRX Solar charge controller: amzn.to/3mcXIy2
Words from a digger
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An update on what I've been up to. (No ranting, lol). Email me: CountrymanMatt:@outlook.com Mrs Smudgers Kitchen: www.mrssmudgerskitchen.co.uk/
Vlog 3 Nov 2019 - Just an update and some news
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Vlog 3 Nov 2019 - Just an update and some news
Mole Trapping - Checking traps 1st Day
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Mole Trapping - Checking traps 1st Day
Rats & Poultry - Advice on Pest Control
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Rats & Poultry - Advice on Pest Control
Words From The Shed - Hedging My Bets
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Words From The Shed - Hedging My Bets
Would u not just wet the tobacco
I also grow it in northern England and smoke it in cigs,
What an amazing woman
i like this guys vibe
Good on ya man, tobacco prices in ireland as well have been out of hand for a few years so i think i'll start doing the same. Cool tubing demonstration 👍
I’m used to the lever cigarette tobacco filler as well. I happen to be American and it’s all that I see. I never have seen a small one like you used first.
What an amazing lady. They broke the mould when she was made bless her.
Sounds like Mum's not got her teeth in! Wish we could still listen to her talk like this xxx
we should find these, and the recordings that Jude has of Gran
Where can I get those mole traps in USA
Way back in the eighties I got to meet a lady called Julie Green,a wonderful Exmoor farmer,who moved to Combe Martin. Over the few years I visited Julie,she once during that time spoke of a freind,who happened to be Hope Bourne.Julie proudly showed me her friend's booked that Hope had signed for her. Sadly, Julie passed away a few years after movong to the area of Siminsbath some years later.How time silence us all !
Enjoyed your script,...keep on , keeping on...🙏
You are my hero
It says 2 comments,I see none.
We had the same problem with lack of rain in 2022 and 2023, we have no way to store the amount of water, I would like to for just watering the plans. To save water in 22 I turned off the combi boiler, and decided to boil kettles instead. Sounds daft but with a combi boiler, haveing to wait for the hot water at the tap you can waste 1 to 3 gallons of water! I agree that we should not be inporting the amount of food we do, when I see so much land that seems to be producing nothing. Perhaps we can not grow some food cheat enough, I just don't know, and they are building on hundreds of acres of farm land near me, total crazy
I just love your rants, mainly because I am not aload any, because then I would be moaning, and that's a sin in our house😂😂
i still measure in, inch,s , feet & yards etc & i also weigh in lb,s, oz,s, stone,s, gallon,s, pints, quarts etc etc. & as for metric & don,t understand it & dont want to understand it, but when buying anything which allways seem to be in metric, i google the metric into imperial so i know the size of the item etc. & can hold something in my hand & i know within an ounce or so, the exact weight of it, in lb,s oz,s or stone.
Not a patch on Hannah Hawksworth
Years ago, go into country pubs and you could come across such people. Ordinary people, living sometimes solitary lives, who possessed seemingly a wealth of knowledge about everything necessary in life. What a wonderful way to live, god bless her.
Just as it was, living in a Windsor caravan by the shape of it. And she speaks beautiful english too.
The use of dogs in hunting should be banned whether it be deer or foxes
you must be from the city where you don.t understand how people in the country live, & manage the country & its animals & wildlife, that has been going on for generations, but what gets me is we have to take notice of do-gooder,s that don,t understand anything, instead we should just get on with things passing no-how from generation to generation & eggnore what other people think, & the do-gooder.s should do the same & get on with their sad live.s & leave other people that know what they are doing to it
@@michaelgoulding6609 I am from outback Qld, Australia.
@@dianestevens2659 Then perhaps you shouldn't be so ethnocentric as to try to force your own beliefs on to other countries and cultures
@@rallyeraidr7841 I'm entitled to my opinion
Sane and sensible advice regarding Rabbit Fencing....well done👍
Superb... Cheers
Fantastic. Thanks
What a beautiful lady so devoted to her land and heritage. The likes are a dying breed.Hope her health improves.
They don't make em like they used to!
They do you know!
National Trust created by elites for elites to profit from
The national Trust is a land grabbing money laundering operation.
Long winded prick
When I was a lad at Sparsholt college we went off to the New Forest for a day with the keepers.instead of wacking them on the head we had to get them out the sack & ring there necks.
A perhaps controversial comment, but when these two stand in front of the stone displays, erected by the NT, and they comment about the loss of Exmoor's wildness, they do not cosider that they contribute to that loss by the use of a car to get them to the viewpoint. I doubt if they would or could have visited had they not used a car. Today the red deer survive because the people do not kill them to extinction for food. Their support for hunting ignores the truth. In fact the deer would become destroyers of the moor if not kept in check. I do advocate the return to wildness, so I would release the natural deer's predators which I doubt the two people in the film would like. That said, I enjoyed the film. Hope's view of god and nature and the real dangers in wilderness, I tend to agree with but I do not think the force she describes as God has any sentiment, good or bad. The "cruelty" comes from evolution which destroys those not best suited to the present existing environment. Man thinks he can override and control nature. In my opinion his control and destruction will ensure that man becomes at best an endangered species, or at worst extinct. There, I've just given an example of man's woolley thinking; I've used the words, best and worst which requires judgement or assessment which implies planning. Nature doesn't work that way. Will we never learn?
We are the deer’s natural predator
Ouch! Not too bad a reaction I hope mate?
I've alway wondered if it's worth putting in small barriers across these small rivers so as to hold at least a minimum depth of water
how do you shred yours?
Shredding is one of the things I haven't quite perfected yet. At the moment I use a small hand cranked shredder designed for another home grown smoking product, similar to a pencil sharpener....
@@exmoortrapper1187why I’m happy I live in a legal state. Don’t gotta beat around the bush online. The government don’t care if I use the other homegrown product 😂
I can recommend Mascotte X Long (green with silver box). The same thing but the filter foam is longer which prevents the cigarette to become weak in the part just before the filter
Well said sir!!!
I got to try that, I just got my first batch of Mk 6's and having small hands I did not fancy disarming them like I do with the Mk4's, so this is a great tip THANKS
Totally love this, and everyone should do it. I still regret not recording chats with my grandmother. It's our history, and when these people are gone it's like burning a library. Lovely photo of what I take, is of your Grandmother, your mum, and your aunts and uncles. Thankyou
It is indeed a picture of my grandmother and her children taken at the end of the war. Sadly it would be difficult to have a conversation like that with mum now.
The last reading from Hopes book at the end, is just so true!! Thanks so much for making these short films!!!!
Thank goodnest we no longer use this stuff. Waste of perfectly good food!!
I just love these films about the old world that I remember back in the 60's and 70's looking forward to watching the rest and then the Hanner Hauxwell programs👍👍👍👍👍
It's got to be done👍👍
Nice job👍👍👍
I use a cheap mains saw for bucking up firewood - love it. It's quiet, light & very cheap. My tree surgeon buddy loves Stihl battery saws, but not for big trunks when you need power. For me, I like the idea of battery saws but I buck firewood 8 hours at a time so they aren't a good option
Than you for allowing us to view a true British lady😮
Great down to earth video as always. Living the good life mate.
Looking good in the garden , I would have to get a couple more fruit trees in down the bottom there
I added 3 more fruit trees to the hedge line last year. The issue I have with them being down there is mowing around them. They also make access more difficult.
The natural material keeps food safe from wisps of burning petroleum or other potentially harmful substances, and the shells' tough texture helps them burn hotter and longer than regular briquettes. This infamous greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Another reason coconut charcoal briquettes are the eco-friendlier option is that they don't require a single tree for production.
so what about the impact of erupting volcanoes on the atmosphere?
Sticks mate, as in "chopping sticks"
Sorry, i missed something, what is the connection/relationship with hunting and red deer
Her connection? She was a great supporter of the stag hounds. Let's not forget that there wouldn't be red deer on Exmoor had the DSSH not reintroduced them in the nineteenth century.
The connection with hunting and the deer is the herd numbers are kept in check, deer in large numbers are very destructive so their numbers need to be managed, this would normally happen if there was a large predator but hunting is also a was of managing herd numbers
I once witnessed a stag hunt in country where there was no red deer they reintroduced one stag in a horse box and tormented it through the countryside and out onto a motorway not pleasant. If you need to cull deer population do it with a rifle. Hound hunting is not a sport.
Don't understand why anyone would want to cook on briquettes rather than lumpwood charcoal in any case... Mad to import this stuff to make charcoal, but is it possible that the whole coconuts are processed in the UK and this is there way of trying to make savings on the byproduct?
If we are importing whole coconut, why? All that extra weight costs more in fuel to move from A to B....
Totally agree 👍 A will managed woodland with the byproduct of charcoal is way better than importing from another country. Charcoal production in the UK us why there are so many good quality woodlands