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this reviews tutorials video something
that I learned as a kid growing up was
on my grandfather's farm and on my
uncle's farm
huge big area around here whether it be
camping out and staying close to these
holes there's a lot of rabbits here and
up here we've started on the main burrow
I wanna show you how we're doing now
down here is where it was it ran down to
here what we did we used a mattock to
start off with you just broke through
the top and dug along and what we're
doing in order to safe we're not just
checking the soil everywhere but we're
putting the soil back where we've broken
through the burrow and then standing on
it as we work through and once we get
deep enough like where we are down here
we're going to expose the hole and then
put a great big rock in it like the size
of the hole and then we'll fill that in
and smooth it over and while we're here
we're also going to be going for these
little holes that are around the little
starting places where they've clearly
started to scratch some of that will
also be natural erosion but I'm here
there's clear spots where they've been
digging
so we'll just level all those out and
rake it all up and get all the holes and
then it's a matter of monitoring this
this is a non Poisson way of doing it if
you um yeah a little bit of netting
someone's probably tried to block their
holes and do something it before so if
you're going to use ten eighty or a
poison or something like that you can
lay that first
and then you still have to dig the
Warrens out because so dig the burrows
out because otherwise other rabbits will
just come along and find this mansion
and want to move in so that's deep
enough as soon as we expose the hole and
there's even a built in rock up there on
the side there we'll drop that rock in
block the hole off with the rock and
then fill that up and compact it all
down and move on to the next hole so as
many as you've got there's as many as
you want to do is this is a non Poisson
method non-poor there's a Poisson method
you don't have to spend a lot more time
monitoring this checking you know having
trouble with you and just checking if
they start to dig a hole fill it in if
they've got a bit of a hole going fill
it in and eventually they will give up
they'll go somewhere easier it's holed
up here as well yeah just this is almost
a fresh dirt there so this is gonna take
a little while but any sort of stuff
like this it you got broken pipe there
that's what you go shoving down the hole
where you dig and deep and as far as
you're going to go put a little bits
like that so they can't dig out from the
from the inside and it's just at my
elbow and that's deep enough so what
we're gonna do now we're gonna put a
great big rock on the hole down there
and compact it and just end it all off
so to get any more soil at just clear
the hole out that rock and we'll put
that down in place you do need something
solid down there so if there are rabbits
in the unit one digging it out from the
top so we'll get another Rock or stick
it over the top of that so there it is
we've got a couple of big rocks down the
bottom and then just a whole lot of
little rocks over the top if you want to
eat the rabbits you can just dig it out
but don't do that if you poison them
otters you know any diseases around
that with the rabbits but just big rocks
down in the bottom and then rocks like
that and then we'll fill it up and stamp
it over the top and as I said you will
have to maintain this you'll have to
stay on it but this is the non poison
way of doing it and just getting the
rabbits to go somewhere once so the
procedure again really quick we'll get
the mattock we dig along the top just
exposing the hole and going as far as we
can until we're sort of as deepest we
can get and then a couple of big rocks
and then fill it up with rocks over that
area and then fill the hole and then
backfill and get it all flat and
hopefully just striking the medic down
vertically and pulling all the soil back
so we're filling this hole as we go
along as I said I learned this from my
grandfather he'd be 110 120 by now so
these are the old skills of an old
farmer who used to deal with rabbits
before poisons and things like that also
when you're talking poisons is he still
down there yeah have a look down here
where is he in front of that bush there
I'll zoom up you can see the kangaroo
down there so if you put a poison like
1080 down there's a risk that you're
gonna poison the Kangaroos as well and
we don't want to do that
rabbits are a pest and in you know not
supposed to be here in Australia but
kangaroos are supposed to be here in
Australia so that holds nearly four
we'll get a couple more shovel loads on
what I'm doing here all the scrapings
I'm just scraping that back up the hill
and putting it up here and we're all
that rabbit poo is keep all that because
that'll fertilize a little really help
to get the grass
here again so there's the finished
product nice and level nice and flat
ready for grass to grow there's plenty
of grass seed around here so it should
just Cantwell by itself with the rains
but they go no sign of a Warren left and
rocks down the bottom so they can't dig
out if there are any down there sorry to
the Greenies but they're rabbits and we
are trying to get rid of them and the
other ones coming along just a few more
shovel loads in there and then we're
ready to smooth it out
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