Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 197: A Fruitful Harvest

More than an hour later, Tagawa arrived at the shooting range where pheasants gathered with a finished net and a large pile of miscellaneous things. The pheasants were still there, and when they saw Tagawa coming, they took off and fled far away.

Tagawa spreads out the net which he made and spreads it in the place where the pheasant moves. On the side close to the fence, the edge of the net was hung directly on the felt fence more than a meter above the ground. He climbed up a large poplar tree closest to the net, tied a pulley to the trunk six or seven meters above the ground, and threaded the net rope through the pulley. On the way back to the ground, Tagawa drove a nail into the trunk of the tree three meters above the ground.

He pulls the net rope on the ground, so that the thin nylon ropes tied to the rope are slowly lifted, and when the edge of the net is about to be pulled up, he makes a mark on the rope. Then continue to pull down the net rope and hang the net bag until the edge of the net bag is more than two meters above the ground, and the pheasant inside will definitely not be able to escape, so he tied a 10 kg big dumbbell that he usually uses for exercise at the position where the rope touches the ground, as a heavy hammer for lifting the net. Then, two more nails were driven up and down at chest-high intervals of more than a foot on the back of the three-meter-high nails.

Tagawa put the rope under the dumbbell on a high nail, pulled the net rope, and hung the dumbbell up. When the dumbbell is close to the nail at the height, tie a chopstick to the top nail near the rope on the chest, and the net rope is tied to one end of the chopsticks. He stuck the short end of the chopsticks on the nails on it, and used his fingers to pull the long end of the chopsticks, and under the action of the lever of the chopsticks, the long end required little force.

Tie a thin thread prepared at home to the far end of the chopsticks, and the thin thread has already tied the two remaining cannon battles from the Chinese New Year. Pull the other end of the wire into a looper, put it on the nail below, and the dumbbell is fixed.

Tagawa got up and went to the activity field of the pheasant flock, arranged the large net, and pressed the edge of the net with some snow.

Back behind the tree, Tagawa took out from his pocket a fireflame converted from a home pager, and in order to prevent the sound of the pager from alarming the pheasants, he had removed the vibrator and speaker on the pager. Tie this firecracker to a tree with a rope, fix the fuse of the cannon in the firearm, and the whole mechanism is ready. Just dial this pager, and the firecracker will ignite the cannonball, blow up the thin wire, bounce the chopsticks, drop the dumbbells, and pull up the chicken trap. He had already experimented with it at home with the ignition of the firecracker and the blowing up of the fine line by the gunner, and the effect was quite good.

Tagawa sprinkled some fine sand on the place where the pheasants were active, threw a few more corn cobs here, and then packed up his things and walked along the embankment into the distance.

150 meters away from the trap, Tagawa's off-road vehicle is parked there, sitting in a warm car, and with a telescope, he can clearly observe the activities of the pheasant flock, and use his mobile phone to trigger the trap to close the net at the right time.

While waiting for the pheasant to take the bait, Tagawa thought about how to make a chicken cage. If you do it with sticks, it's too much work, and in this cold winter, the ground is frozen like iron, and just burying sticks in the ground is not an easy task. It is best to make a portable chicken cage that can be moved, which is not only easy to set up, but also can be moved at any time, and it will be much easier to use.

I thought of several plans, but none of them were too suitable, and each had different shortcomings. He suddenly had an idea, and thought of something that would work—a mat. Not all mattresses are acceptable, only the kind of double mattresses made of slender bamboo strips woven side by side, or larger bamboo mattresses used on the big kang in rural areas. The length of the bamboo strips of this kind of mat is generally more than one meter five, the bamboo strips of the mat are erected, enclosed into a cylinder of suitable size, a long wooden pole or bamboo pole is erected in the middle, and a corn cob is hung on the pole about a foot above the mouth of the cylinder. The pheasant stands on the edge of the top of the mat tube, barely able to eat the hanging corn, and if he accidentally pushes it and loses its center of gravity, it will fall into the mat tube.

In order to make it easier to catch pheasants that fall inside, you can install a bottom made of fishing nets at the bottom of the cylinder, and it will definitely be easy to catch chickens in the net when the time comes.

Thinking of this good way, Tian Chuan began to think about the details of this chicken trap, and by the time all the details had been determined, more than an hour had passed, and it was close to noon. At this time, the sun came out, and the warm sunlight shone on the off-road vehicle, and the inside of the car was warm. He took out his binoculars and looked at the trap in the distance, only to see that the pheasant flock had returned, and a pheasant with a head was already pecking corn.

As time went on, pheasants joined the ranks of eating corn, and finally, the beautiful big rooster also entered the trap. Tagawa picked up his mobile phone and was about to page, when he suddenly stopped, and he saw that another rooster was approaching the flock of chickens eating corn, this rooster was also leading a flock of chickens, and it would be nice if the two flocks of pheasants entered the trap at the same time.

Tagawa waited for nearly an hour, and the scene he was expecting never appeared. As soon as the rooster in the back approached the flock, the rooster in front of it drove it away, and the two flocks could not be together at all. Tagawa had to pick up the phone twice, and when he saw the rooster back in the trap, he pressed the send button and dialed the pager that was the firearm.

The set up mechanism did not disappoint Tagawa, the cannon battle sounded, the dumbbells fell, and the first flock of pheasants were wiped out, and not a single one ran out. The other flock of pheasants fled.

Tagawa ran over and took out a large chicken coop that had been prepared from behind the felt fence, and loaded the struggling pheasants in the net pocket. This rooster is quite good, and even has fifteen hens, which is much stronger than the average rooster.

He checked the pager firecracker and found it not broken, so he rearranged the trap, picked up the cage full of pheasants, and walked to the farm not far away.

In the courtyard of the farm headquarters, Tagawa hired two skilled workers to build a temporary chicken farm with an area of more than 20 square meters using fishing nets and bamboo poles, and equipped the pheasants with a chicken coop made of wooden boards. Tagawa put the sixteen pheasants in the cage into the hen's coop, and the pheasants had not yet come out of their fear, huddled in the corner of the coop.

After arranging for someone to be in charge of feeding the pheasants, Tagawa went around to the off-road vehicle to look at the traps. The second flock of pheasants seen in the morning may have been frightened and did not return. He called Li Erbao to help him keep an eye on the trap, and went home to eat alone.

In the afternoon, Tian Chuan took out the several mats that the family used in the summer and made chicken traps in the workshop. Tian's mother counted his spoiled things in her mouth, but she didn't stop him, in Tian's mother's heart, what her son wants to do always makes sense.

Tagawa sewed up the mattress with a thick thread and fixed it, and made two bamboo rings of suitable size out of the bamboo strips removed from the mat, which were used to support the upper and lower ends of the mat and fix the shape of the chicken trap. In this way, the cage can stand firmly on the ground.

At the bottom of the cage, a door is opened, and after the pheasant is caught, this door can be opened to catch the pheasant out of the cage.

In order to make it easier to catch chickens, Tagawa made a lining net out of a fishing net with a large hole, and pheasants that fell into the cage would be trapped by the lining net. This liner also has the function of preventing pheasants from escaping.

The pole used to hang the corn cob in the middle of the chicken trapping coop is not intended to be made into one with the cage, and when the time comes, he can dig a separate pit in the ground and bury it.

After making the first chicken trapping cage, Tagawa put the cage in the yard, checked the effect, and felt that it was not bad, and the pheasants that fell inside should not be able to escape.

Still, he found a problem. The chicken cage and the pole of hanging corn are independent of each other, under the influence of wind or pheasant, the cage may move, the hanging corn can not guarantee that it is always in the middle of the cage mouth, once the corn is close to the edge of the cage mouth, the pheasant that falls on it can easily eat the corn, and it is difficult to fall into the cage.

Finally, he tied three strings of equal length to the point where the rod was level with the mouth of the cage, and tied a hook at each of the end of the string. Then make three equidistant rings on the wire on the brace ring at the top of the cage, and when the time comes, hang the three hooks on the ring of the upper brace ring, so that they will not be biased to one side.

Just when Tian Chuan started to make the second chicken cage, Li Erbao called and said that he had netted the second group of pheasants, a total of twelve. These pheasants are still in the big net pocket, and the big cage where Tagawa last held the pheasants is still in the yard of the base headquarters, and he can't hold them alone.

Tagawa said that he would wait for him there, and drove his brother-in-law's big jeep to the base headquarters. His Land Cruiser was also parked on the embankment for Li Erbao to be used as an observation post for hunting pheasants, and his sister's family went on a trip, and the car was left at home, just for him.

When Tian Chuan came to the shooting range with the iron cage, Li Erbao was holding his bleeding hand and glaring at the pheasant in the net pocket.

"What's wrong with the hand?"

"Don't mention it," Li Erbao looked frustrated, "I wanted to tease them, so I paid attention to guarding its mouth, but I didn't expect to jump up and give me a paw and scratch me two big holes." This thing is really fierce. ”

"The pheasant's claws are stronger than the mouth, so you have to be careful in the future. Tian Chuan was talking to Li Erbao while grabbing out the pheasants in the net pocket one by one and putting them in cages. This kid's luck was really good, in addition to the pheasant, this net also caught two turtledoves.

After catching the pheasant, Tian Chuan looked at Li Erbao's hand, the wound was not too deep, and now it was no longer bleeding, and there should be no problem when he went home to bandage it. So he said to him, "Help me drive the car home in a moment, and take two rabbits by the way, which I just got in the morning." ”

With the help of Li Erbao, the trap was rearranged, and Tagawa asked Li Erbao to drive his own Land Cruiser and carry the cage with pheasants to the base.