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a legend the Great Bert Gripton i spent many a weekend at berts cottage as a youth and had the pleasure of owning a few pups of his best terriers he was a good friend of my dads and came most Sundays for his dinner they were the good old days when you could walk down the road spade in one hand and a dog in the other and no one would bat an eyelid. old Bert knew every fox set in the Telford area lol it makes me smile every time I think of Bert I had some great times out and about with him and my dad id be sat in the back of Bert's minivan with the dogs and they would be in the front talking dogs arguing which were best jacks or Patterdales old Bert didn't like hard terriers. I went to a show in the lake district with him when he was judging the terrier class I had a brilliant day out this video brings back so many fond memories to many to mention of times gone by thank you.
i was sent a copy of this DVD by Barrie Ward and just thought it was too good not to be seen by more people , and i didn't want someone making coin out of this by putting a dvd out , so here it is free and i'm happy yourself and so many others have enjoyed it :) Only meet Bert a couple of times he wasn't kean on my black bitch to hard , it upset me a bit back then as i was only a kid and she was the apple of my eye haha
Yeah it's sad how so many people think of a man with terriers as some evil badger baiting killer these days. I really miss going out early weekend mornings with terriers walking over the land. If someone saw you with a couple of terriers and a shovel these days, good chance the police would be getting called.
@@mattgosling2657 The problem is that the terrier world is now full of egos and badger baiters. Full of chavs that think it's macho to watch a terrier fight a badger to death and boast of the gameness and that their terriers are missing jaws and limbs from conflicts with them. There's not many respectful people around like Bert that have respect for the countryside. It's all turned into wankers and egos. The true terrierman for the most part is gone and with him the respect for quarry and the countryside is gone too. It's a shame.
@@davidbleasby7539 we are working on wild boar, foxes and badgers with German hunting terriers. Somethimes also on stone marten and rats. I prefer the roughcoated terriers.
Brian, if you like terriers, terrier work or any type of hunting you really wouldn't have liked Drabble. I don't wish to be rude Brian, but he was against a lot of the field sports. Bert Gripton actually caught him the badgers that Drabble released upon his nature reserve.He was a 2 faced hypocrite!
I love people like Bert. Simple, honest, humble & knowledgeable. He's a real "Salt of the Earth" personality. In America, I see this trait in a lot of hardworking farm & ranch families. I also see it in many Cowboy Dayworkers as well.
The end of the true jack Russell terrier came with the kennel club recognising it as a breed. Most nowadays are show ponies with little or no true working capabilities. There are still a few bred for the job if you know where to go but not many
Michea'l, we knew Bert very well and was a great friend of ours. You are correct regarding the comparison between Parson Jack Russell and Bert himself. Bert knew far more, however, the parson would have been knowledgable but not in comparison to the knowledge of Bert.We spent a lot of our time at his cottage in Shropshire.
I spent quite a bit of time with Bert during the period I was at RAF Cosford. It was in the early eighties around when this film was made. Tiger was his favourite dog at the time. A real gentleman from a bygone age.
It's a shame how a lot of people think of terrier men to be cruel, blood thirsty killers. I used to keep terriers but nowadays its not worth the hassle, I miss going out with my dogs. Where is this man from?
Matt, Bert was a great friend of ours. He lived in a small cottage in Shifnal, Shropshire.What he didn't know about Foxes, badgers and Otters were not worth knowing.His knowledge was akin to a bottomless pit! Plus he was a hard brute of a man, but a very fair man with great principles and he possessed great integrity! All the Terrier men or hunting fraternity knew him or of him and certainly so many people had heard about himself, that is for sure!
@@mattgosling2657 just outside shifnal shropshire matt he was a big hardend man with hands like shovels but a true gent old school he did not suffer fools well he was a legend mate well known from one end of this country to the other there wasnt a hunt in this land of ours in hes day that didnt know off the great terrier man bert gripton all these fannys in the comments saying shit about him for calling the master of the hunt master thick fuckers dont know shit, he took shit from no man FACT... i had the pleasure to spend alot of time with burt and many other good longdog and terrier men in my youth thanks to my dad he took me on my 1st otter hunt mink hunt and fox hunt and i will forever be grateful he took this councle estate lad under his wing. RIP BERT
Love seeing dogs work instead of these silly lap dogs that do nothing apart from eat and fart...working terriers are a joy to see,, patterdales killing rats I could watch all day..
Knew and met a load of great characters.top hounds and terrier men.including burt..alas times have changed.thanks for showing this..and phil drabble commentating.legend..thanks glyn.
My dad was great friends with burt i remember him from when I was about 5 years old we were always round at his place he gave me a book called tinkers terriers a very nice man was burt god rest his sole
Doctor Dolittle do you know if his grandson kept up the tradition? I loved all things about the countryside and growing up there but unfortunately had to move away because of a family ,
500 for a Jack Russell back then think they were selling for a fiver at the time can't beat the old days hardly ever see a Russell now an if you do there crossed with some silly toy breed and sell for a grand lol
Andrew, i've watched some of your videos and I totally agree with what you said about country file."What a pathetic program with the sad morons like Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan. What does she know about wildlife, nothing ?
Hello Mark, did you know Bert Gripton? It sounds like you're familiar with Shropshire; I love Shropshire and it's a most beautiful county, that is for sure! Bert was a one off and he knew a little too much regarding Foxes and Badgers, plus, he knew so much about Fox hunting and Otter hunting also. A great man and sorely missed, especially by the true hunting folk and dog men!
Yes, always remember Bert, he never missed the great Yorkshire, and loved mixing with all the hunt servants there. Your bang on about Phil drabble as well, straight as a coat hanger!
@@seannamadra5675 what did he say exactly?? I used to get shooting news, countrymans weekly but I never heard of Phil drabble. I stopped keeping working dogs about 20 years ago but recently been watching a lot of vids on RU-vid and made me realise how much I miss early weekend mornings going out with mates and our dogs.
Hello Celtic Morning, hoping you are are okay. You're correct about "Phil Drabble and the person he was. He was a somewhat repugnant character and certainly no friend of the Terrier man or the true hunting folk. He also did everything within his power to destroy "Otter hunting!"It wasn't down to the Otter hunters and the Otters decline, but rather pollution and lost suitable habitat. The Otter hunters preserved the Otters and they had the Otters interest at heart despite the untruths often told by the anti-hunting fraternity. Lies, lies and more lies, so typical of the (antis.) "I've never met one yet who didn't tell lies and Phil Drabble was no different, just driven by money and fame. "In fact it was Bert who taught Drabble so much, especially about Badgers .Then the brute took the credit!
Brilliant 👌🏼my type of workin dog for my needs ! I’ll not get game much bigger than a good jack russel but because there a mungrel u need a GOOD breedline in order to make tat Russel I’d go for a good parson as there breed seems to be still strong then the hard part getting a good Russel to breed together. For me a wirehaired Russel is a good dog but there’s so many other factors than just tat. But I can still have the best blood breed in the country but like so many huntin companions it’s all down to the man tats trained the dog tats were a lot over look I know I’d try get to know the owner before I’ve even seen his dogs if I wanna to buy or to breed (very hard to get good blood nowadays)great video I’d love to see more of how the grandson is doing nowadAys as I tink the grandad nite not still be wit us .....
It's just tradition no different from calling hounds in pairs ie if you have 40 hounds it's know as 20 couple, the 'whipper in' undergrowth is know as trash, everyone calls the master of the hounds 'master'
love the comment lol. this guy is the salt of the earth, you could spend days just listening to his stories his knowledge is gold dust to say the least.
Vegans are you a mind reader or just thick like most people who hunt . You think you are special but really you don’t fit into normal society as you are socially inadequate. Wanting to kill an animal is mainly because you were bullied and picked on in childhood
