best way to kill a mole

[phillipe]

Yeah

then they can smell you ,your lad they cant

 

[Mkfm]

You tube "jasper carrot catching a mole" bloody hilarious

 

[milkloss]

Mole trapping is great fun and addictive,
When I have them set its the first job after letting the dogs out to check them.
If setting lots I would advise setting 5 at a time or 10 in an area so you know how many you are looking for, not 4 or 8.
Last autumn I got 17 moles in one field in a week.( 90 trap's though)

How long to set 90 traps?

 

[Gator]

Never have any problem with smell, just rub trap in mole hill and set. Put some traps down boxing day.

These in less than 24 hours. 80 odd this month so far. Getting some more traps, teaching @landyman the art so should make um less

 

[Spartacus]

Never have any problem with smell, just rub trap in mole hill and set. Put some traps down boxing day.View attachment 446690 These in less than 24 hours. 80 odd this month so far. Getting some more traps, teaching @landyman the art so should make um less

How many traps?

 

[Robw54]

Get a few scissor traps. I bought 5 off ebay for less than a moler charged me to trap 2 moles in the lawn. Plenty videos on youtube and nothing much to getting them successfully set.

Had real problems in early December but clear of the buggers for now.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

@markthemoleman .

 

[Headless chicken]

I gave in and paid the mole man in the end. It costs me £30. He thought he was on to a winner. Jokes on him because I had lost my sh!t with them that much I would have paid an arm and a leg to get rid.

He set one day came back next no more problems

 

[Longlowdog]

I bought a dozen tunnel traps from Amazon to replace some ageing ones, they came well made and needed no adjustment to function well straight out the box.
I used to wash my hands without soap and handle the traps like glass but now I finish my smoke, dig a hole, set them in firm and leave them till next day. The results are just the same. Shiny and new or dull and old makes no difference that I can tell.
The odd wee devil that backfills traps generally comes a cropper if I set two traps 18 inches apart with a freshly dead mole from another run in between.
It's definitely addictive. Knowing you have your own traps that cost less than a visit from the mole man and you have them for keeps makes it seem a worthwhile pastime on a quiet afternoon.

 

[Robw54]

I bought a dozen tunnel traps from Amazon to replace some ageing ones, they came well made and needed no adjustment to function well straight out the box.
I used to wash my hands without soap and handle the traps like glass but now I finish my smoke, dig a hole, set them in firm and leave them till next day. The results are just the same. Shiny and new or dull and old makes no difference that I can tell.
The odd wee devil that backfills traps generally comes a cropper if I set two traps 18 inches apart with a freshly dead mole from another run in between.
It's definitely addictive. Knowing you have your own traps that cost less than a visit from the mole man and you have them for keeps makes it seem a worthwhile pastime on a quiet afternoon.

Had one wrecking havoc on the lawn in run up to Christmas. Set two, both filled, then too busy to reset, set a third Christmas eve and clear since. Key seems to be getting the right runs and was easier once we had a few more hills. I use a stake to find the runs.

We have a few out in the fields but I see the odd dead one lying about dead so no sure if Owls or cats getting them.

 

[markthemoleman]

@markthemoleman .

Cheers Yorkshire Andrew

 

[Longlowdog]

Whilst on Mull I spoke to a chap who inspected raptor nests and he said that Buzzard nests frequently had a large number of dead moles in them. Other than the black and orange carrion beetles I've never found anything that eats them.
My late, lamented, teckel had a great ability to dig moles, shake them and bring them to hand. Shame he used it so frequently on the lawns of the big house whose grounds I used to work in. He wasn't the most discrete of mole catchers.

 

[Gator]

How many traps?

Put 15 down, have about 30

 

[Kevtherev]

Moles are digger like hells at the moment. Is there any other way to kill them apart from traps. A see you can get poisons and smokes. Are they any good. Or should I cough up and pay the mole boys.

Vibrating roller

 

[kill]

Had one wrecking havoc on the lawn in run up to Christmas. Set two, both filled, then too busy to reset, set a third Christmas eve and clear since. Key seems to be getting the right runs and was easier once we had a few more hills. I use a stake to find the runs.

We have a few out in the fields but I see the odd dead one lying about dead so no sure if Owls or cats getting them.

Use the T handle of a spade to firm the bottom of a run and set trap down on to the run floor at a slightly rotated angle and it's very rare for them to earth a trap in if the bottom of the run is clean and firm.

 

[milkloss]

Posted before but it's my preferred method and then traps for the ones that work odd shifts!

 

[liammogs]

Put 15 down, have about 30

What type of trap you using?

 

[Gator]

What type of trap you using?

Scissor traps

I find these the best

 

[neilo]

Vibrating roller

Wouldn't that cause a bit of compaction though?

 

[milkloss]

Scissor trapsView attachment 446922I find these the best

Somewhere I made a square punch to make a perfect hole for scissor traps. Four bits of small angle with the ends sharpened, braced together with thin plate and welded to a spade handle. Worked really well.