best way to kill a mole

[neilo]

Value for money tunnel traps that work right out the box.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tunnel-Mol...&qid=1483055054&sr=8-2&keywords=12+mole+traps

That's the Pest Stop ones I mentioned above. Good price too.

Had some of them, still not found um. Need to knock a fence post in to stop the sheep from knocking the sticks over

I cut on old plastic stake from electric netting into 3, then use them as marker pegs. You can push them well in, so it would take a bloody good sheep to knock them over. A feckin horse on the other hand, will grab the end and pull them out.

 

[Gator]

Use bits of rebar painted, about 18 inches long, leave about a foot out.if it gets knocked over you can still see the top of the scissor trap unless it's pushed another hill over ya trap

 

[milkloss]

Use bits of rebar painted, about 18 inches long, leave about a foot out.if it gets knocked over you can still see the top of the scissor trap unless it's pushed another hill over ya trap

I use yellow rappa leccy fence posts, sheep don't seem to bother them. Rebar in the silo ground might not go down too well here!

 

[Gator]

I use yellow rappa leccy fence posts, sheep don't seem to bother them. Rebar in the silo ground might not go down too well here!

Aye, have found an odd un in the past

 

[Gator]

Aye, have found an odd un in the past

If i make it to obvious the crag rats have un away

To many feckin footpaths here

 

[andybk]

got on very well with the beagle easy set traps ,fit nice and tight in the run , when they go off the red arm shows up , and dont use stakes or rebar for marking traps as was told the vibrations in the ground from wind , puts moley off always mark the grass with white road marking spray , only a quid or so from a car boot , and lasts ages

 

[Spartacus]

On the idea of spraying the grass, won't that make it smell so the moles would avoid it? Always use stakes, painted the tip of some kindling white this year, easy to spot now!

 

[andybk]

On the idea of spraying the grass, won't that make it smell so the moles would avoid it? Always use stakes, painted the tip of some kindling white this year, easy to spot now!

no spray couple feet away from the trap (arrow circle or something ) , those beagle ones have a big red trigger so can be seen from quite a distance anyway , hardest is catching the first (like a larsen trap) , rub its scent all over the trap and the others will be easy , being so territorial they loose alot of the fear , One field took three weeks to get the first , then had three in three days . with 2 traps

 

[Spartacus]

no spray couple feet away from the trap (arrow circle or something ) , those beagle ones have a big red trigger so can be seen from quite a distance anyway , hardest is catching the first (like a larsen trap) , rub its scent all over the trap and the others will be easy , being so territorial they loose alot of the fear , One field took three weeks to get the first , then had three in three days . with 2 traps

I've actually found the newer the trap the better the results!

 

[vulcan]

I've been out this morning setting traps and leveling mole hills out with the scraper some big hills this year.

 

[milkloss]

Any pics

Sorry, was getting dark when I remembered but you get the idea. Wants some pogo legs on so you can really punch it with both feet when it's cold. Has a slight taper to the bottom so you can poke the plug up with a hammer handle and out the side

 

[Gator]

Sorry, was getting dark when I remembered but you get the idea. Wants some pogo legs on so you can really punch it with both feet when it's cold. Has a slight taper to the bottom so you can poke the plug up with a hammer handle and out the side

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Thanks for that @milkloss, can see a project startin. What's the length of the plug cutter, looks about 6 inch?.

 

[Kevtherev]

Best way to kill a mole?
44 magnum of course
@rc mx110

 

[Gator]

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@rc mx110

He'd shoot his self in the foot wi that

 

[Lili]

First catch of 2017!

 

[milkloss]

Thanks for that @milkloss, can see a project startin. What's the length of the plug cutter, looks about 6 inch?.

A bit longer (more like nine) as if the run is six inches deep you need to work the plug out the top. The idea initially was that the soil would break up and fall out with a tap but it never worked like that. I would be inclined to strut from the cross members in one corner back to the next corner so you have a wider v shape to get the plug out. Don't know if that made sense.

The podger I use is an old metal leccy fence stake with a ring of weld about half inch from the tip so it drops in the run and stops more definitely when it hits the bottom of the run.

 

[milkloss]

Thanks for that @milkloss, can see a project startin. What's the length of the plug cutter, looks about 6 inch?.

Slightly better pics to show the size

 

[Newby]

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@rc mx110

I've heard it's had to keep track of how many bullets you've fired with one of them things, you seem to lose track in all the excitement

 

[Danllan]

Put down six traps in my lowest field yesterday, one mole out today. Surprised to read of some of the things used to mark traps, rebar seems overkill and maybe even a danger, we just use twigs from the hedges - but we don't trap in a field with stock in.

 

[Danllan]

Out of interest, does anyone else have moles with an almost unerring ability to raise hills under cow pats? I only set traps under hills, so this is often irritating...