Mr Mole gets his comeuppance.

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I wish to report the sad demise of Mr Mole. The tenth of the little barstewards in a 4ac field, recently reseeded back to grass, he has been skilfully evading capture for some time.
Checking the traps this morning I found him climbing back in over the end of one of yesterday’s traps. Swift application of a size 10 welly boot means that his days of filling traps are over.

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On another note, has anyone used any of the French/putange traps? Are they any good for persistent trap avoiders?
 

hally

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Livestock Farmer
Location
cumbria
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I wish to report the sad demise of Mr Mole. The tenth of the little barstewards in a 4ac field, recently reseeded back to grass, he has been skilfully evading capture for some time.
Checking the traps this morning I found him climbing back in over the end of one of yesterday’s traps. Swift application of a size 10 welly boot means that his days of filling traps are over.

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On another note, has anyone used any of the French/putange traps? Are they any good for persistent trap avoiders?
I put some in last week for the first time but no luck so far must be doing something wrong as a few catchers around here swear by them, at the moment I am just swearing at them. Can’t put anymore in as we are getting too wet, the runs are full of water.......come back drought, please.
 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer

Danllan

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Location
Sir Gar / Carms
I like the Talpax claw type. Bought 50 when they first arrived in the UK for about 60p each and fairly cleaned up the plague of moles here.

You can buy them for $0.1 - 2 a piece from China (or so they say). The bad news is the minimum order of 3,000!

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...galleryofferlist.normalList.81.1f255f8cXz5roh

Or for a lot more off Ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-Pack-o...675109&hash=item48b09c0fa2:g:Vb4AAOSw01Jbh9sz
Any but the original are a waste of money; a neighbour bought some Talpex lookalikes for, I think, £3 each - probably Chinese - and they are rusting only a year later. I bought originals and was pleased, I then bought some lookalikes from Wynnstay which were a few pounds less each, they are cr*p. Its the angles and the distances between arms etc. that are important. As always, it rarely pays to buy cheap...
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Best traps I have used, and am still using, are the Talpex ones - Dutch I think.

I normally get on well with (original(y)) Talpex traps too, but not caught a single mole in them this Autumn, all in Duffus traps so far.
I’ve been trapping in near dust though, and shallow runs. Desperately wanting some proper rain here still, i’m In dust 6” below the surface.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
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I put some in last week for the first time but no luck so far must be doing something wrong as a few catchers around here swear by them, at the moment I am just swearing at them. Can’t put anymore in as we are getting too wet, the runs are full of water.......come back drought, please.

Thanks. I’ve just got 10 to try. Glad I didn’t buy more now.

I did get some more Duffus traps, but afraid to use them now as apparently you can hurt your fingers.:rolleyes:
 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
Any but the original are a waste of money; a neighbour bought some Talpex lookalikes for, I think, £3 each - probably Chinese - and they are rusting only a year later. I bought originals and was pleased, I then bought some lookalikes from Wynnstay which were a few pounds less each, they are cr*p. Its the angles and the distances between arms etc. that are important. As always, it rarely pays to buy cheap...

Agreed. I did notice that there were some stainless steel Talpex types on Alibaba too but I prefer cheap rubbish!

60p each was within my budget and (let it be whispered) I sold the surplus used ones on here after I'd reduced the mole problem and got my money back! I like crap if it's cheap enough!:LOL:
 

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