Steve Albano

Are the UK putange half barrels imported from China or made in the UK?

Thanks, your results speak for themselves I used “out of sight” traps for many years, which are similar to Talpex. Great trap design, but lots of manufacturing issues, so they definitely needed “tuning”. And the latest version of them is worthless. I have moles in my garden right now and I have a few Duffus traps around the shop, going to give them a try.

We rarely trap moles on farms or sell mole traps to farmers. Moles just aren’t that big a problem on farms. We trap moles in landscapes, lawns and flowerbeds mostly. We get gophers on farms in huge numbers.

Moorman and Tank, do you mostly use the Duffus style trap? Any particular supplier you recommend?

Impressive work on this thread, gentlemen! Lots of interesting pictures and stories to read through.

The manufacturer just recently made some big changes to the Out of Sight trap, including a much weaker spring, and an aluminium body rather than a cast iron body. People seem to hate the new ones, I haven't used them.

Victor Out o Sight mole traps work great, but do need some trigger modification to make them more sensitive. I've caught tens of thousands of moles with them. Very similar design to Talpex, right? And the reason for such a strong spring is that the way most people set them, they close through dirt.

There's something to look forward to!

I know, but they sell a lot of traps for me, and also international shipments require customs forms and quite a bit of extra work, so happy to have them distribute. But I do know it makes the traps pricey over there. I think I'll have another mole trap on the market pretty soon, maybe in a couple of months.

It's really amazing how much work, craftsmanship and raw steel went into some of these old traps. We manufacture a mole trap that weighs 1.3 ounces, and I'd like to reduce that to under 1.0 ounce. It really is surprising how stuff used to be made.

In my most humble and unbiased opinion, the Trapline mole trap is perfect right out of the box, and doesn't require any "tweaking". :laugh:

Excuse my ignorance, but what is an SSSI?

Yeah I saw that on the flatpack website. Personally I think it makes more sense to reverse that and have the wire loops and triggers made of stainless and use galvanised for the body.

Yes, I agree Moxy, and I think that's the way it should be too. The contact points on the trip bars and the kill loops and other moving parts would benefit from being made of a nice hard temper stainless wire. The sheet metal body wouldn't matter as much.

And that would be my opinion too. I like the concept but as I've said many times as have others. I can't see how you benefit from the added expense. All this talk of stainless!! Stainless will rot (certainly not as fast as steel) but all will Depend on the grade of stainless used to manufacture the traps. There's no way I can see they are going to use a high grade. Not saying it can't be done and they won't but the price difference will be...!!? Well..! Noticeable But let's not confuse the trap body from the wire work. As echoed in the above comment. Once the spring has gone! B