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They arn't a forecasting tool they are live imagery of precipitation as it approaches. Like looking out of a window
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Had a Putange day today. First job I checked had two sets of three out, plus some Duffus. Both sets of Putanges had a brace in them. Then at a friend's garden another three from four Putanges and later on at another job got another brace in a three way run. Not managed a three out of three yet, but its only a matter of time
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They are pulling your plonker mate. It is the retailer's responsibility to refund or replace anything not of 'merchantable quality'. They call the shots, not the supplier. Any problems go to the Citizen's Advice place or look up Sale of Goods Act on Google for a quick reference. I've just had a message from them, they have been sent back to Seeland for inspection: They they go into a queue at Seeland..... I bet that's a big f***ing queue, judging by the quality.. My advice is to go to the shop and ask for your money back. Under the Sale of Goods Act the retailer, not the supplier
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They are pulling your plonker mate. It is the retailer's responsibility to refund or replace anything not of 'merchantable quality'. They call the shots, not the supplier. Any problems go to the Citizen's Advice place or look up Sale of Goods Act on Google for a quick reference.
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Dickies work trousers with knee pads in them under a pair of shower-proof leggings when the ground is wet.
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I caught the tricky mole today - five times over The line of traps that had been triggered without capture had the pesky critter in one of the Duffus with none of the other four disturbed, and three other traps in areas of the garden where there had been nothing through or under the traps had another four in them. It wasn't young looking for their Mother as sometimes happens. At least two were 'old hands'. I reckon two were from the cattle pasture on one side and the other two were from the neighbour's garden on the other side. Once the resident had been accounted for, the others came in
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Well, it could be operator error. But as I reasoned before; if the trapper is the same, the traps are the same, the techniques are the same then all you are left with is the terrain and the mole. I've had three really tricky moles; one in stony soil, one in good, normal soil and this one is deep silty black stuff. In the first two examples I've since been back again several months later and caught straight away. So that leaves just the one variable; the mole. And in all three occasions they have been harried by the customer for months. 'Trap shy' I don't think so. They don't know what a trap i
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Well, the garden from hell didn't disappoint. Five traps triggered, two Duffus, two Talpex and a Putange without a capture. Then I go to my next two jobs and have five in five and three in four. The difference? IMO it is because the customer has chased the little bugger all round the garden for months using moth balls, rose clippings, petrol and barbed wire (I dug up at least six pieces of wire while setting the traps). I've had three tricky moles in the last two years and in every case the customer has spent months trying all sorts of methods to get rid of it.
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I was gutted. Looked lie a doddle, small garden with two areas of infestation plus fence lines from neighbours. Then I put the probe in and it just kept going down Couldn't find any shallow runs even along path sides and no worms came up to the probe either so all the activity was deep down. The soil had nothing to hold it together either. No chance of using Putanges on that job.
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In many cases moles move in or come in for a look around, from neighbouring areas as soon as the residents are removed. On bigger jobs, with long boundaries adjoining land with moles it is no good trying to do a 100% clear out. They will keep coming in as fast as you are trapping them. On larger gardens I sometimes leave a few traps in to mop up any newcomers after finishing my three visits, but on farms it's three visits and that is it. You can't promise 100% mole free. Or I can't anyway.
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I rarely use Talpex, mainly because I've struggled to achieve reliable results in the type of terrain I most frequently encounter these days. The last three weeks however has seen me doing more jobs in softer, stone free soil and I've really cracked on with them. Got a grueler today though. Soft, black soil and all the tunnels were elbow deep. It was difficult to prevent the holes falling in on themselves as there was no body to the soil. Roots didn't help matters either and reminded me that I still need to replace the secateurs I lost last month.
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All mine are from The Flatpack Company in Nth Yorkshire. I doubt if you'll buy any better.
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There is a difference between trap shy and neophobic. An animal will only become trap shy if it associates a bad experience when encountering a trap. Most moles do not get chance to form an association as the first time they encounter a trap it is their last. But some animals are neophobic and if at all possible will avoid anything that they are unsure about. You see it in dogs and cats when they encounter something strange that they cannot rationalise and if you've ever ridden a horse then you'll know only too well that anything out of the norm' whether it is a crisp packet blowing over the r
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No, just the weasel. I had trouble getting its head out of the loop until I realised it was a left hand thread.
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I had an idea a couple of years ago but have never put it into practice as I'm useless at making things. It consists of the capacitor from a small flash gun connected to two thin wires that are sleeved except for around 5mm at the lower ends. A couple of AA batteries power it and they, along with the capacitor are housed on top of a 50mm plastic pipe that has been cut in half lengthways. The two wires go through the half pipe into the tunnel and when the mole makes the circuit it gets around 400 volts. If you search Google for home made stun guns you'll get the jist of it.
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Three jobs on the go, set out on Monday, checked today. 8 moles and this............ That's the third this year, one in each of Duffus, Talpex & Putange.
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I had one that had been chased around the garden by the customer for months and was ultra neophobic. After two weeks of back filling Duffus and going under Talpex I rested it for a week and then got it first time, second time around, using a Putange. I did a lot of probing until I found a tunnel that went over a rock and put the traps in where it couldn't tunnel under. I've used similar tactics for other troublesome moles. Find a choke point such as a patio or tree roots where the mole squeezes through an immovable gap or a really well used commuting run, ideally an old dry one.
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If you can hang on about four years you can have my address book. I reckon I'll be ready for retiring again by then
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It's a combination of things. I seem to have evolved a system that suits me. Over here moles seem to breed four times a year and we've just gone through the first hatch of them. It usually started with a rash of phone calls around the end of January from the south-western end of my area where the climate is a bit warmer. Then I get calls from the Dordogneshire area to the south and now the bookings are coming in from higher country to the north of here. Come Easter the holiday home owners will arrive and it will go mad for at least three months as I try to clear their moles that have
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Can't do that so easily out here. I put the traps in on Monday, reckon to take out the resident moles on Wednesday and the neighbouring moles on Fridays. But many of the gardens are huge and border farm land or areas where moles aren't controlled and so there is always the chance of re-infestations. I tell the customers to cut the grass or knock down the molehills immediately after I've been and if anything comes up in the 7 days after I've finished I'll deal with them free. Sometimes I'll leave a few Putanges in if I think there might be some to mop up, but occasionally I have to keep going b
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Just about the same as myself. I try to finish the job in three visits, two days apart but if there are still some stragglers to catch I'll leave a few Putanges out and check them when convenient.
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Just having the potential to catch two moles isn't the sole criteria. No point in having the capability to catch two moles if your traps keep getting getting nicked or dug under.
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I catch young moles in every month of the year as they breed four times a year out here. I reckon they are Catholics Whilst a Duffus will catch at both ends, if you consider that Putanges and Traplines are designed to be used in pairs then that analogy doesn't hold. A pair of Putanges costs three quid so you can't even use the expense of them to justify it like you would with Traplines and Talpex.
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I don't use Talpex much mainly because of the type of terrain I work in. Most of the time it is either too claggy and / or stony. But I agree with torchey that the Putanges will work in any soil, any weather, anywhere. I'm using them more and more. I had a job last week that I didn't really want to do. It was far too much travelling and so I quoted a high price expecting to get the knock back. But the customer agreed to pay the fee and so I went out 90 minutes each way to catch his one mole. However, in the neighbour's garden I spotted a few molehills and as the neighbour wasn't around I n
