Nicepix
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Yeah, but I'l bet that you can't buy a nose ring for a bull or a halter for a ram in your local garden shop. Some of the stuff found in these store still amazes me. Cage traps, spring traps, all sorts of vermincide powders and tablets, electric fencing components and bits for rotavators that haven't been made since the Beatles were Quarrymen.
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I've been doing a garden job for the last four or five weeks. Initially I got 3 on the first visit and 4 on the next one, so I left 4 traps in and went back every few days to check them. I'm up to 24 now and there has never been a time when I didn't have a mole to take out of the trap. Best result was 5 in 4 trap sites. And to look at the garden you wouldn't have thought there were more than two moles in there. Just about half an acre of grass with a few shrubs and trees around the borders. All the traps are well into the garden in runs that are not visible to anyone who doesn't know what to l
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These days I get mine from Gamme Vert which is a national chain of garden centres. The problem is though that the price isn't the same in any two shops. I have three near to where I live and the price ranges from €3.95 to over €6 for exactly the same product.
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You've just answered your own question The covers are useful in several ways. Firstly I can find them, and the customer knows exactly where they are so no traps will be run over by a lawn mower. They keep the rain off the traps so no soil is washed down off them. Sometimes I'll place Putanges under a clod of turf and mark it with a spot of orange paint or a small plastic flag, but in most jobs the covers are used over every trap. Makes things a lot easier in large gardens and paddocks.
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Bingo! Got him outside his bedroom door right where I'd told the customer he'd be. One trap activated and no mole hills since Monday. This is what a three hundred Euro mole looks like; And if that isn't enough. The customer has recommended me to a friend who has a couple of acres of garden he wants clearing
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Because the material I'm surrounded by looks just the same as the other stuff I'm surrounded by. So how would I find the traps? I use 200mm lengths of 90mm guttering. They stack neatly, keep the rain from washing the soil off the traps and are easy to spot so the customer knows where the traps are and I can find them more easily. I put them down on a Monday, check them on a Wednesday and put a handful of soil on each cover so I know which I've checked and which I haven't.
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I like to call a spade a spade. And that Bryn is a shovel, not a spade. Totally different animal. Mine is a border spade cut down to around 74mm wide.Cuts through stony soil and turf better than a full width one.
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Same here mate. I could build a small wall with the Beagle traps I've found laying about in gardens, and loads of those French Detaupers that everyone thinks blows moles up. The best device for me though is those ultrasonic deterrents. I always place some of my traps near those and regularly catch. When you see or hear about all the methods the customer has tried you know that you are onto a winner.
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I wouldn't expect this to be a quick process. But if they have any made by November I'll pop in and pick some up. -
That's the farmer next door then. Just reminded me of a job I did last year and my 'tip' was two trailer loads of alpaca shit. My wife was more delighted with that than if I'd bought her diamond earings.
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That's precisely what I was trying to get at talpa ; but leave the trap just laying on the bottom of the run and, like Nicepix also said, the mole discovers it and back-fills it - so you're dammed if you do & dammed I you don't. But, like I said earlier: I do think it's a issue that could be solved with a slight design tweak. When I put Duffus traps in I try and bed the wires into the tunnel floor by pushing down hard on the trap. Obviously thesofter the soil the more effective that would be. With the Traplines I tried to bed the bottom wires in as advised in the instructions.
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Yes, you are right. It should have read that too many false activations are caused by the mole going over the trigger hurdle then activating the trigger with its back leg. The foul captures were mainly back end, around the hips and in at least one case the mole had managed to crawl to the surface. The trap had been pinned but in a very shallow run and it had hinged on the pin. I had more foul captures and blocked tunnels with the trap having gone off than was good for me so I stopped using them. Just for further clarification; I wasn't the one who reported catching a mole by the stomac
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Are you sure? International postage isn't cheap you know.
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wrong again your changing. "catching it by " From "catching it with" For the sake of clarity; I mean that I think the moles back leg may activate the trigger (knocking it forward) as the mole climbs over it. Hence the jaws not having anything in them. Yes, and i may have 'misinterpreted' what you meant by "foul capture", also.Cause i thought you meant caught or even 'pinched', the mole, in an undesirable part of its body ? But maybe you didnt ? ( just to confuse matters, further) ha ha ha . Someone else described having moles pinched under their belly. Do try and keep up.
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Got a job today in a 1/2 acre grassed garden, sloping downhill to a river bank. Customer tells me that the mole had been in the bottom right hand corner for a while. Then another mole had come and set up in the bottom left hand corner, and a month or so back another mole had started digging up the area in the top left corner. No signs of moles in the middle or round the boundary walls. There is a stone building in the top right corner that drains straight onto the grass that slopes doe to the river and in line with that building, on the bank is a large log pile. Just to the right of the log pi
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wrong again your changing. "catching it by " From "catching it with" For the sake of clarity; I mean that I think the moles back leg may activate the trigger (knocking it forward) as the mole climbs over it. Hence the jaws not having anything in them.
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I used to do OK with Talpex when I was trapping on the farm where I used to live. Mainly sandy soil. I've done less well in my usual garden jobs where the soil is usually claggy clay and stones. But I got a job today round a lake and the soil looked perfect for Talpex, so in they went.
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Catching the trigger hoop by its back leg causing it to go off after the mole has cleared the jaws.
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Well, I can only speak from my own experience. I get good results from Flatpacks and Putanges and do OK with Talpex when the soil is right for them. Mostly I'm setting in claggy clay soil with a lot of stones or turf. I tried them for a couple of months but had a lot of back end captures and also traps set off and back filled. I rarely get a false activation with a Putange and all the captures are neck or skull. The way I see it, two pieces of bent wire can't really go wrong.
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Valid points. In my opinion some of the foul captures are caused by a mole going over the top of the trigger hoop and then catching it with a back leg. This got me thinking about the design of them and I did wonder about all that wirework the mole has to clamber over before it gets to the trigger. All the machinery is slap bang in the middle. Possibly they may work better on their sides? Never, had a mole caught by the "back leg", in one. Me neither. The mole has long gone past the jaws by the time its back leg hits the trigger.
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Valid points. In my opinion some of the foul captures are caused by a mole going over the top of the trigger hoop and then catching it with a back leg. This got me thinking about the design of them and I did wonder about all that wirework the mole has to clamber over before it gets to the trigger. All the machinery is slap bang in the middle. Possibly they may work better on their sides?
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I don't understand this bit about Elastoplast. Didn't have a problem setting them. But I used them in different jobs for a couple of months and ended up throwing them on the 'useless traps pile'. Too many foul captures and blocked tunnels. The Putange is far superior in every way for the job a Trapline does.
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I'll tell you what I'd do. Put one in the fence line, one in the run from the fence line, and three in the hills just to satisfy the client
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Buy stainless. No corrosion to worry about
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I did a job about 18 months ago for a real old gent. When I was putting the traps out he came over and told me that there was a €100 reward for each mole caught. I got two on the first check and told him that I didn't want a reward, the fee was enough. And that I was sure he had no more to catch. The next time I went round he was out and there were none in the traps. While I was packing away he came home and asked how many I'd caught today and was rather sceptical when I said "None". He wouldn't believe me. Anyway, he wrote a cheque out for €360. I've been back twice since and been amply r
