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There are a lot of traps being sold by Bulgarian and Turkish sellers as 'antiques' that are just rough and ready jobs they've recently made.
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I've only ever washed mine once and that was because they were really clagged up and I wanted to do some work on them.Normally I'll let them dry as they are and immediately before putting them in at the next job I do a dry fire to shake off the dried soil. I've had some traps in at a job for five weeks now mopping up all the neighbouring moles coming through the garden and they still work fine.
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Moles I tend to take away and leave them for the scavengers. I don't just dump them anywhere though. I take great care to drop them near to where the scavengers hang about. I know every Romanian caravan site in the area.
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I've only had two customers expected me to deal with the mole hills - both were Scousers! The waste regulations only apply if you take waste off site in a professional capacity. I would imagine in virtually every case the tumps get disposed of within the garden by the householder. I don't know for sure as I leave it with them. As an aside; over here dumpit sites in all the local villages are open 24/7 for disposal of masonry, soil and vegetable waste including tree prunings. And professional landscape gardeners or tree surgeons can tip their waste there FOC any time day or night.
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And without charging the going rate too
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I take the moles away and dispose of them but molehills are flattened or removed by the customer. If I'd had to deal with the molehills on my three jobs this week I'd still be there this Sunday.
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True. I'll normally put ten Flatpacks, four Talpex and six Putanges in it to start a job along with enough covers for all the traps. If I need a few extra I'll fill a 20 litre paint bucket with traps and covers and take that too. If I go out in fields and don't have transport I take a fishing trolley with the Trug on top of a couple of 60 litre plastic boxes containing traps and covers.
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Gardener's trog - cost about a fiver and has done me for almost two years.
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I've only ever used Putanges, never had any No-Mols. If I only worked one type of soil then I could get by with one type of trap. As it is I have thick black, oozy soil in the north-east part of my area, clay in another area nearer home then it gets stony out to the west and in some areas there is barely 2" of soil over bedrock. There is one small region where the soil is loose and suitable for Talpex traps. Add to that gardens where I have to use Putanges to avoid disturbance from cats, dogs or lawnmowers and the tight tunnels around gravel drives, patios and wall sides. I couldn't do the
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I can buy them locally for just under ten euros. That is £7.20 at the current exchange rate so anyone coming over on a booze cruise could do with looking in at a Gamme Vert garden centre while they are here.
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You should have drove at 50mph then he'd have had to unload what he'd just loaded.
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And how will we know which caught first if two or more traps have moles in them?
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The one you put nearest the mole's nest.
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It was probably a polar bear. I saw something like it happen on the telly.
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I reckon he'll bring the Talpa type back Pop a Fenn Mk. iv in and lightly cover it with soil. You won't need a trail cam to find the thief then.
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I picked up seven traps from a job yesterday that hadn't yet been modified. When I got to them today I found that had five of the latest version of the S/S Ultimate trap that are 74mm wide, one at 70mm wide that is from the second batch of Ultimate S/S traps ordered a year before, and one that is 65mm wide that is from the original batch I got over two years ago. Other than the width and flatter profile of the traps which is a backward step IMO the other noticeable difference is that the steel used in the older two traps is considerably thicker and shinier than the later traps. I have a frien -
That and some cheap vinyl signs for the vehicle. Thirty quid or so from eBay and they are working all day long, everywhere you go.
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Yes, me too. I ragged a cartoon off the web, altered it a bit in Adobe Elements and then uploaded it to the Vistaprint site. Got 100 cards, a free pen and enough sticky labels for two year's invoices for less than a tenner.
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That's the trouble with a lot of farmers I used to know. They think everyone is out to screw them while they are busily screwing everyone they can. I know some that would follow you round just to make sure you didn't charge them for one more than you had caught.
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I put traps in on the Monday, check Wednesday and lift on Friday. If I think there are still moles to be caught I'll leave some traps in over the weekend or longer if necessary, but check less often. I have a one week guarantee so that once I've lifted the traps if they get any new activity in the next 7 days I'll go and re-do it FOC. In practice it rarely bites me on the 'arris as I over trap when I think it is necessary and also make sure there are traps in any runs that connect the garden to outside areas. Typically I'll get the residents on Wednesday and the neighbour's moles on Friday. In
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800 acres! I'd have a nose bleed I started out on a 300 hectare farm with 6 traps. As you might imagine progress was somewhat slow But because I lived on the farm at the time I combined walking the dog with setting, checking and moving the traps so it worked out OK. Now I turn down any farm work. I've done a few small paddocks, but recently was asked to do 18 hectares as a job and it just isn't worth my while. Three or four garden jobs a week does me fine. One full day and two half days is my working week. I recently got an enquiry from what my wife described as a 'Fruit loop' and s
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Old Wive's Tales & Superstitions
Nicepix replied to Nicepix's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Wait until you start seeing the corrosion I regularly take them out of one job and put them straight into another location still wet and claggy. And I have only ever washed my traps once and that was last week so I could work on them. Normally I'll just wipe any wet mud off them before I put them in another run or if the mud is dried I test fire one side of the trap and it all drops off. Never had any corrosion, but they are all stainless so I wouldn't expect any. -
I've sent Flatpack an e-mail summarising what I've said on here; basically going back to their original Stainless Ultimate trap but with a couple of modifications. The mods I've suggested are a thicker retaining wire as per the original Duffus to better contain the extra tension brought about with making narrower traps, and slightly longer trigger loops that are angled forwards towards the trapping loops. I put all my latest batch of Flatpack Ultimate traps through a vice last week to squeeze them down to 65mm across the body rather than the 74mm size they are now manufactured in. The olde
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They've had them in France for years. If you are in France look out for the Detauper in garden shops. It uses a 9mm blank 'petard' and is triggered electronically by a sensor the is placed in the tunnel. I have several customers who have invested in them and then called me out. Its the same sort of punters who buy the Beagle Easy Set mole crap. The obvious problem is that the deeper the mole is, the more earth there will be to absorb the shock wave. I'd also be worried about kids and dogs messing with them and I know of one guy who suffered perforated ear drums when one went off while he was t
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We've all heard them. You won't catch moles if you: Don't wear gloves Don't weather your traps Don't rub soil on the triggers Don't clean soil off the traps before moving them to another area I don't believe them because I have caught moles while not using gloves, with brand new traps straight out of the box, without any soil on the triggers and regularly takes traps up from one job and put them somewhere else still wet and clagged up. But I do have some bug bears that I believe in. for example I hate any grass or leaves getting into the tunnel. What are your do's and don'ts?
