moles trap -half barrel

[swanseajack 227]

save me going back through all the posts, which are the ones to buy that'll last and do the job.. or which to avoid... ??

 

need a few, bout 50 or so !!

[Axholme Ferreter 0]

save me going back through all the posts, which are the ones to buy that'll last and do the job.. or which to avoid... ??

 

need a few, bout 50 or so !!

 

www.theflatpack.co.uk

[410phil 4]

save me going back through all the posts, which are the ones to buy that'll last and do the job.. or which to avoid... ??

 

need a few, bout 50 or so !!

 

www.theflatpack.co.uk

 

The Flatpack traps are excellent well built and most importantly they have really good strong springs unlike some cheap foreign traps that are on the market.

AVOID THE BIG CHEESE LIKE THE PLAGUE THEY ARE CRAP!!!

Bethel rhodes also do a good half barrel trap.

Cheers Phil

[Dakaras 3]

Another vote for flatpack co here

[nod 285]

Another vote for flatpack co here

and another

[Teesdale-rabbiter 15]

flatpack

[trappa 518]

As above, flatpack.

Agree also to avoid "big cheese", they are low quality though not as low as they used to be, they used to be shockingly bad.

[swanseajack 227]

Flatpack, that's the one... that's where I ordered my first lot...

 

Anway I phoned them Thursday afternoon, told Christian I was in a bit of a pickle and needed fifty traps asap, he got them out same day and yup they were delivered this afternoon at 1.30ish!!! Game on!!!

 

Top bloke, top traps!!!

 

100+ acres hasn't been touched in 14 years, every field is like this or worse...

 

[Steve Albano 21]

Nice pictures, Jack. It always amazes me how much damage moles do to fields in the UK. We see a lot of mole damage in residential gardens, but moles really just aren't an agricultural pest to speak of here in the states. Nothing like what they are over there.

[swanseajack 227]

had five moles so far, got all my traps down today, finding it a bit hard due to the weather and the ground drying up, the moleys just dont seem to be travelling about, are they inactive due to the heat ??

 

had one place on the farm that's very wet and peaty, the fecker managed to spring all three traps I laid there, my guess is because it's so soft they pushing all the earth before them.. there were two mole hills on top of the traps... so I've tried it a different way, I've cut into the runs, with a large blade as not to diturb the ground, and squeeezed them in tight, hopefully this might work ???

 

wrong time of year to be moling ??? that's a question for the experts ??

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I was having trouble with our dry sandy soil caving in last week, needs a bit of rain on it to make it easier and bring the moles up in the soil a bit more round here

 

OTC

[iluvmarcus 23]

i was just going to ask that question . do they seem to go deeper when weather gets really hot?

advise would be gratefull

[410phil 4]

During the hot weather as the top layers of soil start to dry out the worms move deeper down into the soil structure therefore the moles follow. I personally think that deeper tunnels are more structurally sound than surface tunnels and don't need as much maintenance and this is possibly why we don't see such high levels of mole activity during periods of hot weather.

As for times of year for moleing I think most folk trap between October and March before the breeding season starts.

I am not an expert but I do own and run a mole control business and do very well from it.

There is a fantastic book called "The Mole" by a guy called Keith mellanby which is fantastic its show his study of moles in a man made tunnel system and explains about the life cycle and everything you could ever want to know about moles and well worth a read.

All the best 410Phil

[swanseajack 227]

During the hot weather as the top layers of soil start to dry out the worms move deeper down into the soil structure therefore the moles follow. I personally think that deeper tunnels are more structurally sound than surface tunnels and don't need as much maintenance and this is possibly why we don't see such high levels of mole activity during periods of hot weather.

As for times of year for moleing I think most folk trap between October and March before the breeding season starts.

I am not an expert but I do own and run a mole control business and do very well from it.

There is a fantastic book called "The Mole" by a guy called Keith mellanby which is fantastic its show his study of moles in a man made tunnel system and explains about the life cycle and everything you could ever want to know about moles and well worth a read.

All the best 410Phil

Time of year, methinks the job I'm doing at the moment shoulda been done in December..... 2005 they've not been touched for 14 years and believe me, their everywhere, she's pulling her hair out, so I explained the bit about them going deeper and they wouldn't be easy to clear, there's molehills popping up everywhere, so I laid 65 traps between yestday and today, some were easy, most were in hard clay and hard to find the tunnels... few of where I laid today were (or seemed) easy enough, just have to see in morning...

[John Keswick 119]

As for times of year for moleing I think most folk trap between October and March before the breeding season starts.

 

 

 

Business is business, there is no closed season on moles...

 

I will trap them whenever someone pays me to do so.