home made mole traps

[moley 115]

granda bob , is the man that made them in cumbria and has shown quite a few folk how to do it,dunno if he was the first to make them with gas pipe ,

when i first met him , he wouldn,t pay silly money for mole traps when me could make them on winters nights for nowt,i have a double spring one off him that can catch two moles and the single spring single catch ones he favoured

the biggest trouble with them is they are time consuming to set and bob was pretty good at using them and he could only manage to set around a day, once i showed him how i set half barrels, he started using them more and realise he could set 200+ on good ground in a day he moved over to using nothing but half barrels,i sold him sum at cost , just to help him out , when i sold up all together , he got around 200 older traps off me and is still using them now, real nice fella is bob and always has a funny tale to tell

 

i never made any ian, i have caught with them , but i try most traps i get for my collection, even caught in one of those monster traps called talpirid

[fishfish 17]

cool trap!

[j j m 6,589]

yes the old methods are the best

[Steve Albano 21]

yes the old methods are the best

 

No disrespect intended for the old timers, but I really can't agree with that statement. In my opinion a competent professional trapper who really knows how to tune and use Duffus, Talpex, or other modern traps, can run circles around anyone using the old methods. Not to say the old methods don't work, just not as efficient as modern traps, in my opinion.

[Fidgety 8]

yes the old methods are the best

 

No disrespect intended for the old timers, but I really can't agree with that statement. In my opinion a competent professional trapper who really knows how to tune and use Duffus, Talpex, or other modern traps, can run circles around anyone using the old methods. Not to say the old methods don't work, just not as efficient as modern traps, in my opinion.

 

Hmmm, thats open to question.....many a good tune played on an old fiddle!

 

I'd like to see some made with proper clay pipe as per the original Saxon design.

[moley 115]

yes the old methods are the best

 

No disrespect intended for the old timers, but I really can't agree with that statement. In my opinion a competent professional trapper who really knows how to tune and use Duffus, Talpex, or other modern traps, can run circles around anyone using the old methods. Not to say the old methods don't work, just not as efficient as modern traps, in my opinion.

 

Hmmm, thats open to question.....many a good tune played on an old fiddle!

 

I'd like to see some made with proper clay pipe as per the original Saxon design.

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

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this is an old thread but hears a coulp of picks of a mole trap i made, and yes bob did show me how to.

i saw bob on the weekend he looks well it was nice to see him

[longnetter 32]

I know this chap as Bob the mole...used to see him at the midland making purse nets on Simon Whiteheads stand...really nice ol' guy.

 

Your right Steve Albano the mole does have to enter the trap quite a way but the killing loops are at the end of each trap .

These are the traps that Mr Duffus designed the half-barrel trap around

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

I know this chap as Bob the mole...used to see him at the midland making purse nets on Simon Whiteheads stand...really nice ol' guy.

 

Your right Steve Albano the mole does have to enter the trap quite a way but the killing loops are at the end of each trap .

These are the traps that Mr Duffus designed the half-barrel trap around

yeh most people know him as granda bob since the wee un arrived, i used to go to ferret shows with hima alot he always wore wooden soled clogs? the mans my hero lol