Mole Traps

[Alex Harker 3]

Hi I was just wondering the best place to buy a mole trap and the method of how to use one? Never tried catching moles before and the lady on my permission wants them gone.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Le Braconnier 49]

Hi I was just wondering the best place to buy a mole trap and the method of how to use one? Never tried catching moles before and the lady on my permission wants them gone.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

There are lots of threads on 'How to' if you use the search facility. The main areas to concentrate on are how to find the tunnels and how to set a trap without disturbing the more run too much.

 

As for traps you need to let us know how big the area is that you will be treating and whether you are intending to do any other trapping other than this one job. You will have to keep going back to trap the moles that re-populate the areas that you clear.

 

If you are just looking at one job and the problem area is around one acre or less then three or four traps would do you. For that purpose I'd get three tunnel traps and one claw trap from https://www.theflatpack.co.uk/merchantmanager/index.php

 

That would be enough to treat that area. You will also need a probe and a spade or trowel. Again, for a one-off job you could get away with using a large flat blade screwdriver as a probe and a garden trowel, the flat type, not the rounded type. Ordinary spades will be too wide.

 

Don't be tempted to buy cheap traps off eBay or Amazon. It will make your job a lot harder if you don't buy the right traps at the start,

 

Best of luck.

[Probuk 93]

 

Hi I was just wondering the best place to buy a mole trap and the method of how to use one? Never tried catching moles before and the lady on my permission wants them gone.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

There are lots of threads on 'How to' if you use the search facility. The main areas to concentrate on are how to find the tunnels and how to set a trap without disturbing the more run too much.

 

As for traps you need to let us know how big the area is that you will be treating and whether you are intending to do any other trapping other than this one job. You will have to keep going back to trap the moles that re-populate the areas that you clear.

 

If you are just looking at one job and the problem area is around one acre or less then three or four traps would do you. For that purpose I'd get three tunnel traps and one claw trap from https://www.theflatpack.co.uk/merchantmanager/index.php

 

That would be enough to treat that area. You will also need a probe and a spade or trowel. Again, for a one-off job you could get away with using a large flat blade screwdriver as a probe and a garden trowel, the flat type, not the rounded type. Ordinary spades will be too wide.

 

Don't be tempted to buy cheap traps off eBay or Amazon. It will make your job a lot harder if you don't buy the right traps at the start,

 

Best of luck.

Rubbish...I catch moles with traps that cost £1.99, its not how much you pay for them, its how you set them in the ground. Check out my thread...moleing for air gunners.

 

Marty

[moxy 617]

Cheap chinese shite for £1.99

 

Inferior galv, weak and flimsy wirework & wont last a season. Weak springs which get weaker with every set.

 

No to mention the suffering you can cause with trap that will hold and not kill in the instance.

[Probuk 93]

I got a load of chinese shite as you call them and there still fine this morning, and killing just fine..second season aswell. Iv earned a few quid with them.

[moxy 617]

Good for you fella. I guess chinese QC has improved.

 

But i doubt it very much

[Probuk 93]

You know how it is, look after the pennys and the pounds will look after themselves

[Le Braconnier 49]

You know how it is, look after the pennys and the pounds will look after themselves

Well, my landlord bought me some cheap Chinese traps and they didn't last a month. Not only that they needed serious tweaking and even cutting of the latch wires to make them anything like humane and reliable. Then, as Moxy rightly states; the wires bend and the spring becomes weak, they also verdigris to an alarming extent meaning that the trigger mechanism becomes harder to trip.

 

If you get on with them then that's fine. But from my own experience with them compared to better made traps I reckon that you will be nowhere near as efficient as if you used better traps. So my motto is; Buy cheap and buy twice!

[Outofnowhere 93]

At least you got your kit fellas the chinese company I ordered from failed to deliver the goods three times the lying cheating low down dirty dogs..... NEVER again will I order from them. It wasn't mole traps but hey

[Thequietman 3]

Bought a hundred traps of e bay 6 years ago thought id had a bargain. looked at the picture of the trap, all looked great when they arrived where absolute shite the springs where weak the trigger hook wire soft. they had cut paste a picture of a flatpack trap, buyer beware!!!!! If your only messin about at it they'd probably catch the odd one but when you make your living by them quality definitely pays. quality usualy comes at a price. atb

[Probuk 93]

I guess it depends what traps your buying. I use scissor type traps, A Fenn, Talpex and i have a few cheap scissor type that i got off ebay witch work just fine and this is there second season. I use them in places that i know have a good chance of getting found by unwanted eyes. Id rather lose £2 rather than £6 and as iv said, there strong and do the job just fine.

Im a self tought mole catcher so i havnt been brain washed by money making organisation, iv never been on a course, im not a registerd mole catcher, i learned by trail and error. Infact if id listened to half the crap some people had told me i would have given it up as a bad job, no offence to people i dont know.

The only advise i ever took was from a farmer in the lake district. He asked me what i used a troul or a spade for.? His advise was just use a knife, iv never looked back. My favourate trap is the A Fenn a nice compact trap that needs no tweeking or cutting of anything and i catch just fine.

Marty

Edited February 28, 2013 by Probuk

[raynardman 519]

I buy from Primrose of london, they've got a web site, discounts for quantities.

[Probuk 93]

I buy from Primrose of london, they've got a web site, discounts for quantities.

Thats where i get my talpex..but iv seen them on ebay 10 for £19.99 + £7.00 p&p exactly the same.

Edited February 28, 2013 by Probuk

[earth-thrower 493]

I guess it depends what traps your buying. I use scissor type traps, A Fenn, Taplon and i have a few cheap scissor type that i got off ebay witch work just fine and this is there second season. I use them in places that i know have a good chance of getting found by unwanted eyes. Id rather lose £2 rather than £6 and as iv said, there strong and do the job just fine.

 

Im a self tought mole catcher so i havnt been brain washed by money making organisation, iv never been on a course, im not a registerd mole catcher, i learned by trail and error. Infact if id listened to half the crap some people had told me i would have given it up as a bad job, no offence to people i dont know.

 

The only advise i ever took was from a farmer in the lake district. He asked me what i used a troul or a spade for.? His advise was just use a knife, iv never looked back. My favourate trap is the A Fenn a nice compact trap that needs no tweeking or cutting of anything and i catch just fine.

 

Marty

I can relate to alot of what you say, in your second paragraph.I also like the fenn scissor,and i used it exclusively for a few years.Handy wee trap.What kind of capture rate do you achieve with it?,i usually only averaged about 50%.

[davedavedave 69]

taplons???