How Many Traps Per Hour?

[Nicepix 5,650]

I reckon that I average around 10 to 12 traps an hour in larger gardens or paddocks using a combination of Duffus, Talpex and Putanges. Over 90% of my traps are set in grass. What is your rate of setting traps?

[Matt 160]

It depends on how much activity it is, but generally, 15 - 25 on the farms.

 

Garden jobs tend to be about half an hour, depending on how much yakking the client wants to do.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Its good to talk,...and often a necessary evil....££££...

[bryn27 89]

I reckon as many as I can comfortably manage without racing about 10 -15 probs more but I aint in a rush nowadays

[bryn27 89]

why the line under my text? now it's gone lol.

[Nicepix 5,650]

It depends on how much activity it is, but generally, 15 - 25 on the farms.

 

Garden jobs tend to be about half an hour, depending on how much yakking the client wants to do.

 

My garden jobs out here average between an acre and over three acres - 15 to 40 traps. If you can do them in half an hour I'll set you on.

[Matt 160]

why the line under my text? now it's gone lol.

 

Sorted

 

I expect you'd accidently hit the underline button

[Matt 160]

 

It depends on how much activity it is, but generally, 15 - 25 on the farms.

 

Garden jobs tend to be about half an hour, depending on how much yakking the client wants to do.

 

My garden jobs out here average between an acre and over three acres - 15 to 40 traps. If you can do them in half an hour I'll set you on.

 

 

 

Sorry, I was forgetting that French gardens are the same size as some of our smallholdings!

 

Most of my 'garden jobs' are postage stamp sized and I expect I average three traps on each of those jobs.

 

Happily, most of my work is agricultural these days; I've gone from doing six or so garden jobs a week, to about one or two... it suits me nicely to be honest I'd rather be left to my own devices on the bigger farm jobs than have someone constantly breathing down my neck and pulling traps up

 

My agricultural work has grown through word of mouth mainly if you do a good job, and get on with the farmers, the word soon spreads

[bryn27 89]

Cheers Matt.

[Nicepix 5,650]

On a first visit to a new client I'll catch an average of 9 or 10 moles per job in three visits; Monday to set, Wednesday to check and Friday to lift and finish off. Re-visits can be as few as 4 or 5 traps but I've only once set 3 traps and finished the job in 2 visits. I usually allow for 10 traps per hour.

 

I'd rather do 3 or 4 garden jobs than 1 farm job any day. Clients usually leave me to get on with it and in a lot of cases they aren't in the country when I visit. I get loads of requests from people with lock up holiday homes who have been alerted by their gardener or keyholder to the fact that they are snided with moles. The best was one woman who rang from Kent asking if I could trap the moles from her garden in France while her husband was living there, but without his knowledge, as he is anti-killing.

[bryn27 89]

Just hung me 5th one up this afternoon from 10 traps over 6 days ground has been rock solid here with snow still lying this afternoon.

[tilimangro 1,013]

did a huge garden job a few weeks back

put down about twenty trps in an hour

dont want too many more like that!!

[bryn27 89]

one every 3 minutes, from probing digging out and setting, bloody hell I wouldn't ever want to work at that pace.

[bryn27 89]

Cant imagine how to set a huge garden in such a short period of time.

what was your catch ratio out of traps set?

[Nicepix 5,650]

20 an hour? I couldn't imagine setting traps at that sort of rate.

 

For a large garden job I'll take 10 Duffus, 4 Talpex and a box of Putanges in my basket and carry out a couple of trays of traps and covers and leave them somewhere handy in the garden. Once I'm out of the traps in my basket I'll re-fill from the trays. On a farm job I usually load a fishing trolley with around 60 traps and covers and drag that into the field and keep re-filling from it. With all the walking about to and fro 60 is the maximum I'll put out in a day and that usually takes about 6 hours including stopping for a sandwich and cuppa. That along with the inevitable hour's drive each way is as much as I'm prepared to do in a day.