Bucket Or Trug

[CHEVINFOX 3,537]

Paper boys bag go see your local newsagents https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=newspaper+delivery+bags&oq=newspaper+deli&gs_l=serp.1.2.0l10.18418.49227.0.54199.22.19.0.0.0.3.171.2358.3j15.18.0.chm_lang.2..0...1.1.62.serp..7.15.2060.M9a8LZDkla8

Edited March 6, 2015 by CHEVINFOX

[Nicepix 5,650]

Gardener's trog - cost about a fiver and has done me for almost two years.

 

[J Darcy 5,871]

Nipepix, that might be ok for a garden but for any serious field work it isn't much use. I use a paper delivery bag. Can get about 30 traps in it. Nice and comfy too.....I like the sound of the canvas buckets. I have a trappers bag from the USA and thats great but it isn't quite big enough IMO for moling.

[Mr Muddy 141]

shorter than a gun bag but deeper.

 

Sound like this is the type of thing you're describing bryn; hope that's some help.

I use a duffle bag myself, but it sounds like most of you cover a lot more ground, per job, than I do.

 

http://www.philipmorrisdirect.co.uk/musto-xl-carry-all-bag/product/?gpsr=Carbon&gpsc=XL&utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=organic&gclid=CKLdsfygk8QCFTHLtAodWkYAOg

[mole trapper 1,693]

The Mrs likes to use a rucksack, but I find it too much of a faff. Much prefer the mk1 plastic five gallon buckets, when I was doing farms still I would do the same as Matt and carry two, trouble is with my noodle arms it used to seriously bugger my elbows and shoulders.

The great benefit with buckets is over the course of a season I've probably accumulated 2cwt of prime soil in the bottom of the buckets which I put on my raised beds.

[Nicepix 5,650]

Nipepix, that might be ok for a garden but for any serious field work it isn't much use. I use a paper delivery bag. Can get about 30 traps in it. Nice and comfy too.....I like the sound of the canvas buckets. I have a trappers bag from the USA and thats great but it isn't quite big enough IMO for moling.

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.

[heritage 202]

I'm sure there was a post some time ago regarding the use of American style trappers bags,.... If I remember correctly there were a few made that incorporated sleeves for markers & additional pockets for tools.... I think they were made by Joyce at fairgame bags.

[shropshire mole 190]

i have invested in a heavy duty waterproof canvas bag, capable of holding 30 duffus traps, a seperate pouch for markers, 2 rings to put probe through plus 2 smaller pockets for tools etc. The strap is long enough to either carry or drag the bag along, its reinforced on the base. there is also a very large flap to kneal on

 

Picking up traps at the end is a doddle, pop them in the bag and keep walking nothing to put on the ground, looks the part as well

[earth-thrower 493]

Minds not made up just yet but the old bucket is a chow on, these builder trugs look a better alternative.

I currently use a bucket, bryn27.But i like to use a 'game bag', as well (from new preferably).Obviously, you will be going back to the motor, for a refill,but.If your like me that is,mostly a 'foot soldier'. The 'jack pyke' one done me, a few seasons.It has a wipeable or rinseable interior, as well.

[bryn27 89]

Just swiped me sons big game bag so that will do for now.

[bryn27 89]

tis a jack pyke also funny enough.

[earth-thrower 493]

i have invested in a heavy duty waterproof canvas bag, capable of holding 30 duffus traps, a seperate pouch for markers, 2 rings to put probe through plus 2 smaller pockets for tools etc. The strap is long enough to either carry or drag the bag along, its reinforced on the base. there is also a very large flap to kneal on

 

Picking up traps at the end is a doddle, pop them in the bag and keep walking nothing to put on the ground, looks the part as well

Sounds the part ? would that be one, thats officially marketed, as a 'molecatchers bag' ?

[shropshire mole 190]

Indeed it is, from the nylon and canvas company, not cheap but utterly fantastic, its just great

[bryn27 89]

 

Nipepix, that might be ok for a garden but for any serious field work it isn't much use. I use a paper delivery bag. Can get about 30 traps in it. Nice and comfy too.....I like the sound of the canvas buckets. I have a trappers bag from the USA and thats great but it isn't quite big enough IMO for moling.

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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What do you mean by covers you use,i understand a material to cover the trap run before covering.But why the need to cart more stuff around when your surrounded by cover material?

[Nicepix 5,650]

Because the material I'm surrounded by looks just the same as the other stuff I'm surrounded by. So how would I find the traps?

 

I use 200mm lengths of 90mm guttering. They stack neatly, keep the rain from washing the soil off the traps and are easy to spot so the customer knows where the traps are and I can find them more easily. I put them down on a Monday, check them on a Wednesday and put a handful of soil on each cover so I know which I've checked and which I haven't.