Bucket Or Trug

[mazperks 18]

I also use covers over my traps. It stops the sheep putting their feet in and disturbing the set.

Mine are white hard plastic boxes, 8"x41/2"x21/2" deep so easy to spot, no markers required.

These would probably not be practical bulk- wise if setting large numbers, for you full time molers, but it works for me.

[myersbg 1,385]

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

Just rang up about one, £130 plus shipping, designed by the great man from the BTMR

[shropshire mole 190]

Dont know who designed it, all I know it is expensive but its a taxable item.

 

it is certainly the best mole trapping bag Ive had, looks good and does the job, no complaints from me

[earth-thrower 493]

Dont know who designed it, all I know it is expensive but its a taxable item.

 

it is certainly the best mole trapping bag Ive had, looks good and does the job, no complaints from me

Dont doubt it, but it is, expensive ? lol

[bryn27 89]

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.

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Wasn't a dig by any imagination,just why carry gear around to cover traps when your in a field full of grass that can be sliced and pancacked with your fist to make a cover. I've had the odd marker knocked over but never a trap fired by sheep. that's why I use a marker dot 2 m away to the north of every trap.

Edited March 11, 2015 by bryn27

[bryn27 89]

Mind I'm 3 traps down so the metal detector will be out on Saturday to find them.

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

so ime the only one who uses a rope then? i can get 40 or more traps on it and its free...........

when ime not useing the quad that is

[shropshire mole 190]

PK if it works for you, carry on

[Nicepix 5,650]

Mind I'm 3 traps down so the metal detector will be out on Saturday to find them.

You've just answered your own question

 

The covers are useful in several ways. Firstly I can find them, and the customer knows exactly where they are so no traps will be run over by a lawn mower. They keep the rain off the traps so no soil is washed down off them. Sometimes I'll place Putanges under a clod of turf and mark it with a spot of orange paint or a small plastic flag, but in most jobs the covers are used over every trap. Makes things a lot easier in large gardens and paddocks.

[bryn27 89]

No molls I'm missing and they were back filled. Not sure I'm that bothered about finding them again lol.

[bryn27 89]

 

Mind I'm 3 traps down so the metal detector will be out on Saturday to find them.

You've just answered your own question

 

The covers are useful in several ways. Firstly I can find them, and the customer knows exactly where they are so no traps will be run over by a lawn mower. They keep the rain off the traps so no soil is washed down off them. Sometimes I'll place Putanges under a clod of turf and mark it with a spot of orange paint or a small plastic flag, but in most jobs the covers are used over every trap. Makes things a lot easier in large gardens and paddocks.

 

Fair play for small areas, but I've got acre after acre to cover on foot so no good to me.