Moles

[squirrelhunter]

I heard they avoid strange smells like oil and grease,that's why you should never touch the part of the trap that goes into the run and wash it off with the garden hose after each catch. I'll just use the trap,it works great if used right.

[davers]

Mar 6, 2017 11:56:39 GMT -5 squirrelhunter said:

I heard they avoid strange smells like oil and grease,that's why you should never touch the part of the trap that goes into the run and wash it off with the garden hose after each catch. I'll just use the trap,it works great if used right.

My Grandfather used a hoe and shovel to dig-out and kill moles.  He also used poison peanuts placed in their runs.

[omegahunter]

I just heard yesterday that I have to stop in at Mom and Dad's this evening and set one of those scissor traps for them! We have a spike trap at home. Never can catch one...I set the trap and the little buggers leave the yard!

[moose1am]

To catch mole in a spike trap or any other scissor trap is pays to watch the mole runs and find the MAIN tunnel. They have a main tunnel and then lots of side tunnels that are not used as often in their search for food. They live in the deeper tunnels. This is the area where you see the dirt piled up next to the hole. You know them when you see them. Stay out in the yard and watch the runs when moles are most active. Tamp down the mole mounds with your feet and watch for that run to be reopened the next day. Those are the really active runs and that's where the mole traps should be placed. This is all in the directions of the traps that I purchased. I've caught lots of moles using this method. The key or trick is to find the runs that the most moles are using. One or two moles can really tear up a yard.

Once while watching a TV show on WNIN (great local channel) they had a guest speaker. He was a master Gardner from England and claimed that moles hate the smell of castor oil. He takes human hair (get from the barber or beauty shop) and run the hair in some castor oil. Castor oil comes from the Castor bean and they are poisonous. So it would make sense that the moles would not like to come in contact with the castor oil. They get the human hair on their fur and take the castor oil back to the den where momma and the kids are staying. Momma mole kicks him out of the den. This is suppose to make the moles leave your yard and go to your neighbor's yard. LOL I'm not sure if it works or not. I tried it one time in my yard as my next door neighbor's wife was a hair dresser and she saved some hair for me to use. They sweep up lots of human hair off the floor of their beauty shop on a daily basis. I also cut my own hair (give it a buzz) from time to time and save the hair. Castor oil is cheap and it's worth a try.

My father once had a huge garden and was an organic gardener. He would have dump trucks of horse manure to the garden by this horse guy and would spend the early spring spreading the horse manure over the entire garden area. After 20 years the ground is so rich that he could grow anything. He also used to go to Owensboro, KY and buy bags of phosphate rock. He read a lot and was a school teacher so he had the summers off unless he had a summer job when I was younger. But as he got older he would take the entire summer off. Of course the money use to run low by the end of the summer. But the school teachers took a weekly cut in pay in order to spread that money out though the summer months. So they got the same amount of money each year but it was spread out over the entire year and they didn't get it all in the 9 months that he actually was teaching. That helped him be able to garden and fish in the summer months when the kids were out of school. So he was really big into gardening. So we had a lot of moles as the ground was very rick in nutrients. He also used to raise earth worms to sell to the bait shops so the soil had lots of worms in it. Worms are attracted to good feeding areas and there were always a good supply of earth worms out in the garden area. Dad would have the guy across the street bring his tractor over and till up the ground in the spring until the ground got softer and he could do that job with his Troy Built Rear Tined tiller. Dad worked very hard out in his garden. The day before he had a massive stroke became paralyzed he planted 60 tomatoes and drove into the ground sixty 7ft long tomato stakes with a 6lb short sledge hammer. I could barely do that with 10 tomato stakes. Dad was in his late seventies when he had his stroke which took him to a strong older man to an invalid. He was taken care of at home by my mom for 8 more years. She worked hard and had three hernia operations taking care of dad. He was totally paralyzed on his left side and could not even sit up on the side of the bed by himself. The ER people allowed him to lay on a gurney in the ER for 2 hours and did NOTHING other than let him lay there. I think a nurse came into the room about two times in that entire time. That was back in the early 1990'a before Stroke became an immediate treatment protocol. Today they will do a cat scan right away and then give blood thinners if the stoke is caused by a blood clot in the brain. If it's broke blood vessel instead of a clot they can't give the blood thinners. That's why it's critical to see what's going on inside the brain and use the CAT scan to find out. The last time I thought I was having chest pains they gave me a CAT scan in the ER. I was lucky in that it was just pleurisy pains and not a plugged up heart artery. But without the CAT scan I would not have know. EKG was good but I had pain for two days. The last time I had pain like that was way back in the 1909's and it turned out later that I had had a heart attack. I had another heart attack in 2009 and the surgeon told me after he opened me up for open heart surgery and had looked at my heart that I had two previous heart attacks in the past. I figure that the day I had chest pain for two day and didn't got to the ER that it was one of those previous heart attack. Now if I feel pain in my chest I pop a nitro glycerin pill and if the pain does not go way in 15 minutes I will take another pill. If that doesn't help ease the pain then I go to the ER. That's what I did the last time. I waited about 3 or 4 hours after taking two nitro pills and was still having pressure pain in my chest and back. So I drove myself to the ER. They let me sit there for a long time after first sending in a team of 4 people to get my EKG. That was unremarkable so they all left me and then the ER doc ordered a CAT scan for me. They tired to get the IV started and failed two times with the two ER nurses. So they called in this guy NICK from IV Therapy. He failed three more times trying to get the IV needle/catheter into one of my veins using a portable Ultra Sound Machine to help him see my veins in the arm. I went up to the CAT scan room upstairs and they ended up pulling out Nick's faulty and leaking IV and started one in my Left arm. The CAT scan nurse got the needle in the first try. I told my family doctor to never send me back to the ER at Gateway Hospital Again. My mom ended up in there ER one other time and they failed to get the IV in her arm. The nurse was trying to pull the IV needle out and stick it back into the vein and ruptured the vein in my mom's right arm. He arm was black and blue from the shoulder to the wrist. She sued the hospital and that nurse over that incident even though I told her not to. She went downtown and talked to one of the judges who noticed her in the clerks office. He even encouraged her to file the law suit in small claims court. Mom got them to send in their team of people to the court room and they won the case. But mom was glad that she sued them. She made them pay out a lot of money to hire a lawyer and bring all those people to the court room that day and that was enough for mom. She didn't want the money but she wanted to haul their asses into court. Now mom has been back to that hospital several other times since and they treat her like a Queen. I guess they know here by now and don't want to mess with her. I worked in the Hosptial ER one time and was an EMT for ten years so I know how the system works. The hospital employees know who the people are and who to treat with respect and who they can deal with later. If you have money or a stature then they will make sure that they do their best for you. If you are a bum off the street they will still treat you but they won't give you all the respect that they give to a poor bum off the street. Now that's been my experience and I'm not really saying that all nurses or hospital workers are like that. But there are a few out there that will do that. And those were the ones' I ran into or worked with and saw how they felt from the inside. Hey hospital workers get together and talk shop and the nurse talk about their patients to each other a LOT. I was married to a nurse for ten year and went to a lot of parties where all my wifes coworkers got together to party and talk shop. I use to sit nearby and listen to what they said about their patients. They are people after all and some patients are harder to deal with than others. So at the parties the nurses felt free to let the stress out after a hard days work at the Hospital. As am EMT and Firefighter I understand as we did the same thing after medical runs and fire runs. We would got to the pub after a fire dept meeting and drink beer and eat some thing around 10 pm. That was always fun. Fried pickle, beer and a burger after a long 3 hour training session or office meeting. And we talked about previous fire runs and the people we encountered. We shared a lot of funny stories among ourselves. So I understand when Nurses talk shop. They talked a lot of shop about me when I was a patient for 37 days in the hospital. They use to see me walking in the hallways and would ask, "Are you still here?" LOL Most of the people who had open heart surgery left the hospital in less than 3 or 4 days and I was still there on day 36. They finally were happy to see me up and walking after two treatments of IV antibiotic therapy where each treatment lasted 10 days each. So twenty of those days I was getting a IV with very powerful antibiotics to cure an infection that I got during the operation. I almost died and my kidneys shut down and I gained about 60 lbs. of water weight. I was swollen and almost died from a systemic bacterial infection. I looked like the Pills Berry Dough Boy or the Michelin Man in those old commercials. My testicals were swollen up too. They were the size of baseballs or maybe softballs. I could not walk due to the swelling. My legs were swollen and my feet were so swollen on the top that I could not get my shoes on. After I got out of the hospital they send me home and had a nurse come to my house several days a week to check my vitals. They sent me home with a phone modem and a scale that I had to hook up the system to my phone so that they could get my weight remotely. I had to get up at 7 am every day and weigh myself on those scales and then take a lot of medications just to stay alive. I walked a lot after that and got up to two miles a day and some times I would walk 3 miles and then got back down in weight. I've since stopped walking as much as my feet have bad tendons and I hurt my back a while back and now I'm on back pain meds which don't really help. My front left thigh has a burning sensation or pain when I stand up too long in one spot. And now even when I'm sitting down at times it get pain in my leg. My planter tendons were damaged when I worked construction carrying too heavy of a load all day long. I took Advil to stop the pain and didn't realize that my tendons were getting torn. They still bother me from time to time. I have to wear inserts in my shoes to stop the pain. When I walk I get out of breath these days even when only waking around in the yard picking up tree limbs. I can't do what I use to do. I can't get down and back up as easily as I use to. Its' hard to walk. I have to force myself to walk. I can't push the lawn mower like I used to. Even though it's self propelled. But I can ride the riding lawn mower and that's how I cut my grass these days. Life is only good when I go to the shooting range and shoot my semi automatic pistols. I use to fish but the last time I went out I tripped and fell forward and almost hit the deck. I was fishing by myself and got scared. What if I had fallen down and broke a bone or hit my head and was all alone out there on the water with no one around? And it was getting harder and harder to pull the boat out of the garage and hook it up to the truck. The ramps that I use are bad and have holes in the dirt at the end of the ramp. That's how I hurt my back. I backed down to far when the water was low on the ramp one year and got the trailer tires in the hole. When I pulled the trailer out of the hole the axle broke in half in the middle. I didn't know it and was driving down the road with the tires tilted inwards at the top and they were burning the rubber off the tires where they rubbed against the inside of the metal fenders. Two guys at a cross road saw me and saw the smoke coming from my trailer tired. I was wearing a radio head set and listening to some music and thus could not hear the tires scraping the inside of the fenders. They flagged me down. I pulled over off the side of the road an they helped me get the boat lifted up off the trailer so that we could pull the middle of the axle up with a strap that was tied to the axle and the boat trailer. But in the process of lifting the boat up off the trailer by about 6" I compressed the vertebra in my back and that's been a problem ever since. That night I was in extreme pain and the next day I could barely straighten up straight. I walked bent over for a half hour before I could stand up right. That was a day I won't forget. Be careful when lifting too much weight. To this day I still have pain in my left leg. I'm on some medicine that is suppose to help the pain but it's not really working that well. So now I spend more time on the computer than outside. Which is not like me. I was always an outside type person when I was younger. I would not even want to come inside to eat supper as I was too busy playing baseball, basketball and football with the neighbor hood kids. I'd be out shooting hoops until after dark almost every night when it was not freezing cold. I was a EMT/Firefighter. I played Ice Hockey, I was a scuba diver and a swimmer and was pretty good on the Three Meter Diving board too. That was my past time in the summer months. I stopped playing baseball and hit the diving boards all day long and well into the evening hours. I swam a mile a day one summer when I was working as a life guard and Water Safety Instructor. Those were good days.

And I have also killed a lot of moles with those spike type traps. I know that predator trappers will boil their traps in hot water for 5 minutes and then wear protective gloves to keep the human smell off the traps. That makes sense to me as mole use their noses to find food, earth worms and other grubs in the ground.

Find the main tunnel and put your traps there. You will get more moles that way. That is the key to killing them and ridding your yard of moles. Now that's not to say that they won't move back in from your neighbor's yard if your yard has rich ground and lots more food than your neighbor's yard.

These days I spray with a herbicide to prevent crab grass and dandelions in the year. But that also will kill the bugs too. So the less worms you have the less the moles will have to eat. Wear gloves when applying or handling those herbicides. I didn't wear gloves a few times and now have developed a painful rash on my finger tips. The skin is splitting and I have eczema so bad that I can't touch things without pain. I'm on a oral steroid now to try to clear that up. And have to use Euchring Cream on my fingers three of four times a day. It's been two days since I saw a doctor and she gave me a prescription for the oral steroid. I hope it helps as I'm tired of my finger tips bleeding.

[squirrelhunter]

Caught mole #2

[Deleted]

I have a new mole. Set scissor trap out yesterday. Not many tunnels, mostly dirt mounds. Need to get that female, before the little ones are there.

[duff]

Mar 12, 2017 9:48:03 GMT -5 moose1am said:

To catch mole in a spike trap or any other scissor trap is pays to watch the mole runs and find the MAIN tunnel. They have a main tunnel and then lots of side tunnels that are not used as often in their search for food. They live in the deeper tunnels. This is the area where you see the dirt piled up next to the hole. You know them when you see them. Stay out in the yard and watch the runs when moles are most active. Tamp down the mole mounds with your feet and watch for that run to be reopened the next day. Those are the really active runs and that's where the mole traps should be placed. This is all in the directions of the traps that I purchased. I've caught lots of moles using this method. The key or trick is to find the runs that the most moles are using. One or two moles can really tear up a yard.

Once while watching a TV show on WNIN (great local channel) they had a guest speaker. He was a master Gardner from England and claimed that moles hate the smell of castor oil. He takes human hair (get from the barber or beauty shop) and run the hair in some castor oil. Castor oil comes from the Castor bean and they are poisonous. So it would make sense that the moles would not like to come in contact with the castor oil. They get the human hair on their fur and take the castor oil back to the den where momma and the kids are staying. Momma mole kicks him out of the den. This is suppose to make the moles leave your yard and go to your neighbor's yard. LOL I'm not sure if it works or not. I tried it one time in my yard as my next door neighbor's wife was a hair dresser and she saved some hair for me to use. They sweep up lots of human hair off the floor of their beauty shop on a daily basis. I also cut my own hair (give it a buzz) from time to time and save the hair. Castor oil is cheap and it's worth a try.

My father once had a huge garden and was an organic gardener. He would have dump trucks of horse manure to the garden by this horse guy and would spend the early spring spreading the horse manure over the entire garden area. After 20 years the ground is so rich that he could grow anything. He also used to go to Owensboro, KY and buy bags of phosphate rock. He read a lot and was a school teacher so he had the summers off unless he had a summer job when I was younger. But as he got older he would take the entire summer off. Of course the money use to run low by the end of the summer. But the school teachers took a weekly cut in pay in order to spread that money out though the summer months. So they got the same amount of money each year but it was spread out over the entire year and they didn't get it all in the 9 months that he actually was teaching. That helped him be able to garden and fish in the summer months when the kids were out of school. So he was really big into gardening. So we had a lot of moles as the ground was very rick in nutrients. He also used to raise earth worms to sell to the bait shops so the soil had lots of worms in it. Worms are attracted to good feeding areas and there were always a good supply of earth worms out in the garden area. Dad would have the guy across the street bring his tractor over and till up the ground in the spring until the ground got softer and he could do that job with his Troy Built Rear Tined tiller. Dad worked very hard out in his garden. The day before he had a massive stroke became paralyzed he planted 60 tomatoes and drove into the ground sixty 7ft long tomato stakes with a 6lb short sledge hammer. I could barely do that with 10 tomato stakes. Dad was in his late seventies when he had his stroke which took him to a strong older man to an invalid. He was taken care of at home by my mom for 8 more years. She worked hard and had three hernia operations taking care of dad. He was totally paralyzed on his left side and could not even sit up on the side of the bed by himself. The ER people allowed him to lay on a gurney in the ER for 2 hours and did NOTHING other than let him lay there. I think a nurse came into the room about two times in that entire time. That was back in the early 1990'a before Stroke became an immediate treatment protocol. Today they will do a cat scan right away and then give blood thinners if the stoke is caused by a blood clot in the brain. If it's broke blood vessel instead of a clot they can't give the blood thinners. That's why it's critical to see what's going on inside the brain and use the CAT scan to find out. The last time I thought I was having chest pains they gave me a CAT scan in the ER. I was lucky in that it was just pleurisy pains and not a plugged up heart artery. But without the CAT scan I would not have know. EKG was good but I had pain for two days. The last time I had pain like that was way back in the 1909's and it turned out later that I had had a heart attack. I had another heart attack in 2009 and the surgeon told me after he opened me up for open heart surgery and had looked at my heart that I had two previous heart attacks in the past. I figure that the day I had chest pain for two day and didn't got to the ER that it was one of those previous heart attack. Now if I feel pain in my chest I pop a nitro glycerin pill and if the pain does not go way in 15 minutes I will take another pill. If that doesn't help ease the pain then I go to the ER. That's what I did the last time. I waited about 3 or 4 hours after taking two nitro pills and was still having pressure pain in my chest and back. So I drove myself to the ER. They let me sit there for a long time after first sending in a team of 4 people to get my EKG. That was unremarkable so they all left me and then the ER doc ordered a CAT scan for me. They tired to get the IV started and failed two times with the two ER nurses. So they called in this guy NICK from IV Therapy. He failed three more times trying to get the IV needle/catheter into one of my veins using a portable Ultra Sound Machine to help him see my veins in the arm. I went up to the CAT scan room upstairs and they ended up pulling out Nick's faulty and leaking IV and started one in my Left arm. The CAT scan nurse got the needle in the first try. I told my family doctor to never send me back to the ER at Gateway Hospital Again. My mom ended up in there ER one other time and they failed to get the IV in her arm. The nurse was trying to pull the IV needle out and stick it back into the vein and ruptured the vein in my mom's right arm. He arm was black and blue from the shoulder to the wrist. She sued the hospital and that nurse over that incident even though I told her not to. She went downtown and talked to one of the judges who noticed her in the clerks office. He even encouraged her to file the law suit in small claims court. Mom got them to send in their team of people to the court room and they won the case. But mom was glad that she sued them. She made them pay out a lot of money to hire a lawyer and bring all those people to the court room that day and that was enough for mom. She didn't want the money but she wanted to haul their asses into court. Now mom has been back to that hospital several other times since and they treat her like a Queen. I guess they know here by now and don't want to mess with her. I worked in the Hosptial ER one time and was an EMT for ten years so I know how the system works. The hospital employees know who the people are and who to treat with respect and who they can deal with later. If you have money or a stature then they will make sure that they do their best for you. If you are a bum off the street they will still treat you but they won't give you all the respect that they give to a poor bum off the street. Now that's been my experience and I'm not really saying that all nurses or hospital workers are like that. But there are a few out there that will do that. And those were the ones' I ran into or worked with and saw how they felt from the inside. Hey hospital workers get together and talk shop and the nurse talk about their patients to each other a LOT. I was married to a nurse for ten year and went to a lot of parties where all my wifes coworkers got together to party and talk shop. I use to sit nearby and listen to what they said about their patients. They are people after all and some patients are harder to deal with than others. So at the parties the nurses felt free to let the stress out after a hard days work at the Hospital. As am EMT and Firefighter I understand as we did the same thing after medical runs and fire runs. We would got to the pub after a fire dept meeting and drink beer and eat some thing around 10 pm. That was always fun. Fried pickle, beer and a burger after a long 3 hour training session or office meeting. And we talked about previous fire runs and the people we encountered. We shared a lot of funny stories among ourselves. So I understand when Nurses talk shop. They talked a lot of shop about me when I was a patient for 37 days in the hospital. They use to see me walking in the hallways and would ask, "Are you still here?" LOL Most of the people who had open heart surgery left the hospital in less than 3 or 4 days and I was still there on day 36. They finally were happy to see me up and walking after two treatments of IV antibiotic therapy where each treatment lasted 10 days each. So twenty of those days I was getting a IV with very powerful antibiotics to cure an infection that I got during the operation. I almost died and my kidneys shut down and I gained about 60 lbs. of water weight. I was swollen and almost died from a systemic bacterial infection. I looked like the Pills Berry Dough Boy or the Michelin Man in those old commercials. My testicals were swollen up too. They were the size of baseballs or maybe softballs. I could not walk due to the swelling. My legs were swollen and my feet were so swollen on the top that I could not get my shoes on. After I got out of the hospital they send me home and had a nurse come to my house several days a week to check my vitals. They sent me home with a phone modem and a scale that I had to hook up the system to my phone so that they could get my weight remotely. I had to get up at 7 am every day and weigh myself on those scales and then take a lot of medications just to stay alive. I walked a lot after that and got up to two miles a day and some times I would walk 3 miles and then got back down in weight. I've since stopped walking as much as my feet have bad tendons and I hurt my back a while back and now I'm on back pain meds which don't really help. My front left thigh has a burning sensation or pain when I stand up too long in one spot. And now even when I'm sitting down at times it get pain in my leg. My planter tendons were damaged when I worked construction carrying too heavy of a load all day long. I took Advil to stop the pain and didn't realize that my tendons were getting torn. They still bother me from time to time. I have to wear inserts in my shoes to stop the pain. When I walk I get out of breath these days even when only waking around in the yard picking up tree limbs. I can't do what I use to do. I can't get down and back up as easily as I use to. Its' hard to walk. I have to force myself to walk. I can't push the lawn mower like I used to. Even though it's self propelled. But I can ride the riding lawn mower and that's how I cut my grass these days. Life is only good when I go to the shooting range and shoot my semi automatic pistols. I use to fish but the last time I went out I tripped and fell forward and almost hit the deck. I was fishing by myself and got scared. What if I had fallen down and broke a bone or hit my head and was all alone out there on the water with no one around? And it was getting harder and harder to pull the boat out of the garage and hook it up to the truck. The ramps that I use are bad and have holes in the dirt at the end of the ramp. That's how I hurt my back. I backed down to far when the water was low on the ramp one year and got the trailer tires in the hole. When I pulled the trailer out of the hole the axle broke in half in the middle. I didn't know it and was driving down the road with the tires tilted inwards at the top and they were burning the rubber off the tires where they rubbed against the inside of the metal fenders. Two guys at a cross road saw me and saw the smoke coming from my trailer tired. I was wearing a radio head set and listening to some music and thus could not hear the tires scraping the inside of the fenders. They flagged me down. I pulled over off the side of the road an they helped me get the boat lifted up off the trailer so that we could pull the middle of the axle up with a strap that was tied to the axle and the boat trailer. But in the process of lifting the boat up off the trailer by about 6" I compressed the vertebra in my back and that's been a problem ever since. That night I was in extreme pain and the next day I could barely straighten up straight. I walked bent over for a half hour before I could stand up right. That was a day I won't forget. Be careful when lifting too much weight. To this day I still have pain in my left leg. I'm on some medicine that is suppose to help the pain but it's not really working that well. So now I spend more time on the computer than outside. Which is not like me. I was always an outside type person when I was younger. I would not even want to come inside to eat supper as I was too busy playing baseball, basketball and football with the neighbor hood kids. I'd be out shooting hoops until after dark almost every night when it was not freezing cold. I was a EMT/Firefighter. I played Ice Hockey, I was a scuba diver and a swimmer and was pretty good on the Three Meter Diving board too. That was my past time in the summer months. I stopped playing baseball and hit the diving boards all day long and well into the evening hours. I swam a mile a day one summer when I was working as a life guard and Water Safety Instructor. Those were good days.

And I have also killed a lot of moles with those spike type traps. I know that predator trappers will boil their traps in hot water for 5 minutes and then wear protective gloves to keep the human smell off the traps. That makes sense to me as mole use their noses to find food, earth worms and other grubs in the ground.

Find the main tunnel and put your traps there. You will get more moles that way. That is the key to killing them and ridding your yard of moles. Now that's not to say that they won't move back in from your neighbor's yard if your yard has rich ground and lots more food than your neighbor's yard.

These days I spray with a herbicide to prevent crab grass and dandelions in the year. But that also will kill the bugs too. So the less worms you have the less the moles will have to eat. Wear gloves when applying or handling those herbicides. I didn't wear gloves a few times and now have developed a painful rash on my finger tips. The skin is splitting and I have eczema so bad that I can't touch things without pain. I'm on a oral steroid now to try to clear that up. And have to use Euchring Cream on my fingers three of four times a day. It's been two days since I saw a doctor and she gave me a prescription for the oral steroid. I hope it helps as I'm tired of my finger tips bleeding.

Man that is a string a mile long all stemming from moles. Impressive!

[Deleted]

Moles are back in my yard. Found tunnels this evening in front and back yard. Got the front yard mole. Moved trap to the backyard.

[parrothead]

Good luck none for me for a while. I found out if it is wet take two thin as you can bet pieces or wood and put in front and back of trap to keep it from sinking when you step on it. With the ground as wet as it is it makes it hard to set.

[Jamie Brooks 1John5:13]

Mar 6, 2017 11:56:39 GMT -5 squirrelhunter said:

I heard they avoid strange smells like oil and grease,that's why you should never touch the part of the trap that goes into the run and wash it off with the garden hose after each catch. I'll just use the trap,it works great if used right.

I bet you're right. I smell like that and they avoid me like the plague.

[Jamie Brooks 1John5:13]

I set a trap, but ran over it with the lawnmower. They seem to have left for greener pastures.

[Deleted]

I found a new one mole trail today and the trap is set.

[jackryan]

Feb 20, 2017 11:17:07 GMT -5 parrothead said:

They are moven again. I have caught 4 in my traps in the last week. 3 over the weekend as I had time to move traps and get them. I am up to 62 with those traps.

I got three in a row before I missed one last week.

[nfalls116]

If you get rid of the bugs you get rid of moles I believe

[jackryan]

Feb 23, 2017 11:28:12 GMT -5 throbak said:

The spike traps work very well when set Right Caught 15 for my neighbor last year ! I'm her new Hero

These are what I use.
www.victorpest.com/sweeneys-mole-trap-by-victor-bs9011-3?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing%20-%20Shopping%20Campaign&utm_term=1100315227138&utm_content=Gopher%20Traps

That video don't show you the 2 things you really need to know to catch moles with it.

I bought two at an auction for $1 a piece. Bet I've killed 20 moles a year with those ever since.

Bend the spikes just a little bit in toward the trip lever.

When you set it in the tunnel, use a spade to toss up and loosen the dirt and step on it a little to flatten it down.

When you put the trap in push it down with it tripped. When it's down all the way operate the spikes a couple times to clear the path they stab in to. Then pull it up and set it.

[jackryan]

May 26, 2017 20:01:44 GMT -5 Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 said:

I set a trap, but ran over it with the lawnmower. They seem to have left for greener pastures.

I painted my traps with blaze orange paint just to avoid that. I also leave the spade stuck in the ground to the side of the run.

[squirrelhunter]

May 26, 2017 20:01:44 GMT -5 Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 said:

I set a trap, but ran over it with the lawnmower. They seem to have left for greener pastures.

I bet your mower didn't like that to well ,luckily the 2 I caught seemed to be the ones bothering my neighbor across the road too, neither of us has seen any since.

[jackryan]

I've been using my yard roller on the target ranges every week after I mow it and along the creek bank to kinda firm that up a little.

Really makes the active mole runs stand out and easy to find.

[Jamie Brooks 1John5:13]

I dug up a big mole when I was disking the food plot. The vultures appreciated it.

[schall53]

May 26, 2017 20:01:44 GMT -5 Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 said:

I set a trap, but ran over it with the lawnmower. They seem to have left for greener pastures.

Been there, done that.