Den N Ms

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I had ordered me 6 new mole traps last Friday.I was tired of setting my old harpoon stile traps and not catching very many moles.Sometimes they would sense the trap was there and just go around it.So I found a new style of mole trap online and ordered 6 Trapline Products premium quality stainless steel mole traps, to try out.Any way they came about Tuesday in the mail.So Wednesday it was 65 here so I thought I would set a couple of them.Checked the two that I had set Thursday afternoon and had caught 2 large male moles(start of breading season).I haven't checked them yet today.They are made with stainless steel and excellent quality.Easy to set too!So I think there will be a lot fewer or no moles in mt yard this year.
Trapline Mole Traps
 
(quoted from post at 15:17:28 01/30/15) Very impressive. Where did you order them from? Link?

Where did you order them from? Link?
Geo The link is at the bottem of my first post.

Geo-TH,I just came back in the house from checking thr traps .Caught one more very large male today!They are doing a good job for me,I am impressed with them.It only got up to 48 here today,and I didn't think they would be moving much today.
 
Den N Ms,

I used worms, poisons, irritants, grub killers, professional pest controls, etc., none of these methods gave me the satisfaction of having a single dead mole.

I then bought the Mole eliminator, around 30 bucks. Easy to set, and have caught at least 12 moles in a single summer.

I am unsure of the ease of the traps you suggest, but the eliminators set above ground using your foot. Easy, quick, deadly.

I am not associated with any company or product, just stating what worked for me.

D.
 
I'm bad, I went there but didn't see price or where
to order. I'll look harder. Thanks, I will get
some. What do you do with your moles. Do you have a
good receipt? Make something with the fur?
 
To add to this I have used the trap line mole traps. Set according to the YouTube video and you will get them. I have some and they work great.
 
I ordered 4 of them off ebay. $35.49 including shipping. I like using pay-pal, plus I have everything set up on ebay, very easy to order.
 
Well I will check that out too ! The original 'spike down' traps worked pretty good. Made in nearby town of Vicksburg,Mi. then they were 'smalled down'.. less spring throw, less stake in the ground and stakes closer together. moles front feet could feel the stakes and back up ! (imop)

Now anyone know a good way to get those 'star-nose'type that only make a dirt mound ? (dynamite)
 
Please be sure to let us know how these traps work for you. I've got 50 acres of moles, I mean pasture, that drives me nuts. We train horses for jumping and the mole hills are a problem for us. I bought one of those rodenators that detonate a mixture of oxygen and propane in the burrow and, while seeing the burrow blow up is cool, I don't think it is very effective at killing moles. If you have good luck with those traps I'll buy a dozen and see how they work for me.

Anyone else with great advice for killing moles please chime in as well.
 
I've good success with a victor trap. Not a plunger type. More like crab claw. One time while setting the trap, something slipped and my pinky got pinched in trap. Then I had to figure out how to get pinky out with using just one hand. Pinky hurt for a long time, good thing nothing was broken. I've had about 90% success with trap. But the moisture content of the dirt plays a major part. Too dry of sand, no luck. If clay is too wet, not good either. Sometimes the trap gets the mole and sometimes the trap gets you.
victor claw trap.
 

The moles are there because there are grubs in the ground. Get rid of the grubs, and the moles will go away.
There's a spray for the grubs.
 
I'm not trying to be insulting or combative, but I think that's a
terrible solution on a number of levels. First, moles eat all
kinds of things - earth worms, cranefly larvae (these are
probably the grubs you are referring to), various ground
beetles that end up in their burrows, etc. I'm not interested in
trying to kill all of those things to eliminate moles - just not a
good tradeoff.

Second, while the area where we jump horses isn't used for
pasturing horses, it is surrounded by many acres of pasture.
I'm not going to spray insecticide on areas we graze because
of potential impacts on horses, and without spraying the
actual pastures spraying the other would probably be
irrelevant.

Third, I'm a beekeeper among other things and don't regard
large scale application of insecticides as a good thing or at
least not as a first choice option. Too much potential impact
on many beneficial insects as well as my own bees.

In a commercial agricultural production field spraying for
grubs might be the best approach. It just isn't in my
particular situation, and in reality mole control is almost
always going to be a cosmetic/annoyance issue rather than a
real damage issue and doesn't merit large scale application of
pesticide in my personal opinion.
 
Yes, I have a Rodex 4000 if I remember correctly (got it wrong
in my other post). Have had it for about 6-7 years and use it
occasionally, but I've never felt that it was all that effective
against moles. Perhaps against things like prairie dogs it
would work well. The machine is essentially a propane and
oxygen cutting torch setup with a special wand end on it.
The wand provides the mixing of the gases and then the
spark to ignite it. The Rodex company went out of business
because the two founders ended up in some kind of a feud
and one of them opened up a competing company
(Rodenator).

Thoughts on using the machine: Getting the gas mix right is
fairly difficult - much more difficult than you would expect. I
found that, I think because of back pressure in the burrows, it
was important to have the pressure regulators set evenly.
Otherwise the back pressure would prevent the flow of gas
from the regulator that was set lower. The settings that the
company provided did not work well. Also, the ignitor
mechanism died after a few years and by then the company
had gone out of business. My solution was to buy a
rechargeable stun gun off the internet for about $25 and
retrofit it into the Rodex. It worked much better than the
original.

Sometimes when blowing up the burrows I would get a whole
gallery of like 50 linear feet of burrow to blow up and heave
up out of the ground. That was very satisfying. What wasn't
satisfying is coming out the next day and seeing new mole
activity in that same area. My impression is that at least the
moles we have out here in the Pacific Northwest are traveling
long distances in their burrows and so it is very difficult to
ensure that you actually killed the mole because they may be
100 feet down the line when you are treating a certain spot.

If you want to try this I would just build my own using a
propane and oxygen torch. Build a 6' long wand with two
pipes to deliver the gases down into the burrow with flash
arrestors on them, and then buy a cheap stun gun and
modify it so that the spark is down where the gases mix (you
will need some heavily insulated wire for this because of the
high voltage). It's definitely not worth the insane money
those companies want for you to buy their unit. In the units
they sell they use one pipe from the handle to deliver the
mixed gas. That is nice because it allows one valve to start
the flow of gas for both propane and oxygen, but I never
liked the idea of the mixed gas in a steel pipe. That said, the
pipe has never blown open so I guess the pressure generated
isn't high enough to be dangerous (they have their flash
arrestors up on each of the lines going into the mixed pipe
rather than at the end of the pipe where the gas flows out not
the burrow). The valve they use is exactly the same type of
valve you would use on a blowgun tip for your air line in your
shop.

Let me know if you have more questions.

I'm leaning towards the traps now because I want to see
dead bodies. At least that way, when I see more activity I'll
know it's a different mole rather than thinking I just didn't
succeed in killing him.
 

I just don't understand all the expense and bother of trapping moles when you can just spray milky spores or any of the other natural grub deterrents. I spent about twenty minutes on it and it was good for five years.
 

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