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How deeo do moles go

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Hose delivers 10 gallons a minute. One hole never fills with water. Most go all the way to China.
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Don't think you can drown them. The diagrams I have seen of their runs indicates they go down and then back up creating an air pocket for their nest. They say moles can't handle a well timed oxygen/acetylene explosion in their tunnel though.
Mole killer
 
Are you trying to get a mole or a gopher? If its a mole you won't get it that way but if it is a gopher it takes a lot of water and fill hole water fast. You have to have enough water to fill hole before soil soaks it up.
 
If it were that easy to drown them, don't you think that they would drown in a heavy rain?? They must have some kind of drainage or they would not survive the rain.
 
What I found with blasting is that because moles are territorial, the neighbors move in after the kill and you are back where you started.
Sure is fun though, ain't it!!
I switched to the little windmills that they sell in the backs of seed catalogs and at Harbor freight. Thought they would be snake oil but danged if they don't work!
 
Definitely moles. Rainy times mole runs are just under sod. Now they have gone deep, making large hills. Most hills fill up, even run to another hill. Last hill must be bottomless. Easy to trap when they are under sod. Impossible when they go deep, like now.
 
I don't think you can drowned them out because they can push dirt in behind themselves and block the hole.
 
Yes, those little windmills do work. looked across the fence to neighbors yard one day, see those things whirling in the breeze. cured his problem, cuz they moved to my place.
 
I think moles are smarter than some humans. They make their homes below froze line and stay cool in summer and figure out how to make their places flood proof.

I think I just found one of their under ground homes. My ground doesn't drain that well and I put 100's of gallons in the hole. Now the moles have running water. Wish I had a camera to see how civil engineers do all this.
 
Geo,

I have had good luck with the mole-eliminator step on trap. Probably wouldn't work as well seeing as your problem critter runs deeper than what I am used to.

D.
 
I used about every trap on the market. The victor trap from Rural King works the best for me. But nothing will work when the moles go straight down in summer and winter.

The mole just laughed at me, put the mud out the 2 holes I fill I filled in with water.

It would be neat to invent something you dump in hole add water and it expands filling the hole and is mole proof.

I'm just the idea guy, someone will have to come up with the expanding mole eliminator.
 
darn,wife used what I use up.i got a cone shaped can of poisoned peanuts from the feed store.you use the cone and poke in their runs ,drop 4 or 5 peanuts in each hole.my back yard was full of moles last year.this year seen 2 places and my wife just said she did use the last of them.monday to do list get more peanuts n post a photo.
 
Try it and tell me if it works. I leave moles I trap in the run so the worms can eat them. Other moles using the same run just go around he dead guys.

Best is to just use victor traps when they are just under the sod. But moles have gone deep, possibly so have the worms this summer.

Very ambitus hard working creative moles.

Even if you got every mole in your yard, their cousins next door will take over their runs. Mole runs are like underground interstates they share.

Can't win, hard to stay even.
 
When we were renting a hovel as first married, kitchen sink could not handle much water. We had a compact washer that could run out a bunch of water. Hooked a garden hose on a utility bucket. Ran hose out the door and into a mole hole. No matter how hard we pushed that washer never filled up those mole holes.
 
only thing ive found to work is propane and fire,seal the back door and blow them up, and water the water is in the form of a 500 gallon tank and a 4 inch hose and butterfly valve they cant get away from that much water all at once
 
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