Moles

WWS · Jun 25, 2012

Dang moles are working the yard over, I put down Spectracide in the spring and applied Sevin granuales a week ago hoping to get rid of thier food source, rolled the yard yesterday and this morning new runs everywhere.
What is your seceret to get rid of the little the sob's other than move?
This is tractor related since I used the tractor to pull the roller

ray hofstetter · Jun 25, 2012

Use a bigger tractor an smash 'em? Lol...like you said, get rid of their food source....

mudbudquad · Jun 25, 2012

Roll some Juicy Fruit gum into balls and place in the runs. Do this every couple of days and your problems over.

gtractorfan · Jun 25, 2012

Never had to try it but heard that sticking whirly gigs in the sod make noises that discourages them from hanging around.

LeoinMI · Jun 25, 2012

Battling those moles myself. I got a few using my own method of first rolling down the tunnels,..then I fire up my lawnmower and let it idle over the tunnels. The vibration from the mower gets them moving. I then use my pitch fork and dig them up as I see them move and kill'em on sight. It takes a little patience but they wind up grave yard dead. I know,....I have way too much time on my hands to go mole hunting all day.

mite-help · Jun 25, 2012

borrow my neighbor's cat--[after he cleans up my place] best mouser, ratter, moler I ever saw--

mite-help · Jun 25, 2012

borrow my neighbor's cat--[after he cleans up my place] best mouser, ratter, moler I ever saw--

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2012

I have stood still and waited for movement and dug them out with shovel. Have used mole traps with spikes ( work great once you learn how to use them). I also have a black Lab that gets about 5 of them a season and really does little damage to yard when he gets them.

aFORDable · Jun 25, 2012

They tore my yard up last year. In the fall I got some of the poison look alike worms that are now being sold and put them in the runs. To this date I have not had one mole in my yard. Whether they killed them or they just moved on I don't know but something changed.

TomH in PA · Jun 25, 2012

Blow them to smithereens
Burrow Blaster

SweetFeet · Jun 25, 2012

Husband and son use a spear/fork type trap. First tamp down their tunnels. Then set the trap over the top of the tunnel. When the mole comes through the area again and raises up the soil, it sets the trap off and the mole gets speared.

They have really good success with these traps - and they are widely available. Just make sure no small kids could access the traps when set - as it would spear right through their hand or foot if they messed around with them and released the trap mechanism.

37ar · Jun 25, 2012

go with the juicy fruit method. words on ground squirrels and thirteen line ground squirrels also.

Joe W. · Jun 25, 2012

I can regularly get them with a spear trap that SweetFeet described. But it's a lot more fun to use a method I used many years ago to get rats from under a corn crib - Put a gasoline soaked paper towel in an opening in the run and create an opening somewhere else in the run and put another gasoline soaked paper towel in it. Light one of the paper towels and - boom - it ignites the other one and out runs a hot rat. I've really never cought a mole this way but it has been fun to try. Someone else mentioned they had too much time on their hands - me too sometimes.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 25, 2012

Plant Castor Beans they solve the Mole and Vole problem

Sidekick · Jun 25, 2012

Moles also eat earthworms and lots of them so spraying for grubs really isn't going to do a whole lot of good. And chewing gum does nothing. Getting rid of moles is a war of attrition and trapping is about the only way to get it done. Poisons may or may not work, I don't know as I've never used them but I guess it's worth a try. I usually wait till after a rain and roll their runs shut and then trap the new ones. If you live in an urban area you might eventually get the upper hand but out in the country it's probably a losing battle. I have woods and hayfields all around me so it's impossible to keep ahead of them.

showcrop · Jun 25, 2012

I sprayed milky spores two years ago to kill the grubs that they eat and they haven't been back.

Ferd · Jun 25, 2012

If they are moles and not gophers, the only way to poison them is with "Talpirid" which looks like a worm. Locate a runway with a thin rod and then widen with at least a 3/4" rod or broom handle. Drop a half of a Talpirid "worm" down the hole & plug the hole you just made. Moles eat worms - gophers don"t. Moles also block their runways every 10" or so. Gophers mounds are sort of "U" shaped while moles mounds are round. Best bait for gophers needs to have "Diphacinone" as the poison. Had both at my place.

504 · Jun 25, 2012

20# propane tank and a hose,gas um.(no smoking)

BushogPapa · Jun 25, 2012

If I get a problem with them, I just mow several times with the tractor with Loaded Tires..they GO AWAY Permanent...

Ron..

JerryS · Jun 25, 2012

My sis-n-law's little weeny dog has dispatched 16 moles on my place over about the past 12 months. We know the number because he does it while she's walking him on a leash.

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