Joshua, I know woodchucks can cause leg injuries to horses; what about moles?

Set here today. This mole's being a nuisance, he beat me last week so I'm having to make a special jo
urney to bring him to task!

Moles can by excessive tunneling...especially when wet

I am seeing lots of tunneling but finding them harder to catch this time of year.

Bobbed another little trap down and caught a weasel while i was moling. I know it's smaller than your weasel, as we call your weasel a stoat over here. Our stoats rarely turn white, in my life i've only see one single white stoat.
The trap, if anyones interested, is whats called a Mk 4...

Roe, they are talking about banning the MK4 for stoats, which i think is a bit stupid.

Got a nice starnose today. I don't think I had any others this year. I find them more wary than easterns.

Yes, and the MK6 too.

do you trap moles for a living? ime a full time mole man in cumbria. i hope this wet warm winter is going to be as good as the last for moles! ime catching more and more every year

Yes. I'm a full time trapper. I'm enjoying myself right now, but it's only the calm before the storm. This time of year I'm just doing 2 or 3 garden jobs and a couple of farms a week. Another month and the phone will go crazy and I won't be able to cope . Going to take on an apprentice this year, if I can find one with the right work ethic.

good stuff..ive just started to get busy now. been a long summer! come christmas and ile be going like (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). you must be down south eh?

I've not stopped all summer. I have a very good round that includes three golf courses, some caravan parks, four schools,couple of sports pitches, many dozens of regular garden work and about 15 farms. Got a meeting at a new school on Tuesday, they want me to do a 12 month maintenance contract. I don't even advertise, it just keeps on coming in. I know I'm lucky.

Busy , busy now!

ust taken on a big contract for a school sports pitch. Problem being that it's walked by hundreds of dog walkers every day. So a nigthmare to trap if you don't want your traps getting pinched. I dare not use any markers at all. Got a good few from the first check today. Here's a couple of piccys of what I'm dealing with...

Still gettin mole calls here...i will still catch moles when ground freezes on top...i just use salt like i do when trappin coyotes...trap goes off

Is the salt for bait?

I'm going to take a guess on this one, since I've never used salt. Is it to keep the ground from freezing so the trap goes off?

see i think this is where americans are wayyyy ahead with trapping! could you elaborate more how the salt is used? is it simply sprinkled on the soil? or mixed in with it?