Re: Moles starting to move....
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09/23/15 03:16 PM
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Nice Starting to surface again here too
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Re: Moles starting to move....
[Re: roe]
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09/24/15 08:39 PM
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Roe: Just can't get those duffus trap to work for me. I maybe getting to much back fill of sand when I cover the traps. Just need to work with them more. I tuned them be for using them. Just a different learning curve.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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09/24/15 09:01 PM
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How do you trap shrews? We have tunnels all throughout our yard but shrews are so small I don't know if a mole trap will work on them
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/01/15 04:24 AM
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This is a bit of an unusual trap we have here inthe UK. I have a feeling that it catches more gardeners than moles! Not very well made and not really humane either. And the price is not far off $20, so you woudln't want to lose them!
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/23/15 11:07 AM
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Done six jobs today. The last one on some arable farmland. This soft earth can be a real nightmare to trap. However, This is the stuff I learnt on and so i managed to catch a few. One mole sure makes a lot of mess on the arables. I put an X where i caught the mole. This trap was set at a pinchpoint. The mole aint living in the field, he's living in the solid ground under the fenceline.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/24/15 04:08 PM
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Seeing more mole damage than in late spring. Ev.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/24/15 07:16 PM
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I've a place to trap this week where i generally catch a white mole every year. Thats a nice surprise!
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/29/15 11:50 AM
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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!
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/29/15 05:15 PM
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I am seeing lots of tunneling but finding them harder to catch this time of year.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/29/15 05:40 PM
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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...
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/29/15 06:24 PM
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Roe, they are talking about banning the MK4 for stoats, which i think is a bit stupid.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/30/15 03:39 AM
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Roe, they are talking about banning the MK4 for stoats, which i think is a bit stupid.
Yes, and the MK6 too.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/30/15 05:34 AM
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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.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/30/15 08:49 AM
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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?
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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10/30/15 09:20 AM
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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.
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Re: Moles starting to move....
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12/10/15 06:13 AM
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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 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?
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