Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/13/16 09:46 PM
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A job I did last week at a home I caught two star nosed. Set up a new house yesterday and caught an eastern today. Homes were less than a mile away didn't know the star nosed where that common pretty cool stuff all with the no mols. Be intrested to try the other two brands. Learning a lot about trapping the little fellers it's like blind setting for a coon almost if ya find a good trail.
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/24/16 02:21 PM
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bob...your population is extremely different than what we have here...i have caught over 9000 moles in my career and the average of 3-5 moles per acre is the norm...rarely do i exceed that and the way it has been this year i am taking 2-3 moles out of a 1 acre lawn and no more damage comes in for a few months....
What surprises me about Pennsylvania is that the mole pop where you are is vastly different than where rick shadel is
Just night and day difference between your moles where you are and the moles i deal with here
I do one on one instruction here for guys that want to learn moles...the last 2 been from ohio and kentucky and their mole population is similar to mine....i really wonder if you have a different subspecies of the eastern mole
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/24/16 04:19 PM
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Bob,i been catching a lot more moles this year also out of my yard...57 so far...best before that was 32 and all of them in main tunnels from the woods line coming in. I did a yard a few weeks ago that was 1/2 acre and caught 35 out of it...I would have guessed 10 to 15 would have been it, doubles a lot. So far since March-18 i'am over 400 moles,all are Eastern Hairy Tailed Moles, that what we have here. I also set about the way you said you do between 20 to 50 sets, I like to hit them hard right off the bat. Some of the well defined highways I may put 2 sets/4 traps in the 1 run. Seems to me in the last 3 to 5 years they have really been increasing in #'s.
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/24/16 09:29 PM
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i really wish we had moles down here in the numbers you fellers have up north. the most I have got out of one yard here is 9. after that everything quit for a while.
if it walks swims or flies im after it
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Re: mole traps
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05/24/16 11:03 PM
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I reckon it would be like the armadillos down here. you can catch whats there now and give it a month or so and more move back in. the key like you said is making the customer understand that when these are gone it just opens up there yard for more to move in. I have a few properties ( 300 to 600 acres ) that are eat up with armadillos. have them on a contract. 7 to 10 days trapping each month. we usually trap between 5 and 15 each month but this month we have caught 31 in 10 days. lots of young ones.
if it walks swims or flies im after it
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/25/16 07:41 AM
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For an example of damage to mole ratio Golf course i trap....caught 2 moles here and damage stopped...both moles were caught opposite ends. I havent had new activity since there in 3 months 3 moles here in this country 1 acre yard on first check...been 2 months..no more new activity
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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05/25/16 08:25 AM
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If I would charge a per mole fee I would be a wealthy man . I do get the rare occasional job that I only catch one mole and the client insists there must be more. However, 2-3 checks later with no more catches and no more visible activity you know the property is clean until the next invader. Just how it goes with mole behavior. We all know how much damage and tracking one mole can do if it is left to its own devices unrestricted to go about their business. Then add that daily behavior to a couple of years of tunneling and digging deeper runs with resulting mounding etc. and you can accumulate quite a bit of damage that the avg. consumer doesn't really comprehend very well. Josh you can move up here seasonally and sell your per mole fee on your jobs, get rich and move back home to clean up what you have there later in the season. You would have to sell your O/S traps and convert to Albano traps because you wouldn't have enough room in your truck to carry all the traps you would need to set up your jobs. I can carry a few hundred Albano traps in 2 - 5 gallon buckets with very little space and weight. Plenty to do 3 - 4 jobs a day. If you were taught my system you would sell all your O/S traps and it would open your eyes.
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Re: mole traps
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06/04/16 09:33 AM
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You guys want to get yourselfs a few Talpex exported over I reckon....
What doesn't kill us makes us stranger...
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Re: mole traps
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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06/04/16 11:53 PM
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Josh you can move up here seasonally and sell your per mole fee on your jobs, get rich and move back home to clean up what you have there later in the season. You would have to sell your O/S traps and convert to Albano traps because you wouldn't have enough room in your truck to carry all the traps you would need to set up your jobs. I can carry a few hundred Albano traps in 2 - 5 gallon buckets with very little space and weight. Plenty to do 3 - 4 jobs a day. If you were taught my system you would sell all your O/S traps and it would open your eyes. Bob...will agree to disagree with that...i have successfully caught alot of moles in the nomol, albano, spear, and oos. I am Extremely accurate with the oos and if u had the size of mole we do here i could teach you my system and u would get rid of your albanos and go strictly to oos. Having talked to and trained a fella (that is on here regularly) about mole set up, locations, etc...given that he has the same species of mole you do...the hairy tailed which is smaller in size...i can understand why the albano is a better trap as it really is built for your size of mole. Since he has been back to ohio he has told me that moles are still tunneling through oos with no trap closure...which tells me he has a smaller mole. I am catchin alot of juvanile moles right now no problem with oos
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Re: mole traps
[Re: bdrooks]
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06/05/16 10:22 AM
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I respect yours as well...99% of the time a mole goes thru one of my oos i have that mole...rarely do i have a miss. I modify my traps so they are on a hair trigger and literally takes me 2 seconds to do when i pull the trap out of the box
Nice thing about this debate is we have 2 guys that can smack the crap out of moles using 2 diff types of traps
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