Mole catchers with their own hands

Gardeners, on whose site moles have settled, are often lost, what to do with the invaders. Moles - animals are useful in nature, but in large quantities cause severe damage to the garden. It is impossible to catch them, as they move underground. While digging in one corner of the garden, the mole has already reached the opposite. Poison moles very difficult. These are obligate predators, consuming only live food.A rainworm, stuffed with poison, may die before the animal finds it. Therefore, only traps from moles and scare devicesthat may be purchased or homemade fixtures.

What are the traps

Mole trap can be of two types:

• lethal;
• live trap.

Most of the lethal traps are of industrial manufacture, since their manufacture requires factory details of a specific shape, size, and industrial processing.

By lethal include

• "Trap scissors";
• mole trap;
• plunger trap;
• wire loop;
• device piercing the body of the animal from above.

Of all these devices with their own hands the easiest way to make the last. And the most effective and easy to install is a trap. But to make a trap for moles with their own hands on the model of the factory, the average summer resident will be difficult. Where it is easier to make an analog for catching a live animal.

The wire loop can be made independently. She strangles the animal when trapped. The diagram is shown below.

Mole trap

On a note!

Almost all these traps, except the trap, do not work well when stones or earth hit moving parts.

"Forks"

The latter, the simplest device to manufacture, looks like a fork with a metal spatula welded to it. This is an analogue of this type of industrial trap.

The summer residents make these “forks” on their own. There are no drawings. And this is good, as it is easy to kill a mole, it is harder to strain and take it away. Still, the moles benefit the ecosystem more than harm.

The extreme teeth of the "fork" are the "legs" of the trap that hold it upright. The working part is average. It is a hollow tube into which a harpoon is inserted. On the harpoon there is a spring, which is fixed to the harpoon and the tube with its ends. When the trap is alerted, the spring stretches, and when it descends, it is compressed, and the harpoon punches the animal's body with force.

"Trigger" is the same "spatula, securely fixed. It has a groove that allows the harpoon to be held up. When a mole throws earth on a spatula, it moves and the harpoon falls.But such a trap will require serious skills in working with iron and the ability to weld parts, so it makes sense to consider simpler traps that can be used even for single women at a time.

Mole trap

Feedback

I tried to put a trap from the store in the form of a pipe. Moles are not so bad, bypass. I found on YouTube video of how to make a mole trap in the form of a fork with a harpoon. Carry with the manufacture of two days. So little that it was difficult to install, so that it worked fine. Moles are also different. There, the principle is based on the fact that a trap is triggered when the animal throws the earth on this trigger paddle. And different moles throw the earth at different distances. Tortured to change the distance of the "blade" from the trigger device. Yes, go and go chasing these moles. Every time you have to re-enter this trap. I ran for one copy for two weeks, I rummaged the beds not worse than him. He spat and went to the dug-out banks.

Maxim, with. Zhuravkovichi

The disadvantages of all such mechanical traps are that they have to be reinstalled every time, digging in a new place. When land or stones hit moving parts, traps do not work correctly. When one mole is caught, these traps no longer work until they are re-installed.In the trap can catch as many animals as they fit into the container. Yes, and kill the animals just for the fact that they lead their normal life, wrong. It was not they who invaded our home, it was we who were destroying their habitat.

Live traps

In the manufacture of such mole-traps with their own hands, only one quality is required: no fear of the moles. The most popular among the people is a plastic water pipe trap.

Trumpet

Zhivolovka "pipe"

Why the name “Solomon's trap” stuck to this pipe - a mystery. But make it easy. For manufacturing will require:

• water pipe;
• tin can with both bottoms;
• a piece of wire;
• drill;
• scissors for metal or who do not mind blunt.

The diameter of the pipe must be exactly the size of the mole path. Usually it is about 6 cm.

How to make:

1. Cut a piece about 50 cm long from the pipe. On both sides of the segment, on the side that will be the top, drill 2 holes each. Holes are needed to secure the wire.
2. From the tin can cut bottoms.
3. The door in height must be greater than the diameter of the pipe, as it is installed with an inclination inward.The “side view” diagram shows this. To secure the door to the wire also needs some allowance. Accordingly, the height of the door will not be 60 mm, but 70-80 mm. The width of the door is cut a little narrower than the diameter of the pipe.
4. Bend the upper edge of the door around the wire.
5. After that, remove the wire and assemble the entire structure, successively threading the wire into the hole in the pipe, mounting on the door and the second hole in the pipe.
6. Bend the outer ends of the wire so that the door does not break at the wrong moment.

To install the pipe, you need to open the mole path and replace the tunnel dug by the beast with your own one from the pipe. Open carefully to cause the least damage and not to frighten the animal. Better to do it with a garden shovel.

The pipe is installed in the course. From above, so that the sun does not exactly light up the tunnel, close the trap with a piece of dense material and cover it with earth.

On a note!

The pipe must be periodically checked. If you do not want to kill the animal, you need to check it every 12 hours, otherwise the mole will have time to die of hunger. For more effective catching, you can put a bait of earthworms into the mole trap.

Plastic bottles

Bottle trap

Very fast and cheap way to make an analog of the Solomon's trap. Arranged bottle trap on the principle of top for fish.

To make a mole bottle trap from a plastic bottle, you will need 2 or 3 1.5 l disposable containers. For a one-sided version, 2 bottles are needed, for a two-sided one - 3. In a one-sided version, the bottom of the main bottle is left in place. These are all differences, so you need to consider the bilateral option.

1. From one bottle make the "body" of the pipe, cutting off the top and bottom.
2. From the other two, the upper parts are needed, cut far below the beginning of the narrowing to the neck.
3. The neck itself is cut off too.
4. In the remaining part, ribbons are cut into the narrowing part up to the expanding part. After that, the finished parts are tightly pushed into the main bottle, as shown in the diagram.
5. In the mole course set the same way as the pipe. Plastic slippery and do not need to fasten the inserted parts. The animal, creeping along the way, without problems will push the "ribbons" and fall into the trap. Get back he can not.

Trap holes

Trap holes

This will require a 3-liter jar with a sufficiently wide neck, so that from there you can remove the mole that is squeezed in a fist.The bank is buried below the mole path so that its neck is flush with the floor of the tunnel. Digging a hole should be carefully, so as not to bring down the course. The bank is placed on the bottom of the pit and sprinkled, so that there are no holes between the banks and the neck. Top move closed plywood.

On a note!

Not only moles fall into such a trap, but also mole holes rodents.

The advantages of live traps are that the animals that are very useful in nature have a chance to stay alive. The downside is the need for frequent testing and release problems in the wild. Mole must be carried away from the site, otherwise he will return. But you can kill an animal, just have to do it manually.

The minus of trapping the pit banks is that the animals will have to be pulled out of it with their hands in order not to spoil the high-quality trap. But if they manage to die of hunger, there will be no problems with their removal from the can.

Feedback

I tried to set homemade pipe traps, but either my hands were crooked, or the moles were scenting something. None got caught. I did not believe in the bank, but I tried it out of despair. It turned out the most effective of all tried. She buried her under the mole course, covered it with earth and stuffed everything tightly.On the sides of the excavated entrance, she placed plates to narrow the passage to the “usual molehill”, otherwise a niche in this place was obtained. Top covered with plywood and sprinkled with earth. Only the first can of the week caught 3 moles and voles. Now I have buried a few more cans in other places.

Elena, Yegoryevsk

Three shovels

The way to catch moles from a series of curiosities and for those who have nothing else to do in the country. It can also be attributed to traps, although more correctly to ambush. This method requires 3 shovels. We stick the first one across the mole course and trample the ground on both sides. Now we wait for the animal to appear. His appearance will be noticeable by the stirring of the earth.

When the animal appears is unknown. If we are lucky and the mole has been found, we stick a second spade behind the mole. Now, with the third shovel, we quickly dig up the animal, before it has time to dig another turn.