GET RID OF VOLES, RATS AND MICE OUTDOORS IN A WEEK 

I totally agree with you I'm 67 years old and found RU-vid 3 years ago and it has enriched my life I have learned so much from the good people who post videos and thank you for posting yours

Totally agree. I love YT and I know I have saved thousands upon thousands of dollars since I began watching DIY videos. I am always thankful to those willing to share DIY videos. Y'all are the best!

I make it a point to learn something new from RU-vid every day. It's incredible.

Man, I think you’re awesome! I loved the trap you shared and just hearing you talk to us. You seem like a great contribution to you the human race sir!! You take care of yourself!!! Thank you very much!!

I too have learned SO MUCH via RU-vid and, here I am, learning again, watching your video about the vole solution. My wife and I are under siege by voles, and I'm going to get some payback now! Thank you for sharing, sir. Godspeed to you and yours.

I just want to say that, thanks to you, I got rid of a nest of voles that tore my beautiful lawn apart in less than a month. Don't believe some of the YT vids that sale voles only eat roots. I got the fish flavored bait. It did take about a week to ten days before they chomped on it. I almost gave up as none of the other "cures" were working either. Then, BOOM! I first noticed the grass was growing back. Went and looked at the traps and, surprise, had to refill them.

I agree I've learned a lot on RU-vid my self. I'm 70 and no matter your Age you can always learn. Vole bait station is a great idea . I'm making one myself after your video. Thanks for the lesson

Yes. I also made these pvc traps years ago and they do work. When the neighbor across the road cut his fields the field mice would cross the road to my property I didn't know someone else knew about these bait feeders. Thanks for sharing.

This works! Had to overcome some pesky raccoons by lengthening the 2" horizontal tubes and then hose-clamping the trap to some rerod stakes hammered into the ground, but within a week all the voles are gone. I used the apple flavored bait - and they couldn't eat it fast enough. Have not seen any mice or chipmunks around either. I filled all the old vole holes and none have been re-opened. Not only will this save my vegetable garden this summer, but my lawn and bushes once there's snow on the ground.

OMG this is one of the best things I've seen in long time . Got voles tearing my yard up. Going to the hardware store tomorrow. Thanks 👍!!!!

I have saved so much and learned even more . My sister in law throws away a 60inches flat screen I got it soldered key points on the coolers and boards all off utube and it haven't missed a beat since.

Very informative! I’ve been forced to use poison for years and the drowning bucket too. Fall is coming and it’s on!

You know you are amazing guy, out of all the help videos you are the only one that encourage others to youtube

We need more you tubers like you!

I agree with you about the value of RU-vid. I have learned very much from others like me who know a trick, a hack, a detail, or something handed down from their grandparents. I do not like everything about anything, I guess, so I will not complain about those things that do not affect the good I am getting. It does seem that ordinary people who make videos to share with others do as great a service as making college available to us all. Thank you for your contribution as well.

You are encouraging and pleasant to listen to and watch. Approximately a minute and a half in and I pressed “Subscribe.” The term “bush hog” is a new one for me. 😀

Looking through the comments, if you could EASILY do this, it would be great... Put all the pieces parts on a flat surface (table, workbench, etc.). Do a dry fit assembly (or even a real one if you want) to demonstrate the process. Some DIYers won't need it, but less experienced folks could definitely benefit from it!! This is a great video!! Thank you!!

Thank god for RU-vid. I have been in an epic battle against voles. I am going to drive 25 miles to town today to get supplies. I watched most of my winter garden just disappear one cabbage at a time down their holes. Pest control is so expensive but necessary.

Thank you. I like watching these types of videos the most. Yes, I’ve learned a lot from them also.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This video was so helpful. I’ll be making some “feeding stations” soon!

THANK YOU!!! We don't live in the country but we do have a vole issue!! There are woods across the street from us and lots of perenials that are getting killed and damaged. We have lilac bush, mums, hostas, and peonies that have all been killed or extreme stunting of growth. They even run across our patio if we happen to be sitting there and not talking. I will be building these this weekend and I am gonna save our landscape!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for the info. Cut the grass shorter on the first cut and I seen their tunnels and a lot of them. So now I have another project.

Thanks for taking the time to share what you know. Much appreciated.

My hubby made four of these and I’ve gone through about 20 baits so far. The first ones got moldy before they were gone just because we had nothing but rain the first six weeks of spring. Now they’re eating them up. It’s awesome. This is the ONLY thing that has worked. None of those stupid traps work at all! My final straw was them killing my young Ginkgo tree that I had grown for 10 years. I had NO idea I had a problem until then. My hostas all disappeared this summer too. I’m done. I don’t care if I kill every mouse or vole in the area! 😡😡 thank you!!!

Ive been making these for the last 2 years and they work very well for voles.

Thank you so much for sharing what you've learned with us. I have a field mice problem I'm dealing with. Didn't think I had a problem until the other night when I discovered they've gotten into my stash of rice. That made me very angry because food prices certainly aren't coming down any time soon and these things are as stealthy as they come. I never knew they could be so smart. I've got traps set all over the place and it's as if they just sit there and laugh at them whenever they come across one. I had one lick sticky peanut butter clean off of one of them WITHOUT tripping the trap at all. They seem to know to avoid the tried and true method that worked for generations until now. So, long story made short, I went on RU-vid looking for answers and I came across your fine video sir! I like the trap. It's affordable, reloadable, and effective. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience tackling these crafty critters. Have a wonderful and blessed day. 😉

I'm currently attending you tube university. Taking classes on sketching and just about anything DIY. Thanks for the Info!

This is a great idea! This is the first bait station I’ve seen like this. I’m definitely going to be building a few.

OMG thanks so much for sharing this. They are DESTROYING my yard and grass near my pond. I will be making some of these for sure! I realized the same thing as you about RU-vid. Love the platform and just started making videos myself. Thanks again.

A simple double fence, one 4 feet high and a similar fence inside about three feet inside. Will stop most any deer. Instead of wire on the inside fence I use white cord or nylon twine, the deer see it and don't want to jump into it.

This guy's 👍 awesome. Love the accent, could listen to him all day, has great sense.

Thanks! And you're right about RU-vid videos. So much free information! Also, it's actually the best source for free movies and vintage TV shows.

This video was a god send. My backyard is rittled with mice and voles. I will make about 5 of these and hopefully this solves the problem

Arkansas has so many critters but we deal with them. Here is a tip I use to keep rabbits and deer plus other things out of my garden. IRISH SPRING SOAP. Get a bunch of bars. Grate them with cheese grater and sprinkle Irish Spring all around and in garden. Deer & rabbit hate the smell we all love so much. Loved you little contraption....awesome video

Best advice for making RU-vid videos. DIY videos are gold.

Thanks for sharing, I love the way you talk......Eddie in central NC

I love your matter of fact approach of putting information. Keep doing what you do. I have just subscribed. RU-vid has taught me how to do so much.

Thank you. This is awesome. Been struggling with voles and now I have a real plan!!

I can't wait to get started using this method. I've been trying to rid our farm of voles for years using just about every method you can think of. This one look's promising.

Great video Arkansas prepper, so the voles reproduce every 21 days! Wow! We have them here too but not for long! Thanks for sharing your video !

THANK YOU !!! My husband made a bunch of these after watching your video. We had an infestation of these little monsters, eating up EVERYTHING from onions Star Gazer lilies, to the roots of Blackberry vines. !!!We tell everyone we can about your design & Ramik !!!

I built a couple traps today. Thanks again, Alan.

Reminds me of the Cotton Gin. Eli Whitney had a patent on it, but the design was so simple, anyone could make one of their own.

Living in Arkansas my entire life, I love listening to us 'xplain thangs. lol! Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for posting this video. I now live out in the country and it seems we have a problem with voles. I searched online for solutions and tried a few things, then came to RU-vid. This is genius! New subscriber, and very grateful for your video.

Good to know, the rats destroyed my garden. I been using 5 gallon bucket traps and have caught several may have to try this one as well. Thanks for the info.

I remember reading that voles love water. I came across an old comment that the gardener put in a preformed pond and it was not quite full, and everyday he found many voles who got in and drowned. This is what I am going to try first. I see how well this would work, but I adjoin state gamelands.

I love you RU-vid, addictive but definitely educational, saves money I agree

I would like to thank you for the information. I have come to a home depot store and purchased the materials to build two voles Traps to kill the once in my 3 acres heaven I have. thank a lot✌️

That’s a great idea, I’m gonna build a couple for around the garage and the house.

To keep your vegetables safe cut a 6” deep by 3” wide trench around your garden and fill it with gravel. It will stop anything from tunneling in. Thanks for your video I am trying to save my dad’s yard from these little stinkers.

That is a cool design. I really like it, good idea.

I take clumps out of my cat box. Put another application when they move away from were you started. I chased them to the neighbors yard.

Done the pipes and tee for years, never thought of the redi rod feeder system thanks. Now I've got roof rats, will set up several these with rods, East monitoring if they are visiting.

I built one of these, same size and shape. Used "One Bite", as the bait and they ate it up too.... Did later find good results as well. 🤟👴

This is amazing. I have a bad infestation in my front yard. I’m going to use this design!

I know this is four years ago but had to say.This bait is AWESOME! I had mice/ rats getting in my shed.This stuff killed them dead.The only thing is the smell when they die.I have another shed they were burrowing UNDER so I dropped the bait in the hole and sealed up the hole. The tuff shed have manufactured run off holes in it at the bottom. They were getting in there to nest so I sealed those holes off.Im telling you most suckers gave me a run for my money lol I know they are sneaky so EVERDAY I look around that shed. Awesome bait its pricey but worth evey penny! I can make a commercial for it😅🤣

Thank you so much. Voles ruined about half our potatoes last year and as we prepare this year I needed a good solution. This is perfect. Just wish I saw this before I went to lowes today, lol.

I like the recommendation to share what you know. Thank you for making this video. You are awesome!

The problem with kill bait is that birds of prey die when they find and eat the dead critters. Is there one that just intoxicates them or leaves them sleepy, not dead?

I have a cure for your deer problem and it won't cost you all that much. Use Irish Spring soap (the original scent) around your property. I had the same problem here where I live in New Hampshire. Deer and many other types of animals hate the smell of Irish Spring. I tale a large bar of the soap, cut it in half, place that half in an old sock, or the bottom part of a panty hose, or you can even use a bird suet basket that you can buy at any Walmart store and place them on a low hanging branch, or in a bush or you can tie them on a stake and stake in in the ground. Place these around your property and you won't be bothered with deer problems anymore. When the soap starts wearing, don't throw it away, just keep adding more soap. I did this to my property and I no longer have deer problems.

Sir, if this works I will owe you a huge reward ! Our garden is infested with Voles ! We can't even grow potatoes or sweet potatoes in the ground anymore. A couple days ago, my husband came in & said , "Look at this !" He was holding an onion with mostly just the green top. The onion bulb was chewed almost off ~ an ONION !!!!!!!!!

We just got a house in the country. Our property is so infested with voles and mice. The mice we are able to get in bucket traps, but not the voles. The voles aren't the least bit afraid of us. They'll walk right past us while we are outside. My kids grab a large stick and whack them over the head when they see them. Our cats eat so many of them, but they don't seem to be putting a dent in the population. I'm hoping to get the issue under control as we we would like to start a garden in the spring. Are there any issues with an animal eating one of these voles after the vole has eaten the bate? I would hate to have our kittens or dog die.

I used 2" pvc schedule 40 pipe 8 ft to make two bait stations. You will need a 2" "T" plus a 2" cap for each station. I bought 3/16" all thread rod 3 ft long but you will cut it to length (18"). (1) 3/16" nut and (2) washers and a 3/16" wing nut at the bottom of the all thread. Hope this helped.

That is quite the contraption there. It looks pretty easy to build and maintain. Thank you my friend.

El lay lawd...he said Fit teen minutes!! I subbed. Thanks for this! Lots love from the Moonshine capital of the world!

We got rid of a very large infestation on our 2 acre irrigated yard. Bought a bag of gopher and vole poison pellets at out local farm and ranch store. Took 2 sections of the rigid shop vac tubes and a funnel and I would stick the tube down every little hole and the wife would dump a small scoop of pellets in each one. No bending over and it got the pellets down in a ways. It really worked.

@arkansasprepper here is the easiest way I’ve found to keep deer from eating my garden (without fence): put a bale of alfalfa out there. Deer come into my garden every single night, walk past my tomatoes and eat the bale. I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills, so there isn’t a ton of lush vegetation in the summer but they still prefer the dry alfalfa to nice moist veggies.

I tell you one thing and my mom who is 62 says the same.. "If there is something you don't know how to do go look on youtube" I have done things from changin brakes/rotors to camping tips to plumbing basics to painting tips to fixing my old Coleman lanterns to whatever the hell else you want to know. Been down many cooking channeps even though i went to culinary school.. If ya cant do it go on youtube.. This type of instant search knowledge wasnt around when i was a kid.. You learned by somebody who knew or you went to a library.. That aint saying much as i am 36 years old but as far as cars i remember buy or renting a Chilton's manual based off your specific vehicle.. Or learnin how to read a Thomas Brothers before there was gps

What is the purpose of using the threaded rod to hold the Ramic? I was thinking of using the same pipe setup without the threaded rod. Considering inserting a Ramik bar 116334 into the tube. It wouldn't be supported by the rod and would sit in the bottom of the tube. A 4 pack of 1lb bars is $17 bucks, about half of the mini bars. Please comment if you folks think this a good or bad idea. Thanks everyone.

I am over 70s I been watching for over 4 years. I am still learning alot. I don't post videos. I am here to learn.

I got rid of vermin on my property by putting a bag of dogfood out. The coyotes and Bobcats that showed up took care of all my problems.

Thanks for the info, last summer I had a lot of tomato's that had the whole center eaten out of them and I had a net over around and to the ground so I know it was not birds. Also like you with the you tube each day I learn something, I'm going to be brilliant but not enough body left to do much.

How do you keep the poison the voles eat from killing the hawks when the hawks find the dead vole carcasses?

I can't use baits. I have a dog, and my neighbors also have dogs, so poisons are a no-go for me. Instead, I'm using steel rat traps (Made2catch) and cheap peanut butter. I'm knocking them out, averaging about four rodents a day, including field mice, deer mice, and voles. I set the traps near holes and on runs, cover them with large flower pots, buckets, or other containers large enough to cover the traps but still allow the voles and mice to get in, and check my trap lines every day. Yesterday, I took four fat voles. The day before, two voles and a field mouse. That's what works for me. I've also got a Tomcat vole trap that has taken about a vole a day for two weeks now. It has been set in the ground in a vole run and for two weeks now, it has done the job. There was only one day that nothing was in it, and I attribute that to there being no voles running through that tunnel that day. There is no need to bait it. It goes into the run and when a vole passes through it, it slams shut. The thing cost seventy-five bucks (!!!!), but dang it! It works!

I don’t even Google anymore. Anything I need information on, I go to RU-vid!

I’m concerned what happens when a predatory animal eats the dead vole or the vile decomposes and this poison is then in my garden or where ever they die

I did not make my tubes quite as long as yours, but hopefully the voles are not into design and architecture. Whole thing cost me $25 plus a bag of Ramik and took less than 10 minutes to make. The Ramik arrives tomorrow so I will get it out there by Saturday. Can’t wait.

Less than 30 seconds in and I already knew I was in the right place 👍🏽Liked...Followed...Subscribed 💯

You don't need hot wire on top for deer. If they do anything, they will jump the fence, even at 8 feet, clear and clean. Several things will discourage them like not being able to see the landing area on the other side, seeing difficult and risky landing area through the fencing, not being able to see the fencing (like chicken wire) and other things you can see and learn about on RU-vid. My garden fencing is 5 feet with the top one foot hanging over to the outside; it confuses them and keeps climbing critters from going over. 10 years, no problems except from the squirrels. Love the vole traps.

For some people, it's mere entertainment. For men, the #1 benefit is it's the 21st century reference manual.

I thank you I have pissed down so many vole holes in ground I'm trying reclaim I was about to go caddyshack on them!

To keep deer out of the garden put up your 7 foot fence and 3 or 4 feet out from that put up a 4 foot fence, the deer can't figure the fence out. 15 years free from invasion ......build that wall!

Thank You sir, hopefully this works! SIDENOTE: I went to Amazon to look for the bait and came across the bait station (I'm assuming) that you talked about (J T Eaton, who I'm assuming is the one with the patent) anyway, it's $79 bucks! That's crazy for something you can make yourself for a few bucks with little know how! Thanks again!

Stupid squirrels ate my tomatoes. One bite, then go to next. I'm not growing them this year, I'll just get from neighbors. I give them honey, they owe me. 😁

Thanks I'm gonna give it a try. Great info!👍

Thank you for creating content! Hope your fencing worked to protect your garden from those deer! I just ordered the trap and bait you linked in the video description! Ty!

Super motivational!

I realize this is several years old but anyone reading this comments, have you tried using a four-way at the base instead of just two pipes that way you wouldn't have to anchor and you could just move it around and set it down?

All the vole baits around here are sachets of pellets. The only baits that are like the ones in your video and can be treaded on a rod are rat baits. Will these attract voles?

Interesting that someone could patent something like this that people have been making and using for such a long time. The farmers here in Northern California use these a lot. I have two 4 inch PVC ones within about 100 foot of my house sitting on the river levee. The problem here is with ground squirrel boring holes in the levee. They're cute to watch running around and playing, and taking dust baths and stuff. But holes in the levee aren't a good thing.

Dude you are amazing , we have a big problem with these little bastards and I will try this for sure.. Thanks " and keep it real.

What a nice guy!

Great video!!! I love your property... you can do a lot with a place that big.

Wow.. Awesome video. But how do you make a trap like that? Thanks.

She said the thrill is gone!? But you said the Voles are gone!?…….. I’m actually Thrilled!!🤠😂😂😂 Lol I like when u said “Give them all a chance!!” Voles rats mice… come one come all! Eat!!!!! Best line ever! 🐀🐁🐿 🚜

Will the poison in the cakes hurt your dogs if they find the dead voles?

Thank you from Upstate NY! The voles are destroying my garden.

I got the professional rat bates around the house and I'm still getting rats. in the house. Although the first round of baits I didn't have any for 6 months but now I'm getting them again even though I refilled the bates. I live in Texas and the environment is kind of like Arkansas. Do You have any suggestionsp