thank you sir! the mrs here. my husband got 2 of these a few yrs back at an online auction. everything in the cabinet we got for $3! i guess we really scored. they use these with great success at the golf course where i mow, but i never knew how to set them myself. this was an excellent how-to video! thanks again.
This is the fun way of getting rid of them. Plus, its awesome to look out and see the trap activated. Watching again here in Michigan and good Mole hunting big guy....
I've got these and I agree with you, they work great but I do have a hard time releasing the dead mole out of it, so I just leave it in the hole, set the trap again to release and then pull the trap out....in other words the mole has dug his own grave. But I really liked your info on where to set the trap, that was very helpful.
I am just now seeing your video and the comments are hysterically hilarious. Excellent presentation. My first nuisance experience with moles as I comment. UGH!!! Will definitely try the trap. Have tried every home remedy known to man and every Lowe's product on the shelf for over 3 weeks now with no success and a third of my lawn eaten alive. Wish me luck with the traps!
I use spike traps and got 6 moles last year. But I will try your trap and see if it works better. I don't miss very often with the spike but I have before. My moles were so bad when I got home last spring I watered the lawn good and run the cultipacker on it to flatten it out.
That's looks like a pretty effective method. We also have voles here in upstate New York and this should work on them too. I believe the voles will follow the same tunnels that are made by moles. Thanks for sharing.
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I was setting my scissor trap where a molehill was with no success, but unlike your yard the tunnels are not obvious from above ground. My topsoul is quite hard. So I dug out a mole hill to find the tunnel opening and then set the trap there.
I have already exterminated 2 this week with my new scissor traps. Stopped the 1st one in its tracks within a couple hours! Then we had to wait a couple days for rain then foot traffic to the nearby parade to both stop. Put out another last night & had taken out another one by morning. Yay, finally!!!!!! (insert maniacal laugh). Update: 24 hrs later, & we've already caught another. I didn't think our yard was big enough for so many. I think there may still be one more. Watching for the next run to pop up. $20 from Tractor Supply.
I got two of the most destructive moles in my front yard, but there are still 2-3 operating in my backyard. The tunnels in my yard are a lot deeper than the ones in your yard, so I can’t tell where the longer runs are. I’m keeping at it though!
I've had great success with cinch traps for gophers, placed in the holes. Since we have dogs, I just put a bucket over the top of the trap, and within a day or two have one less gopher. (I use them in active pile/holes.)
My moles don’t make a straight path. They are burrowing in circles around my new landscaping. Two summers and I have yet to kill one. So frustrating. I am using the same trap as you.
This might be a stupid question, but I'm a new homeowner. How do you dispose of the moles once you've caught and killed it? I just ordered a trap. There is a mole or moles in my front lawn tearing it up and has been all summer. At my wits end.
Interesting. I know I have moles in my yard but they don't make tunnels like that. If you have a good trap for the dam chipmunks, those are the dudes that dig holes everywhere in my yard.
@@GoodWorksTractors I have the Easy Mole Trap and I don't see flat rings at the top of each scissor. I found where I'm supposed to hold the frame and push the lever against my body. It seems they could design it so it didn't require bringing a dead animal so close to a person and putting that much energy to open it up.
I bought two online. Set them up following the directions, but they false trigger within 5 to 40 minutes. Keep moving them to adjacent locations, but they both continue to misfire - I have caught nothing with 14 different locations. I am still having fresh mole trails developing. Why doesn't this trap work???
They do work. Loosen the soil where the tines go into the ground. Make sure you flatten the ground too. I've used them for years. Read the other comments below. Sounds like operator error, so make some adjustments. Good luck!
Good advice here.. is all someone told me. Only thing I'd add is if you don't catch one in 24 hrs to move it. I've gotten four or five.. a few within 15-30 minutes by a fresh mound. Toughest have been recently with big piles of dirt, but no trails between them... be patient and eventually you'll get it.. been working to get this last one for 3-4 weeks.. short (1 to 2 ft) trails around the mound, but I think he'd move to a different area by the time I placed the trap. A little bit of clickbait after googling how to open these.. I can do it but a lady friend isn't as strong in hands.. one said hold the activator against your body and pull it back.. will see if that works.
I've had the same situation at my new property this year. I had huge mounds all over my backyard...50+, but no tunnels. I kept looking and looking around the edges of my yard that went into the woods. Eventually I found one tunnel. Set the trap, caught it a few hours later. All the mounds disappeared. Couldn't believe it. Found one more tunnel a month later and caught another. No more issues for now. One or two moles were completely destroying my backyard. There will be a tunnel that pops up somewhere, gotta keep searching.
Yeah the trap works great if it will set, but most of the time one side goes down further than the other and the trigger will not set then as it is cockeyed and too far off center. the ground here is fairly soft as well. I am forced to resort to my shotgun. (just kidding)
@@GoodWorksTractors I notice the tunnels are a bit deeper. I used a hand trowel to carefully expose and excavate around the tunnels to get the scissors in just the right spot; hopefully I’ll have something soon!
@@GoodWorksTractors just got my second mole! The key for me was finding the depth of the tunnels, digging out the mound to be able to place the trap deep enough, and building up the dirt perpendicular to the tunnels to get a good location for the traps pressure plate.
Just a question: why are you all so concerned about the aesthetics of your manicured lawns that you're willing to kill countless moles that are just doing their thing and trying to survive? Seems insane that you're putting your own superficial desires over the very exisrance of a creature that has more right to exist in that environment. I don't understand.