4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

yall are going to have to shoulder the load going forward as I’m about to retire from trapping Friday and try another career 

 

Details?

 

I'll bet you saved all those pelts from trapping and you're starting a small fur trade business. 

16 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Nice work !!!

 

yall are going to have to shoulder the load going forward as I’m about to retire from trapping Friday and try another career 

Wow ! 

Congrats

btw, does the new career involve a brass pole in any way ?

A-Jay

Hopefully it is something we can get a daily post and updates on 😁

Hahaha I don’t know what the new career is but I know I’ll make more money day 1 literally anywhere than after 17 yrs with my current job 

 

no congratulations necessary I’m basically just jumping off a sinking ship or turning off a dead end road. I’m losing money just paying the bills the way it’s going 

 

but fret not I still have 3 part time and seasonal jobs after quitting this 

40 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m losing money just paying the bills the way it’s going 

Good luck on the career change, Russ - I did it few times during my working time, sometimes it was a headache, other times it relieved the headaches.

Thanks ! I’ll keep yall posted 

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Hahaha I don’t know what the new career is but I know I’ll make more money day 1 literally anywhere than after 17 yrs with my current job 

 

no congratulations necessary I’m basically just jumping off a sinking ship or turning off a dead end road. I’m losing money just paying the bills the way it’s going 

 

but fret not I still have 3 part time and seasonal jobs after quitting this 

If you could stand the winters we have up here ( except for this one, it’s like march every day 🤷‍♂️), come on up here and you can climb on roofs for me, laying stone and fixing chimneys instead of trapping critters on the roof. I’ve got so much bloody work, I don’t know which way to turn, already booked solid till at least Labour Day, and early spring is when my phone usually starts to go bonkers again with calls from people looking to have work done. I truly don’t know what I’m gonna say to them this spring, other than “ see you in 2025” I guess. 

Thanks @Way north bass guy! When do I start ? 😂 That would be a wonderful skill to learn but relocation is not in the cards . We’ve got two houses so one of them is hopefully destined to be an income property. I’m not going to miss climbing tall ladders and walking on steep roofs, that’s for sure! Both our houses have a gentle pitch and you can get up there with any ladder longer than 12 ft and walk around comfortably and clean the gutters and chimney 

We found big pile of dog food in oven drawer last week, with more stuffed in the floor cracks behind the oven..  Placed a mouse trap and no more than 20 minutes after we all left the room, we heard the trap slam in that metal drawer.  However,  after five days, the other trap is undisturbed.   I don't believe for a second there was only one mouse.  But might there have only been one breadwinner, scavenging the dog food?  Should we take any other actions?  Or wait until we see evidence of more mice?

I keep mouse traps set 365 days a year, won’t hurt anything but a mouse

That way they usually end up dead before they steal all the dog food. And you are correct there is never a single mouse 

Female mice are ready to conceive like 20 minutes after giving birth. 

First Varmint of the year E-Liminated.  

A-Jay

Good work, take no prisoners 

I don't know if there's any truth to this, but my parents and their neighbors have a few moles.  The neighbor has taken care of them and informed my Father that he used a stick/piece of juicy fruit gum.  He sticks it down into the hole, they are attracted to it because of the scent, they eat it, and then they can't digest it.

4 hours ago, gimruis said:

I don't know if there's any truth to this, but my parents and their neighbors have a few moles.  The neighbor has taken care of them and informed my Father that he used a stick/piece of juicy fruit gum.  He sticks it down into the hole, they are attracted to it because of the scent, they eat it, and then they can't digest it.

Between our place in NJ and up here in MI,

I've tried every 'method' under the sun.

The only one that I know for sure that works, works well,

and provides prove of it's effectiveness,

are these scissor traps.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XTVMF4H/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A20R7QNXJNMYX0&psc=1

#letal

A-Jay

 

This is timely....saw the title thread in the main forum page and thought this would be a good place to ask about a mole trap 😂. My soil is d**n near cement with all its clay and these things tunnel through like its nothing. 

@Functional, scissors and harpoons are the ones that work. Unfortunately you can buy a couple dozen other kinds, potions, and noise makers that don’t work at all but they sell like hotcakes 

I have the scissors trap that @A-Jay recommended. Easy to use and move but I’ll be darned if I’ve got my mole(s) yet… They move a lot. 

51 minutes ago, VolFan said:

I have the scissors trap that @A-Jay recommended. Easy to use and move but I’ll be darned if I’ve got my mole(s) yet… They move a lot. 

A-Jay

Well now @A-Jay…after a few weeks of nothing, I got two in a few days (one of which I clearly caught a couple days before I saw that the trap was tripped…ew). I’m going to let the traps air out from the stink of death and see where new mounds come up.

10 minutes ago, VolFan said:

Well now @A-Jay…after a few weeks of nothing, I got two in a few days (one of which I clearly caught a couple days before I saw that the trap was tripped…ew). I’m going to let the traps air out from the stink of death and see where new mounds come up.

Congrats ~

Keep the traps set on 'fresh' tunnels.

And only handle the traps with gloves.

We store our traps outside under a tree so they smell

like the world that those little devils live in.

Good Luck

A-Jay

57 minutes ago, VolFan said:

Well now @A-Jay…after a few weeks of nothing, I got two in a few days (one of which I clearly caught a couple days before I saw that the trap was tripped…ew). I’m going to let the traps air out from the stink of death and see where new mounds come up.

Then the worms eat the mole and the roles are reversed 

The worms weren’t there yet but some maggots had made an appearance!

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Then the worms eat the mole and the roles are reversed 

We used to drop the carcass back down the hole.

Sort of like a deterrent.

Never really worked plus my dogs kept digging them up and running around the yard with them.

Good Times . . . 

Now they fertilize something beyond domestic canine reach.

A-Jay