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@@WizardofGOP debt makes the world go 'round. Know what drives inflation? population...the more people = more demand = higher prices = less availability. Do you think if people stopped buying Iphones the price would stay at $1800 or would it decrease? It doesn't help when leftist presidents come in with raising the minimum wage to $15.00. That's almost $20 Cdn...a skilled construction carpenter only makes $25.00 and they want to pay a McDonald's counter person that?
My thought exactly. Should have had both sides open like a tunnel or atleast a window on the other side. Not sure if it would make a difference but its not impossible it will make the target more likely to want to pull the bait out since it does not feel like a safe envirument
I can't fault the man for wanting to protect that label. Plus, I've seen plenty of these videos where mice and rats will venture into traps through confined spaces, so I don't think his extra structure really did much to discourage them. Maybe it did though.
Hmm, cute! But we skipped 1913, when stainless steel was invented, the type of steel that is not entirely stain-proof. (Yeah, not as strong, but we work with what we have...)
I was thinking if he put the bait on the other side of the cage, they would push through. May have worked with this set up, but not the way it was designed.
Suggestion: make the trigger axis closer to or inside the bait cage instead of close to the bar. That way the bait cage will require less displacement to be triggered.
Shawn.... Doesn't the trigger move BOTH ways? And.. isn't it open on BOTH ends? You should've made a 3 chamber box so the rats could see THROUGH the tunnel. That way they'd be more likely to go in and PUSH against the trigger. When I saw your set-up, I suspected immediately it would fail.
Have you tried setting up to your traps with gloves? Rats seem especially inquisitive with their noses. Perhaps the smell that fingers produce when they contact metal or human smell in general alerts the rats.
Note the fact that it's not rusted out in the least in all of that time. Makes you realize we are going backwards and also being scammed with the selection of materials and the processes in use today such as those in cars. Whether it was left in a box or not, it's showing very little rust.
@asdrubale bisanzio Actually, the ones I have seen lately and ones just left abandoned for decades in farmer's fields still hold up better than late model cars. That's what I am talking about. Timeless design and simple, get the job done engineering. The biggest problems you'll face now with cars are the effing sensors and engineered to fail electronics sold as 'high-tech' features. Pfft. Keep it simple, as the saying goes. What good are devices for convenience when they do nothing but fail and cause headaches, or, in the case of the effects of driving while using a cell phone, even kill you.
@@WizardofGOP My guess is that the thicker (heavier) steel used on the old cars is slower to rust through. Plus, not being driven avoids water splashing underneath and getting into the crevices. Most cars typically seem to rust from the inside out.
If you dusted these traps with salt and left them outside in the elements, I bet you anything they would eventually rust. Most cars made today in fact have better rust protection than in the past.
Cut plywood off gases formaldehyde and may have deterred them from taking the bait. I would try covering the label with heavy plastic secured with blue painters tape.
Neat. The Colt 1911 pistol was formally adopted by the U.S. Army on March 29, 1911! It always seems that things made back in the day were made to last!
According to online sources, the dollar in 1911 is 3.65% of 2021's dollar. By multiplication of that times one dollar (or 50¢) that gives us about $13.70 in today's money. Edit: According to some of the old Horatio Alger novels I've read, a room in a building could be as little as $2 per week in those days. To convert that rent rate to 2021 dollars would make about $55, which is about what a room in some of today's Motel 6's charge - but that's per NIGHT. I think that Real Estate, food, gasoline, and many other sundries have inflated disproportionately to what things were in the olden days. That's why every state in the USA has to subsidize and regulate the price of milk - to keep the price down! Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס״ד
Thank you for staying informative and fun, appropriate and respectful. It's not a game or entertainment to torture animals for views like some channels
I have a feeling the tunnel effect of the trap by itself is what gets the rat to go in far enough to trigger it. Since you have the other end blocked off, the rat isn't comfortable enough to go all the way in. They will only go in far enough to get some grub. Or, maybe they smell 100 years of rat death on the trap and know to get away. That's my theory...
Try redoing this one.. put the bait tray on the otherside of the trigger so they have to pull it to get it loose. i mean.. it looks like a 4 chamber bait area.. don't fill 1 or 2.. instead go light on 3 and fill 4.. the farther they have to go to get it.. the higher the chance to get 'em???
City vermin will eat GMO and foods with preservatives. Country vermin have a lot more discerning palate. There was a paper on this I read years ago. But have personal experience. At cabin in woods, tight for storage space. Had two opened bags of cookies on top of several unopened bags of organic split green peas. Ignored the cookies and went straight for the peas. Didn't notice until most peas gone. Found them hoarded in old boots in loft.
Ahhhh! Now my Monday is complete! LOL Great as always. The little flip & kitties watching the show and the kid's drawings and wildlife chowing down on the caught rodents are almost as big of an attraction as the traps and your humor!
Hi, I have never had this fail me... frozen snickers bar (not the icecream one). Freeze and slack on piece and jam under the trigger... for this trap, I would cut a large part and put it inside the bait cage. Not trying to tell you your business just giving you an idea ;-)
Suggestion: make the trigger axis closer to or inside the bait cage instead of close to the bar. That way the bait cage will require less displacement to be triggered.
We've had no need to trap any rodents but we've been watching Shawn Woods' videos for months, for no other reasons than the videos are beautifully made, all animals are treated humanely, and because he & his family live a similar lifestyle to my parents and ancestors. However, yesterday I discovered a little hole gnawed in my exterior siding and into my workshop! Yes, we do have a mouse!! And we are ready for it! Let the games begin! Thanks, Shawn Woods!
One thing I've learned about rats.... Once a young rat matures into a full grown adult rat, your chances of catching them in a trap decline significantly .
Milk chocolate with cereals containig nuts and raisins is the best bait! Melt chocolate on bait cup, so it is going to be difficult to take away, and mouse/rat will have to work on it. This increases effectiveness of a trap.
Glad you didn't catch the chipmunk! Just goes to show how indiscriminate kill traps are 😡! I use a transparent live catch TripTrap. It's brilliant! Last mouse I caught, I'd only put it down less than ten minutes before I heard the door rattle. That was the sixth mouse I had caught with it. I had put a few peanuts in it. They are also fond of almonds.They are Field Mice. I released them somewhere suitable far enough away from the house.
in what corner of the internet have I wondered ? i love your energetic voice ! I guess i'll keep watching and mabe i'll become super interested like the lockpickinglauwyer made me interedted in picking Locks lol
What if took some fine wire mesh and created an insert to put inside the bait cage to make it harder for the rats to steal the bait. You could even use the mesh to wrap around the bait cage as well. The trap would still be in original condition either way. Just an idea.
How about building a trap right into that hole in the wall? they're comfortably going in and out of that hole, a meat slicer triggered by an infrared beam should do the trick
If there was a way to electrify some of the floor around the trap and have it energize, triggered via the motion camera sensor with maybe a couple second delay you could zap those rascally rats!
Have you ever thought of trying to spray your rat traps with a scent blocker like you would use in deer hunting to kill the human scent? Seems to me they do a lot of sniffing before snacking...
this definitely looks like a restored item because of the label, the ghosts of dead rats that were victimized by this trap is definitely giving them the don't go in there signal
1) Make sure human scent is not on the trap. Rub it with a rabbit skin (and the rather obvious put off of the plywood). The rats seemed to be VERY suspicious as soon as they came into shot. I suspect that was a scent issue. 2) Maybe try chocolate?
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We spend more young mois with the Ballon
50 cents in 1911 would be about 13 bucks in todays dollars
Due to the literal Ponzi scheme we have for a debt-based, undemocratic monetary system that we all have been scammed by for over a hundred years.
13.71 to be exact good sir
@@pathfinderlight7084 Considering you could buy a new car for $500 and a house for $800
@@WizardofGOP debt makes the world go 'round. Know what drives inflation? population...the more people = more demand = higher prices = less availability. Do you think if people stopped buying Iphones the price would stay at $1800 or would it decrease?
It doesn't help when leftist presidents come in with raising the minimum wage to $15.00. That's almost $20 Cdn...a skilled construction carpenter only makes $25.00 and they want to pay a McDonald's counter person that?
@Bog Canon I feel like it would work better without the box
if the rats did not touch the bait, is a rat problem. If the original design requires both sides of the trap open, then is a setup problem
My thought exactly. Should have had both sides open like a tunnel or atleast a window on the other side.
Not sure if it would make a difference but its not impossible it will make the target more likely to want to pull the bait out since it does not feel like a safe envirument
I can't fault the man for wanting to protect that label. Plus, I've seen plenty of these videos where mice and rats will venture into traps through confined spaces, so I don't think his extra structure really did much to discourage them. Maybe it did though.
How about a rematch Shawn ? Try it with a hole on the other side ? It would still protect the label too 😎 thanks again, great shows 👍🏼
1911 faultless rat trap: doesn’t work
1912 unsinkable Titanic: sinks
Hmm 🤔
And of course the 1914 War to end all Wars
is faulty
Hmm, cute! But we skipped 1913, when stainless steel was invented, the type of steel that is not entirely stain-proof.
(Yeah, not as strong, but we work with what we have...)
It’s seems like the 1910’s was the decade of over promising
Instant karma
That label is in inanely good condition for its age.
110 years old paper! Thats crazy
The trap might have been restored.
@@wafflegamer2647 unused due to not being a useful
Insane and crazy good condition
@@MilesProwerTailsFox that's what I said, crazily inanley great condition for how old it is.
When you did not say "then we'll feed it to the local wild life" I knew you never caught one.
You might have just eliminated all the dumber rats and accidentally created a colony of smart than average rats hahaha
Its all fun and games until there is an army of intelligent rodents surrounding you demanding to know where the peanut butter is.
@@arboc5540 real question, crunchy or creamy?
smarter*
@@arboc5540 If he keeps allowing them to live they will soon be able to take over the whole planet
Rats together strong.
Maybe if there was a hole cut on the other side of the box so they'd think they could run through it.
Good idea
Excellent idea!
Yes, I think the trap was supposed to resemble a tunnel.
I was thinking if he put the bait on the other side of the cage, they would push through. May have worked with this set up, but not the way it was designed.
@@kevinw3671 looks like you place it on a wall where they run and they will just snap the trap and deadzos
"I didn't realize I had a large non human audience"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I resemble that remark!
@@doncarlton4858 What?
I think you should build a replica and try it again, It would be more effective if it wasn't in a one way hole box.
exactly!
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Suggestion: make the trigger axis closer to or inside the bait cage instead of close to the bar. That way the bait cage will require less displacement to be triggered.
The tunnel trap would have worked pretty well I'm sure if it was used as intended.
I think he should have cut a exit hole on the other side. And if it came in on that side it still would have got em . Just my two cents worth 😎
I’m interested in the story behind the person who found the large cache of these traps-did they flood the market with them immediately, or over time?
They probably knew about it and advertised it. Maybe making it a bit less than average. Then got rid of it
Shawn.... Doesn't the trigger move BOTH ways? And.. isn't it open on BOTH ends? You should've made a 3 chamber box so the rats could see THROUGH the tunnel. That way they'd be more likely to go in and PUSH against the trigger.
When I saw your set-up, I suspected immediately it would fail.
$0.50 in 1911 = $13.75 to $14.15 today.
About two days pay in todays money.
It looks like it's worth it since you can't snap your fingers though
I really like how you make every effort to preserve this and other antiques.
Have you tried setting up to your traps with gloves? Rats seem especially inquisitive with their noses. Perhaps the smell that fingers produce when they contact metal or human smell in general alerts the rats.
Better still, smear your fingers with bait!
Better yet, use your fingers as bait.
@@Josh12323 butter yet...
Antonio, I've also been wondering if the rats are being put off by human scent. They do seem especially cautious.
@@tcsyme - Then again, his other traps seem to work fine, handled the same way.
The rats sniffing around conversation. "I smell a Shawn Woods video production". "Yeah, do not enter"
"Good idea! "
"I smell a rat!"
Notifications: New Mousetrap Monday video
Calendar: It's Monday
Me: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa?
Note the fact that it's not rusted out in the least in all of that time. Makes you realize we are going backwards and also being scammed with the selection of materials and the processes in use today such as those in cars. Whether it was left in a box or not, it's showing very little rust.
@asdrubale bisanzio Actually, the ones I have seen lately and ones just left abandoned for decades in farmer's fields still hold up better than late model cars. That's what I am talking about. Timeless design and simple, get the job done engineering. The biggest problems you'll face now with cars are the effing sensors and engineered to fail electronics sold as 'high-tech' features. Pfft. Keep it simple, as the saying goes. What good are devices for convenience when they do nothing but fail and cause headaches, or, in the case of the effects of driving while using a cell phone, even kill you.
@@WizardofGOP My guess is that the thicker (heavier) steel used on the old cars is slower to rust through. Plus, not being driven avoids water splashing underneath and getting into the crevices. Most cars typically seem to rust from the inside out.
If you dusted these traps with salt and left them outside in the elements, I bet you anything they would eventually rust. Most cars made today in fact have better rust protection than in the past.
@asdrubale bisanzio I'm no metallurgist, and have no clue what zinc coating is and how that slows down corrosion. So, I'll take your word for it!
"Chipmunk" Me: nonononononononono
this is what i do every day wake up go to school come home and see if shawn woods posted
Maybe it needs a hole in the Box on the other side that they wouldn't be thinking there going into a dark hole
Cut plywood off gases formaldehyde and may have deterred them from taking the bait. I would try covering the label with heavy plastic secured with blue painters tape.
Neat. The Colt 1911 pistol was formally adopted by the U.S. Army on March 29, 1911! It always seems that things made back in the day were made to last!
Except the Titanic
@@skeetsmcgrew3282: That's a fact.
Judging by their size, I foresee these rats to be featured in a future video. I bet they would make some other wildlife happy.
Maybe oiling / greasing the trigger pivot point and the lip that holds the kill bar might help.
I wonder how surprised people in my circle would be to know that my favorite videos are of mouse/rat traps
According to online sources, the dollar in 1911 is 3.65% of 2021's dollar.
By multiplication of that times one dollar (or 50¢) that gives us about $13.70 in today's money.
Edit: According to some of the old Horatio Alger novels I've read, a room in a building could be as little as $2 per week in those days. To convert that rent rate to 2021 dollars would make about $55, which is about what a room in some of today's Motel 6's charge - but that's per NIGHT. I think that Real Estate, food, gasoline, and many other sundries have inflated disproportionately to what things were in the olden days. That's why every state in the USA has to subsidize and regulate the price of milk - to keep the price down!
Thanks for the content.
Keep up the good work. בס״ד
Thank you for staying informative and fun, appropriate and respectful. It's not a game or entertainment to torture animals for views like some channels
Just wondering if it was out in the open the rat would be able to see through to the other side, and might be tempted to pull or push the bait more.
I have a feeling the tunnel effect of the trap by itself is what gets the rat to go in far enough to trigger it. Since you have the other end blocked off, the rat isn't comfortable enough to go all the way in. They will only go in far enough to get some grub. Or, maybe they smell 100 years of rat death on the trap and know to get away. That's my theory...
Love your videos even when the rats get away. I just miss seeing the skunk looking for a snack. Better luck this Friday!
One day you should do a contest for the ppl to come up with ideas on how to get a non working trap to work
Ayy new mousetrap monday vid
Faulty "Faultless Rat Trap." Next. Thanks Shawn! Interesting video even if no rats were harmed.😉
Pack Rats: "Now what is this guy trying to trick us with?"
Chipmunk: "Do not seek the treasure!"
Try redoing this one.. put the bait tray on the otherside of the trigger so they have to pull it to get it loose.
i mean.. it looks like a 4 chamber bait area.. don't fill 1 or 2.. instead go light on 3 and fill 4.. the farther they have to go to get it.. the higher the chance to get 'em???
City vermin will eat GMO and foods with preservatives. Country vermin have a lot more discerning palate. There was a paper on this I read years ago. But have personal experience.
At cabin in woods, tight for storage space. Had two opened bags of cookies on top of several unopened bags of organic split green peas. Ignored the cookies and went straight for the peas. Didn't notice until most peas gone. Found them hoarded in old boots in loft.
0:00 “Today for *Rat* Trap Monday”
Everyone: Wait, that’s illegal
Yes, more rat traps please! 🐀💀
Ahhhh! Now my Monday is complete! LOL Great as always. The little flip & kitties watching the show and the kid's drawings and wildlife chowing down on the caught rodents are almost as big of an attraction as the traps and your humor!
Hi, I have never had this fail me... frozen snickers bar (not the icecream one). Freeze and slack on piece and jam under the trigger... for this trap, I would cut a large part and put it inside the bait cage. Not trying to tell you your business just giving you an idea ;-)
We need MORE infrared vacuum trap footage!!! I want to see mice sucked up... it's just so... satisfying...
Suggestion: make the trigger axis closer to or inside the bait cage instead of close to the bar. That way the bait cage will require less displacement to be triggered.
We've had no need to trap any rodents but we've been watching Shawn Woods' videos for months, for no other reasons than the videos are beautifully made, all animals are treated humanely, and because he & his family live a similar lifestyle to my parents and ancestors. However, yesterday I discovered a little hole gnawed in my exterior siding and into my workshop! Yes, we do have a mouse!! And we are ready for it! Let the games begin! Thanks, Shawn Woods!
I was thinking the same thing, just needs a different trigger, maybe a pressure plate like the hava-hart
One thing I've learned about rats.... Once a young rat matures into a full grown adult rat, your chances of catching them in a trap decline significantly .
Rats are way smarter about avoiding traps than mice and most other rodents are.
I'm pretty surprised by these results.
Also i always find myself rooting for the non-native species to be caught
I bet if they could access both sides and see through it, that would help. Maybe just cover the label with plastic or something to protect it.
Milk chocolate with cereals containig nuts and raisins is the best bait! Melt chocolate on bait cup, so it is going to be difficult to take away, and mouse/rat will have to work on it. This increases effectiveness of a trap.
Have you thought about spraying something like WD 40 on the rivet and putting something slippery on the latch than trying it again?
I'm surprised it didn't work. There was a similar tunnel type muskrat trap made around the same time. I've only seen them in pictures.
That’s actually a genius design
My suggestion is that you team up with Joseph Carter the mink man. Two great TH-cam channels should be worth a watch.
I think you need a opossum trap Shawn, those were some pretty beefy rats you got there.
Shawn I think that wire mesh would be even better at the closed end giver a try
Dwight from Ontario Canada Again
Bummer on the no-catch. Still like to the the A-18 set up high above a bucket to catch rats though.
Might have worked better with a hole on the other side of the trap box too so it looked more like a tunnel than a dead end? 🤷🏼♀️
Since you're putting in a wood frame, could you hide the bait behind it, and they'll try to push the trigger to get through?
always great videos good job !
OK so when did it become Rat trap Monday?!
the rats are suspiciously fat for the winter... just sayin'.
They’ve been eating well
@@cade8986 eating what exactly hmm very suspicious
@@HadesSenpai the hole drilled in the wall at rat height is what’s sus to me
What are you implying
Also a but sus
50 cents is 3,000 dollars in 1910 to now
You covered the back, so the mice could not see through the tunnel, making the mice more cautious.
Looking at the video I see an opportunity to have a small bodygrip trap set at the hole.
Glad you didn't catch the chipmunk! Just goes to show how indiscriminate kill traps are 😡! I use a transparent live catch TripTrap. It's brilliant! Last mouse I caught, I'd only put it down less than ten minutes before I heard the door rattle. That was the sixth mouse I had caught with it. I had put a few peanuts in it. They are also fond of almonds.They are Field Mice. I released them somewhere suitable far enough away from the house.
You've selectively bred suspicious rats..
The secret to the device is the paper label... but you blocked it 😆
I started crying when the Chipmunk went in there
Trying using a Colt 1911 instead of this 1911.
In your setup you could try to put the bait behind the cage. Maybe a rat would push on the cage hard enough then...
in what corner of the internet have I wondered ? i love your energetic voice ! I guess i'll keep watching and mabe i'll become super interested like the lockpickinglauwyer made me interedted in picking Locks lol
Didn’t know colt made mouse traps
M1911 way more successful & and would definitely kill a rat!
What do you think makes them so cautious of it? Metal smell?
Any updates on your home trapping series you were invested in?
FINALLY. SOME RATS.
Cute art today, I like it!
I bet the box around the trap is what's scaring them off.
I thought a hole on the other side might do the trick ? They are very Suspicious though
Gloves Shawn, gloves. ;-) Protect you and the family
What if took some fine wire mesh and created an insert to put inside the bait cage to make it harder for the rats to steal the bait. You could even use the mesh to wrap around the bait cage as well. The trap would still be in original condition either way. Just an idea.
mouse trap monday!
Goddammit, finally a rat video and it's a no go for the trap.
How about building a trap right into that hole in the wall? they're comfortably going in and out of that hole, a meat slicer triggered by an infrared beam should do the trick
Have you thought about covering that rat sized hole ?
I think it's funny how this channel used to be archery and outdoors related and every Monday moustraps, and now it's just moustraps
Might be a bit of over-baiting too. If there's too much food that's easy to get, they might not go for the harder to reach bait in the trap.
Where to buy that doll?
That name for the trap is one of the best and oldest clickbaits
2:02 A heckin choker
If there was a way to electrify some of the floor around the trap and have it energize, triggered via the motion camera sensor with maybe a couple second delay you could zap those rascally rats!
I think he's tried those electric zapper traps on mice. Would need a lot more juice for those chunky rats tho!
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Did you just say rat trap Monday? 😱
Good..
Glad I’m a antique lover…
Great video
That's a surprising one. I was sure the chipmunk would get caught.
Good stuff Sean.
Have you ever thought of trying to spray your rat traps with a scent blocker like you would use in deer hunting to kill the human scent? Seems to me they do a lot of sniffing before snacking...
this definitely looks like a restored item because of the label, the ghosts of dead rats that were victimized by this trap is definitely giving them the don't go in there signal
Love your videos dude. Was just wondering how many traps have you in your collection?
I collect letter openers so I know it gets crazy sometimes lol
He has over 1,000 mousetraps in his collection
@@thegoproguy1773 cheers dude,wow that's insane! Would love to see a video of his collection.
@@IrishPikeHunter same :)
1) Make sure human scent is not on the trap. Rub it with a rabbit skin (and the rather obvious put off of the plywood). The rats seemed to be VERY suspicious as soon as they came into shot. I suspect that was a scent issue.
2) Maybe try chocolate?
This channel is cool glad I found it lol
Your vids are awesome my friend