What's wrong with having moles on your property? We don't have them here in Australia so I don't understand the problem? They seem like they keep to themselves..
@@portgax For me personally that wouldn't be enough for me to kill a whole family of them, it's different if there eating all your crop costing thousands in damages, otherwise I'd let them be..
@@jamiewatkins4178 we have moles and personally I don't see them as a huge problem. But some people spend all their time making their lawn perfect so I can understand why. Personally I think having native species for lawns are better than grass... Grass sucks lol
During the summer my cat has a body count of around 2 mice/moles per-day. He even gets Chipmunks a couple times a week. My area is infested, but Atleast they aren’t in the house.
Our mole problem was severe at our new place, but we were lucky. We had a border collie who could hear them underground. She'd dig them up and throw them in a pile. Best dog we ever had.
I have a Chihuahua. I wipe the mound off and tell him "get the mole". He digs a little and then walks off. Within 3 days there's a dead mole on the door step.
If you have moles, it’s because you have grubs in the ground. To get rid of the moles, first you have to get rid of the grubs. A few spoonfuls of “milky spore disease” spread over your yard will multiply and get rid of the grubs. The moles will leave. I learned this 40 years from a farmer. It works.
Wait, so does the stuff multiply the grubs or does it get rid of em?? Cuz it doesnt seem like multiplying them is the same as getting rid of them, am i wrong?
@@bobstark4020 I dont know, driving one off a big cliff in a stolen truck might be a hoot on a Saturday afternoon!! LOL I think he meant caddyshack but got it wrong, maybe?
I heard about a guy who put a hose on the exhaust pipe of his lawnmower and then piped the exhaust into the hole. He had smoke coming up all over the yard.
Stuff a hose running from the exhaust on your truck or tractor into the tunnel. They just go to sleep and die from CO poisoning. It's a peaceful way for them to go, no stabby things pinning them to the ground. Yeah, they ARE a pest and need to be gotten rid of, but you can do it sort of gently.
Yea! Just pollute your soil to kill an animal that only eats grubs and worms! Genius! I can't believe some of the ignorant comments here. The only intelligent on was the one about milky spore! It's a natural bacteria that kills the Japanese and junebug's larva.
Wow! I feel your pain! At home on the farm we used to have many moles in the lawn around the house and Mom's flower beds. It was my job to keep those buggers under control. I had a bunch of gopher traps. I don't remember what size they were. But kinda like the big bear traps only the size of the palm of your hand. As soon as a hill would show up I'd take my trap and a piece of plywood, maybe 6" sq. I'd push the fresh dirt to one side. Then I'd push down with my fingers to find the hole. Clear it out and widen the top just enough to put the set tap into it upside down. Take some fresh grass and tear it up and put it on top of the trap. Put the plywood over the hole and cover it with the dirt. Come back the next day for the mole. Worked almost every time. Took two summers to eradicate the infestation. Discovered that the fresh grass possibly had them thinking there was an open entrance which needed plugging. They'd come into the upside-down trap and that was it. Good night!
There's castor oil based mole repellants you can buy that work great. You first cover your whole lawn with the pellets. Once the moles leave, you then only need to treat the outer perimeter of your property. These pellets are safe around pets. All they do is cause the moles to itch. My family has run a professional landscaping company for decades and this was the go-to product we'd use for moles. It worked better than all but one thing we've tried. The only thing better I've used is my black lab. After moving into a new house, he started digging up all the moles before I could even put one treatment down. Eventually the moles learned to keep their tunnels on the other side of our fence.
Yes of course they will love helping. Labs were bred to help hunting birds and smaller games. You can teach them to either catch and kill it themselves or even to point and freeze, so you can make a clean kill if you want to eat the catch. You probably reacted positively when they first did it so your approval lead them to think it’s a way to impress you. This is great. Unless you’re surrounded by people with cats. Because once they start wiping out the original pest they’ll be desperate for something else. And if they don’t have anymore moles they can turn to cats birds ANYTHING. There’s a reason labs have the most bites 😂 they’re never thought of as hunting dogs who are actually extremely intelligent and need LOTS of stimulation and exercise. Same exact thing with golden retrievers or any of the golden mixes.
@@blainebirch8151 It should work on any animal that has regular contact with the soil. It probably won't be as effective on snakes or reptiles in general because of their skin is different than mammals.
Long straight tunnels where the grass is dead tend to be the tunnels they used the most from point a to b. The tunnels that zig zag and loops are just tunnels they made looking for food. Long tunnels are good to set traps on. Bury the trap in a 5 gallon bucket of dirt and put earth worms in the bucket this will help get any scent off the trap, leave it in the bucket for 2 days or so.
nice tip. Glad we don’t have moles here in the south, we have something worse and that’s armadillos. They love to root up the ground and dig holes. Watch where you step. By the way, we have the same last name. Mine just has an e on the end.
My dad would catch them by hand alive and give them to us kids to take them across the creek so they couldn't come back. I prefer not to kill things that are just doing what they were created to do. They don't know they are upsetting you.
Had the same problem. I carefully dug in to a tunnel and put a garlic clove in. The process was done in every tunnel I could find. Within a one week time period they all moved to another yard.
I had a Roald Dahl book where he detailed getting rid of moles by burrying glass bottles near the hills. The wind blowing over the top would make too much noise for them to hand around and they'd run off.
@@throatpunch4789 I said right at the start of the comment. Learn how to read. Roald Dahl you donkey, and if you don't know who that is I can only feel sorry for how empty your life must be.
Man, them suckers tear my yard up! For little guys who can't see.. they sure can find every inch of my yard. Lol! Hey fun fact, with wasps not moles. If you need to kill some wasps or yellow jackets but hate the chemicals like myself. Soapy water in a spray bottle kills them things NEARLY INSTANTLY! works better than most sprays ive bought! ❤❤❤❤
Another trick is to poke a hole in tunnels, if they are filled, that’s there path. You can get gummy worms from Home Depot but you gotta make sure they are active in that tunnel first.
@@NativeSkater1000 Hi sir, your comment I’m trying to understand. After you poke holes in the pathway. You then insert the gummy worms into the hole and then what happens from there?
I have a device similar too this one but I don't have too do all that extra stuff with digging a hole and everything. I put it over the mole tunnel step on the trap and it engages the spring underground. A day or 2 later the problem is solved
3 of my 4 doggos are the best way i have found to take em out, there was one time over a oeriod of only 3 days they sniffed out and dug up (sometimes up to almost a foot deep) 8 moles, my two youngest whenever they end up with one i think they think its more like one of their stuffed toys because they will just lightly carry them around in their mouth acting like they do t wanna hurt em or something, but of course after so long of doing that they end up wallering em to death then they are lightly carrying around a now dead mole, but for like almost two days they will look damn near the same as they did whenever they pulled em outta the ground haha, gotta love em tho
Used to hunt em with an old single shot 22. With your heel push down on an active tunnel, setup your lawn chair with copious amounts of ice tea and wait. When you see the dirt being pushed back up wait a bit so you can tell what direction it’s pushing from then plant that freedom seed. In the old days country girls would make powder puffs out of the hide. Softest furr you’ll ever feel, stuff it and tie with a ribbon. Dust that flour on. One of the few times I saw my granny cry was when I gave her one I made. She told me so many fond memories of when she was a young girl.
Moles are so cute. Their fur is incredibly soft & silky. They have the cutest little hands & snout. My neighbor lady stepped on one & I was heart broken as a 12 year old.
I have cats. The second I get a mole hill it’s only a few days before they catch it. One cat will sit on each side the second they see it pop it’s head out they dig it out. If they catch it then I give them a bonus with their meal for that day. They are well aware now of what they get rewarded with if they catch the mole.
Never heard of this, what a time saver. I’ll definitely try it. I used to have a scissors type mole trap like he uses in this video and it always worked, not in the way this video suggests, but my way worked well too. It’s just impractical now that I have a small farm, too much ground to cover.
Thats pretty much how we did it when I worked at the cemetery. One thing we did different was we attached a line to the trap and it was then attached to a long stake. We did that because sometimes those moles can carry off the trap. This way you get the trap back everytime. On another note, I can honestly say I dug my mother in laws grave and placed her in it. Yes she was dead before I put her in the hole. She died in the hospital in another state. Honest!
Another great way.I am a hair dresser. You get popsicle sticks and put it in the hole them put a handful of cut hair in the hole.Moles have very little hair on there belly.The hair picks and smells and they move out.Keep doing this in New holes the old ones are marked .They will move out in weeks.They never came back.Just ask your hairdresser and set up a sign and large bag.They will live to see Another day.
I just drop hot peppers into the hills, and call it a day, the moles nibble and run, go to the neighbors yard or the woods. I don't have to kill moles and they don't bother our yard
Human hair. Sprinkle liberally around the area where you have moles. Just like the man in the video wearing gloves to handle the Trap the smell of humans will drive moles away quicker than anything else. Although they might look at you funny you should be able to get all the hair you need from a barbershop. I personally tried this myself about a year ago and it worked like a charm.
My grandpa use to just uncover one of the tunnels back the truck up to it and put a hose from the muffler to the tunnel. Night night. Worked really good
Find someone with ferrets. Have them save their litter. (No clay litters. Wood pellets or paper.) Spread this over the area you are having a problem with. The smell resembles weasels, and they leave. The litter is good fertilizer.
When I was a young teen, I tried to flood one out shortly after finishing the yearly painting of just one side per year, of our widowed mother's old two-story white house where we lived after Dad died. I never expected to see the thing after flooding for so long. Suddenly, there it was, up and ready for battle, so I grabbed a nearby old brick and threw it at the varmint! I saw that I got the mole finally, and then looked up at the watery mud mess I had splashed up all over that freshly painted two-story wall.
Sure we are talking moles not gophers? Gophers are vegetarians. Moles are insectivores. Moles build shallow tunnels. Gophers build mounds like the ones raked flat in the video.
Buy Nash loop style traps. Use a small garden spade, push it into the ground over a section of tunnel making two slits in the ground that corresponds to the two loops. Set the trap and put the loops in the ground. Very effective and no digging and burying traps or ruining the grass.
I like at the end how he says the dead one will keep the rest away and how I always wished leaving dead ants and spiders around as a warning to the rest would work similarly lol
Please stop doing that. Depending on where you live its most likely illegal. Not only that, but it's toxic, unsafe, disgusting, and most importantly, not an effective mole repellent
When the damage from moles or gophers effect your home’s foundation then removing them by any means necessary needs to be done. The soil being loosened all around big trees on your property makes them susceptible to being blown over in the rain/snow soaked winter.
I used the same kind of traps to catch moles at my aunts cabin. We had about 20 of those traps, and out of all the different kind of mole traps there are, these were the ones that just plain worked. We made a tool that was the same width as the traps loops are. I’d find the active tunnels by walking over the tunnels and flattening them out by stepping on them and packing them down. The next day the active tunnel would be opened back up, so I’d pack about a 1’ foot section back down, use the tool to cut slots into the packed earth and gently slipped the traps loops into the tunnel until the traps trigger was just barely touching the ground. You don’t want the trigger touching though or it’ll spring to early, then when the mole digs through boom, the trap is set. Mole caught.
I didn’t go thru all the comments to see if he’s calling gophers moles. My moles don’t make mounds, only tunnels. My gophers will make mounds with tunnels and are easy to poison with no tearing up of the lawn or any digging.
Lime worked for me. A local garden center told me to spread lime on my lawn because it creates an environment moles hate. I didn't believe it but spread it like fertilizer. (Which, by the way, works great as fertilizer). Moles packed up and left in about a week. That was two years ago. I spread in the fall and spring, and they have not returned.
I used the garden hose and automobile exhaust pipe routine. Wrapping the end of the hose with a wet rag will protect the hose from the heat of the exhaust pipe. 30 minutes later the gophers were gone and never came back. Do not use this technique in a crowded neighborhood (like San Francisco) as the tunnels may run underneath a neighbor's house.
Moles are basically blind and tend to travel along hard surfaces such as bender boards, cement, rocks, even tree roots. However when they do make it into an open area they go crazy. They travel 3-12 inches underground making it very easy to trap or bait. When you see their mounds or raised tunnels/trails you can simply stick your finger or probe in the center of the activity and find the tunnel. No need to demolish their tunnel and fill it back in with dirt. They will simply create a new tunnel. Plus those bear claw traps are best used in sandy/loose soils where other traps can easily get clogged up. My company Smith’s Pest Management uses stainless steel trigger traps with gopher and mole sized traps. Place one trap going each direction in the tunnel. Once traps are set best to cover the tunnel holes with a big enough rock or ball up moist/wet soil and carefully close the hole then you can throw dirt in as you please.
I use one of those Place-n-Step on traps. put it over a mole run, set it by stepping on it. Works every time. No digging, raking, gloves. Don't even have to flatten the runs.
I have a different type of trap, for mine you find a tunnel just tamp down a small section with your foot, the trap has legs that go down on either side of the tunnel with a spike that will pierce the tunnel. When the mole comes along later and goes to clear the blockage he'll push up on the ground which triggers the spike to stab the mole. Pull the trap out after it's sprung, clean it off and find another tunnel.
My way of getting rid of moles was just a good hunting dog. Shelby was half springer spaniel/half britney and was a master at hunting moles. I used to take her over to my grandma's every year and she'd dig up and kill 4 or 5 in a day
Do what my mother did. She got the axe and waited by one of the mole runs. When she saw the dirt move, she struck with the axe and it came up bloody. Success. The mole was already buried.
Yes. That is the "out-o-sight" mole trap. I've used them for years to get rid of moles. You also want to use a bucket that's opaque to light as moles are very sensitive to light and will avoid the trap if there is any light leak around the trap.
My dad always used ones that go above the ground. Smash there tunnel down in a spot and cram thw trap in there when it's pushed up on a spike came down into them. They seemed to work when you got the right tunnel. This guy's way seems like it would have a better success rate
and he does the right thing by never showing a mole on the internet because after my wife saw a mole, "I" "like the big dummy I am" "caught one being the good husband for her" and the second she saw the, as she put it Cute little hairy blind creatures" I knew from the tone of her voice my garden was done for! and the many generations of farmers going all the way back to Scotland just before they got on the boat they were shaking their heads in disbelief and shame the way I looked it in the eye and went ahead and still stepped in the cow patty
I have used these in the past, can't find them anymore. Another tip I'll share is to add about a foot of braided wire to the trap & stake it securely to the ground. The reason is why I need a new trap. Apparently the last mole didn't get caught well enough.
Maybe someone (possibly the booster but I don't expect that) can explain: why nitrile gloves specifically? Is it to do with the weight of the gloves potentially tripping the trap? I'm confused how those thin gloves would be the better option over work gloves that could disperse the weight of the trap accidentally closing on your hand.
I worked on a golf course in my 20s, we would just tap the tunnel at a spot back flat with our foot, and place the trap, the mole would come tru and push the dirt back up to open the tunnel back up and spike it, leaving the mole under the ground. Dint have to do atl that digging
Once you lay the tunnels flat sow unwrapped bubble gum in the tunnels. They eat the gum and it causes them to choke and die. Permatreat guy taught me this when I lived in a low income area
step 1: soak ground thoroughly with water. Step2: stick 2 steel rods about 2 feet deep. Step 3: connect (+) side to one pole and (-) side to the other and wait. connect 2 or more batteried in series for faster results
My dad would take off the lawnmower muffler and attach a 2 ft straight pipe to the exhaust outlet. He would connect a garden hose to the end of the pipe. Then stick the end of the garden hose in a gofer hole and bury the hole. Turn up the throttle and let it run until the mower was out of gas. He would kill all the gofers for a city block.
Have tons of prairie dogs on my property. i just leave them because, like moles, they are a vital part of the ecosystem and keep the birds and predators fed well, then they leave by livestock alone
We got a cat that went insane on the moles. She cleaned up 3-5 acres worth and haven’t seen one since. That was about 30 years ago. RIP Amber.
What's wrong with having moles on your property? We don't have them here in Australia so I don't understand the problem? They seem like they keep to themselves..
@jamiewatkins4178 they destroy the landscape and mess up all your grass, also if you have plants they destroy those too
@@portgax For me personally that wouldn't be enough for me to kill a whole family of them, it's different if there eating all your crop costing thousands in damages, otherwise I'd let them be..
@@jamiewatkins4178 we have moles and personally I don't see them as a huge problem. But some people spend all their time making their lawn perfect so I can understand why.
Personally I think having native species for lawns are better than grass... Grass sucks lol
During the summer my cat has a body count of around 2 mice/moles per-day. He even gets Chipmunks a couple times a week. My area is infested, but Atleast they aren’t in the house.
Bury a speaker playing Celine Dion. They haven't been back since.
I've found Coldplay to be equally effective!😂
Any kpop works well also
S.O.A.D also works with neighbors, dogs, ferrel cats, gophers, mosquitos.........
Lol best comment of the day
Must be a pretty nice speaker. Waterproof? What brand?
Our mole problem was severe at our new place, but we were lucky. We had a border collie who could hear them underground. She'd dig them up and throw them in a pile. Best dog we ever had.
Me too! She earned her keep& then some!
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I HAD A MOLE INVASION ONE SUMMER, THEN THEY DISAPPEARED, AND I DID NOTHING!
I have a Chihuahua. I wipe the mound off and tell him "get the mole". He digs a little and then walks off. Within 3 days there's a dead mole on the door step.
Takes time with those little legs. lol
If you have moles, it’s because you have grubs in the ground. To get rid of the moles, first you have to get rid of the grubs.
A few spoonfuls of “milky spore disease” spread over your yard will multiply and get rid of the grubs. The moles will leave.
I learned this 40 years from a farmer. It works.
Wait, so does the stuff multiply the grubs or does it get rid of em?? Cuz it doesnt seem like multiplying them is the same as getting rid of them, am i wrong?
@@diychad7268 im pretty sure he means the spore disease will multiply?
@@diychad7268 the spores multiply
I totally agree
Sorry that seems like a shortsighted and blatantly retarded thing to do.
I'll use Bill Murray's approach in Caddy Shak, thank you very much
The Caddyshack method is more fun.
@@bobstark4020 I dont know, driving one off a big cliff in a stolen truck might be a hoot on a Saturday afternoon!! LOL I think he meant caddyshack but got it wrong, maybe?
just dont setup a crossbow with poison tipped arrow. If you do have a partner ready to suck after you pull it out.
Maybe so. We may never know.
Do u mean caddieshack? I don't remember a mole in groundhogs day
I heard about a guy who put a hose on the exhaust pipe of his lawnmower and then piped the exhaust into the hole. He had smoke coming up all over the yard.
That's innovative lol. I guess if you let it run long enough they'll come out or suffocate
My dad did that and killed gofers for a whole city block.
Why does his lawnmower smoke so bad lol
Yup plenty of TH-cam videos on that lawnmower gassing them out
Really,is that a true story?sounds youre blowin smoke up my turf holes
Stuff a hose running from the exhaust on your truck or tractor into the tunnel.
They just go to sleep and die from CO poisoning.
It's a peaceful way for them to go, no stabby things pinning them to the ground.
Yeah, they ARE a pest and need to be gotten rid of, but you can do it sort of gently.
Yea! Just pollute your soil to kill an animal that only eats grubs and worms! Genius! I can't believe some of the ignorant comments here. The only intelligent on was the one about milky spore! It's a natural bacteria that kills the Japanese and junebug's larva.
Yep and you get free fertilizer for next season!!! Smells while decaying!
You missed the "no chemicals" part. Not, admit to pumping exhaust into the earth😂😂😂
Dose this actually work?
I was actually just thinking about that the other day lol
Wow! I feel your pain! At home on the farm we used to have many moles in the lawn around the house and Mom's flower beds. It was my job to keep those buggers under control. I had a bunch of gopher traps. I don't remember what size they were. But kinda like the big bear traps only the size of the palm of your hand. As soon as a hill would show up I'd take my trap and a piece of plywood, maybe 6" sq. I'd push the fresh dirt to one side. Then I'd push down with my fingers to find the hole. Clear it out and widen the top just enough to put the set tap into it upside down. Take some fresh grass and tear it up and put it on top of the trap. Put the plywood over the hole and cover it with the dirt. Come back the next day for the mole. Worked almost every time. Took two summers to eradicate the infestation. Discovered that the fresh grass possibly had them thinking there was an open entrance which needed plugging. They'd come into the upside-down trap and that was it. Good night!
My neighbor drinks a few beers in the evening and relieves himself all along the fence line, never has a problem with moles.
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Prolly Bud Light Queen of beers 😂
@@blainebirch8151 I wouldn't doubt it, he's a Hank Hill type...
@Yesindeed126 lmao. Went over your head buddy 😂😂
And make sure your neighbor doesn't have an electric fence
There's castor oil based mole repellants you can buy that work great. You first cover your whole lawn with the pellets. Once the moles leave, you then only need to treat the outer perimeter of your property. These pellets are safe around pets. All they do is cause the moles to itch. My family has run a professional landscaping company for decades and this was the go-to product we'd use for moles. It worked better than all but one thing we've tried. The only thing better I've used is my black lab. After moving into a new house, he started digging up all the moles before I could even put one treatment down. Eventually the moles learned to keep their tunnels on the other side of our fence.
Same. My labe been going crazy for them. I just help him a bit by pouring water in the hole
Yes of course they will love helping. Labs were bred to help hunting birds and smaller games. You can teach them to either catch and kill it themselves or even to point and freeze, so you can make a clean kill if you want to eat the catch. You probably reacted positively when they first did it so your approval lead them to think it’s a way to impress you. This is great. Unless you’re surrounded by people with cats. Because once they start wiping out the original pest they’ll be desperate for something else. And if they don’t have anymore moles they can turn to cats birds ANYTHING. There’s a reason labs have the most bites 😂 they’re never thought of as hunting dogs who are actually extremely intelligent and need LOTS of stimulation and exercise. Same exact thing with golden retrievers or any of the golden mixes.
What about Gophers?
@@blainebirch8151 It should work on any animal that has regular contact with the soil. It probably won't be as effective on snakes or reptiles in general because of their skin is different than mammals.
Long straight tunnels where the grass is dead tend to be the tunnels they used the most from point a to b. The tunnels that zig zag and loops are just tunnels they made looking for food. Long tunnels are good to set traps on. Bury the trap in a 5 gallon bucket of dirt and put earth worms in the bucket this will help get any scent off the trap, leave it in the bucket for 2 days or so.
nice tip. Glad we don’t have moles here in the south, we have something worse and that’s armadillos. They love to root up the ground and dig holes. Watch where you step. By the way, we have the same last name. Mine just has an e on the end.
@@hazymist_872 I'm in the south and yes we very much do have moles 😂
@@kayesdigginit1519 for real? I’ve never seen moles in Louisiana 😂
Get rid of the grubs and the moles will leave.
Bros had a vendetta with them moles for 40 years.
My dad would catch them by hand alive and give them to us kids to take them across the creek so they couldn't come back. I prefer not to kill things that are just doing what they were created to do. They don't know they are upsetting you.
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Had the same problem. I carefully dug in to a tunnel and put a garlic clove in. The process was done in every tunnel I could find. Within a one week time period they all moved to another yard.
I'm going to try this... I've been using peanut butter with baking soda.. it seems like it's working
That also works to keep werewolves out of your house.
@@titoace408 it works because the high salt content kills the mole.
I had a Roald Dahl book where he detailed getting rid of moles by burrying glass bottles near the hills. The wind blowing over the top would make too much noise for them to hand around and they'd run off.
and who told you bottle noise was "too much" for moles? did the moles tell you?
YOU WERE BEING SCAMMED 😬
@@throatpunch4789 I said right at the start of the comment. Learn how to read. Roald Dahl you donkey, and if you don't know who that is I can only feel sorry for how empty your life must be.
@@throatpunch4789 probable sensitive ears. arent they blind?
@@throatpunch4789 not roald dahl
My husband will thank you. Those moles have been driving him crazy for years! hahaha!
Man, them suckers tear my yard up! For little guys who can't see.. they sure can find every inch of my yard. Lol! Hey fun fact, with wasps not moles. If you need to kill some wasps or yellow jackets but hate the chemicals like myself. Soapy water in a spray bottle kills them things NEARLY INSTANTLY! works better than most sprays ive bought! ❤❤❤❤
Love it Bo! Even I could use all the great advice! 😂
I used to be a landscaper if you get rid of the grub worms a lot of moles will leave because grub worms are there food
that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard are you sure your a landscaper 😂😂😂
Very true. I’m a landscaper and a spray tech. They move to neighbors yards so you get more customers. Lol
Another trick is to poke a hole in tunnels, if they are filled, that’s there path. You can get gummy worms from Home Depot but you gotta make sure they are active in that tunnel first.
@@NativeSkater1000
Hi sir, your comment I’m trying to understand. After you poke holes in the pathway. You then insert the gummy worms into the hole and then what happens from there?
@@OldRuggedCross After you poke the holes, come back next day. If the holes are repaired, you got it’s highway. That’s when you insert the worm.
I have a device similar too this one but I don't have too do all that extra stuff with digging a hole and everything. I put it over the mole tunnel step on the trap and it engages the spring underground. A day or 2 later the problem is solved
3 of my 4 doggos are the best way i have found to take em out, there was one time over a oeriod of only 3 days they sniffed out and dug up (sometimes up to almost a foot deep) 8 moles, my two youngest whenever they end up with one i think they think its more like one of their stuffed toys because they will just lightly carry them around in their mouth acting like they do t wanna hurt em or something, but of course after so long of doing that they end up wallering em to death then they are lightly carrying around a now dead mole, but for like almost two days they will look damn near the same as they did whenever they pulled em outta the ground haha, gotta love em tho
Are they retrievers? Retrievers have great bite restraint
Used to hunt em with an old single shot 22. With your heel push down on an active tunnel, setup your lawn chair with copious amounts of ice tea and wait. When you see the dirt being pushed back up wait a bit so you can tell what direction it’s pushing from then plant that freedom seed. In the old days country girls would make powder puffs out of the hide. Softest furr you’ll ever feel, stuff it and tie with a ribbon. Dust that flour on. One of the few times I saw my granny cry was when I gave her one I made. She told me so many fond memories of when she was a young girl.
Next video, how to repair your grass after catching a mole
Nonsense, I have them. I use a tomcat trap from the big box store and it works fine. Only puts a small cut in your yard that doesn’t need fixing
Start with a good mouser, that is the key.
Moles are so cute. Their fur is incredibly soft & silky. They have the cutest little hands & snout. My neighbor lady stepped on one & I was heart broken as a 12 year old.
I have cats. The second I get a mole hill it’s only a few days before they catch it. One cat will sit on each side the second they see it pop it’s head out they dig it out. If they catch it then I give them a bonus with their meal for that day. They are well aware now of what they get rewarded with if they catch the mole.
Juicy fruit gum….drop a 1/2 piece in each hole. They eat it, they die. Works 100% of the time. Done
I was looking to see if anyone else knew about the gum!! Works every time!
Why does this work?
@@downwithtrudeau They can’t digest it.
@4 Door Thanks for the answer! Seems like lots of creatures cant digest gum including us homo sapiens
Never heard of this, what a time saver. I’ll definitely try it. I used to have a scissors type mole trap like he uses in this video and it always worked, not in the way this video suggests, but my way worked well too. It’s just impractical now that I have a small farm, too much ground to cover.
Or ... treat your lawn for grubs. Remove the food, no moles.
Get rid of the grubs in your yard, the moles will disappear! Proven!
Thats pretty much how we did it when I worked at the cemetery. One thing we did different was we attached a line to the trap and it was then attached to a long stake. We did that because sometimes those moles can carry off the trap. This way you get the trap back everytime. On another note, I can honestly say I dug my mother in laws grave and placed her in it. Yes she was dead before I put her in the hole. She died in the hospital in another state. Honest!
I just allow our dogs to dig them up and then the dog is so proud of their find and we re-home it at our buddies farm.
I hope youre joking
my puppy digs em up too. sadly she never leaves me the opportunity to relocate them.
My dog finds it and i pour water in it
you re-home the dog or moles? i’m surprised the dogs are leaving them alive
Lol does your buddy know you are putting moles on his farm ? Lol
They sell these traps at farm stores. Been using them since I was a small kid 40 years ago.
Sound like they r not working well if. 40 years still trying to win
@Donot Robme biology isn't your strong suit, is it? Reproduction? It's part of nature. It happens, and the cycle continues.
Another great way.I am a hair dresser. You get popsicle sticks and put it in the hole them put a handful of cut hair in the hole.Moles have very little hair on there belly.The hair picks and smells and they move out.Keep doing this in New holes the old ones are marked .They will move out in weeks.They never came back.Just ask your hairdresser and set up a sign and large bag.They will live to see Another day.
Your idea is better. No animal cruelty. It's more humane and kind. The critters don't like the strong smell so they run away and move into the forest.
I use black racer snakes, owls, and hawks. They eliminate the fat, slow ones first. Rarely, I've needed to result to traps but they do work.
Getting a dog is the easier option, you woulda had 3 by now 😊
I just leave mine to live their best life
They can absolutely ruin your lawn and garden
Thank you ❤
Thank you Vickie !!! 🎉
I just drop hot peppers into the hills, and call it a day, the moles nibble and run, go to the neighbors yard or the woods. I don't have to kill moles and they don't bother our yard
I've been using a hose & flood them out /w shovel (smasher) in hand. With a pointy nozzle u can drill a hole w/water pressure & find tunnels easy.
I do same just that my dog digs the hole amd i pour in the water. Then the dog catches it when it pops out
Human hair. Sprinkle liberally around the area where you have moles. Just like the man in the video wearing gloves to handle the Trap the smell of humans will drive moles away quicker than anything else. Although they might look at you funny you should be able to get all the hair you need from a barbershop. I personally tried this myself about a year ago and it worked like a charm.
I used Mole plants to address my mole issues, worked like a charm.
My grandpa use to just uncover one of the tunnels back the truck up to it and put a hose from the muffler to the tunnel. Night night. Worked really good
Permanent forever sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Find someone with ferrets. Have them save their litter. (No clay litters. Wood pellets or paper.) Spread this over the area you are having a problem with. The smell resembles weasels, and they leave. The litter is good fertilizer.
When I was a young teen, I tried to flood one out shortly after finishing the yearly painting of just one side per year, of our widowed mother's old two-story white house where we lived after Dad died. I never expected to see the thing after flooding for so long. Suddenly, there it was, up and ready for battle, so I grabbed a nearby old brick and threw it at the varmint! I saw that I got the mole finally, and then looked up at the watery mud mess I had splashed up all over that freshly painted two-story wall.
An old farmer taught me to put a half stick of juicy fruit in the holes. No more moles.
Really?
@@klabi7947 really!
@@klabi7947 really.
@@klabi7947 they can't swallow the gum and choke to death.
I can live with the ones I have and their families.
You rock! Fuckhell if it took you four decades to do it right. You perfected the Karen trap! I love you man.
This the type of Dad that will give the person credit for showing him some cool !! Reminds me of my Dad!
"There's only one way to get rid of a mole, blow its bloody head off" J Carrot
The key is stuffing the dead mole back in the tunnel system it scares the other away.
Sure we are talking moles not gophers? Gophers are vegetarians. Moles are insectivores. Moles build shallow tunnels. Gophers build mounds like the ones raked flat in the video.
Buy Nash loop style traps. Use a small garden spade, push it into the ground over a section of tunnel making two slits in the ground that corresponds to the two loops. Set the trap and put the loops in the ground. Very effective and no digging and burying traps or ruining the grass.
I use sulfur smoke bombs in every hole. Its also good for the soil.
I like at the end how he says the dead one will keep the rest away and how I always wished leaving dead ants and spiders around as a warning to the rest would work similarly lol
Carl Spackler would be proud !!! 😅
I like to toss out a box of mothballs all around the yard. They are never seen again.
Please stop doing that. Depending on where you live its most likely illegal. Not only that, but it's toxic, unsafe, disgusting, and most importantly, not an effective mole repellent
toxic? good, buy more and place it all over
@@dustins965 Toxic to humans.
And they don't work for moles, gophers, or chipmunks, in my years of trying.
Poor animal
City centric viewpoint
When the damage from moles or gophers effect your home’s foundation then removing them by any means necessary needs to be done. The soil being loosened all around big trees on your property makes them susceptible to being blown over in the rain/snow soaked winter.
I used the same kind of traps to catch moles at my aunts cabin. We had about 20 of those traps, and out of all the different kind of mole traps there are, these were the ones that just plain worked.
We made a tool that was the same width as the traps loops are.
I’d find the active tunnels by walking over the tunnels and flattening them out by stepping on them and packing them down. The next day the active tunnel would be opened back up, so I’d pack about a 1’ foot section back down, use the tool to cut slots into the packed earth and gently slipped the traps loops into the tunnel until the traps trigger was just barely touching the ground. You don’t want the trigger touching though or it’ll spring to early, then when the mole digs through boom, the trap is set. Mole caught.
I didn’t go thru all the comments to see if he’s calling gophers moles. My moles don’t make mounds, only tunnels. My gophers will make mounds with tunnels and are easy to poison with no tearing up of the lawn or any digging.
Lime worked for me. A local garden center told me to spread lime on my lawn because it creates an environment moles hate. I didn't believe it but spread it like fertilizer. (Which, by the way, works great as fertilizer). Moles packed up and left in about a week. That was two years ago. I spread in the fall and spring, and they have not returned.
I used the garden hose and automobile exhaust pipe routine. Wrapping the end of the hose with a wet rag will protect the hose from the heat of the exhaust pipe. 30 minutes later the gophers were gone and never came back. Do not use this technique in a crowded neighborhood (like San Francisco) as the tunnels may run underneath a neighbor's house.
Moles are basically blind and tend to travel along hard surfaces such as bender boards, cement, rocks, even tree roots. However when they do make it into an open area they go crazy. They travel 3-12 inches underground making it very easy to trap or bait. When you see their mounds or raised tunnels/trails you can simply stick your finger or probe in the center of the activity and find the tunnel. No need to demolish their tunnel and fill it back in with dirt. They will simply create a new tunnel. Plus those bear claw traps are best used in sandy/loose soils where other traps can easily get clogged up. My company Smith’s Pest Management uses stainless steel trigger traps with gopher and mole sized traps. Place one trap going each direction in the tunnel. Once traps are set best to cover the tunnel holes with a big enough rock or ball up moist/wet soil and carefully close the hole then you can throw dirt in as you please.
I use one of those Place-n-Step on traps. put it over a mole run, set it by stepping on it. Works every time. No digging, raking, gloves. Don't even have to flatten the runs.
Got one in my yard now this is a life saver for the grass
I have a different type of trap, for mine you find a tunnel just tamp down a small section with your foot, the trap has legs that go down on either side of the tunnel with a spike that will pierce the tunnel. When the mole comes along later and goes to clear the blockage he'll push up on the ground which triggers the spike to stab the mole. Pull the trap out after it's sprung, clean it off and find another tunnel.
My hounds were the ultimate mole hunters.
I don't know about moles but my cat's absolute annihilate Gophers 😂.
I grew up in a small farm town and we used to get $2 a gopher caught as a kid in the Alfalfa fields. Farmers loved that child labor
My way of getting rid of moles was just a good hunting dog. Shelby was half springer spaniel/half britney and was a master at hunting moles. I used to take her over to my grandma's every year and she'd dig up and kill 4 or 5 in a day
Do what my mother did. She got the axe and waited by one of the mole runs. When she saw the dirt move, she struck with the axe and it came up bloody. Success. The mole was already buried.
They were here before I was, so, they can stay until the Alley Cat Crew shows up.
Thanks man. I’ll never need to know this but glad I do
Seems more like pocket gophers than actual moles, at least where I grew up
Yes. That is the "out-o-sight" mole trap. I've used them for years to get rid of moles. You also want to use a bucket that's opaque to light as moles are very sensitive to light and will avoid the trap if there is any light leak around the trap.
My dad always used ones that go above the ground. Smash there tunnel down in a spot and cram thw trap in there when it's pushed up on a spike came down into them. They seemed to work when you got the right tunnel. This guy's way seems like it would have a better success rate
Use gophinator traps for gophers and they have smaller for moles. Same methodology
and he does the right thing by never showing a mole on the internet because after my wife saw a mole, "I" "like the big dummy I am" "caught one being the good husband for her" and the second she saw the, as she put it Cute little hairy blind creatures" I knew from the tone of her voice my garden was done for! and the many generations of farmers going all the way back to Scotland just before they got on the boat they were shaking their heads in disbelief and shame the way I looked it in the eye and went ahead and still stepped in the cow patty
This was my first job at 11 years old. Trapping moles. We ran a dozen traps a day.
oxygen/acetylene torch works great. It is a little noisy and tends to wreck your yard but it sure gets rid of them.
I have used these in the past, can't find them anymore. Another tip I'll share is to add about a foot of braided wire to the trap & stake it securely to the ground. The reason is why I need a new trap. Apparently the last mole didn't get caught well enough.
Maybe someone (possibly the booster but I don't expect that) can explain: why nitrile gloves specifically? Is it to do with the weight of the gloves potentially tripping the trap? I'm confused how those thin gloves would be the better option over work gloves that could disperse the weight of the trap accidentally closing on your hand.
We always just stuck a water hose down em and let it run until it came out the top.
Did that work. I tried it once and they came back for more
I worked on a golf course in my 20s, we would just tap the tunnel at a spot back flat with our foot, and place the trap, the mole would come tru and push the dirt back up to open the tunnel back up and spike it, leaving the mole under the ground. Dint have to do atl that digging
Road flares aren't just for roads. Moles love em too, share the light people.
That's the spirit 👍
Try a Talpirid mole trap. No digging necessary, no hands and knees, and they work great.
Once you lay the tunnels flat sow unwrapped bubble gum in the tunnels. They eat the gum and it causes them to choke and die. Permatreat guy taught me this when I lived in a low income area
My cats take care of them. No chemicals, and I don't need a trap.
step 1: soak ground thoroughly with water. Step2: stick 2 steel rods about 2 feet deep. Step 3: connect (+) side to one pole and (-) side to the other and wait. connect 2 or more batteried in series for faster results
Moles are a blessing..... Cmon dad, don't murder you friendly moles. They gotta live too.
Moles: "Well fellas, we had a good run."
Dry ice works great too. It's just solid carbon dioxide, it doesn't harm your lawn.
I had a huge black and white tom cat that bagged a few gophers and even a mole once, he was a good pet.
My dad would take off the lawnmower muffler and attach a 2 ft straight pipe to the exhaust outlet. He would connect a garden hose to the end of the pipe. Then stick the end of the garden hose in a gofer hole and bury the hole. Turn up the throttle and let it run until the mower was out of gas. He would kill all the gofers for a city block.
Have tons of prairie dogs on my property. i just leave them because, like moles, they are a vital part of the ecosystem and keep the birds and predators fed well, then they leave by livestock alone
This is how my granddad's been catching them since forever lol
I planted crocuses in their tunnels. They left and my yard looked awesome in the spring.
I have 8 cats in my garden. No large bugs, no rats, no moles nothing.
My old neighbor showed me this exact trick. Works great 👍