moles

[CWatters]

Was on youtube awhile back.

[Roger]

Late to this thread but thought I should mention the method my father adopted when we moved into a newly built house in 1954.

IIRC the procedure worked like this.

A tunnel was exposed by taking out a sod. A small amount of carbide was introduced into the tunnel followed by water. After the carbide stopped fizzing a lighted match was introduced and the clod quickly replaced.

The procedure was repeated across the garden and several times in the following weeks but the moles did disappear eventually.

FWIW I have tried tunnel traps in my present garden without success - the moles just dig round them, and connecting my car exhaust up to a tunnel for a considerable time didn't seem to have an appreciable effect.

I also still have some poison somewhere but I suspect that is the stuff that has now been banned. That had no appreciable effect either. I did manage to catch a live mole while dismantling a ruined stone wall on a neighbours farm but he persuaded me to set it free.

[geraldthehamster]

look:

though that that bloke is selling stuff, and he's not going to admit that any of the things he sells don't work. He's wrong about sonic devices (which don't work) , but right about mothballs (which don't work either - expect a new molehill the next day, with a mothball on top of it ;-)

Regards Richard

[geraldthehamster]

Won't work. The hills are just where they've pushed to spoil from their tunnels. Operating on the same theory I shoved a headless rat left by one of the cats down one of the mole hill holes. Having read up a bit more since on the eating habits of dear talpa, I think I was just giving him a meal. That's dear departed talpa, because a barrel trap got him, straight out of the box.

With apologies for intorducing headless rats into the conversation.

Regards Richard

[The Natural Philosopher]

Modern car do not produce carbon maooxide.

[Roger]

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

Well not very much, but the exhaust is not exactly life supporting either.

And not so modern cars are much the same. The car in question was a C reg Sierra and the incident in question probably about 1990. I have tended to ignore moles since other than flattening tumps that get in the way. Only this morning I met my neighbour out in his fields collecting mole hill soil for his sweet peas but I don't go to that length to clear the tumps, usually a good kicking is sufficient. :-)