Moles, Best method to Eliminate ?

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  1. hwprouty

    hwprouty Platinum Level Contributor

    I actually have blasted one with my 20 gauge!
    Of course I was at home in a walking boot with nothing to do. Just waited at a fresh hole til he started moving dirt! Blammo!
     
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  2. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    Yep, that takes a lot of patients, quiet, and maybe a few beers while you pay close attention to ground movement. I saw movement once and jumped on that spot with my shoe heel....got him by squishing his guts.:D:D
    Whatever it takes....:D;)
     
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  3. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

  4. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    That's next!:D:D:D
    Front & side yards too....
     
  5. rgs455

    rgs455 Well-Known Member

    In addition to grubs, moles love earthworms. However, earthworms are good for your lawn. I use a company that puts poison bait in the trails and a granular preventive chemical to keep the moles out of the yard. So far, so good.
     
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  6. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    Must be something good under my grass for them to keep returning yr after yr.
    I used to pick up lots night crawlers in the spring after a heavy rain to use for walleye bait....
     
  7. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    If using the "gasoline explosion" method, use 93 octane or higher for best results.

    Hey, at least the dude, his wife, or kids were cool enough to post that...
     
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  8. knucklebusted

    knucklebusted Well-Known Member

    The two best things I've found that are low maintenance are as follows:

    1: Mix a 4oz bottle of caster oil and 8oz of dish washing liquid into a hose-attached yard sprayer. Liberally cover the yard with it. It is safe for your pets and children once dried. Every time I've used this, you could see the moles make a bee line away from my yard. Not sure how it works but it does. Maybe it makes the grubs taste bad or it give them the runs.

    2: Plant caster bean plants around your property. They won't burrow near them. If you let them grow to produce seeds, you can then just stuff a seed into any tunnel you find. They will leave that tunnel alone. The plants don't have to grow from the seeds to be effective.
     
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  9. bostoncat68

    bostoncat68 Platinum Level Contributor

    On the grubs, typically you won’t kill them until summer when they come towards surface. Here in northeast, you put down grub killer in June.
     
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  10. Max Damage

    Max Damage I'm working on it!

    I am over it, and just get used to the hills popping up all around. I have cat's but they can't get em if they are underground.
     
  11. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    ^^^ Sounds easy enough to try....
    Or maybe something as simple as a six transistor radio playing a little Rock & Roll all day & all night long.:D:D:D
     
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  12. Fox's Den

    Fox's Den 355Xrs

    Stick two electric probes in ground and Shock em out!!
     
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  13. mbryson

    mbryson Owner of Ornery grandma Buick

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    I've heard the Carl Spackler treatment is always a good start
     
  14. iowacat

    iowacat Well-Known Member

    This works for woodchucks, maybe for moles. Dump household ammonia down the holes. Or spray the area? Apparently woodchucks have very sensitive sense of smell and the ammonia makes it unpleasant to stay in the area. Relatively cheap and safe except if you spray your yard may smell like a men's restroom in a dive bar for a few days. Repeat every other week or so until they get the hint that it isn't a pleasant place to stay.
     
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  15. lostGS

    lostGS Well-Known Member

    While I haven't had the pleasure of having Moles. Not even sure they are in the state. But my parents did growing up. We used a trap like the Victor shown. One of our neighbors just waited very quietly on his porch. Until he saw one moving then took it out with a long screwdriver.

    Tim
     
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  16. dynaflow

    dynaflow shiftless...

    ...you'll get more bang for the buck:) with regular, octane slows combustion. Higher octane is safer to light, not necessarily safe but safer. In the good ol' days of 100+ leaded, you could watch the flame front travel across the surface...
     
  17. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    Well, no trap action yet. I've got a few poison worms out too. These little bastards seem to be surrounding my house, flower beds, even under the sidewalks & cement 3 car driveway. Travel to neighbors too. Annoying little guys.....
     
  18. 2dtrak

    2dtrak Gold Level Contributor

    Moles are very territorial. It is most likely just a pair male n female. 2 moles can do a ton of damage Once u catch one place it back into the run this will deter others from moving in. I have had good luck with both the scissor traps and the worms. Lately we have been fighting more voles. Place mouse traps in both directions in the run and drill a hole through the trap and use a 10 penny nail to hold it firmly in the run so they can’t go under neath it. Place a 1/2 piece of 3 or 4” conduit over the mouse traps so they have to go over the traps like a tunnel. Works every time
     
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  19. Quick Buick

    Quick Buick Arlington Wa

    pepper... mix it into a soup with water. spray it with a ortho type sprayer....
     
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  20. Mart

    Mart Gold level member

    Got back from gym and sizzors trap was sprung but no carcass. ....bummer.
    Looks like activity around poison worms. Have wait a day or two to dig it up and see if there's a kill.
    New activity in rear yard where no traps are.....figures :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     

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