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  1. davethe
    A few broken up pieces of ewe nuts and chicken feed (both are high protein). I went off the practice of smearing peanut butter on the treadle after spattering it all over my face with accidental triggers during setting.
  2. davethe
    I've not had a whole lot of success with rats previously, but I've caught 4 over the last 6 nights here now. This morning's was quite a chunk. The arms on one side of the trap came unhooked holding onto him.
  3. davethe
    Oh, I see. I'll switch, once I've used up this near kilometre of mono. (I'm not made of money, you know.)
  4. davethe
    I find my fishing line knots slip off the triggers now and then, so every few months I have to sit down and go through tying most of them back on. I might try both methods, a cable tie on the trigger then tie the line to that; the cable tie would be too big to slip through the gap in the trigger. (Obviously I'm just showing off that I'm made of money to be considering this.)
  5. davethe
    A mouse seems to have moved in to where the rat used to live, and he doesn't seem to weigh enough to set the trap off. I'll have to re-set and try extra delicate tap trapping.
  6. davethe
    My first ever catch was an aquatic mole in a flooded tunnel.
  7. davethe
    Got two moles in a hayfield today though.
  8. davethe
    Not caught anything since, not even on camera. Perhaps I should fill in that hole (so I can see if it gets dug out again) and choose a different spot.
  9. davethe
    I might have tapped the treadle to a slightly higher sensitivity, perhaps. But otherwise took heart from the fact he wasn't scared of going in there and put fresh chicken feed pellets out each day. It's all set again for tonight, although I have read that the death throes of the first might dissuade the second.
  10. davethe
    Got 'im! Unfortunately no video, I guess it was on its cooldown "time between videos".
  11. davethe
    At this point I think I'm just feeding a rat. You can see him sitting on the treadle eating the bait underneath it. I did the gentle tapping thing but it still doesn't react.
  12. davethe
    Well that's annoying. The little bugger climbs on the trap and seems to pull the peanut butter off. Safety catch is definitely disengaged though.
  13. davethe
    Beautiful, thank you.
  14. davethe
    Nope. A few old ones doddering around, but nothing and no-one I know how to use 'em ratting.
  15. davethe
    We only have a collie, and while it's generally an intelligent breed we have the one who drags the average down.
  16. davethe
    (Coo, Nicepix in my thread. I followed all your putange videos and caught ~40 moles here over the last year. My hay is much better this year for not being full of mole hills. Thank you.) I've ordered a Fenn mk4. I'm guessing "what bait?" is a personal preference thing loaded with opinions. I did catch one with a bit of Snickers once.
  17. davethe
    That looks like my level of woodworking. Hopefully someone on that thread has any important dimensions.
  18. davethe
    Nice. Any chance of some dimensions for a complete newbie?
  19. davethe
    https://www.trapbarn.com/product/quill-tunnel-only/ You don't mean this do you? 30 quid for a metal cover?! ?
  20. davethe
    Tunnels over? Something specific, or just "a big old flowerpot with holes in, pegged down" type affair?
  21. davethe
    > best was an electronic one that electrocuted the rat but broke when it got wet I'm in Wales, I think that would be completely useless
  22. davethe
    We have a smallholding, and we have chickens, so we have rats. We also have three cats, but while they're pretty good at bringing back mice-sized prey, rarely do they kill rats. The chickens have a small brick shed and an outside area, and you can see tunnels going down under the building here and there. The chickens are fed by a treadle feeder, so there's not loads of chicken feed around for the rats, but I guess there's enough of something to keep them in the area. I've tried spring traps a few times, in areas away from the chickens where I was also able to exclude the cats, and
  23. davethe
    Thank you. I hadn't even thought about that. That sounds like it would awesome. I don't know that anyone I know has ferrets though. I suppose there're the local Facebook groups I could sign up to and ask on, if I can't find anyone through here. I try to avoid it (FB) as much as possible though.
  24. davethe
    Hi, I've been reading the forum for a while, particularly any mole-trapping bits, and I've had a lot of success over the last year, trapping the moles on our smallholding. I tried a couple of old scissor traps first, but I found I really got on well with putanges (perhaps controversially). I've made an account now, though, with the intention to make a "would anyone like to come and shoot some rats?" post. We have a lot of them living under the chicken shed, which doesn't feel like a great area to put poison or spring traps. I don't seem to have permission to do that yet, though. An
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