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  1. Steve Albano
    Are the UK putange half barrels imported from China or made in the UK?
  2. Steve Albano
    Thanks, your results speak for themselves I used “out of sight” traps for many years, which are similar to Talpex. Great trap design, but lots of manufacturing issues, so they definitely needed “tuning”. And the latest version of them is worthless. I have moles in my garden right now and I have a few Duffus traps around the shop, going to give them a try.
  3. Steve Albano
    We rarely trap moles on farms or sell mole traps to farmers. Moles just aren’t that big a problem on farms. We trap moles in landscapes, lawns and flowerbeds mostly. We get gophers on farms in huge numbers.
  4. Steve Albano
    Moorman and Tank, do you mostly use the Duffus style trap? Any particular supplier you recommend?
  5. Steve Albano
    Impressive work on this thread, gentlemen! Lots of interesting pictures and stories to read through.
  6. Steve Albano
    The manufacturer just recently made some big changes to the Out of Sight trap, including a much weaker spring, and an aluminium body rather than a cast iron body. People seem to hate the new ones, I haven't used them.
  7. Steve Albano
    Victor Out o Sight mole traps work great, but do need some trigger modification to make them more sensitive. I've caught tens of thousands of moles with them. Very similar design to Talpex, right? And the reason for such a strong spring is that the way most people set them, they close through dirt.
  8. Steve Albano
    There's something to look forward to!
  9. Steve Albano
    I know, but they sell a lot of traps for me, and also international shipments require customs forms and quite a bit of extra work, so happy to have them distribute. But I do know it makes the traps pricey over there. I think I'll have another mole trap on the market pretty soon, maybe in a couple of months.
  10. Steve Albano
    It's really amazing how much work, craftsmanship and raw steel went into some of these old traps. We manufacture a mole trap that weighs 1.3 ounces, and I'd like to reduce that to under 1.0 ounce. It really is surprising how stuff used to be made.
  11. Steve Albano
    In my most humble and unbiased opinion, the Trapline mole trap is perfect right out of the box, and doesn't require any "tweaking". :laugh:
  12. Steve Albano
    Excuse my ignorance, but what is an SSSI?
  13. Steve Albano
    Yeah I saw that on the flatpack website. Personally I think it makes more sense to reverse that and have the wire loops and triggers made of stainless and use galvanised for the body.
  14. Steve Albano
    Yes, I agree Moxy, and I think that's the way it should be too. The contact points on the trip bars and the kill loops and other moving parts would benefit from being made of a nice hard temper stainless wire. The sheet metal body wouldn't matter as much.
  15. Steve Albano
    And that would be my opinion too. I like the concept but as I've said many times as have others. I can't see how you benefit from the added expense. All this talk of stainless!! Stainless will rot (certainly not as fast as steel) but all will Depend on the grade of stainless used to manufacture the traps. There's no way I can see they are going to use a high grade. Not saying it can't be done and they won't but the price difference will be...!!? Well..! Noticeable But let's not confuse the trap body from the wire work. As echoed in the above comment. Once the spring has gone! B
  16. Steve Albano
    Yes, I've had one for I would guess 8 or 10 years. It's a well made trap, but kind of complicated to set. And it's too big to actually slide inside a mole tunnel. Do you know where this trap is manufactured? Anyone know?
  17. Steve Albano
    I don't think those poison mole worms are all that dangerous--they certainly don't seem to cause much harm to moles.
  18. Steve Albano
    We have many of the same old wives tales here in the states. One I hear all the time is "put the dead mole back in the mole run and other moles will leave the area". And yet if you check your sets carefully you will often notice that another mole has tunneled right next to a dead mole in a trap. Another that we hear all the time over here is to put chewing gum into the mole and gopher runs and the animals will eat it and will get their digestive tracts blocked up and will die. Of course there's no truth at all to it, but it's amazing how persistent the myth is. "You surely need a s
  19. Steve Albano
    Yes I agree with that, however I'm not convinced a curved base plate is really needed, as it just forms a roof over the opened tunnel section. I don't know if the curved plate forms a tighter roof and whether that has any advantage.
  20. Steve Albano
    I like that spring modification on the double ended Fenn. You only need two springs as compared to four on the duffus type traps, so that saves you money in manufacturing, and that set up also makes better use of limited space. And I don't see any drawbacks to it, would be interested in what others think about that.
  21. Steve Albano
    OTC, beautiful post, thanks. I am no expert on the Duffus style trap, but I have used them and have caught moles in them. In looking at the mechanics of the trap, I wondered about exactly the same point that you raised. Just as you said, adjusting the point where the upwards pressure of the spring loop strikes the setting pin to a position closer to the fixed pivot point of the setting pin would allow for a less upwards pressure on the trigger contact point of the trap. That alteration would result in a equally powerful trap with a more sensitive trigger, all else being equal. The only c
  22. Steve Albano
    That looks like a Japanese made hori hori, we used to use those. No need for stainless if you're using them every day, never a chance for any rust to build up.
  23. Steve Albano
    haha, nothing better than a stainless hori hori.
  24. Steve Albano
    Yes I have some of those, in fact a customer of mine brought some back from Europe and gave them to me. Never caught a mole in them. Not saying it's not possible to catch a mole in them, just that I didn't.
  25. Steve Albano
    Is this the Bavarian mole trap?
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