60 Traps....gone!!!!!

[derbylad1 293]

I put down around 60 duffus traps last week on a farm and was going to be quite a good earner. However on returning to check them....all gone. I had a few neighbouring farms in line as well, so you can imagine how pissed off i am.

 

It was in quite a posh area as well.

 

Just like to here others thoughts and experience on this. Do i buy more traps and be a lot more tactful, ie not using traps...?????

 

Cheers Gaz

[Lab 10,979]

Get more traps, get a camera set up, find out who's stealing them and let them know if it happens again they will have knee problems.

[derbylad1 293]

I got a feeling its someone whos been lamping hares. There have been reports of it before.

 

I hope they come on here and read this.....cuz you're a fecking waster, firstly stealing from my livelihood and secondly running hares that are carrying young. Pricks like this......f**k it!!! I'll catch the kunts.

[arnieboy 93]

thats not on mate hope you catch the robbing b*****ds ive had a lot of traps nicked and damaged before and have caught 1 culprit redhanded needless to say the payed me more than the agreed fee

[OldTrapCollector 376]

Ouch! That has got to hurt. Let's hope that you find them, and the person responsible. It might be that someone watched you setting them and went back later for them.

 

I had that happen to me once with a long line of rabbit wires, but he got his come-uppence!

 

OTC

[Matt 160]

That's a shite thing to happen.

 

I had it myself quite recently. Not on the same scale admittedly, but I lost 6 traps out of a beer garden that was closed off. The b*****d even took the marker pins.

 

It's at times like this you wonder if it's all worth it. £240 worth of traps plus the loss of revenue from the moles, and all because some dick want's to make a quick buck.

 

Saddest thing of all is that they may just end up in a scrap yard somewhere.

[micky 3,325]

The sad thing is , if they were not taken by a mole catcher ,then they will be sold to a mole catcher.

[derbylad1 293]

That's a shite thing to happen.

 

I had it myself quite recently. Not on the same scale admittedly, but I lost 6 traps out of a beer garden that was closed off. The b*****d even took the marker pins.

 

It's at times like this you wonder if it's all worth it. £240 worth of traps plus the loss of revenue from the moles, and all because some dick want's to make a quick buck.

 

Saddest thing of all is that they may just end up in a scrap yard somewhere.

With all this shite weather, i waited a to have a good days work on there. However i just ended up driving round looking at empty holes. I must admit around 40 of the traps were the cheaper variety but still...i've lost my confidence to buy more and get them down. So traps lost, 2 days work lost and potenital revenue lost (from this job and others from the jobs ahead).

[Giro 2,648]

If folk are lamping hares at night on land, they want in and out I doubt they would lift them..

 

Be another moley man..

 

Its a dirty trick what ever happened to them..

[The one 8,402]

Think its happened to most of us mate and it must be somebody who knows what there for watch the hunting sites and ebay and good luck getting them back

[Matt 160]

That's a good point Giro.

 

Got any serious competition in the area Derbylad? I would put anything passed some of the new generation of molecatchers/grasscutters/painters/gardeners/windowcleaners etc.

 

A trail camera may help, or it may just be another expense. It's no good finding out that someone in a dark jacket and beanie hat wandered in and nicked your traps the night before.

 

The NFU insurance policy for molecatchers includes a theft clause. I'm not sure if they would cover in these circumstances but it may be worth thinking about. I would also report it to the police just in case they've pulled some scrote with a pile of traps in their motor.

 

One thing I did think of when this happened to me is that it is nigh on impossible to identify the traps. I'm thinking of getting some tooling made up so that I can stamp all my traps with some sort of unique mark.

[troter58 1,711]

sad people about to do that mate but i bet a pound to a penny it is some other pest controler who as had them you were seen putting them down and they come back for them wish you better luck in the future

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Sympathise with you

Edited March 31, 2013 by CHALKWARREN

[j j m 6,483]

i ran a thread last year when i had 25 traps stolen my traps were marked 5 weeks later not 300 yards away from my permission i caught the lad checking his traps on his permission 6 in the morning guess what they were my traps he had drove past and watched me setting mine,needless to say i got my traps back and he needed a dentist appointment,he gave up his permission after i had a word with the farmer i now have his permission as the farmer thought he could no longer trust him

[Lab 10,979]

 

i ran a thread last year when i had 25 traps stolen my traps were marked 5 weeks later not 300 yards away from my permission i caught the lad checking his traps on his permission 6 in the morning guess what they were my traps he had drove past and watched me setting mine,needless to say i got my traps back and he needed a dentist appointment,he gave up his permission after i had a word with the farmer i now have his permission as the farmer thought he could no longer trust him

Just the kind of stories I like to hear.... Good on ye mate!!!