Trap Eliminated My Backyard Moles

Trap Eliminated My Backyard Moles MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 29-6-4 The EasySet Mole Eliminator Trap does the near impossible. It actually kills moles, time after time. In fact, I went from no hits in mole control to four - for - four with the new trap. "I have yet to have an unsatisfied customer," says Bob Bruno, distributor of the trap. "I had one woman tell me she had never found a trap yet that worked. I told her to take one and try it. If it didn't work, send it back. Instead, she sent me a check for four more for friends." Like that customer, I had never met a trap or bait that did the job, not that it's an easy job to do. Moles are fast, moving 80 ft./min. in an existing tunnel. Researchers say they can dig new tunnels at the rate of 18 ft. per hour or as much as 150 ft. per day. When Bruno showed me the $34.95 trap at a farm show, I was skeptical. I did like the money-back guarantee, something my local hardware store wasn't about to give me on their traps. My first few tries were dismal failures. I called Bob, and he gave me a few pointers. One suggestion was stepping down only on the portion of the tunnel where the trap would go. If the soil was too sandy, flatten a pop can and put that under the trigger to give it more surface area. Most important was to make sure the trigger mechanism was directly over the tunnel. Because what happens is that when the mole comes back to open the collapsed tunnel, he pushes upward, triggering the trap. Other smarter mole trappers would have instinctively known these things but I was happy to have Bob's advice. I headed back to the yard, carefully stepped down only a section of a main tunnel that would be under the trap trigger. Then I centered the trap, which looks like two scissors inside a steel frame. I stepped down on the footrest, checking the trigger mechanism as it went down to be sure it rested directly over the flattened tunnel. The next morning I checked the trap and it had been triggered. I had my mole. A few days later, another mole entered the area. He too made a one-way trip to the nearby woods. A few days later, a third mole met his fate. My fourth and last mole - so far - showed up one afternoon and began digging tunnels. The next morning I set my trap, and within four hours that mole, too, was history. The one problem I found was that in very soft sod, the framework of the trap sunk down below ground as I set it with my foot. In that case, I carefully withdrew the trap a couple of inches to ground level. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob Bruno, Nuisance Wildlife Control Products, P.O. Box 2, Winona, Minn. 55987 (ph 888 778-7988; fax 507 454-3999; info @easysetmoletrap. com; www. easysetmole trap.com).

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