Makalu

How the hell do you get rid of Moles from your lawn? Not worried about inhumane answers!!!

Mak.

NotoriousREV

Oh God, I'm having a flashback of Guinea Pigs and Hunting Horses

Popeye P1

Smoke em out. Put Smoke bombs in their tunnels.

TelBoy

Concrete it over.

merkin

Take their white sticks away

Makalu

Do you think a high pressure hose would work?

M.

stevem2k

Let loose the Badgers of War !

Gordo

Petrol in holes, set fire ---> blows/ smokes them out

pour some soapy water on the lawn, collect the worms that surface, put poison tablets in their bodies (rat poison) and drop in mole runs as bait

flood the little sods - hosepipe down the highest hole you can see for an hour or two (preferably with an enthusiastic terrier in attendance for when they surface)



G

DavidBrown

To quote Jasper Carrott -- "There's only one way to get rid of a mole.. blow his bloody 'ead off"

Brendan Hughes

LOL @ NotoriousREV!

Who was it said last time "Hello Dave T-S"

Dad ran a Honda C90 with a hosepipe from the exhaust for about 5 hrs, but I don't think it worked. ISTR he eventually used a mole trap set wearing marigolds to avoid the human smell.

chiark

'twas me

Maybe this should go on the Scoobynews technical archive?

squezzybabes

spaank!

Butty

iTrader: (2)

Sounds like too many people have watched Caddyshack!!

lpski1

Have a read of Ian Banks - The Wasp Factory he has some unique ways of killing rodents and the like.

chiark

Oh marvellous, here we go again

<fetches popcorn>

stevem2k

You need a mission from 'Ginger'

AndyBrew

Recently had exactly the same problem and tried all sorts of weird and wonderful things, here's some things that don't work: -

flooding them out
smoking them out
ultra-sonic mole repelers
anti mole smelly stuff
several hefty swipes of a 1 wood when the mole is surfacing
cats

also

moles live on their own apart from a quick bonk now and again, so don't let these pest control cowboys tell you different, they say that so as when your lawn is continually dug up they can say it must be one of the ones we didn't get

so how did I get rid of it......

step 1
get a nice hefty 4 prong garden fork by the back door.

step 2
If your patient you will catch the little bastid coming to the surface, you'll see the earth being pushed up and nows your moment.

step 3
Grab fork and very quietly position yourself above the hole and raise the fork above your head ensuring you keep your hand over the handle for extra force.

step 4
Wait until the earth is really moving, you won't see the mole, if you do even better but I never did!

step 5
descend fork with all your might it will need to penetrate the earth by at least 4 inches so you really need to give it some welly.

you may need to repeat the above a couple of times before you spear the little git, but don't give up and you'll get your mole Don't dig the little fur ball up either leave it in the ground as the smell will keep his buddies at bay, don't worry you won't smell it above ground.

It may also be that sometime after splatting the cutie one of his mates moves into his terroritory, as its a ready built home for the taking, unfortunately more spade work will be required

hope that helps

Andy

p.s.
proof cats are useless, and it was approx 10 minutes after this he met his maker yeehaaa!



[Edited by AndyBrew - 11/25/2003 12:44:46 PM]

damage

The hose method doesn't work as I've tried this. I had the hose on for hours. the next day more mole hills.

Using mole traps and wearing gloves is the only way I got rid of the little gits.

David Lock

As above. Moletrap. Dig down between a couple of molehills and find the "run". Set and insert moletrap into run with clean hands or gloves as they are fussy about smells. Backfill but without preventing trap from springing closed. Make sure hole is completely dark. If you have kids or pets keep them away as a mole trap closed on a paw, snout or little Waynes' finger would be pretty nasty. DL

LG John

A 12 bore

Tiggs

hose wont work because of the incredible speed they dig at- even in hard soil they will outrun a hole filling with water by digging away, down, then up from the water....the water wont catch them.

i got mine by waiting for hours, when it surfaced i dug down and kept digging till i got it. left a 4 foot hole in the lawn but i caught it!

let it go miles away...happy mole and happy me.

T

Sith

LOL @ tiggs. Just pictured Space Jam with the fat bloke 'fixing a divot' just with tiggs after his mole.

Dave T-S

Someone call? Whoops, I was six months late for this one

How did I get rid of mine? Moved, and forgot to warn the new owners

[Edited by Dave T-S - 11/25/2003 8:47:55 PM]

the chosen one

my friend just poured some petrol down the holes and set them alight let them fry for a while, if the fire and smoke doesn't kill them then hopefully it will driver them away, done a treat for my mate.

steve2k

One of my uncles had this problem and someone told him to try the following.

1. Get old musical bithday card or buy one.

2. Dig hole in garden near holes and bury card.

you may laugh but it worked, the moles f**ked off to the garden next door and dug up his garden. He didn`t tell his neigbour and was pi**ing himself laughing when he was complaining about the moles.

[Edited by steve2k - 11/26/2003 12:37:29 AM]

David Lock

How did he know when it was the mole's birthday?

Tiggs

pouring anything down a hole is a hiding to nothing.

it will screw up your lawn (who wants to put petrol in their soil?) and a mole hole is not a subway, as mole moves along soil gets dumped behind him, the surrounding soil will also absor whatever is poured in so even a two legged retard mole will still escape most liquids.

what do you think they do when it rains? you think they all put on scuba gear?

Sith

PSML @ Tiggs again. Retard mole Scuba gear. Special SBS trained moles for deep earth exploration. LOL

john_s

iTrader: (1)

You don't know when you've got these though, because they can hide in your garden for weeks on end without leaving any sign.

John.