Mouse trapping
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Topic: Mouse trapping
Posted By: Animal Cracker
Subject: Mouse trapping
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:35am
Over the years I have had more than 1 occasion were mice have done damage to something I care about. So now I put the more sensitive stuff in metal containers/cabinets and I've done poisons,cats(some good some worthless) even mouse traps. I thin them down,but sooner or later there are more. Now I try to have fun with it. I use to trap furs way back when and decided to use more traps. Particularly the wood Victor type traps. I have about a half dozen out. Found myself with some kills, sprung traps,different baits it seem it would go in streaks. When I seen the bait missing or sprung trap with bait missing I figure I missed this one. Now I think how to stop this from happening. I use the traps with the metal bait trip and I place a kernel of corn on the trigger and use pliers to crimp it around the kernel or sweet feed. Bang they aren't stealing the bait as often and I kill a half dozen or so before re-baiting It has been slow lately,but with fall to be here soon I am sure it will pick up again. And remember to always check your traps,especially now the summer months  |
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:41am
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Some customers of mine had a very bad mouse problem with their Foundation cracked and the mice found a place to enter. They found a device that used a 5 gallon bucket with a thin piece of wood as a ramp to go up to the top of the bucket and then they fashioned a wheel on top with peanut butter on it. The mice would climb onto the wheel and fall into the bucket of water and drown. This trap was very effective for them as they had a large cornfield next to their house and in the fall the mouse took them over. You can look on YouTube they have several versions ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:52am
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how many mice does it take to make a fur coat? ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:54am
 Hey animal cracker, just saw you're new around here. Welcome to the forum and watch out for ole shame shame. He'll be along soon I'm sure ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
LouSWPA wrote:Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:57am
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Seen one of them videos were they were using a bucket and Walk the Plank method , bait is on the end of a wooden lathe that is suspended over bucket - it is held in place with small magnet on one end , a pin higne just at tip point so trap resets after mouse goes to get bait and goes over balance point and drops into bucket with water or antifreeze, once tripped the trap resets itself onto magnet . The dang things seem to get into everything and anything one has stored . ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 9:11am
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I did the water bucket thing once and wired it to electric fence charger. Had a metal food tray and that is where they completed the circuit. Got several that way. But I think a pack rat got in there because when I went to check it it was destroyed. |
Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 10:50am
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I have done the water bucket thing and did catch quite a few. As far as traps-set the trap with the bait platform perpendicular to the wall. They run along the wall and cross the trigger part. You get a shot at the entire body of the mouse. No bait needed either. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 12:12pm
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Thankfully we don't get invaded very often but every few years no end to the mouse trouble. When you get 2 mice in one victoy trap you know your over run. I have good luck with the victor tin cat when they get to foxy for the regular ones. My wondeful was against putting out poison when we had little kids but when they get real bad it is much faster than traps.
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 2:47pm
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 7:48pm
| dang! i'm a marked man! PffffT! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 7:51pm
| I also use the 5 gallon bucket method for rats in the sheds. I just put sum oats on top of the water (they float) and put the bucket under anything they been walking on. got eight one night. I also found out to spray apple cider vinegar around the outside of the house, mice don't like that stuff and usually won't cross over it. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 5:36am
| I love it, DiyDave! Darrel |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 8:15am
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 8:15am
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Oh yeah........ WELCOME to the forum Animal Cracker!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 2:43pm
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I usally just lay aboard againist the top of the bucket with water in and they go up fallin |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 6:14pm
Still up, when I just checked, If it don't work for you, go to Youtube and search best mousetrap, or bucket mousetrap...
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Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 8:09pm
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Those rolling mouse traps and the bucket are great. It is fun to watch my ball bearing pussycat catch them. He is one heck of a mouser.
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 8:42am
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My biggest problem with controlling the mouse population seems to be the raccoon! They eat Tom Cat poison like it's candy! Creating all kind of havoc in the process. Have used a bucket trap in the past, coons knocked it over and ate the bait. I hate mice in the buildings but coons may be worse! Stupid things got in the round baler a few years back and 'nested' in the twine. Ruined all 4 bundles. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 6:17pm
Get an old 5 gallon bucket, wif a good tight lid, carve a mouse sized hole, in the bottom, and bolt the big bar of tomcat bait, to the bottom of the bucket...
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Posted By: Animal Cracker
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2018 at 7:44pm
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Good Blue tick or red bone and a 22 mag will take care of the coon problem.And it is fun to,love the sound of a hound dog too. AC |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 9:01am
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Dave, that is a great idea, I will pursue that! When the coons leave the poison alone, the mice eat it and leave everything else alone. When the coons are eating the bait the mice eat wiring, insulation, and whatever else they can driving me crazy! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 6:02pm
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If the coons knock the bucket around, I'd screw it to the floor, too... We usta have rats, that would chew up everything, from wood, to 20 penny nails... and Yeah, we had rat killins... [TUBE]9Z0q2p8tVpM[/TUBE] |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 2:07pm
| Gets some of that Gold Marlin fly bait put it in a pan and add cola to it. Coons love it I am told, some don't even get away from the pan before theys die |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 3:17pm
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Most will be within 10 feet of the pan. That stuff works. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 4:26pm
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Funny story from a month ago. Had been leaving all the overhead doors open on the shop and closed them one night after feeding cattle as it was supposed to rain with high winds. Entered the man door next morning and heard what sounded like a housecat in heat, thought it was under the awning on back of the shop but as it became louder, I figured I had trapped a cat the night before when closing all doors. Clever me, I start walking down the shop, past the D15II, the TT and the CA while calling "hear kitty kitty" . . . . Just about when I get to the front tires on the 185, out from under the 190XT in the corner struts a bobcat, and he is pi$$ed about being in that closed shop overnight! This ol' fat boy jumps up on the front tire of the 185 and he's still coming, struttin and howling as I am between him and the open man door. If you told me I could jump from the front tire to the operators platform, I would have told you no way but I was not stayin within his reach. I yelled at him as he stopped to look up at me and he bolted, running smack into one of the overhead doors before finding the open man door. Yeah right, "here kitty kitty" . . . . .
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2018 at 6:35pm
Reminds me of anudder jerry clower story: [TUBE]-AX9QoFhEhI[/TUBE]
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2018 at 3:30pm
| Then you went to the house and changed your under pants. hum |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2018 at 4:43pm
| I can laugh about it now but that day it did wake me up for sure. Came back to the house and see my phone on the counter, doubt if I would have taken the time to snap a shot if I had the phone anyway! |