I'm a toolmaker and I built most of the plastic injection moulds for this trap. Probably spent at least 1000 plus hours machining, modifying and polishing the tooling for Goodnature products. They are still made right here in Napier, New Zealand. About 4km from where I live. The orange mounting bracket was one of the first molds I made when I started working for the tooling company. The trigger pin has a small plastic piece on the end of it. For the sealing face one half of the mold was 6 hours polishing under a microscope. Just another day for a toolmaker! They do a larger type for possum control as well.
TheRealMartian no worries, I always get a buzz seeing products of my hard work out in the real world. Especially halfway around the world on RUclips. I saw a BEP marine switch we made being used on Pure Living for life's battery bank a while back. No one ever sees all those hundreds of hours of work. It just sits closed inside a square block of mold steel. In New Zealand we have huge issues here with introduced pests killing our native bird life (stupid ground nesting kiwi birds) . Goodnature worked alongside a university to help produce the traps with great success. Less poison out in our forests and the traps require less maintenance with multiple kill abilities.
Patrick Rebecca Doohan Wow, very cool and thanks for your post. Do you know anything about the injection molding plastic used for this device? I'm considering one but worried about the housing degrading due to sun (UV) exposure.
Big Papi Big Papi Hiya, without giving away too much I can say the majority of the plastic is high quality glass (fibreglass) reinforced and performs well in the sun. It needs to be super strong because of the pressures involved with the mechanism. Our climate rivals/often exceeds California for UV damage and the traps survive well here. In summer we can get sunburnt standing outside for 5-8minutes without sunscreen on.
The walk the plank trap also looks good for a self resting trap. ruclips.net/video/nsoVcrFyrF8/видео.html Thinking a double bucket dug into the floor where you know they are running so you can pull the inner bucket when you need to empty with the outer bucket keeping the hole from collapsing.
Wouldn't it make sense to mount it higher (suitably shielded/inaccessible by pets) with a ramp leading up to it - allowing the ex-pest to fall away further?
search RUclips for this item and you will see tons of videos, I've just been watching them the last day or two. mice will step over dead ones to get to the food. secondly, you would be amazed at the predators which take away the dead mice/rats. I got hooked on searching out these darned things. there were 2 islands in some country overrun with rodents which was killing off the birds. they put up traps every 100'?? in rings around the islands. within a short time all the rodents were killed off. do a search and sit back and enjoy the videos.
Yeah but I still agree with Michael Tempsch, having the dead rodents farther away from the trap only decreases the chance that some rodents will associate the other dead rodents with the trap and stay away from it.
The company literally has a 10 minute video on how a team killed off a rat population on an island to save indigenous birds by mounting them on a bunch of trees, and replacing the baits & CO2s every six month.
I'm a toolmaker and I built most of the plastic injection moulds for this trap. Probably spent at least 1000 plus hours machining, modifying and polishing the tooling for Goodnature products. They are still made right here in Napier, New Zealand. About 4km from where I live.
The orange mounting bracket was one of the first molds I made when I started working for the tooling company. The trigger pin has a small plastic piece on the end of it. For the sealing face one half of the mold was 6 hours polishing under a microscope. Just another day for a toolmaker!
They do a larger type for possum control as well.
thanks for the great work. cool to meet the maker. nice job..very solid. appreciate the reco on the cage
TheRealMartian no worries, I always get a buzz seeing products of my hard work out in the real world. Especially halfway around the world on RUclips. I saw a BEP marine switch we made being used on Pure Living for life's battery bank a while back.
No one ever sees all those hundreds of hours of work. It just sits closed inside a square block of mold steel.
In New Zealand we have huge issues here with introduced pests killing our native bird life (stupid ground nesting kiwi birds) . Goodnature worked alongside a university to help produce the traps with great success. Less poison out in our forests and the traps require less maintenance with multiple kill abilities.
Patrick Rebecca Doohan Wow, very cool and thanks for your post. Do you know anything about the injection molding plastic used for this device? I'm considering one but worried about the housing degrading due to sun (UV) exposure.
Big Papi Big Papi Hiya, without giving away too much I can say the majority of the plastic is high quality glass (fibreglass) reinforced and performs well in the sun. It needs to be super strong because of the pressures involved with the mechanism. Our climate rivals/often exceeds California for UV damage and the traps survive well here. In summer we can get sunburnt standing outside for 5-8minutes without sunscreen on.
Your video have really improved the past 4-6 weeks... thank you
appreciate the compliment...thank you...I'm trying
Rodents ? I have squirrels, woodchucks, rabbits, chipmunks, ... I grow it, they eat it.
Love the excitement you had when it went off lol
The game camera will definitely help you make this trap more effective over time.
I would suggest a cage with larger openings to let the critters in but to help keep miss kitty's paws out.
That’s one of the best ever mouse trap ever made!
The walk the plank trap also looks good for a self resting trap. ruclips.net/video/nsoVcrFyrF8/видео.html Thinking a double bucket dug into the floor where you know they are running so you can pull the inner bucket when you need to empty with the outer bucket keeping the hole from collapsing.
I love this unit but the cost is a little high. Guess I'll stay with good old Victor traps for now. Regardless, a well-engineered device.
i cant wait to see footage of it in action
Wouldn't it make sense to mount it higher (suitably shielded/inaccessible by pets) with a ramp leading up to it - allowing the ex-pest to fall away further?
search RUclips for this item and you will see tons of videos, I've just been watching them the last day or two. mice will step over dead ones to get to the food. secondly, you would be amazed at the predators which take away the dead mice/rats. I got hooked on searching out these darned things. there were 2 islands in some country overrun with rodents which was killing off the birds. they put up traps every 100'?? in rings around the islands. within a short time all the rodents were killed off. do a search and sit back and enjoy the videos.
here's one to get you started: ruclips.net/video/BqlwUXP-ubI/видео.html
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that was an awesome video you linked, these look like they are powerful as heck !
Yeah but I still agree with Michael Tempsch, having the dead rodents farther away from the trap only decreases the chance that some rodents will associate the other dead rodents with the trap and stay away from it.
So what's the news on how well this trap performed?
Happy hunting !
you should check out shawn woods vids he does a lot of mouse and rat traps.
That is so cool! Let us know how it goes.
ruclips.net/video/BqlwUXP-ubI/видео.html
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The company literally has a 10 minute video on how a team killed off a rat population on an island to save indigenous birds by mounting them on a bunch of trees, and replacing the baits & CO2s every six month.
Pretty cool
Nice! :)
Leave it to Engineer to over complicate a mouse trap.
I wish you had kids!
so do we