Building the better mouse trap
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2016
- Building the tipping ramp style mouse trap similar to the one in my video "building a better mouse trap using video surveillance"
Build article: woodgears.ca/farm/build_trap.html
Previous video: • Building a better mous...
Plans here: woodgears.ca/farm/mousetrap_pl... 
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Weapon of mouse destruction!
Very good :)
Laughed... Thank you :D
oh wow, 10/10
To the top with you
I see what you did there :)
If you scale this up and put a $100 bill ot the end, will it catch humans?
you can get people reliably by epoxying a quarter to the sidewalk. but a hundred dollars? you could put a hundred dollar bill on a tight rope over the hoover dam and people would go for it.
+SuperAWaC expoying a quarter to the sidewalk? why have i never heard of that before its genius XD
If he was to come with a diy trap for the small moles I am currently at war with he could put more than hundy.
A simple way to get rid of moles is find an active tunnel, and place an opened stick of Juicy Fruit gum in there.
I have read this.Some combine this with Drano.You work for Juicy fruit?
The original mouse trap is what me got to your channel, it's always nice to see you improve on your previous designs!
how many Better Mice has it caught?
Only the very best
BUT it's a Mouse trap, how can it capture Mice? *grin*
It's called a Trump Trap. It captures a huge amount of only the best mice. And, the walls of the bucket are awesome walls. The mice can't jump the wall.
+gjdewald i thought Trump traps were for catching minorities... Kappa
+gjdewald now if you can only get the mice to pay for it!
Aww no video of it in use?
It's shown in the first few seconds of the video... This is only a minor alteration of that one, would not make much of a difference.
Yes i am aware that this was an modified version of a mouse trap from a previous video. My comment was mainly comedic as it was entertaining watching the trap in use and hoping for more footage of it in use
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make this build tutorial. My mice are driving my crazy stealing the bait out of the traps without setting them off. We'll see how the little buggers do with this awesome contraption!!!
Matthias, did you know that Adam Savage praised your channel in his Maker Faire talk ? (It's on the Tested channel).
He did so in a reddit ama as well
Yes, was sent the link by a fan soon after that video was posted.
Did he mention anyone else from the RUclips maker community (e.g Diresta)?
He mentioned Matthias as a channel he'd recently subscribed.
Hello Matt. I made one of your earlier, non-resetting traps and really liked it. When you came out with the new design I ended up making 3 of them. I have now caught 27 mice since the autumn (2 months). Great stuff. I love your channel. Thanks for all of your hard work. By the way, I find motor oil, or windshield washer fluid work great as they don't freeze.
BRAVO! I too had built a bucket trap and used an Arlo camera for surveillance. Without the magnet, the video showed how cautious the mouse is, and in fact will usually safely back up. The magnet is a key component to catch the mouse on its first exploration rather than hours later. Thanks for your videos. I'm totally envious of your shop!
"Mouse Trap" more like "Mouse Concentration Camp"
Mauschwitz? It's a thing, look it up
+Spooky Scary Ace of Spades that's a mice comment.
they got to the point where they just ate each other and died out i dont think my trap did much damage but it made the farmers happy knowing i killed some
"Mauschwitz", a chapter in the book "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, a whose father was an Auschwitz survivor.
Other than that, there is the Disneyland/Mickey Mouse/Auschwitz parody of questionable taste.
The showerhouses are waiting.
I built one of these in grade 5 for a project with my dad, excellent project to work on and very effective. Mine wasn't as complex as yours though. Wonderful stuff man! subbed
If you have access to welding gear you could release some argon over the bucket. since its heavier than air it would stay at the bottom of the bucket and suffocate the mice pretty quickly.
That would be a little more clever and humane lol
is that heavy enough to stay there?
WhiteKnight Leo yes it is.
Matt Knowler CO2 I mean, not argon.
WhiteKnight Leo well since it is 12 grams heavier per mole than regular 02, then yeah it should sink as well. You may need a deeper bucket though.
Are you selling these on Ebay now? Someone else is if it's not you and they used this exact template? I knew you should have patented it Matthias :) They are selling today and Shawn Woods Channel talked about it and mentioned you also :) It's a great design and it's "launched" :)
It seems like you're getting screwed matthias.
I bought 2 for 10 bucks
This type of design has been around for a very long time, difficult to patent a mouse trap, million different designs
He probably go the template from someone else also.
Should put this thing over an aquarium full of red belly piranhas
yes
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Мышегуб?
DRFR Можно и так.Одно другого не отрицает.
DRFR Сам Матиас конечно башковитый,слов нет!
Hahaha I love how he softly indicated that if you have dealt with mice you will want them to drown but if you haven't you might want to just let them go somewhere else 😂 I'm all for the water!
Build this trap a few days ago. Already catch 7 mice with it! Thank you for the plans, this thing is brilliant
Where do I get plans?
I used your plans and built one in about 30 minutes this evening. Caught a mouse within a couple hours of setting it!!
Thank you again! My son and I love building your contraptions.
You are the BEST. Simply a genius and thank you so much for the plans because they save time and improve accuracy. Keep going, love your videos
Another great video. Ive been watching your channel for several months now and it has helped make me a better woodworker. Thanks and keep up the good work.
I would have loved to have had this while living in Vermont. I like the stipulation at the end in regards to those who have and haven't dealt with mice. I started out on the sawdust-side of the spectrum and ended up on the water-side rather quickly. When your home is under attack, you don't take prisoners.
We caught 32 mice in about 2 months one winter. They got released in the same spot, a rather bushy area. Who knows whether they invaded someone else's house, or died. There are plenty of cats around the neighbourhood though, and rat poison, so you find the occasional dead rat. Can't really bring myself to kill any if they aren't causing any trouble.
lol
That's probably what the mice were thinking when you built your house in their territory.
Melinda Green So we should let them run wild in our homes? where was your house built?
madhellsing
My house was built on reclaimed land created by dumping all the rubble from the great SF earthquake of 1906, so really, my house displaced a bunch of fish. Of course with the rising sea levels, the fish will get it back soon enough.
This is amazing. I love it. Nice build, and I will surely be building my own.
Excellent, thanks for taking the time to make and post this video, it’s much appreciated.
Great idea, thanks for the plans.
Who needs a CNC-machine if he has big print and a bandsaw ;)
can a bandsaw cut just part through the wood then?
I still would like to own a cnc-machine though! ;)
my family gpt a cat but we made this trap into a super trap
Matthias Burger 🐭
man i loved the origional video of this and now this one too. keep it up!
Awesome upgrade, tnx Mr. Wandel.
I just built mine a week ago, but on the bottom of the bucket, I put those glue pads you buy at WalMart. I was gonna release them. But Three fell in. One fell in a such way that his mouth was at the other mice's hind leg. Well needless to say, the mouse chew the other one's leg off Two of them were dead. I released the cannibal by using cooking oil, but I took him a mile from my property into the woods. I respect cannibals. Don't think he survived for too long as my swamp is filled with cotton mouths.
Awesome! Thanks for the videos, always love watching them.
Your workshop is AMAZING!!!!!
Brilliant as always sir.
thanks for sharing(building and plans) !
you are awesome(with all that you have done)!
Nicely designed!
You are straight the best engineer
Interesting. I see where your design is coming from and I'll most certainly give it a shot my self once I get a chance.
Can we get a newer video of the mouse doing its thing...
Couldn't a lid of some sort also block them from getting out? Maybe just covering half the open space.
Nice work on the improved designed.
another great design and video.
I found your channel when I saw your mousetrap video. I am happy that you made a new video :)
its really helped thank you for this wonderful invention
Nice improvements!
Hey Matthias, Wally from Sterling Heights Michigan getting back to you. You May already know this but I was just looking for an old idea that I saw years ago on Popular Mechanics. Anyhow I just saw your latest video posted on their site about your new mouse trap!! Good for you. Wally
Thank you for sharing this with us
It's an especially good trap when you have a cat around and don't want it to eat a poisoned mouse.
Boy! I would love to see the footage of how mice "use" the trap.
Man, this guy works power tools like a boss!
Nice and thorough job, as usual Matthias. We have problems with mice and chipmunks eating our garden produce, and just being a nuisance. I will adapt this to something I can put in the garden to catch our chipmunks!
Boa tarde! Gosto muito de trabalho em madeira, e tenho muito interesse em saber trabalhar com madeira, você fez algum tipo de curso? Parabéns! Seu trabalho é lindo, eu fiquei encantada!
2-04-2018 - - - - Nice workshop and nice tools. Also, you could put an identical bucket upside down on the top of this bucket so they wouldn't jump out.
I just saw a german tv report about the marble machine from Wintergatan, and they showed a short piece of one of your videos :D apparently it was the reason he started the project :)
I LOVE that wintergatan ball machine video !!
I do too ;)
+ColdShadow he mentions Mathias in the "how it works" video on RUclips
I'd be really interested to see someone use an arduino and an infrared sensor or even computer vision to have it release an electromagnet when it sees the mouse on the ramp. That way mice could get right to the end of it before it would release.
Do you think using the bucket lid to make a horizontal lip would keep the mice from jumping out?
In the oilfield this is called a "roughneck mouse trap." Tons of 5 gallon buckets and a ton of field mice come to eat everyone's food and stay warm. If they're using water based mud then there will be caustic soda and lime on location which guys have been known to put in the bucket. It's a pretty unfortunate way for the mouse to go, but maybe quicker than drowning.
Matthias, I heard you mention that you use Sketchup for your designs, how do you print the parts like that after you design them? Is it an specific extension?
the block looks like about a one inch stock, is that correct that metric stuff is confusing
Do you marinate your mouses before putting them on skewers ?
Just a thought. What about using the lid for the bucket/bin/whatever it is you are using and cutting out most of the center but leaving a lip so that the jumping mice can't grab the edge to get out. Maybe just an inch or so could be enough.
Can you do a demonstration of the new one?
A+ on those band saw skills.
Well done!
Thanks for coming back, Wendell - I missed your postings! Gordon (BTW, great idea and implantation of your idea.... Again, thanks for posting...)
A week is a long time to wait, isn't it?
I "follow" you, but for some unexplainable reason, this is the first time in about a month your you-tube mouse trap came through.... Go figure...
i've been having that issue for awhile now too. And i'm not subscribed to that many channels. but I'm usually not seeing his videos post until 2-3 days after. if at all. A few times I've only seen his new video because I have him on FB.
a small magnet on the short arm of the trampoline?
Does center punching the wood actually keep the bit from wandering? In my experience wood is usually soft enough that just pressing the drill bit to the wood keeps it in place quite well, and I only center punch when I'm fabricating with steel or aluminum.
it might be related to the fact that the paper over it can easily be shredded by the drill tip, so if you punch the hole before, if you lose the paper you still know where to drill
Very true, didn't think of that. I don't build with wood as much as I used to, so when I fabricate with metal I often use Dykem and just scribe lines and stuff onto the metal.
The divot does help to guide the drill when it makes initial contact
I think it also depends what kind of drill you use, metal drills tend to wander very badly in soft woods in my experience. brad point drills less so.
o shit waddup!!
Good vid!
Instead of water, fill the bottom portion of the bucket with plumbing antifreeze...
That way the trap is good all yr round! Or atleast for us that live in the northern parts where freezing is an issue...
Thanks for the template, however it does not state what unit the measurements are in. Millimeters, centimeters...inches?
Putting the paper blueprint on the wood is quite clever!
Never took wood shop
Would like to purchase one already built
May I? If so where
I don't know
I thought this was engineering
I really like how humane this is for mice! Id say shark tank this idea! :) Thanks for sharing
Instructions unclear, mouse stuck in ceiling fan.
Hey Matthias, I can't open the pdf plan for the mouse trap from your website, maybe you can check it. Thanks!
(on the actual plans page)
This is still just as cool as the first video! New we need to find a source for extra tall buckets...
And I don't know why, but saying "tippy ramp" makes me laugh :)
- Kriss - Homebrew 6.5 gal. (24 l) plastic fermenter buckets are 19" (48 cm) tall versus the 12-1/2" for the typical sheetrock mud bucket.
Cheers,
--Joe
Or most kitchens throw them away.
what program do you use to sketch/draw out the designs?
Very clever idea! My first mouse licked most of the peanutbutter off the end of the plank before it fell in. The second time I came back, no peanutbutter, no mouse!! So this time I put peanutbutter on the bottom side of the end of the plank so it would draw them way out on the trap. Got a second mouse!!!!! Thanks!
Very neat!
For your time and money, I suggest a JT Eaton multiple catch mouse trap. I just caught 15 mice in one last night. You have to empty the trap into a bucket in the morning but the results are worth it.
I'd like to buy your templates- have you made them available?
see video description
What do you use for bait?
Are these measurements in inches or mm. Thanks
Can you send me the templates for mouse trap
Thanks
I like the "non-lethal" approach myself. Sawdust is a nice idea for a soft landing and making jumping out difficult. As long as someone checks the trap every day so the poor critter doesn't starve to death. Perhaps drop a piece of cheese in there as nourishment?
Could you oil/grease the inside of the bucket to make it too slippery to climb for the mouse?
Ah, ok.
You expand on this a bit with a battery and a sensor. Hook up the battery to the magnet, then when the mouse trips a motion sensor on the plank, it could cut the power to the magnet.
Well made video!
What attracts the mouse to go up the ramp?
peanutbutter is GREAT mouse bait.
Are all dimensions on the .pdf in mm?
cm
You can also cut the bottom of a 2nd bucket off 2" below the ribs and insert it into the 1st bucket to add an extra 2"-3" to the trap's overall height.
Can we get a video of this working?
Where can I copy template?
Hi. Thanks for sharing this video. This is the best mouse trap ever and can catch multiple mice each time. I would like to try making this. Have some questions: 1. How to you make the edges of the ramp harder for the mouse to hang on to when it it about to fall? 2. Why did you make the wood ramp hollow (like a horse shoe)? Thanks.
1 - not necessary. 2 - lighter
Thanks again. God Bless.
Fascinating display of ingenuity! I learned something new: pasting plans onto media. Very similar to how sister makes dresses.
How hard would it be to make a device such that a plank is held in place by an electromagnet, a mouse walks out on the plank to get the bait and breaks a beam of light causing the magnet to be turned off so the mouse falls into a barrel? The advantage is that the same trap could be used for various sizes of animal.
You could put the lid back on, and just cut a hole allowing for the mechanism, you only need the lip of the lid to overhang to stop them jumping out.
Reminds me of a David Sedaris monologue that starts "I was on the front porch, drowning a mouse in a bucket when this van pulled up..."
Have you test it with mouse??? I would really want to see this trap in action!
My grandfather made a similar trap back int he 1950's according to my mother. His was a simple trap door where the rat(yes rat, not mouse) wouldn't even get a chance to get any of the bait. It would walk across a plank on top of an old barrel and half way across the trap door would give way and the rat would be dumped into the barrel full of water. Supposedly they lived by the wharf in St. John, NB and were infested with rats.
what software do you use for the templates?
This is mesmerizing to watch! This dude knows what he's doing! Now I just need a few grand in woodworking tools. ;)
Seriously, right? I guess it's a great design. But nobody here is going to make it or has the equipment to do so. Glue traps work fine.
@@jamesmayer1873 or 20 bucks in a coping saw and powerless drill. You do need competence though
Nice job
I'd love to see some more test videos, but if this version of the trap.