I modified the standard rate trap to catch ground squirrels rats and mice. By blocking the spring stubends you get more power for the strike. By building a wire cage over the bait pan you eliminate the bait thieves that walk up the trap from the wrong direction. The Victor trap is low cost to begin with and the modification is pennies per trap.
I set one up and didn't catch a thing.... until I fine tuned it. I noticed that even though the peanut butter was disappearing there were no mice in the bucket. I put it in a tall kitchen waste can by cutting a 3" square hole in the side about 2/3 up from the bottom. Still no mice. I then put a cover on top and caught 1 mouse. Now I have it covered and instead of putting the peanut butter on the plank I put it on a piece of cardboard on a shoe string and dangle it just past the end of the plank. I caught 6 mice in one night! They never touch the bait so it stays ready longer.
You could make really simple mouse traps with buckets, just a piece of wire and tube. Check out this video ruclips.net/video/6SIlYiiCGLI/видео.html. I don't know how much youre walk the planck trap cost. It will basically be a question of cost vs time, to choose one method over the other.
It's true that rats can't belch (neither can they vomit) but they can fart, so it is a myth that carbonated water kills them. When assessing the safety of carbonated beverages, laboratory mice and rats were even fed it.
This trap is useless. I bought one on eBay, I just wasted my money. Rodents walk on the plank eating the bait all the way up to the trap then goes away. The trap is also poorly designed, difficult to calibrate to the correct (unknown) weight, it's just a guess, also doesn't reset to it's original position if tripped too slowly.
The concept is fine but as you said, there may be calibration issues. I think one of the reasons is that everyone just talks about "mice" ... but they have all different kinds of mice, with slightly different weights or even agility. So certainly we need to identify the kind of mice we're trying to catch and maybe adjust the plank for that mouse. The other case is that unless you can verify if a mouse is getting out of the bucket, you may think you're not really catching any.
I hope these traps work.
Spikes in the bucket trap?
Are there traps available for rats and ground squirrels that have longer ramps?
And how did it work?
Can we have an update on this please TRM
I modified the standard rate trap to catch ground squirrels rats and mice. By blocking the spring stubends you get more power for the strike. By building a wire cage over the bait pan you eliminate the bait thieves that walk up the trap from the wrong direction. The Victor trap is low cost to begin with and the modification is pennies per trap.
Add a drop or two of soap to break the water tension to speed up the results!
I set one up and didn't catch a thing.... until I fine tuned it. I noticed that even though the peanut butter was disappearing there were no mice in the bucket. I put it in a tall kitchen waste can by cutting a 3" square hole in the side about 2/3 up from the bottom. Still no mice. I then put a cover on top and caught 1 mouse. Now I have it covered and instead of putting the peanut butter on the plank I put it on a piece of cardboard on a shoe string and dangle it just past the end of the plank. I caught 6 mice in one night! They never touch the bait so it stays ready longer.
Don, I would LOVE to see a picture of what you came up with!
You could make really simple mouse traps with buckets, just a piece of wire and tube. Check out this video ruclips.net/video/6SIlYiiCGLI/видео.html. I don't know how much youre walk the planck trap cost. It will basically be a question of cost vs time, to choose one method over the other.
"Are those weeds?" "Yea their weeds." "Well their good weeds!" Omg shes hilarious! Not just the words but the inflection too.
Saw this trap on Matthias Wendel's channel aswell, great traps :)
How about a couple of barn cats?
+John Scott we have em.... They are doing well but shouldn't really be in the building
Put it on top of the digester input once it gets going ;)
Reminds me of mouse trap Monday.
Can I pop these...
My grandfather taught me to put out cola in jar lids for the rats\mice... they can't belch so they will die after drinking it for the sugar.
It's true that rats can't belch (neither can they vomit) but they can fart, so it is a myth that carbonated water kills them. When assessing the safety of carbonated beverages, laboratory mice and rats were even fed it.
Soap water! With the arduino camera watch with alarm trigger
It's not the gold I'm after, it's finding it. Me thinks you enjoy shopping, the hunt for a better mouse trap.
Thumbs up Jeff!
Put moth balls heavily a the bottom of the insulation to help detour the mice!
This has the making of a great series. Good Luck!
Where do you live? That girl is eating weeds.
What a waste of time watching this. If you review a product at least show if you caught the mice.
This trap is useless. I bought one on eBay, I just wasted my money. Rodents walk on the plank eating the bait all the way up to the trap then goes away. The trap is also poorly designed, difficult to calibrate to the correct (unknown) weight, it's just a guess, also doesn't reset to it's original position if tripped too slowly.
The concept is fine but as you said, there may be calibration issues. I think one of the reasons is that everyone just talks about "mice" ... but they have all different kinds of mice, with slightly different weights or even agility.
So certainly we need to identify the kind of mice we're trying to catch and maybe adjust the plank for that mouse.
The other case is that unless you can verify if a mouse is getting out of the bucket, you may think you're not really catching any.
DOES NOT SHOW IF IT WORKS, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING!! NO FOLLOW-UP VIDEO EITHER.
I had to skip through the whole video to see the mouse
Why is that girl in her underwear gross