Bucket Rat Trap plans solicited
- Thread starter Ed Askew
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Lou Tisch
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Ed,
The article I did is on our flying club's website: www.rccd.org
Go to the newsletter page and click on the March '05 newsletter. The trap article & pictures is on page 8.
Lou
The article I did is on our flying club's website: www.rccd.org
Go to the newsletter page and click on the March '05 newsletter. The trap article & pictures is on page 8.
Lou
Bob B
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Also Ed give the tunnel a shot.
My daughter and I went on a campaign with a mouse that brought his family in. We took the kids blocks and made tunnels which got baited with crackers and penutbutter. After two days we set traps on the ends. The buggers flipped right by the one trap sets on the first night,,,,,,,,,
but the next week they never got by the double trap sets on each end of the tunnel.
My daughter and I went on a campaign with a mouse that brought his family in. We took the kids blocks and made tunnels which got baited with crackers and penutbutter. After two days we set traps on the ends. The buggers flipped right by the one trap sets on the first night,,,,,,,,,
but the next week they never got by the double trap sets on each end of the tunnel.
Pete McMiller
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Had a problem with mice and the occasional rat in an old farm house. I used the chunk bait and long deck screws to secure bait to the sill plate on top of the foundation in the basement. It was 7 ft off the floor so even if my dog went to the basement he couldn't get at it.
Another idea comes from my B-in-law who grows ginsing and has to keep rodents out of the garden. Take the same chunk bait, a piece of 3" plastic pipe 2 ft long. Drill a hole through the pipe in the middle and insert a piece of chunk bait. Put a screw or wire through the pipe and through the bait. Critters that can't fit in the pipe can't get at the bait but the rats and mice can. Make a bunch up and put them under the house. You can even wire them to something solid if you are afraid of an animal hauling them away.
Any of the Motomco baits are good but Jaguar is the best stuff I've used. They don't have to eat much. http://www.motomco.com/h_rodentbaits.htm
IMO rats are a lot more wary than the occasional mouse and also much stronger than you realize. You 'might' get by with a bucket trap but you get one rat that excapes and he is going to 'rat' on your bucket set and you might not see another.
Another idea comes from my B-in-law who grows ginsing and has to keep rodents out of the garden. Take the same chunk bait, a piece of 3" plastic pipe 2 ft long. Drill a hole through the pipe in the middle and insert a piece of chunk bait. Put a screw or wire through the pipe and through the bait. Critters that can't fit in the pipe can't get at the bait but the rats and mice can. Make a bunch up and put them under the house. You can even wire them to something solid if you are afraid of an animal hauling them away.
Any of the Motomco baits are good but Jaguar is the best stuff I've used. They don't have to eat much. http://www.motomco.com/h_rodentbaits.htm
IMO rats are a lot more wary than the occasional mouse and also much stronger than you realize. You 'might' get by with a bucket trap but you get one rat that excapes and he is going to 'rat' on your bucket set and you might not see another.