Moles

[angelman]

I am getting f@$$%%@@ed off with the little bastards digging up my lawn. As soon as I kill one (some hardcore"moth ball" type thing that gasses them) another moves in. It is always down the same run, year after year. There is now a depression in the lawn above this run because it is used so often. Must be like the mole equivalent of the M25 or something.

 

Is there anything that I can do to stop them using this run and dissuading them from buggering up my lawn?

[Saint_clark]

Dig it up and stick some gravel in there. A few bricks would work better.

Or get a badger.

[St Columb Saint]

Always reminds me of Jasper Carrott, "There's only one way to get rid of a mole and thats blow its bloody head off":D

[Saint Billy]

I am getting f@$$%%@@ed off with the little bastards digging up my lawn. As soon as I kill one (some hardcore"moth ball" type thing that gasses them) another moves in. It is always down the same run, year after year. There is now a depression in the lawn above this run because it is used so often. Must be like the mole equivalent of the M25 or something.

 

Is there anything that I can do to stop them using this run and dissuading them from buggering up my lawn?

 

I'm having the same problem and have tried most things including old wives tales that have not worked. The cat has managed to get two of them but has now lost interest as it requires waiting by the hole for hours on end for the buggars head to pop up.

 

Last resort now is smoke bombs made for the job apparently. I don't like hurting the things and we managed to catch one in a humane trap and released it a couple of miles down the road in a field but someone told me that it probably managed to find its way back.

[dubai_phil]

Is there anything that I can do to stop them using this run and dissuading them from buggering up my lawn?

 

Move.

 

 

HTH

[Durleyfos]

They find it tricky burrowing through concrete.

 

Therefore, concrete over your lawn.

 

Paint it green, no-one will notice.

[Dog]

Soak your lawn with a hosepipe and stick two metal rods into the ground either side of the mole runs, connect to a 12v car battery and the mole will cook slowly.

[Johnny Bognor]

Soak your lawn with a hosepipe and stick two metal rods into the ground either side of the mole runs, connect to a 12v car battery and the mole will cook slowly.

 

Indeed.

 

Then chuck in a couple of sprigs of rosemary and bingo!!!!!!!

 

Mole in the Hole

[Colinjb]

I sware this has been discussed before. The answer remains the same.

 

Take:

1 Shotgun

1 Deck chair and

48 cans of red bull

 

Stay up all night on the caffeine, and when the little f**kers appear, blow them to kingdom come.

[Saint-scooby]

carefully remove the little hills, to expose their tunnels, eat a bowl of sugar puffs and drink plenty of fizzy drinks, when your bladder is full wee down the mole hill, cover it back over then move to the next hill and repeat. They act on smell. unless they love watersports they will move on.

[Viking Warrior]

Hire the taliban

 

they are able to weed out the moles in their ranks and always seem to work underground

 

or tell the police you think there are someones murdered remains in your garden. They will come in , excavate the site and then replace it as they first found it. I also have an archeologist friend who is friendly with the time team crew. I could speak to them and they can dig your lawn up over three days!

Edited 14 October, 2010 by Viking Warrior

[angelman]

right - gassed the buggers so that should keep him/them away for a week or so until the next one comes. This is proper stuff you have to have a licence to use. The bloke who put it in who works around the place was talking about a machine he has that you can blow up the tunnels. I think that might be the trick.

 

I did see a hill starting a couple of days ago. I should have gone for the shottie but tried to get the terrier on to it, but ever since she chased a cat up a tree, she is more interested in those than anything else.

 

I like some of the ideas. Think concrete is the second best, after the pearl of wisdom suggesting a house move. Might pïss down the holes.

[Johnny Bognor]

Whenever people talk about moles, why does it remind me of this?

 

[CB Saint]

For some reason this year I have been moleless. Have been plagued by the little blighters previously. Not sure why. Perhaps the current incumbant decided to move up the property ladder.

[dickyhale]

Dont tell Tonibell or her mate she be around to eat them...Sick B@stards

[Redbul]

Holes, dug by little moles, angry jealous spies,

Got telephones for eyes, come to you as friends

All those endless ends, that can't be tied,

Oh they make me laugh, and always make me cry,

Until they drop like flies, and sink like polished stones

Of all the stones I throw,

How does that old song go?

[Gemmel]

I make this the third or fourth mole thread over the last 5 years.

Tried everything, from some sonar ******** that cost a fortune to standing over the mound with a pitch fork.

The only think that worked was hosepipe in the exhaust with the other end shoved in the hole/tunnel, leave running for a couple of hours and job done.

[mcjwills]

Soak your lawn with a hosepipe and stick two metal rods into the ground either side of the mole runs, connect to a 12v car battery and the mole will cook slowly.

 

Dog you never fail to make me laugh, must be my twisted sense of humour

[bristolsaint29]

Put a big snake down the hole

[bristolsaint29]

http://www.ultimatemolecontrol.com/?hop=phlashphil