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Having lain 120sq.m new lawn this year, moles have burrowed everywhere.
Don't normally mind to much but the so close to the surface that the tunnel routes are starting to make
lawn really uneven.
Anyone has any practical experience of relocating the varmints?
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Just get some mole traps and do away with them.
Been there, tried that.
Had two traps down for two weeks, check every day the little git just keeps filling em with soil
AGGGGGGGG.
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100% success by me and my neighbour.
Find the main run by probing with a cane, carefully cut into it with spade, insert trap wearing gloves to disguise scent and wait.
Repeat as necessary
When you're done go and watch 'Fantastic Mr Fox'
what you need is a swivel chair, a head light and a 12 bore shotgun.
sit in wait for them on the chair at night, when they surface, blam blam!
"what you doing Carrott?"
"mole hunting"
I cut off brambles about a foot long and feed them into the moles holes, moles are heamophilliacs (sp?) they cut themselves etc etc, my French neighbour out me onto that one.
Old boy near me swears by putting used engine oil in the holes, it works but i dont fancy putting it.
The best is smoke, when i was in the Army i used to relocate smoke grenades to my place, when it was dark i used to crack them of in the main hole and that did the business.
Bury 'em alive?
It was so bad for our neighbor when we lived in wiltshire he actually dug up his entire lawn, layed chicken wire about 6" down then recovered and turfed the lot. It was obsessively maintained you would be hard pushed to find flatter on a bowling green, complete and utter nutter lol.
Bear with me on this one, it sounds weird but it does work.
Find the run and place some small glass bottles in it with the lip of the bottle about 2 inches above the ground. When the wind blows across the bottle opening the noise it makes drives the moles away.
You want to borrow my cat - he goes digging for the wee critters! Used to wander home covered in mud and stack up moles in my office 😉
We don't have any in these parts, I think he misses them. He was down a rabit hole a few weeks back in protest!
just ignore them?
My dad's mate invited us over to his spread to help him get rid of his moles. He used smoke cannisters as above, but when they popped up we shot the blighters with air rifles. A bit kinder than leaving them to bleed to death slowly 🙄