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bodger
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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:34 am Post subject: I'm going to set some mole traps today. |
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Its a job that I've been putting off for months and months. I quite like moles but we seem to have one or two too many at the moment.
I think I've got about half a dozen traps out the many I used to have when I trpped them as part of my pest control business. I'll have to root them out and get them dusted off today. I havent been able to set them this week, because I've been creosoting chicken sheds and the smell has been on my hands.
I don't know about the moles detecting the scent but I've actually been having to sleep with my hands under the bed clothes. 
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The mind boggles ! |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Don't sound like it's his mind Bodger Boggles with. 
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bodger
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I'm already fairly well preserved. 
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Bazzer
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So are Prunes mate!
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bodger
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Hardly one small step for man and certainly not one giant leap for mankind but I caught the mole this morning thats been terrorising our back garden.
It was a bit unusual though, in as much as the animal was still alive and kicking. The trap had caught it by the front paddle. I've caught a few hundred moles in my time, but this is the first time that its happened.
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Bazzer
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Front Paddle? 
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bodger
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The front appendages of a mole look like paddles. They use them to paddle the soil out of their way.
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hopefullbry
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Hopefully get my 4x4 quad runinng next week to get out on the farms for the moles. Just made a load of markers out of ss, just need some bright ribbon/ tape to attach to the markers.
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bodger
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Yup  I'm forever losing mine.
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| What traps do you use bodge? |
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BTMR
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject: Molecatching |
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One of our members would be happy to make their services available to you - if that would help. Just look up your nearest one on our website.
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bodger
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As a one time pest controller, I used to make part of my living catching them, so it would be a bit of an embarressment actually employing someone else but thanks all the same.
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Fully understand. Good luck.
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