Post by The Terminator on Apr 7, 2013 18:05:40 GMT 1
Grrrrr.
Managed to exterminate all the moles in the garden some years ago, using a simple method: clear the molehill; insert funnel with a foot of hosepipe stuck on to its nozzle into the hole; pour in one cup petrol; seal hole. The petrol fumes suffocate the little bar stewards, and the hose on the end of the funnel gets the petrol deep enough to be effective and to avoid grass roots.
HOWEVER: voles seem to be immune to this. They throw up enormous volehills, often several within a few feet of each other. You can tell if it's a volehill if the tunnel descends at an angle (mole holes go straight down from a molehill).
So far I've tried vole poison down the hole (rejected); rat/mouse poison (ditto); petrol (no effect); and petrol plus those cheap mothballs that smell like the tablets you find in gents' urinals (ditto). Most recently, to Mad Moorhen's vast amusement, I've stuck a hosepipe down their holes and left it running, watched & waited until the little bergers have started pushing up soil to get away from the flood, then blasted several air pellets down the new hole they're creating. And they STILL survive!!!
Plan Y will probably consist of a hose attached to the car's exhaust pipe and rammed down their hole with the engine left running. If that fails, Plan Z will involve the hosepipe deal again, following the purchase of a 410 shotgun to ram up their jacksies and fire when they try to escape.
However, before desperation sets in, does anyone know of a successful method of killing these little blighters? Or any brand of poison that works on them?
-- The Terminator
Room 101
Wit's End
Barking
Managed to exterminate all the moles in the garden some years ago, using a simple method: clear the molehill; insert funnel with a foot of hosepipe stuck on to its nozzle into the hole; pour in one cup petrol; seal hole. The petrol fumes suffocate the little bar stewards, and the hose on the end of the funnel gets the petrol deep enough to be effective and to avoid grass roots.
HOWEVER: voles seem to be immune to this. They throw up enormous volehills, often several within a few feet of each other. You can tell if it's a volehill if the tunnel descends at an angle (mole holes go straight down from a molehill).
So far I've tried vole poison down the hole (rejected); rat/mouse poison (ditto); petrol (no effect); and petrol plus those cheap mothballs that smell like the tablets you find in gents' urinals (ditto). Most recently, to Mad Moorhen's vast amusement, I've stuck a hosepipe down their holes and left it running, watched & waited until the little bergers have started pushing up soil to get away from the flood, then blasted several air pellets down the new hole they're creating. And they STILL survive!!!
Plan Y will probably consist of a hose attached to the car's exhaust pipe and rammed down their hole with the engine left running. If that fails, Plan Z will involve the hosepipe deal again, following the purchase of a 410 shotgun to ram up their jacksies and fire when they try to escape.
However, before desperation sets in, does anyone know of a successful method of killing these little blighters? Or any brand of poison that works on them?
-- The Terminator
Room 101
Wit's End
Barking
