Probably many owners of summer cottages and private homes mole or mole rats bother. And methods of dealing with them are often ineffective. Although autumn is already ending, their activity can only increase, and they will destroy various plants, because right now they are stocking up food for the winter. For example, in our city botanical garden they are very fond of storing tulip tubers, therefore unplanned islands of them are found within a radius of 200-300 meters from the beds.
In this article, Martin’s YouTube author will tell you how he made a simple electric trap with an indication of the result.
Attention, high voltage is used in this homemade product, and without experience working with it, it is not recommended to repeat it!
Materials
- Steel wire with a diameter of 3-5 mm
- steel plate
- wires
- A sheet of hard rubber, or plexiglass
- Socket, bulb, plug, extension cord.
Instruments, used by the author.
— Screwdriver
— Digital multimeteror indicator screwdriver
- A screwdriver, a hammer.
Manufacturing process.
So, first of all, a power strip is unwound to the wormhole, and the phase must be detected at the terminals of the outlet. This is done using an indicator screwdriver. For those who are not friends with electricity, repeating this homemade product is highly not recommended.
Next, a small table with a dielectric base is made. Instead of legs, steel bars or corners are screwed.
The legs are interconnected by wires, and connected to the neutral wire.
A metal plate is installed on the top of the table with a hole in the center. You can also use a steel washer. A phase wire is connected to this part. Then the incandescent lamp is connected to the neutral wire, and its second contact is connected to the steel bar.
The device is buried by the legs deep into the ground cover above the mole so that the legs do not cross it.And the pin sticks into the ground through the central hole in such a way that it gets into the wormhole. There is one important nuance. The pin should prevent the mole from moving along the hole. When you try to move the pin, its upper part will close the phase to the circuit with the lamp, and the mole will receive a fatal electric shock.
It is important that the ground is sufficiently moist. It’s also worth it to fence off device using a net from possible contact with pets. And those who love fishing will be provided with the presence of a large number of worms, which will also crawl out of the ground to the surface.
After the device is triggered, the lamp lights up.
Before you get a dead mole out of the ground, it is imperative to disconnect the trap!
Here is the result obtained by the author.
To accelerate the effect, it is advisable to install this device near the molehill, which should be excavated to the hole. Moles and mole rats do not like drafts, and try to eliminate them. It is also necessary to take into account the moment that evil miners and plumbers can get out. They should not be met with crowbars in their hands. Here you will need tincture of valerian and motherwort. For you.
I thank the author for a simple but useful device for the destruction of moles and their brethren!
All good mood, good luck, and interesting ideas!
Author video can be found here.