You have to have a fast closing trap for reds, they’re that fast! My favorite trap, link below, has a rather unique feature where the door of the trap is recessed. This has been handy for a lot of reasons. I made a sliding 1/4″ mesh door that has a golf ball size hole in it to block out greys but yet allow the smaller reds access to the peanut/peanut butter bait in the trap area.

http://www.safeguardproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/95-006_UniversalTrap.pdf

So far no joy The last red that was around was “trap smart” and required a pellet. The current count is eight. May try a solid door with the same size hole instead of the wire to make the access hole more obvious.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Hey clysdale

The EAR plugs in the bikers ears are for wind blockage bud not noise reduction.

and loud pipes save lives too

You obviously have your own agenda so … whatever makes you happy.

Yep

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Nice Fella wrote:</div>
After we get this ban on loud, obnoxious boat music done, can we start a similar petition to ban it on motorcycles as well? Nobody needs to hear you coming from two blocks away blaring “Bad to the Bone” one more time.

I dont think you can hear my music over my new pipes

And we’re all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud of you and your ability to make noise

It’s just really sad that so many people feel it’s their right to intentionally be so inconsiderate of others for their own enjoyment be it boaters with their wakes, bikers with their noise (it really frosts me to see riders put in ear plugs before they start their noise machines), the car stereo you can hear blocks before you see the vehicle let alone next to you at a light, the diesel pickups that sound like Farmall tractors without the muffler installed, screaming crotch rockets and ricer cars.

Unfortunately even with regulations, new or existing, nothing is going to change without enforcement and/or a totally different attitude of the offenders. [speaker steps down from his soap box in disgust]

Tom Sawvell wrote:

You definitely want the metal trap. I’d call and have them hold it for you if they have one. Best mole trap around.

Thank you, I appreciate the offer but as I stated I have three of the Nash Loop traps and they have served me well for many years. I’m looking to upgrade my abilities but it’s not urgent. All three are on the wall right now but I like tools and a new trap would be a new tool.

There’s a few variations that all look similar with similar names. If I walk into the store, it’s on the shelf …. it’s mine.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I got the trap shown in the thread earlier at a Tractor Supply store.

Checked the website for Tractor Supply and only “limited availability” at one store, Prior Lake.

Tried one of the plastic TomCat versions but never caught a mole in it … junk!

Seven reds down so far this year, one more than all of last year already (scoreboard on garage door). Really need to zero that POS scope again.

I’ve now been alerted to the little holes I’ve been seeing here and there. We had the little short tailed shrews in the hot tub housing Off to buy some of those nasty mouse traps!

I’ve been using the Nash Mole Loop trap (attached) for years, have three of them and they’ve worked pretty well. I think my buddy uses the same one seen earlier in the thread but I’m not sure (also attached). Haven’t had any luck finding one to purchase. Hints appreciated!

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I have an 1800 psi Karcher electric that I’ve had for so long I don’t remember when I bought it. Adequate pressure for most needs but would look for higher psi if I bought another one. Easier to store because it takes up less space, quieter to operate. My automatic shut off stopped working years ago but I improvised the ground fault plug-in into the handle and use that as the switch.

If this one died it would be replaced by another electric.

Grouse was giving good advice about drain/blow out! I worked the Seasonal Dept in a big box store and every spring there was a parade of people coming in looking for replacements.

Hi Glenn,
As requested, here’s some shots of the inside. Thankfully it wasn’t full of bees! It’s a fiberglass canoe, what can I say? Now that the subject of this canoe has come up my wife wants me to repair it (memories, memories) and give it to my granddaughter … which I do not want to do! I’m still working on my long neglected 16′ Crestliner.

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We’ve been having a lot of fun watching the squirrel population go through their color variations. We had the three color variations; grey, white and black all at once as you can see in one of the attached pics. Black squirrels seem to surround us. We have a favorite we call Asphalt. Just recently we’ve been blessed with the appearance of some even more unique. A black with a white tail we call Stinker because on first sighting you’d have thought it was a skunk. The grey with the white tail must be a sibling and we’ve had numerous greys with what we call silver tails. Now the reds get fed pellets or are taught how to swim.

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How about a 15′ Sawyer fiberglass that has been in “protective custody” since we loaned it (NEVER lend ANYTHING you are not prepared to LOSE) to a cousin’s son for a canoe trip. It seems the canoe trip was down the rock infested Snake River. Not a place to take a borrowed canoe let alone a borrowed fiberglass canoe.

Put duct tape over the damaged but readily repairable keel and protected the tape with an aluminum channel with the thought in mind to repair it when I got around to it. Never got around to it and it has been years.

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