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Flowerpower just called from home to say that the moles have past their exams and graduated from small hills at the side to mountains in the middle.
Any suggestions on getting rid?
Bearing in mind we have cured the previous garden carnage left by the diggety dog by building stalag luft IV at the side of the house.
Make them a little summer house at the side of the garden, with a little patio and everything?
Bury them alive.
Keep an eye on them. If they change shape or colour then go see your GP who will remove them for you.
as long as it's not at counter!
mole traps i'm afraid. nothing else will work.
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buy a giant rubber Mallet and play whack a mole
Blow their bleedin heads off!
the moles have past their exams and graduated from small hills at the side to mountains in the middle.
I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill there.
all you need to know, possibly nsfw.
Tarmac your garden.
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Take the fight to them!
Beaten to it by wwaswas, had just been about to post that 🙂
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Jasper Carott... beaten to it!
+1
@The Beard - that's a Gopher!
and apologies to the pedants for the spelling mistake - Passed their exams..
@Markrtw
Where can I buy nitroglycerine or at least a recipe?
surroundedby[b]MOLE[/b]hills - MemberFlowerpower just called from home to say that the moles have past their exams and graduated from small hills at the side to mountains in the middle.
Short term fix 🙂
Ok so a quick lesson on how weird/unpredictable the internet is - Try Searching for "Massive Expolsion" on You Tube - maybe NTSFW, depends on your IT guys i suppose.
Wait till you get a hard frost, then early in the morning go out with a piece of thin plywood just bigger than the molehill. Slide it under the frozen lump, then transport it to a neighbours perfect lawn. Dead centre is most pleasing to the eye, remove wood then wait to see their horrified faces when they think they've got moles. It's even better if they come storming out and destroy it to find their grass is okay underneath.
😆 @ BikePawl
Tell them to work harder:
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Get molegrips 😆
I'm no good with moles.
where are you based? My mate is a mole catcher... no genuinely he is!
Introduce them to the rat in your kitchen?
hallz - Memberwhere are you based? My mate is a mole catcher... no genuinely he is!
Look to the hills young man!
@ Bike Pawl - while I would enjoy this; our dogs, prior to recent "security upgrades" left some presents of their own for the neighbours...
You need a mole catcher:
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We get moles and just scoop the hill up and scatter in the flower beds cats get hours of amusement at the hills springing up.
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I however only mow the lawn when it's looking a bit wild or to take a pic of a new bike for posting on here and generally couldn't be arsed about the garden.
Is this what they're like?
I've seen an online video (likely on here) of someone firing a compressed air cannon down mole holes to collapse the tunnels on the blighters heads. An option? 😉
We used a shotgun at my old house, mind that you don't blow your foot off.
B_Leach - MemberI've seen an online video (likely on here) of someone firing a compressed air cannon down mole holes to collapse the tunnels on the blighters heads. An option?
Where do i get one of those?
Aircannontrackworld?
Invite a gnome over. It worked when they infested the royal golf course.
Time to find out if they like the smell of napalm in the morning...
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I thought this was a euphemism!! Wrong type of moles wrong type of garden! 😯
Leave the poor buggers alone you've probably plonked a great big block on top of their house and keep mowing their roof Or move to the Isle of Man we don't have them.
got a double in one of my traps once.
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Having neat flat grass is apparently so important that we'd kill for it.
And then proudly take pictures of the slaughter to show to others.
Humans really are strange creatures sometimes. 😕
I've heard milk bottles sunk into the garden with tops off humm and this makes them mad! Otherwise traps or guns...
We've moles, but its only on the bottom lawn - so I've told the Gardener just to collect the top soil and we'll have a new bed in one of the courtyards 😉
Well, thats Wind in the Willows ruined for me. 😥
You should be ashamed of yourself.
leave the poor buggers alone? its spring, they're building houses to attract lady moles, let them have their moley fun
What to do...
Give them names and tell everyone you've got a couple of pet moles.
Please don't kill them though, they've got as much right to live on that piece of land as you do. Land registry or not.
A neighbour puts sticks in the molehill with an upside down bottle on the top - seems to work as any moles come into our garden and not theirs.
Moles on your own lawn? You lucky bugger! The earth makes great groundbait mix for angling.
I have to [s]walk[/s] cycle at least 200 yards to get fresh mole hill soil!
nah, they are vermin. had them for years on and off, i'm not fussed about a cricket pitch grade of lawn, more that I cannot plant anymore fruit trees/ and other plants as the little buggers dig through the roots and kill em- not funny when you are spending good money only to see them die soon after planting. Also, bl00dy dangerous always going over on your ankle as you slip on another tunnel. You wouldnt believe the number of still born lambs linked to moles rotting straw bales. but yea leave em alone 👿
You wouldnt believe the number of still born lambs linked to moles rotting straw bales
Curious, never heard that one - can you expand on that point?
strange people killing small animalls just cos they are burrowing around , leave them alone poor buggers.
WTFnumber of still born lambs linked to moles rotting straw bales
Surely if you know of any moles in these tense times of global uncertainty you should be calling in MI5 (or is it 6) to deal with it.
Get some hand grenades
big old field, say 25 acres, farmer palmer rolls up with his combine, which takes hay as well as anything else at ground level [molehills] this nice fresh soil contains a naturally occurring Bacteria - Listeria monocytogenes/ ivanovii [listeria] which when ingested by mummy sheep can cause stillborn or aborted lambs- not a high percentage compared to toxoplasmosis [cat poo disease] but controllable no the less.
One of my favorite ever bits of radio was actually (forgive me) on the Jeremy Vine show. The subject was mole removal. Mr Vine was interviewing to Welshmen both called Gwyn who swore by beating the ground with aluminium shovels. Something about the vibrations scare the moles away or make them surface. The moment when his team lose it as Vine repeatedly yells 'Gwyn!' at the two ground whacking loons live on lunchtime radio was priceless.
I didn't hear of a follow up story but either way, it could be s fun afternoon
rockhopperbike - you seem to have a disturbed sense of reality. Mummy sheep giving birth the stillborn lambs because a combine collected a bit of a molehill in the hay bale - stark raving. Combines generally collected from 100-150mm above ground level- molehills are generally less than this. Sheep can withstand a bit of earth eating - they are quite hardy things you know.
Why do some people want to kill anything they don't like? Typical behaviour of a real coward.