Useful ideas to get rid of moles?

[blujeenz]

Any useful ideas to get rid of these buggers, I've tried the gasphos tablets, dropped 3 down the hole chased with 5L water and entrance closed.
Apparently it just makes their eye water because they're back after a day or 2.
Next was the "solar sonic mole repeller" and as you can see in the pic below it does diddly squat, the newest mound is 1.5m from the sonic, and yes its working, you can hear it every 50secs.
My latest trick is to block their mounds with bricks so that they come up for a look and then pot them.
This new one is about 80mm in dia judging by the sand drol he pushes up and he's not falling for that "topside looky" thing.


Any comments along the lines of "catch them and bury them alive" will receive a swift rating.

 

[Rob Fisher]

Luckily where we are we don't seem to get moles... the water table is pretty high and I guess that's the deterrent... but back in my youth my Mom was an avid gardener and the moles used to drive her stark raving crazy! We had three cats at the time and the one was a real expert mole catcher and was rewarded with a packet of biltong for everyone she caught... she would sit for ages watching the mole hill getting bigger and somehow she would know when the mole was close enough and would spring into the air and put her arm down the hole and her claws would grab the mole and then the mole was launched into the air.

Get a cat.

 

[Rob Fisher]

And talking about trying to deter moles it reminds me of another story... the gardener knew moles were the devil incarnate so the one day he decided to drown the mole and turned on the hose pipe and started to feed the hosepipe down the mole hole... he managed to get two thirds of the hose pipe down the hole...

Then he tried to pull the hose pipe out... of course the soil had settled around the hose pipe and no matter how hard he tried the hose pipe wouldn't budge... then Dad came home and tied the end of the hose pipe around the tow bar of the Valiant VIP (yes it was a very long time ago) and proceeded to try extract the hose pipe from the ground...

There is still two thirds of a hose pipe buried underground in the garden!

 

[SinnerG]

 

[Room Fogger]

My dad used to believe in Sasol, he said the high octane levels made it evaporate easily and it then kills them. He lit it once, and we replanted grass for a month.

 

[SinnerG]

Could just get a pet mole snake for a while.
Come hang round my work offices and you're bound to find a 1.5m+ specimen. That's if some ignorant local isn't trying to stone them to death.

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

My dad used to believe in Sasol, he said the high octane levels made it evaporate easily and it then kills them. He lit it once, and we replanted grass for a month.

From Caddy Shack noggal

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

I believe Efekto sell a mole repellent... could be snake oil but it’s worth a shot

 

[blujeenz]

I believe Efekto sell a mole repellent... could be snake oil but it’s worth a shot

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Had a quick squizz on the efecto website and see that its a garlic oil extract, I've tried crushed garlic water with no visible improvement.
Guess I'll have to field test their extract and see.

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

Had a quick squizz on the efecto website and see that its a garlic oil extract, I've tried crushed garlic water with no visible improvement.
Guess I'll have to field test their extract and see.

Hopefully the extract is more potent, good luck

 

[blujeenz]

Could just get a pet mole snake for a while.
Come hang round my work offices and you're bound to find a 1.5m+ specimen. That's if some ignorant local isn't trying to stone them to death.

Tempting but not that desperate yet.
The thought of that snake lurking some unknown where is enough to give me the jeebies.

@Rob Fisher I'm a no cat no dog kind of person, besides the neighbourhood cats that use my front and backyard sand patches as their toilets havent yet caught a mole, that is of course assuming they didnt do takeaways.

 

[Christos]

I used to have issues (and still do) with Dassies as there is a river about 50m from my house which has a whole megacity of them living in the rocks. Also all that stormwater drains in the area are Dassie safehouses.
Firstly I have no idea how to get rid of moles.
Secondly my dogs do a good job of keeping the Dassies out.
Thirdly, I have had one dogs face repaired that a dassie ripped with its teeth.
Fourth, I have had the unwanted pleasure of picking up dassie that was ripped inside out.
Fifth, last week Thursday at 3am I also had the unwanted pleasure of being woken by barking dogs only to find them playing tug of war with a squealing dassie. I had to time it perfectly and wait for the squealing to stop but also before the rip occurred as I was not in that mood to pick organs up again.

Good luck though with your moles.

 

[Slick]

@blujeenz Many years ago we had mole problems,from what I heard pouring water in the holes is just making them happy,what we tried was hooking a hose pipe to the car exhaust and letting the fumes enter the hole for 10-15mins,cant say if it really works but im sure 15mins of exhaust fumes wont be pleasant for them

 

[Stosta]

My sister used to stay with a family on a farm by Grahamstown. The owner used to spend his Saturday afternoons with a lawn chair, a beer, and his 9mm hovering above a mound.

Failing that just start naming the bastards, we had them a lot on our farm and there was nothing you could do about them.

 

[Christos]

My sister used to stay with a family on a farm by Grahamstown. The owner used to spend his Saturday afternoons with a lawn chair, a beer, and his 9mm hovering above a mound.

Failing that just start naming the bastards, we had them a lot on our farm and there was nothing you could do about them.

I'm going with naming them

 

[Raindance]

I ran butane gas into their holes. Just do not even think of lighting it. You will be met by an invisible flame sandblasting away any facial hair not singed away by the heat. Don't ask me how I know.

The thing with moles is, as one decides to seek new pastures, the next two move in. It remains a running battle.

Regards

 

[Raindance]

My sister used to stay with a family on a farm by Grahamstown. The owner used to spend his Saturday afternoons with a lawn chair, a beer, and his 9mm hovering above a mound.

Failing that just start naming the bastards, we had them a lot on our farm and there was nothing you could do about them.

I had a neighbour that had the same approach with a 357 Magnum. Very effective, so effective in fact, we moved.

Regards

 

[Christos]

I ran butane gas into their holes. Just do not even think of lighting it. You will be met by an invisible flame sandblasting away any facial hair not singed away by the heat. Don't ask me how I know.

The thing with moles is, as one decides to seek new pastures, the next two move in. It remains a running battle.

Regards

Who is creating the poll for the mole names

 

[Hooked]

Pave your entire garden! I haven't seen one since paving, which I did to save water. If a mole can get through bricks he deserves to be around!

 

[Feliks Karp]

We aint got no damn Moles in this country only Mole-rats.

Get a dog, all this talk about pouring chemicals and poisonous stuff in to the soil over a few little mounds of dirt and grass
seems really destructive and counter-productive.

 

[blujeenz]

I decided to go with a self defense spray, reckon if garlic extract can repell them then oleoresin capsicum is really going to toss their salad.
So, a relaxing afternoon with the Siren V2 and liquid bullet.

 

[jm10]

https://www.builders.co.za/Garden-&...MI8_T3i9qY2AIVz7ftCh0ufAMBEAQYAiABEgIjAvD_BwE

This worked for me on a few moles mounds around our flower bed, but only if you have live mole tunnels and not to many moles.

The guy that fumigated our house told me moles like moist soil and really there is no way of getting rid of them except catching them in traps or killing them with poison bait. Funny enough after i did a full irrigation system i only see a mound every few months.

Good luck bud, i would hate waking up in the morning to a lawn full of mole mounds.




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[jm10]

We aint got no damn Moles in this country only Mole-rats.

Get a dog, all this talk about pouring chemicals and poisonous stuff in to the soil over a few little mounds of dirt and grass
seems really destructive and counter-productive.

@Feliks Karp, you will understand when you wake up to a lawn with 20 mounds everyday all over the place and all you can think of is i wonder where i can buy a small nuke its frustrating to a point that you cry and then become an evil genius with only garden domination on your mind


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[Room Fogger]

I decided to go with a self defense spray, reckon if garlic extract can repell them then oleoresin capsicum is really going to toss their salad.
So, a relaxing afternoon with the Siren V2 and liquid bullet.
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Just don't forget which one is in which hand at the time, otherwise you will be crying and they will be vaping

 

[Stosta]

Just don't forget which one is in which hand at the time, otherwise you will be crying and they will be vaping

Yeah I'm guessing that's going to have one hell of a throat hit on it @blujeenz !