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>I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps I have relatives living in the country. They get a lot of mice and went through a lot of these factory produced trap

>I tried all sorts of "instant kill" traps I have relatives living in the country. They get a lot of mice and went through a lot of these factory produced traps; nothing worked. Then they bought a couple of pretty simple traps made by local school kids in shop class. I believe the head count of each trap is now in the hundreds. It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest. Maybe you could find (or make) something like that?

cmrdporcupine 7y ago
Grew up in the country (and live there now) and my dad used to do this in the garage, which isn't humane at all, but very effective: Take a 2 litre pop bottle, remove the cap, put some food with a little poison inside. Make a little ramp for the mouse to get in. The mouse can go in, but it's too slippery for them to get out, they can't get traction on the plastic. They die inside the bottle, but can't spread the poison around to cats or other predators that might eat them.
shlant 7y ago
> "It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest." That sounds... overly complicated, and could only catch one per setting. Have they tried a glass bowl will oil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8
slig 7y ago
There's a YouTube channel that features old and new mousetraps. Some of them are 3D printed and work just like the one you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu6AcPi_cN1oDt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu...

cmrdporcupine 7y ago

Grew up in the country (and live there now) and my dad used to do this in the garage, which isn't humane at all, but very effective: Take a 2 litre pop bottle, remove the cap, put some food with a little poison inside. Make a little ramp for the mouse to get in. The mouse can go in, but it's too slippery for them to get out, they can't get traction on the plastic. They die inside the bottle, but can't spread the poison around to cats or other predators that might eat them.

shlant 7y ago

> "It's a pretty simple contraption: a wood brick with a burrow in it. You put a piece of food in the end of the hole, then tighten a steel spring and tie it down with a piece of thread, which goes through the trap and covers the hole, so that a rodent has to chew through the thread to get to that food. The spring pulls on a copper wire noose; you know the rest." That sounds... overly complicated, and could only catch one per setting. Have they tried a glass bowl will oil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxFNkNf6q8

slig 7y ago

There's a YouTube channel that features old and new mousetraps. Some of them are 3D printed and work just like the one you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu6AcPi_cN1oDt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQv9MGcwQg4uVfQl2ZvPu...