Talpex Mole Trap, with Video Instructions
Our Talpex Mole Trap is the original genuine item made in the Netherlands, and they are much copied. As with many other types of traps most of the copies are vastly inferior or indeed useless. If you look at the image you can see the stamp on the tongue of the trap denoting it is a genuine Talpex from the Netherlands.
The Talpex is an excellent all round trap unless you have stony ground, in which case you may need to sieve the soil with your fingers or a garden riddle to remove the stones. We mainly use this trap for moles that will not push a tunnel trap trigger loop which is blocking their run. Fortunately this is not a common occurrence but moles can become trap shy and the Talpex solves that problem. However there is no reason you cannot use it as a main trap, and many people do. Many of our customers buy a few tunnel traps and one Talpex trap for that specially tricky mole.
An online video lasting a few minutes shows you exactly how to arm and install the trap.
You can of course buy cheaper traps. Many will have weak springs, cheap metal and poor design. Some of them come with large setting handles on top, which are totally unnecessary as these traps are easy to set once you know how!
(There is a link to the Instruction Video with the parcel).
Success !!! Mole Problem Sorted in 3 days 🙂
Last year the first molehills appeared in our lawn after moving here 17 years ago. Bought a Beagle trap from amazon set it up in a few places round the lawn over several weeks & failed to trap anything. Thought they went away over winter. A few weeks ago new molehills appeared with mole activity clearly visible – new molehills appearing and new soil being pushed up almost daily. Searched online, studied several different sites. I felt the molecatching.com site was the most convincing. Bought the Mole Catching Starter Kit with two tunnel traps Manual and Six Videos. Read the manual thoroughly. Watched all the videos. Set and placed the two traps, carefully following the instructions. Checking them the next day, there was one dead mole !!. Left the traps for 3 days checking each day, on the third day a second dead mole !! Same trap but coming from the opposite direction. Have continued to leave traps, but so far no more dead moles, but no more mole activity either. Very pleased with the kit, using the one piece mole run probe was really easy, setting the traps and placing them as instructed was straightforward. And the result was most satisfactory. In different properties over the years before moving here, I have tried to catch invading moles using borrowed traps and NEVER succeeded. Soooo glad to have found this site and finally discover that with the right equipment and great instructions, it actually seemed really easy !!! I expect to get a lot more use out of the equipment in the future as I can see a lot of molehills in the adjacent cemetery – not sure how we got away mole free for so long.
Excellent service
The mole-catching kit arrived very quickly, as I explained I needed it before going away. I haven’t tried it out yet as the moles have gone quiet, but all arrived as described and the on-line video tutorial looks very clear
Mole catching kit
The mole traps and run probe are strong and of excellent quality. The instruction videos are easy to access and packed with useful details. The communication from molecatching.com was very good and the kit arrived promptly and well packaged. I highly recommend this kit based on its quality and price and for the service I received from molecatching.com
Thanks so much.
The videos with the Tunnel Traps really helped. I’d being doing it all wrong before, and caught my first within 24 hours!!