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  1. Al Smith

    Moles!

    I guess they do eat other things --another blurb on them https://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/animal/get-rid-of-moles/
  2. Al Smith

    Moles!

    My ex wife had a big grey Tom cat that would dig them up,dispatch them then pile them on the front porch like cord wood .He did the same with snakes .Other than that he was worthless and grumpy .
  3. Al Smith

    Moles!

    They claim planting a few castor plants will deter them .Just keep in mind the castor plant contains natural ricin .More--https://homeguides.sfgate.com/castor-beans-rid-ground-moles-81199.html They also claim if you get rid of the grubs they eat you get rid of the moles .
  4. Al Smith

    Moles!

    I've got moles.Maybe I'll do Tiny Tim ,tip toe through the tulips .
  5. Al Smith

    Moles!

    If a person could make mouse flavored cat food I believe you could make a fortune .
  6. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Well now that rain brings up a subject .Evidently the damned things are smart enough to make tracks if they get flooded out .Fact I've seen where their tunnels were burrowed out after a rain storm . When it gets extremely dry I don't see the tunnels in the lawn but do out in the woods where...
  7. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Hey hey hey ,Google : There is also the method of leaving a bottle sticking out of the hole, the wind blows across the top making a whistling noise which repels the mole due to the irritating sound.
  8. Al Smith

    Moles!

    I just Googled it myself .The actor was Charles Martin Smith ,no relation .
  9. Al Smith

    Moles!

    The actor was one who was in "American Graffiti ". It wasn't Suzan Somers though ,I'll tell ya that .
  10. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Well on that subject there was a movie once about same based on fact .They were studying the habits of northern timber wolves and could not figure what kept them alive with not much game in the northern portions of the Yukon or Northwest Territiries .The mice,millions of them .Evidently the...
  11. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Well so much for fermented Budweiser residue . Now I had this cat ,old Freckles with three legs that was a mouser a moler and a snaker .Where I used to live had those giant moles that looked like a rodent version of the incredable hulk .Big giant front feet . Good old Freckles dug them up...
  12. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Well these probabley will not work but as preposterious as they seem I'll post them anyway . One is to intersect the mole tunnel with a buried coffee can full of water and cover it up with a piece of tin over the tunnel so the light doesn't get in .The idea being the mole is stupid enough to...
  13. Al Smith

    Moles!

    --could be considered a form of recycling depending on how you looked at it .
  14. Al Smith

    Moles!

    Once while digging a trench for an underground conduit in an oil storage tank farm we ran a chain trencher right through a nest of hybernating ground squirrels . There they lay snoring away on top of the ground as if nothing had happened . Evidently they must have awakened later and most likely...
  15. Al Smith

    Moles!

    I'll flatten them out here in the next couple weeks .I have a small Case asphalt roller I go over my yard with .That slows them down but the activity doesn't slow down until about mid June .This time of the year they are overly active .
  16. Al Smith

    Moles!

    You could plant castor beans .It's claimed that will drive them off .The problem is though that castor gives off richen poison . Don't feel so bad though they are digging up my yard like crazy and just last week it was frozen solid
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