Same sort of design but he does not use the mesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1Gfa35R9E

Hi Guys - the work goes on - I am enjoying the challenges of killing bird predators - I keep thinking I have got them beat but they often have other ideas
I am still waiting for my first mustilid at the farm or at the Park - but I am happy killing possums, rats and hedgepigs
At the Park  - we are operating around 80 rat and possum bait stations and around 100 rat and possum traps
Quail numbers in the Park have exploded - similar at the farm with the added bonus of heaps of young
pheasants
We have just changed from Ditrac to Contrac for rats - bastards just stopped eating Ditrac a couple of months back and rats have come back in big numbers - stripping bait from possum traps - maybe a seasonal issue with other food sources
We have just deployed about 60 rat traps and its very satisfying to be removing bodies from traps again
We are now using GN orange paste on both possum and rat traps - it is very effective
Along with eggs - we are using Connovation dried rabbit bait and Salmon spray lure in the stoat traps - the dried rabbit is like a magnet to rats as they cross the plate in the DOC250 traps - they always die with their nose on the rabbit bait blocks

I have caught rats and hedgepigs in the Victor stoat/rat boxes - how a hedgepig can get through a 60mm square hole - I don’t know but I keep the trap fairly close to the entrance now so they don’t get too stuck - once a box has had a hedgepig in it - they seem to keep on coming

Also catching a lot of rats in Timms with hair trigger setting - using a milk bottle top on the rod with GN orange paste - possums and rats love it

Finally getting around to making your traps but wood merchants down here don't do 160 only 150 or 200 . So need to cut down 200 palings.Do we nail or use screws because your latest version seems to show screws i.e. 60 square heads. Presumably you staple the mesh not nail it? A mate to overcome sneaky mustelids is using jag hooks suspended from the lid with meat so if they grab it they are hooked. All his traps baited this way have kills. Time consuming he says but very effective .They end up dead on the trap when they prance around which sets it off.

Hope your reply to your wife was "about what?"

Not sure if this is already mentioned. Carrying on from Paul Stennings tip a mate is using golf balls as the egg bait. It cost him dearly because he flogged his mates top of the line bag of balls.His mates wife cottoned on to his deed and extracted a cut and colour as the price for being quiet.He now knows why hairdreessers drive around in porsches. But he is also trialling marshmallows dunked or syringed with fish oil.Going to trial the latter next month.

sako wrote on May 10^th, 2015 at 8:15am:


once cleaned i give mine a good heavy spray with aerosol fisholene oil. it drys sort of hard almost like a varnish and keeps them in good condition.

think i got it from supercheap auto.

This stuff?

http://www.wattyl.co.nz/en/find-the-right-product/exterior/Metal/Prepare/WattylK...