okay so today we're going to talk about rat and mouse traps again by the company
called made to catch these are metal traps this is black burnished and I'm
targeting mice there's also a squirrel that's been in my bee shed I'm putting
these on boards that are in the open if you've seen my other rat trap videos
usually I put them in shrouded boxes and I call those boxes of certain death in
this case we're gonna put them in the open but I'm going to show you how to
keep your traps from being hauled away if the trigger plate falls off like this
one did all you have to do is put the skinny side in first there put the
trigger plate in a vertical position slide it in and then slide the thicker
side in lay it back in the flat position and it's good to go
I bought all these traps for full price at Amazon of course where I buy most of
my stuff now today I'm going to do something different though how many
times have you had a trap go off and you can't find it now these have holes in
them so you can screw into boards and things like that but that's not what I'm
gonna do I'm gonna put these traps on this rough cut lumber with hot glue and
then I'm gonna put these boards anywhere I want if you hot glue them like this
by the way these are stamped they're really strong you don't flex them you
can see how thick the material is these are the galvanized versions here they
will last out in the weather but these are going to be inside of course in my
bee shed this is a high temperature hot glue gun and I'm using gorilla glue this
guerrilla hot glue is fantastic stuff I've been doing a lot of things with it
this year much easier than putting screws down and things like that plus it
will hold the traps in place but you can also take a screwdriver and pry them
right off if you need to later because we're going metal to wood and the metal
is non-porous so it has some holding power but it's not impossible you can
remove them easily so we're gonna get these mousetraps on here we're testing
the mouse and rat traps together and we're gonna see if the rat traps will
catch mice or if they're just plain too big I'm gonna put several of them on
this open board of death which is as I said before going in my
bee shed I know for sure I have mice in there and I have a red squirrel running
around that's just chewing holes and everything
here's the thing I have peanuts still in the shell so I tear them in half the
open end I'm going to aim right at the little trigger slide hole there and I
hot-glued it right to the plate that's going to make sure that you know mice
can come and they lick peanut butter and things like that off trigger plates and
they don't trigger it and we've also put pretzels here so if we have hard
material like these pretzels with the peanut butter inside and the peanuts in
the shell they go to chew that they're going to trigger it so we're going to
put these on the mice size traps and also on the rat size straps and then
there are just glued to the board easy to set they hold their position and we
put this trigger right through the little hole there and it's good to go
very easy this have nice teeth on them nothing's getting away here we are we're
all hot glued up and now let's go to the rat traps
same thing we're just gonna put the high temp glue here on
and again that's gorilla glue I'm gonna put all this stuff down in the video
description links cards to where I get them on Amazon I like the black
burnished traps because I think rats and things like that first of all they're
already afraid of new things so these traps are gonna have to be in place
they're gonna have to stay there for weeks or months so I'm planning ahead
for spring and because when the older rats walk into a space and they see
something new they avoid it it doesn't matter what's on it and how tasty it is
they're not touching it and they also think the fact that we're
using a trap that's black it's non reflective and I also think that they're
not going to be as wary of these as well other things I am wearing these nitrile
gloves so that I don't put my scent all over it
rats again you know that the most sophisticated they're super smart mice
don't care they run right up and bite anything it doesn't matter what you do
and again because we're putting hard bait on here peanuts in the shell
pretzels with peanut butter inside even a mouse I'm guessing if it goes to chew
on this it's going to trigger the plate even if it's a rat trap so again if you
had put a rat trap out before which is peanut butter on it a mouse and even
small squirrels and things like that would just lick the peanut butter off
and not trigger it and here we go with the dimensions six-and-a-half inches in
length on the rat traps and they are three and a half inches in width and of
course if you're going to slide it under something make sure you have clearance
for that trigger to flip through and these traps the mousetraps are three and
three-quarter inches in length and exactly two inches wide so they fit
anywhere same thing if you're sliding on under something make sure an account for
the trigger mechanism that kill bar to swing down because if it gets caught in
something you're going to be foiled so here we are they're set and we're on a
board again and I also decided I'm gonna make another board so I have four
mousetraps on one I have two and here's my combo platter I'm calling it and look
I put the edges over the edges of the traps extend beyond the edge of the wood
and that's so it's easier to get all of the kill bar and reset the trap and
again we hot glued hard bait on here and we
hot glue the traps to the wood and also on the overhang part I hot-glued a
little bead underneath there to hold it better for when you're setting the trap
the hot glue basically once it sets has almost no smell that I can tell but
we'll find out to see if they even care and I stacked three peanuts here
together for in my rat trap I'm really hoping to target this red
squirrel he's been chewing holes in my shed here just look at that and I've
been plugging the holes and as soon as I put up new lumber and plug the hole II
choose a new location and here I even used a 2x4 to plug one of the holes that
shoot and then it comes through and choose this door up so I'm really kind
of add for that squirrel and he's been eating black walnut so I also have a
live catch trap in here I collected a bunch of his black walnuts and put them
in there and then overnight of course we have a deer mouse it's dead
none of these traps have been triggered with nothing in them so I got that one
and here's another deer mouse over here so and here's a rat trap so even the rat
trap nailed it so if you're gonna get just one kind of
trap that'll be good for rats and mice just go ahead and get the rat traps they
work on both as long as you're using a bait that is tough enough to make them
vibrate that pedal thanks for watching and look below for links of the items
and we'll see you next time have a great weekend