welcome back to steve rob reviews today we're going to talk about a better mouse trap this mouse
trap right here i'm going to take you over the bench i'm going to show you the differences and
what i'd like to really emphasize today is when you're using a mouse trap you only want to catch
mice or maybe rats you don't want to catch squirrels or chipmunks or birds or anything
else so i'm going to show you how i actually do it it's a very easy design they're right there
now i've been using these particular mouse traps for about i would say five months and over the
five months well not once have the mouse trap snapped and there hasn't been a mouse in there
so i'm going to show you the type of traps that i used in the past and the design that they actually
thought was a great idea and i'm saying that nah this idea here with this particular mousetrap
is a lot better so let's go over the bench i'll show you the difference
and i'll show you how to catch mice and not anything else right so let's get to it right now
well as you can see right there all my mouse traps or rat trap is inside of a container
and you really have to do that you know because if not well you're going to catch other animals
and if you're wondering okay so how come this one here is all open well i'll get to that
in a minute i'm going to take you outside the backyard and show you why but this is
i would say by far the best mousetrap i've ever used and if you take a look at this style here
with uh you know with this hard plastic here and this bar going across
guess what if you take a good look here yeah these are like serrated teeth kind of a thing
and they correspond to down here and no mice get out of there but there is a couple of more
interesting things about this trap that they've designed that is far better than this style
of trap so first of all let's just show you an easy design here that you can build yourself and
as you can see i've got lots of wood over here and i'm going to make some more so i just took
these in from outside so you can see they're a little wet still because it's snowy outside
but i'm going to show you the design of these particular boxes very cheap you know to design and
make and let's take a look and we'll see why these traps are so much better than this style of trap
the first thing that you could notice here is this trap is colored more or less on the white side
this one is completely black i like the black design because to tell you the truth inside
of a black box well mice really have very poor eyesight in the first place
and everything being black seems to match a lot better than being
white because the white really stands out and tell you the truth i don't think that they really
they really thought this color out very well because i find that the black itself
is uh well it hides the trap mechanism better so if you take a look at this this is a hard plastic
and when you get something that has to come up on here and go for the bait which is right in here
well you have to actually just press down on the outside here a little bit and as it goes
down it snaps now this is completely hard plastic so now we'll move on to this one
here now i'd like you to just look at this here as i press down on this this paddle is flexible
now there is a bait trap in here where you put your peanut butter like this one here now
take a look at this one here this is a fixed post this idea of this trap here is ingenious
so if i just try to do it slowly here and you can see that the paddle see the pedal moves
see how far the pedal will move and it lets it go down quite a distance now remember the mouse is
getting up on there where on this side here the mouse will go on here and it doesn't actually
set the trap off very good because the weight transfers right to the outside edge and many times
by the time the trap arm comes down well the mice escapes this one here it's going down and down
wow look at the power of that so as you can see there yeah this trap really has a lot of power
to it and it is fast and all i did was have this light over top of the two boxes and had that much
power to vibrate the light right off so the one thing i really like about this particular design
is that the trap can be set here is the mechanism here i'll give you a closer look up in a second
but the trap the whole trap idea itself is is with this lever you're not pulling back a big bar
so if you want to release a mouse that's in there you just go like this on the other styles well
you know what it's not so easy you're dealing with the bar and sometimes on the older traps
you know the ones that you see that are wooden well you have to actually lift the bar up
this here you're not going near the mouse at all right but i'm going to show you a feature
on this that i've never seen before and it's on the back side here and as we get closer
i'll take this out and that is right there the bait trap where you fill
you can put your peanut butter in there and that's it inside right there
and that is just i think a terrific idea you know the idea of the bait trap being
you know removable you can take out and clean is just i think a good thing and like i said before
this paddle is flexible you know compared to the other ones that are fixed so now i'll show you
just the mechanism itself in the back here if you take a look here
you could see that the only thing metal is the exact same as every other trap
which is the spring part the rest here it comes down and it just snaps in like this
and you know when it comes down to it you see how these teeth they mesh on the other side and
that's why every time this trap has been sprung there's been a mouse in there and they do not get
out okay so i'll show you the boxes next and uh a nice easy design that i think everybody can do
okay here's the design right here and as you can see it's just really just a box
i mean it's nothing fancy it's just a box itself and you can see there's a rod that goes through
it i've got a little quarter inch carriage bolt at the top and a one and an eighth inch hold one
inch is fine whatever size bit you have is fine but one inch is fine you wouldn't want to be any
more than one inch and one inch does fine so how does this work well you just got this little lever
on the side here and i've just designed it so that you can only push the rod in so far it's
not going to go no further right you just pull the rod out and it's a little bit of a tight fit
and what's inside well if you take a look at that there all that is is a conduit clamp
so i've just bolted it on here with a conduit clamp and you can see you just got to measure
your hole here to match here so that the rod goes through and grips the top and that's it so
i'll give you a better look inside so you can see exactly what's going on here
okay so there's inside the uh particular box and the main thing i would say is what i've noticed
with mice is they like to come inside and they'll actually push your trap a bit to see what's going
on with this thing they like to to feel and smell everything so one thing about this particular trap
is you can set it and i'll just set it right here now
and i can set it right now while it's in the box and if you take a look at the distance i
just put a little bit of a strip here so that this trap sits snug in between the
back and the front so there's a little bit of like a rub rail right here and the whole idea
is when the mouse comes in he's only going to get to about this far before the trap snaps and
you can just do a visual from the outside and you will see that you've caught a mouse
and i'll just un trip it here and i'll show you how it comes out so it's easy just to take in
you know and take out you know so that's uh easy enough there it doesn't move because a
lot of times a mouse will want to come around the front and move your trap around a bit and
that's sometimes how it springs it so you can imagine how this thing when it's set off
you know the power that this thing has is just incredible to most other mouse traps that i have
used well i know there's going to be a lot of you thinking okay so i really you know i don't
have a small little brad nailer where i could just nail this together like this is all just
18 gauge brad nails no glue no nothing i mean it doesn't have to be that structurally strong
but let's just say that you don't have one of these and well you want to put some mouse traps
out but you don't want to catch squirrels and you don't want to catch you know your birds and that
kind of stuff so what do you do well i do have some of these traps set up outside and they're
just laying on a cement slab and i'll show you the protective cover that is very inexpensive
keeps the birds out keeps the squirrels out but does a terrific job at catching
mice and uh let's go out in the backyard and let's take a look well here you go right here
now as you can see there's i don't know if you can see or not but there's squirrel tracks here the
squirrels have gone on top inside there i know you can't see but inside there i've got two traps and
uh same traps that i showed you the better mouse trap and all i've done is on the back side there
right on the lip but on the inside i put a little bit of peanut butter right on the ledge here but
over here and i catch mice because they'll come across the peanut butter first then they'll go
inside because they can smell the peanut butter and whenever i get a fresh snow yeah i get all
kinds of tracks on top of here from the squirrels that can you know that can smell the peanut butter
in there but they can't get inside and this is just a laundry hamper yes just an inexpensive
laundry hamper and you notice i put on top i put a little uh paving block on there to keep the weight
because if not you know what small little critters like squirrels well they can push that
and i've been using that now for months and months and months nothing has moved it because a little
bit of a cement block on there so whether you want to actually make a box like this or not
um you know it's entirely up to you but it is quite easier just to go out and get yourself a uh
like a a really inexpensive laundry basket and make sure the holes that are going through it
you know are not too wide you want to be about an inch an inch and a quarter at the widest and
you know if you're wondering okay so where'd i get these mousetraps from i just bought them on
amazon like i don't sell anything on my channel uh i don't put links down the stuff on my channel
because you know what i paid twenty dollars like a two dollar you know coupon as well on this
i paid 20 bucks for 10. now i have one in the garage right here and it's been sitting there for
months never caught a mouse in it but you never know because i'm in and out of the garage all
the time same as my two sheds in the back that are not sealed up that great they're just steel sheds
so in the fall when i'm finished going inside the shed you know
i'll put a mouse trap in each one and i just check every once in a while because you know what when
you leave your doors open for an extended period of time during the summer and that kind of stuff
you can get a mouse in there and not even know that it's there until the next spring you know and
then you find nests and you find you know and they can do a lot of damage so you know for really two
dollars a piece and you know like for the other mouse traps not the rat traps but the mouse traps
i was paying well seven dollars eight dollars for two so twice the price of these and you know
this design here is just awesome you know i don't lose any any mice in here
and of course i like the idea of the detachable bait you know because you know you have to clean
these out once in a while too so you know the whole idea behind catching the mice is
well it's best if you don't touch the mice either right this way here you can just open it up and
they drop out and that's it so thanks for joining me here today and you know i hope you find this
interesting and i just thought i'd mention before i close this video up is i just keep
a small little jar like this you know with some peanut butter in it and just a little knife so
you can dabble it in there and it works terrific so hopefully you know you've seen some ideas on
how to catch some mice today and how to catch them safely so you don't catch other animals in there
and you know i know people have actually caught cats because you know just the just the tail
going by and setting the trap off because you know cats are very curious to animals and you'll i have
seen cats myself in my lifetime with a mousetrap attached to his tail so you really don't want to
do these type of things right so these guys come back again if you haven't seen this
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