Updated Mouse Trap Bucket

woodlandfarms · Dec 7, 2015

Saw this and thought of you guys. I have a few of the can versions on the farm (no cats, we travel too much and too many coyotes for Ferel).

Anyway, good ideas here, just not very good at making these kinds of things

Ruthlessly Efficient Trap Proves Mice Are Dumb

oldballs · Dec 7, 2015

Kinda reminds me of the mouse (man) that said, "Here, hold my cheese,and watch this".:laughing:

teg · Dec 7, 2015

I like that... need to copy it.

idaho2 · Dec 7, 2015

I have a used the bucket trap but with a small juice bottle rotating on a thin wire. Took a small plastic juice bottle, drilled a hole in the center of the cap and center of the bottom. Strung the wire thru these drilled holes and secured the wire thru the bucket handle holes very tight. Took a 18" 1x2, and drove thru two nails thru the upper end of the 1x2 about 1'' from the end. This ramp is now hooked on to the bucket. To attract the mouse as they run up the ramp I smeared peanut butter on the entire juice bottle and made sure it was over the center of the bucket. To make sure it the bottle stayed in place but could easily spin I crimped a stop about 1/4" from each end of the juice bottle on the wire. Bottle now spins freely when any weight hops on the bottle to feast on the peanut butter. Since I'm not able to check on this trap daily or monthly I needed something to keep a dead mouse from stinking up my bunk house. Solution; antifreeze. About 2'' deep has done the trick. Pickled mice. Next spring I'll give the critters a proper burial.

idaho2

woodlandfarms · Dec 7, 2015

I use left over oil in a budket. As I am gone for such long periods of time I found the water and antifreeze tend to evaporate. I do feel guilt. Drowning sucks. but chewed up stuff sucks more.

jack707 · Dec 8, 2015

Free bait! for k9 trapping.

Dutch445 · Dec 8, 2015

OMG, he trained the mice to jump out of 5 gallon pails! now we are all doomed!

k0ua · Dec 9, 2015

Dutch445 said:
OMG, he trained the mice to jump out of 5 gallon pails! now we are all doomed!

That one mouse was getting one heck of a free education! Those little buggers DO learn from their mistakes.

PILOON · Dec 9, 2015

You need not get all that creative.
Simply placing a 5 gal bucket touching a brick, stone or textured wall will provide adequate traction for their tiny feet and they simply jump in.
Popcorn and or peanut butter are the baits of choice.

Paddy · Dec 9, 2015

PILOON,

But it's fun to get creative! I've made two traps with a Rub Goldberg way of thinking. First was the bucket trap but I used a small DC solenoid to push the little bugger off the cliff. The switch was a small pc of beer can thin metal. Once they stepped on it, the solenoid rammed out, oh and there was a sharp needle on the end!!

Second trap was using a "one way valve". I used 1-1/2" PVC pipe. along the rim of the pipe, I placed a bead of Silicon caulk. Before the calk set, I place pins/needles all pointing in the pipe. Mice could go in the pipe, but many sharp pins facing him on the way out

Ed of all trades · Dec 10, 2015

I have a small blacksmith shop in my back yard and enjoy working in it from time to time and from time to time a mouse will drown in the quench bucket. Let me tell you you have never smelled ambrosia until you smell an almost liquid mouse when you quench a hot piece of steel in it. Trust me it is a smell you will never forget. Ed

Bill Hoffman · Dec 10, 2015

Went to my shop today and found 3 dead mice in my quench bucket. Stank to high heaven.
I hates those meeses to peeces.

jmc · Dec 10, 2015

Anybody have a simple recipe for that camera setup with a motion detector?

Ed and Bill, do the mice smell worse than forgotten nightcrawlers in the back of the fridge?

woodlandfarms · Dec 11, 2015

game cameras can be had for cheap. Probably the cheapest idea.

Next in line is cludging together something with an existing PC and camera

Finall maybe a stand alone IP camera

And then you get into real security camera system that start around $400.

Ed of all trades · Dec 11, 2015

jmc said:
Anybody have a simple recipe for that camera setup with a motion detector?

Ed and Bill, do the mice smell worse than forgotten nightcrawlers in the back of the fridge?

They do when you quench a piece of red hot steel in the mouse. :shocked: Ed

Opti-Mist · Dec 12, 2015

I've used the bucket trap to catch chipmunks. About 6 - 8 inches of water, a round sheet of white plastic bag on water surface, scattered sunflower seeds on the plastic and some on the ramp. The plastic keeps the seeds from sprouting. Caught 7 chipmunks in a little over a month.

Ed of all trades · Dec 12, 2015

Opti-Mist said:
I've used the bucket trap to catch chipmunks. About 6 - 8 inches of water, a round sheet of white plastic bag on water surface, scattered sunflower seeds on the plastic and some on the ramp. The plastic keeps the seeds from sprouting. Caught 7 chipmunks in a little over a month.

Good they are worse than rats. Worked on a house that they had pulled every bit of insulation out of the floors. Ed