No More Rats! Easy Homemade Rat Trap
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2018
- I have discovered a rat in our barn and I need to get rid of it before it starts eating all of our animal feed. Today I am building an easy rat trap using a Duke 110 Conibear trap. This box trap will definitely get rid of our problem rat!
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Keep the trap handy. The Navy taught us that for every rat you see there are as many as 50 you didn’t see. Good luck!
Why am I always watching these videos??? I don't have a rat problem..I have a UA-cam problem....but I'm not ready to address yet... 😂
The sound of rain in the background was so lovely. ❤
We haven’t had *any* rain for almost six months. I miss it…..Thank you…
For big traps and little ones, you need one thing. Tootsie Rolls. Cut a Tootsie Roll in half for each trap. Make sure you mash it on the top and bottom of the food part. I did this and it got a big rat within an hour. It also got it's offspring the next day.
At 5:26 You are correct, rats don't care, they have no appreciation for fine wood working craftsmanship.
Mix 1 part flour or cornmeal with 1 part fresh baking soda, set pans with generous portions of this out around the farm where it will stay dry and where rodents have been seen. Safe for pets and other animals, lethal for rats and mice since they cannot burp or fart - the baking soda is activated by their stomach acid, it bubbles up and bursts the rodents (and roaches) guts and they go off and die.
A very "modern" way of eliminating problems! We use to go sit in the feed barn at night with our 22's. Each rat we got Grandma gave us a quarter. Taught us good shooting skills, gun safety and we earned a little bit to boot! Good video Kevin...hope you get the varmint....
OZARKMEL smart grandma!!
So what is the pay lately? 25 cent's won't buy much ammo these days.
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Especially if you live in California, where they now charge you $300 PER YEAR just to do a background check on you, going back TWENTY YEARS! We have to pay them to investigate us! That's just to buy a box of ammo! If you ever got in a fight in high school, you fail, and they put you on a federal gun pick up list, and come & take your weapons! So, yea..ammo is quite costly these days..
A good pellet gun is better for that, of you have one. Won't damage equipment, or walls etc, costs even less per shot, and doesn't make as much noise. But hey, use what you got, and I bet you all became pretty good shots!
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I received my Duke 110 trap. Had to rewatch, your video to set my trap and build my box. Thanks so much for the video and how to.
That’s awesome Kevin. I have various sizes of that trap including what you used on this project. Going to build a box for it. Thanks!
Just ordered me the 1/10 conabare trap. Thanks for the video, I'm definitely going to do this.
I use the same trap but I used a newspaper delivery tube the type that goes next to your mailbox. I cut the same groove in the side and bolted the chain to the back part of the box with a bolt and flat washers. It worked like a charm. I've used it to trap mink and martin when I was in Alaska. Love y'alls channel keep up the great work!!!
Yes! They travel in pairs.. also rats are good feed for trees on the property. So don't waste the compost, but feed it to fruit trees or a tree you want to produce more trimmings for your square foot stove. Recycle is good.
Good day to you kevin & sarah from living traditions homestead !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your update of your homestead and what's going on throughout the day 😁😁👍👍
Good video
Plants are really pretty in back of greenhouse
very clever kevin. thanks for the video. god bless you all
Nice job Kevin, you have made a few traps and things that we tend to take for granted and just buy, not knowing how easily they can be made.. Thanks for showing people how to save money on something you probably won't be using every day...
Thanks Kevin for adding the link to this trap on your Amazon page. Their search window does not bring it up and UA-cam only shows the large ones. Most do not know that the correct name is "The Connie's Bear Trap!" I've you them when traveling visiting south in Virginia and North Carolina but can;t find them in the Metro NYC area. Even Tractor Supply website doesn't bring them up even if you put bear or rat trap in their search box either. But these city rats are very educated and will avoid any trap that was a near miss. Sometimes you have to go to something very old to teach these varmints a new trick. Thanks again!
I found the snap traps work best if you take a big seed like I use roasted pumpkin seeds in the shell and I use a needle and thread to sew them right tight to the trigger plate. I then put peanutbutter on the seed. Once I started doing that I've caught rats out in the chicken shed and with the small mouse traps in the house. They cant resist pulling on that pumpkin seed and snap!
we kep a pair of ferrets. Got rid of all the rats in 30 minutes and they keep em away. You can rent them if you don't like ferrets
I know this is an old comment but was curious is it a scent thing?I just found out my husband has been killing the rats he finds and that just mean (I know I’m a softie I also feed the armadillos and possums😂)
Takes a good ferret to go down rat holes. Not like rabbits. Rats will fight for their lives
I had a couple rats getting into the chicken feed, until I started using metal garbage cans with lids to store feed.
You can improve that trigger system with one of those plastic political signs you see stick into the ground every where. Cut a section of the sign into a square that will fit inside the jaws of your set conibear. Bend the trigger wires 90 degrees so they’re horizontal to the floor of the trap. They’ll go on the bottom. Slip the sign onto the wires and insert the trap into your box. Make sure it will drop far enough to set off the trap. The rats cannot beat this modified trigger.
Awesome greenhouse with sawhorses and panels. Just knew you hadda be a woodworker. You had me at bansaw.
Dude, you earned a subscription. Good info, concise description with no fluff or BS. Thank you👍
I can tell you the best way to get the regular snap traps to work. The issue with them is the bait comes off too easily. My dad taught me to use a piece of pecan. But I came up with the idea myself of using a wire from a twist tie to tie the pecan to the trap. Works like a charm! 😊
You owe to to yourself NOT to watch this American Engineer who've done extensive research and ask you do NOT believe 99% of YT scammers and only trust & buy from the honest engineer who invented the best rat trap kill 400-500 to fix his own problem 1st, just do a YT search "99% traps fail best mouse trap kills 400 rat" or "After 99% traps fail invent best rat trap kills 400" or "why 99% of traps fail kill 400". 99% of all other YT crooks use their trained pet rodents to make fake promising videos to scam millions of buyers to waste their $ so tell the community to only watch, share, trust & buy from the engineer who dedicate time, energy & money to do R&D works & invent the true best traps. Hope this helps!
Kevin we have an accidental rat trap in my son's horse barn. I filled an empty red supplement tub with water. It is in a darker place, but not closed up. I don't know what the count is now, but a couple of weeks ago he had caught a lot of rats. He uses a rake to remove the daily catch, then after a week or so he dumps the water and refills it to within four inches of the top! It has proven to be the best and cheapest rat trap ever.
Mine has a board with a 3" hole screwed to the front to keep neighbor's cats out. Two strands of bailing wire would also work.
Sweet! Good job!
Thanks! Looks like a great idea. Could you post an update when/if it works? I just want to make sure a trap that big will catch an animal as small as a rat before I order one.
A tip regarding the conventional trap screw it down to a board 12"× 12" or the shed floor, this stops the spring inertia flipping the trap upside down.
BIG RATS NEED BIG TRAPS =)
Great idea, we have some big nasties that have to go. We had the same results with the standard rat trap, and even the glue traps, the rats were just to big. I believe that trap will do just fine. Definitely want to know the results. Thanks for sharing.
We do the same thing but use a pvc tube bait pan in the middle two traps on both ends. Works really well on squirrels also. Bait those wire triggers with nuts. Using a drill bit to make a small hole then hot glue the nuts to triggers.
Note: two traps total one on each end
You owe to to yourself NOT to watch this American Engineer who've done extensive research and ask you do NOT believe 99% of YT scammers and only trust & buy from the honest engineer who invented the best rat trap kill 400-500 to fix his own problem 1st, just do a YT search "99% traps fail best mouse trap kills 400 rat" or "After 99% traps fail invent best rat trap kills 400" or "why 99% of traps fail kill 400". 99% of all other YT crooks use their trained pet rodents to make fake promising videos to scam millions of buyers to waste their $ so tell the community to only watch, share, trust & buy from the engineer who dedicate time, energy & money to do R&D works & invent the true best traps. Hope this helps!
I have a small shed and sometimes gets rats or mice in there. I used rat poison or mouse bait and the pests loved it so much they ate the cardboard it came in. Works every time.
A used chest freezer makes a great feed storage bin.
Need a playlist for these type of videos, I can’t find the ones with the trap working. Thanks cool trap.
Thank you brother great trap that works.
Superglue your bait to the trigger works every time
Great video! I bet it works on cats and small dogs too.
I have fenn traps in boxes like you have thay work for a 3 of 4 kills then thay stop going in them. I wear rubber Gloves so they dont smell me. they learn fast
One Rat at a time !!! You'll never get rid of them that way
Excellent 👍
My neighbors across the road have cats. I have watched them hunt around our place in our security videos. They (as well as other cats I have seen in the cameras) do a great job keeping us rat free. My hubby used to scare them off (unfortunately we are both allergic to cats) until we realized what a great job they are doing. We haven't seen any mice or rats for a number of years. Groundhogs however are another thing. They require big conibear traps!
A word of advice: only use conibears that have a safety latch on the main spring! F&T supply sells a secondary external safety clip for these. It holds the jaws open until the very last moment after setting. This safety clip is vital for using these traps alternately on woodchuck holes, squirrel poles, etc..
You saw a rat and it ran away? Maybe it went back to DC?
You got Ben type of rats there !! these rats gotta be the size of squirrels 🐿 to catch them with something that huge .
Cool trap!
Your a frigging genius Fantastic video Thank you from UK 🙌🙌😸😸
Just the right size to catch Tom so that Jerry will no longer be terrorized. Then you can reset it and do in your neighbor's wife's favorite cat that she nursed back to health as a kitten. Good job!
I don't like to only know the beginning of the story. Still I don't want to see it but tell us if it worked. God bless
Great how to video. Hope you get that rat. Thanks
Thank you
Watch your local regulations, where I live conibears can't be used around dwellings, those 110 and 120's size traps work very well on all kinds of animals including house cats 🥺
The problem with traditional spring-type rat traps is that rats are clever and wary. They tend to approach the bait from over the back of the trap. When a rat springs the trap it just flips him into the air. Next time I'm going to build a box like yours to protect the back half of the trap.
To bait those spring traps, I wrap peanut butter in a sack of netting material
and then tie that to the bait hook. Once they pull on the netting it triggers the trap
every time. No more stealing the bait!
good idea
Does it work for corrupt politicians ?
Most rat species have poor eye sight and run the length of the wall. A good trick is to put a few traps against each wall surface, as to slap towards the wall. Don't set the traps, don't bait the traps. Wait 4 nights and then before bed, put some rubber gloves on and set them all. Don't bait any of them. Also put some at random posts or objects in the middle of the space, facing away from the object whether it be a support post or dinner table legs. Again. No bait. A great way to judge the size of your rat problem.
Rats are weary to new objects but are very willing to smother the trap if it hasn't caused harm in the past. One or two occasions with the trap and they will walk right over it if placed properly. The ones in the middle of the room/space is a stopping point for when they are fleeing. They will zig zag from object to object and run over it in efforts to find a good stopping place where they won't be seen.
If all else fails a golden rule is "a rat will always lead you back to his home."
If you ever go to grocery stores, Lowe's, Home Depot, all use black bait boxes along side their buildings, inside their stores or out in back. They all use the bait box. Life can be simpler.
Great idea, Thanks, ! We have one the size of a Chihuahua, I was able to kill the smaller ones with the standard spring trap. But this momma one is big....
Last year we had an issue with a darn field rat. He would eat the bait on the trap, and never get caught. When we put poison in a rat hotel the darn rat took the hotel. He also took the rat poison and ate that. He destroyed several electric tools. Made a nest, and stole tools to line his nest. A fellow vlogger friend suggested I take equal amounts of sugar, baking soda, and flour mix them together. Take a flat container of some sort and lay aout a little mound of the sugar, baking soda, and flour mixture on the container. Take just a little teaspoon of sugar and sprinkle it on top of the mixture to help entice the rat. The rat will eat this mixture, and die because when he drinks water after eating the mixture it blows up their bellies. This concoction worked. We use it anytime there's a field rat around our out buildings.
Could modify this and make notch shorter so trap sits more towards opening and dont use the screen on other end,instead add another trap there and have a double whammy trap...
Have not tried this but have seen advice to glue the food on to the snap trap so the rodent has to work harder to get it and the trap will snap.
Senestech makes Contrapest which is a humane rodent birth control. My mom runs an animal rescue ranch in AZ and they have had immense success with this thoughtful, heartfelt option for rat control. If you don't want to harm or kill your rodents but want to eliminate the problem long-term, I highly recommend this method. Cheers! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I would put the feed in galvanized trash cans with a cinder block on top of the lid.
:-) THANKS FOR SHARING THE GREAT IDEA FOR CATCHING YOUR RAT PROBLEMS ARE AND I HOPE FOR THE BEST, THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED DAY :-)
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Like a another comment said "No such thing as 'A' rat problem"; You gotta ratS problem. Also, rat are pretty smart and cautious. They'll ease right on by those two little wires used as a trigger. And if you make the trigger bigger and the entrance too small they'll check it out but eventually pass on by! Believe me I know. With a bunch of poor hygiene drug addicts living on the other side of the fence close to my barn, I've gotten a lot of experience lately with RATS!
Hey... Kevin.. Thanks for sharing this video.. So easy and simple..
Will try something like that soon.
Please do keep posting..
Warm regards And Best wishes
The UnknownManCub 👍😎👨🏭
What if you add nails, pointy end up, to the conventional trap. May help to hold rat when sprung.
A white plastic pail of water 1/2 filled with a floating plastic bowl filled with peanut butter. Maybe a board up to the top for easy access. The rats fall in the water & drown, not able to get out of pail. WORKS!!
Thanku
Rats climb on your snap trap setting it off! Put it in a box will work as well.You can mount several conibears on a 2x4 , place the board 45 degrees to the ground, can catch several per night
That would be great if there was a way to keep cats and small dogs from getting in there. Maybe one could put the wire mesh on the front too and make the rat go through the slot?
You would want to create a door with a hinge. The mesh would require unscrewing to get the dead rat out. Thats extra work. You could put some bricks around the front that would allow for a hole big enough for a rat to get through, but not a dog, or Opossum to get into. Bear in mind that a dog or cat will only show interest if the bait is something they might like such as meat or peanut butter for dogs. If you rub a cashew on the wood and throw a few into the trap you are unlikely to get dogs or cats. You can also use touch of Avocado cooking oil around the trap to draw them in.
I’m not living with rats because you can’t leash your dog or keep your cat inside because that makes you almost as much of a pest as the rats !
Nice Kevin. Weve been tring to catch a varmit for over a month in a sm. Animal trap. The canned cat foods disappearing but that farrot still alive.ugh
Metal garbage cans with tight lids for feed storage. Can fit 2 whole 50# bags inside, even 3 bags if you put empty bags in first, then pour feed in each, about 1/4 at a time so all fill evenly (if you want to keep different types of feed separate). Beware of moisture which can result in mold, ruining feed.
homemade...all I have to do is go buy a trap? wtf? what, did you order it from home...lmfao! I'm going to try the bucket method.
Reach out to the company that makes the A24 rat trap. Best trap I’ve seen and I’d bet they would send you one to try for yourself and show others
Shawn Woods has demoed the A24 and the best part is it will kill multiple rats, squirrels, skunks, raccoons and other vermin in one night...
Yeah only $200 each
@@2bonosc they've come down in price. We've spent $300 so far trying to get rid of rats! My neighbor has a rat condo over there, and she could care less! People make me sick sometimes!
Use to use that setup for Martins and minks back in the day
Check out Joseph Carter the Mink Man to see how he's using mink & dog teams to control vermin populations. He's basically inventing a new hunting category.
@@leiatyndall8648 thanks as I like to learn these things
@@leiatyndall8648 wish my daughter was around with her animal expertise.
I came here for that rain sound on the poly tunnel!
LAWDY! By The Look At That Trap You Aint Jokin,You Have Rats! LOL.... That's Some Big Traps!
Any suggestions on roof rats? I want to build a lumber trap on the side of my house drill holes and attach it so it doesn’t get stolen we have pets so I don’t want them getting into it, but I want to get rid of them lots of them.
Nice trap.
Looks effective
I wonder if this trap would work for groundhogs. Or should it be bigger?
So did it do the trick? I realize this is 5 years ago; but wondering just the same. I have some 110's on the way and plan on using them in this manner.
I made a half dozen of these trap boxes using Duke 110 traps. I have yet to catch even one rat. I have caught a few squirrels but not as many as using the 110's without the boxes.
I've had a ton of rat issues lately. This is a great idea. two hinges and another board and a latch and you could even put a front face with a hole in it to keep small dogs out. love this idea.
55 gallon drum or an empty cattle protein bucket, metal rod, pvc pipe, a ramp, and peanut butter, and maybe some water in the drum... Also saw someone use peanut oil in a bowl to catch mice, they climbed in, then the oil made it so they couldn’t get back out!
I have Chickens, I get Rats from time to time. I hate rats. My dark side would have like to see the results of your Rat hunt. :)
The ultimate rat trap is a bunch of feral cats. You have to feed them because a hungry hunter is an inefficient hunter but it's worth the cost of food, and additional meat scraps aren't good for compost anyhow. It's a lot less work to feed cats twice a day than to manage rat traps. One of the funniest things I ever saw was a mother cat and her half grown son dragging a huge rat between them out of the stable and then fighting over their respective ends of it. In less than a minute they had torn it in two and each ran off with half of it. Strangely I've never seen rat bones strewn around. I don't know what the cats do with them. Martens are good too, absolutely vicious killers, but they are hard to catch if you want to remove them. My sister actually had a pet rat and a marten flew at her hand unexpectedly when she was playing with it and she ended up holding a headless pet.
You should contact Shawn Woods Mouse Trap Monday channel. Maybe you could organize a cross over video together?
Thank you...thank you...........thank you!
On your snap trap , smear some peanut butter on the bottom side of the trigger . They can only get at the bait if they are on correct side and stuff their snout underneath the trigger . WHAM !
What do you use for rat bait ?
But we need the part about catching the rat.
I would also imagine it could catch larger things like squirrels or other rodents since it is not specifically just the size for rats.
Man! Those must be some big rats!
My Victor traps work, sort of, I've had licked clean traps, last night one gat whacked and was dead outside the stall style box, had one caught, this one got whacked or something. Now looking for a trap door style, it time for a " rat hood " clean up.
Cats and little dogs, we are so sorry, oh no, not the chipmunks too.
Hope it works for you. Rats can be a big problem.
Good video. One thing that you may want to point out though... I don't know about the legality of using that setup, from state - to - state. I know that in Oklahoma, body grips aren't legal without a NWCO license. I also realize that the basic mousetrap that you buy anywhere, is really just a very simple body grip style trap; but I don't know how or if this applies to mice and rats, however. Anyway, it may be something for folks to consider. We watch you guys quite often, and enjoy the content.
It is definitely a good thing to consider. I didn't say "obey" because if I had a rat problem the gov't can kiss my ass. But it is a good thing to consider lol