Moles - where can I buy repellent

[ChezShells]

Hi

I'm looking for the battery powered, high pitched noise making unit, rather than blow em up.

Has anyone seen these for sale, been to local Gamm Vert and Super U, no luck tho.

Any help appreciated.

[Opalienne]

We bought one from a gardening catalogue - can't remember which one but something like Willemse.   It works really well and we haven't seen a mole since except when the battery runs out.   If there's an agricultural co-operative near you you will probably be able to find one there too.

[Phil.H]

Hi, Beleive it or not E-bay offer these devices, they are fairly cheap around £20 and effective.

I Have also heard from a very reliable source that if you buy one of those birthday cards that play a tune when you open them, remove the "music box" and put two or three of these in the holes this also works !!!!!!!!! it does sound bizare but it does seem to have the same effect and is a considerably cheaper......think about it         happy B,day 24 hrs a day!!!!enough to move your neighbours too .

[Deimos]

The devices I use are a bit like plastic spikes with a

mushroom type head.  They actually make

an intermittent low frequency vibration every 15 to 20 seconds which is meant

to sound like mole predators and to discourage them.  They are green about 10” long and the mushroom head is 3” or so

in diameter.  They cost around €15 each

and take two D cells.

I got battery powered ones as the solar powered ones are

quite expensive and the “payback time” on battery use will take ages.

 

If they are the devices you mean, I got mine in the

gardening section of Leroy Merlin (both my Leroy Merlin’s (50 miles apart, me

in the middle) sold them.

I have also seen the same devices in the catalogues these

sales lorries send round (i.e  the big

articulated lorries that visit local towns once every couple of months –

sending a catalogue round a few weeks before and selling really cheap tools).

 

I am not totally convinced as to how effective the are (as

yet).  I would not say that they don’t

work, just not yet convinced.

Ian

[sid]

For a non-environmentally-friendly solution... I asked locals what they do about moles, and the popular method is to clear away the earth from the a recent molehill, find the hole into the tunnel by poking with a stick, and then pour a drop of 'gazole' into the hole! Apparently the moles hate the smell. Sceptical? I was too, but it worked. I had 50 molehills, which may have been made by a single mole (I mean solitary, not unmarried [:)]) but after treatment the garden has been clear for a week now! So, it doesn't kill or maim them, just drives them off (into someone elses garden [:$]).

[Department71]

It seems you inherited the moles the neighbours got rid off.

 

Steve

[ChezShells]

Well

Bought a device from L'Eclerc, green think that sticks into the ground and makes a oise and vibrates, been there about a week

the hills are not as they were, they are smaller, so, its still there

time for dynamite, might try diesel first

 

Lee

[Anton Redman]

Both Castirama and Leroy Merlin used to stock various deterents. Link below is solar powered and expensive.

http://www.castorama.fr/boutique/sku/sku.jhtml?elementId=Casto489941&productId=CastoSO0501&_requestid=684613