/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.117912]

/diy/

I have recently just come back from Google after searching for "do it yourself mousetraps" and "LETHAL do it yourself mousetraps" only to return with links for NON-lethal and HUMANE traps. I have a family of RATS, not mice, fucking football sized hungry RATS. so if anyone out there has any info on making an at home LETHAL RAT TRAP please do share.

>tl;dr /r/-ing diy LETHAL traps for HUGE rats

[BSO No.117914]

bear traps, elephant gun, c4

[LiGhtS No.117917]

this:

http://reap-eastafrica.org/blogs.info/reap/pdf/RatTrap.pdf

or this :How can i make a homemade Rat trap?
i have loads of rats in my yard a want to make a bunch of traps
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Fyreaway
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

Take a 5 gallon bucket and drop a handful of dog food in the bottom. Place a short piece of wood against the bucket like a ramp. The rats will smell the food and climb in to get dinner and then not be able to climb out. Disposal of the contents of the bucket will be up to your imagination!


and then smash. or poison. or whatever.

[truckerfag !!xXmBuWkIT3n No.117919]

Mix in some arsenic with some table salt.

Mammals fucking love salt.

[BSO No.117927]

obvious solution, call professional when rats look like raccoons

[Anonymous No.117932]

It's simple. Stuff the ratholes with steel wool.

[Anonymous No.117933]

Get a normal commercial trap, copy the design.

[Anonymous No.117938]

>>117919
you can't buy arsenic in the USA, the EU and quite a few other first-world countries anymore.

and you can't trap a rat in a 5-gallon bucket, they can jump in and out of full-size trash cans. they can jump straight up like three feet in the air if they have to.

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you can feed them cement.
what you do is get some portland cement mix and some flour, mix them in a bowl 50%-50%. then next to that you put another bowl of water.

the rats will eat the cement/flour mix and get thirsty, and drink some water. the cement will solidify in their digestive tracts, killing them in a week or so.

it is a cheap, ancient method that works well,,,,,,,, problem here is, you have to make SURE no other animals can get to the cement/flour bowl

,,,,,,really though you need to block however they are getting in. if you can't block it, then you can try spreading mothballs in the path/hole. mothballs are cheap, easy & clean to try, and [slightly] give off formaldehyde that the rats won't like.

[Anonymous No.117946]

>>117938
[samefagging]

if you have mice or rats in your house, it is best to use non-lethal methods to kill them. the reason is that they always have fleas, and if you kill them in your home, the fleas will jump off them as the body cools, and then be in your home.

so it is better to either drive them off (get a cat?) or block the way they're getting in, and then catch the ones inside LIVE and just throw them outside.

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also--for rats in your YARD, you don't get a cat, you get a dog. they have these dogs called rat terriers.... but a lot of dogs will go psycho on small animals.

and this involves more money than normal for the dog, because they need more vet care than usual. keep them up to date on the rabies/distemper shots and frontline flea/tick protection and they need blood screening 2-3 times a year, plus occasional testing and deworming. a dog will pick up diseases often if they are regularly slaying rats.

[Anonymous No.117958]

>>117917
I have pet rats, and they can jump straight up about 3-4 feet so, make sure that's a tall bucket.

[Anonymous No.117965]

I remember seeing a good trap that was a 5-gallon bucket half-filled with water, a dowel or something similar across that which could rotate, and food suspended immediately above? Something like that.

The premise is that the animal attempts to reach the food, falls into the water, and is forced to tread water until drowning due to the steep slopes of the bucket.

Pretty shitty way to go, but I guess that's what you get for causing the plague and stealing my cheese.

[Anonymous No.117971]

>>117946
>>117946

>it is best to use non-lethal methods to kill them
>non-lethal methods to kill them
>non-lethal kill

Wat

[Anonymous No.117986]

When I first read OP's post I thought he said he started looking into rat traps and decided he wanted to build lethal rat traps to kill his whole family.

It's fucking hilarious when you read his post like that.

[Anonymous No.117994]

>>117971

he means kill their spirit, make sure you play them a recording of Vorgon poetry on loop OP

[Anonymous No.118036]

>>117927
no money hence my posting here
>>117933
spend money on a trap just to build one myself? what?
>>117986
fucking lol
>>117917
good suggestion
>>117938
cement rats, interesting thinking but impractical
>>117946
but thank you for informing me about the fleas

[Tozetre No.118048]

Source; western Canada, where we have a hate-on for rats like you wouldn't believe.

1) Put a hay bale or three, plus a bunch of rat bait (dog food, table scraps, whatever), in the middle of an area that won't catch on fire.
2) Leave it overnight, maybe two nights. It will collect rats, who will also notice what a fantastic nest the bales make, and stay there.
3) Surround this with a thick ring of more straw from another couple of bales.
4) Douse all the straw and the bales in diesel or kerosene.
5) Light the outside ring first. I cannot stress this enough. LIGHT THE OUTSIDE RING FIRST.
6) Once the outside ring is fully caught, toss a burning rag onto the bales in the middle.
7) Watch in grim satisfaction as the diseased chewers of human flesh panic and burn.

This is not a particularly humane method, but it is fairly effective. Make sure your outer ring is sufficient, because nothing ruins your day like a flaming rat shooting out of a conflagration and under your deck/house/barn.

[Anonymous No.118141]

>>118048
fucking canadians

[Anonymous No.118145]

Take some rope and rig up some snares in their tracks/ runs (anywhere you think they'll run). When you catch one you can deal with it however you like, if you have a bb gun or a bow I recemend using it for a little target practice. Leave this rat to bait others and put more snares around it.

[Anonymous No.118147]

>>118048
>Canada

God bless you and your ingenious people.

Keep hating the rats. Hate with all your heart!

[Anonymous No.118148]

I know you said you are broke op but the easiest way to kill them is with one of those electric traps. They are like 40$ I killed like 20 goddamn mice in my house with one before I lost count. Eventually got the last of them or whatever and havnt had rodent problems since then.

Where do you live though? Are the rats living outside and coming in? That probably means a lot more rats to kill. I dont really see how you are going to deal with this problem without spending ANY money at all. I mean if you see rats regularly you can probably estimate there are 20-40 living someplace around your house right? You going to get them all with some ghetto ass trash can trap? I know this is /diy/ but it seems futile.

[Anonymous No.118154]

>>118148 Those are very effective at killing

We bought a electric trap also. $28 at home depot
put it in our attic and killed the 3 squirrels living up there fucking with the romex. Fuck squirrels.

[510 No.118162]

Just saw this one OP.

DIY approach I'm guessing you could make one out of a old pc case if you have one lying about.
looks fairly simple to make with basic tools, some cheap flashing material, duct tape and a hacksaw.
and some rat poison of your choice to finish them off. Those old PC towers could hold a quite a few rats in them.

[Anonymous No.118182]

>>118048
my kind of anon

[Anonymous No.118191]

[Anonymous No.118195]

If I where you, I'd make a simple cage trap to catch the fucker alive.
Then probably establish a rat space program.
And with every live rat cought I would make other DIY ingenious project to launch the vermin closer to the cheese summits of the moon.
The first being some sort of huge slingshot.

[Anonymous No.118196]

>>118195
Another advantage of this type of rig is you can slingshot hungry rats at your enemies.

[Anonymous No.118374]

>>118195
how might one make this "simple" trap?
>>118162
what is this i don't even...
>>118148
this is what i'm talking about, i might just drop the cash for this if i kill as many as you say i might

[Anonymous No.118381]

if your murrican, go to /k/, and get a little rutget mk3. load with hollopoints or ratshot. bate teh area

[Anonymous No.118402]

http://www.au.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pests/msg0300270022739.html

crtl F and search for 44 gallon drums

[Cart No.118417]

>>118048
High-five Albertabro

[Tozetre No.118513]

>>118417
^5 I prefer Cowtown but live in the Hat, le sad. You?

[Anonymous No.118533]

Just use regular neck-snapping rat traps. $1 each, set unbaited along walls the rats use, outside. They hug walls when moving most of the time. There is no need for bait as they trigger it by motion.

Some rats need to be hunted and BBs are not nearly enough. .22 with ratshot or similiar.

>> not very DIY but it works.

[Anonymous No.118791]

>>118533
a good idea, i know the routes they use very well

[Anonymous No.118807]

Use the bucket method but put a pressure plate on the bottom connected to a lid that closes when rat gets in. Then destroy the rat.

[Anonymous No.118825]

>>118417
Another Albertafag reporting in. Rat free and proud!

Oddly enough I dated a girl a few years back who bought an Albino rat in Vancouver and brought it back to AB as a pet. She was an odd duck.

[Anonymous No.118851]

>>117965
This, OP. I have one of these at camp. My twist is that it's filled with delicious, poisonous antifreeze.

[Anonymous No.118858]

>>117965 >>117917 already posted see link
>>118851 >>117917 already posted see link

>>118374 the pic is of a humane rat trap. they go in and cant get out. Made with a pc case it could actually hold a bunch of rats in one baiting.

I always bait the back snapper types. Rats to an extent are smart little fucks.

[Anonymous No.118859]

>>118191
get drunk and smash them?

[Tozetre No.118988]

>>118825
>Vancouver
>odd duck
mfw you repeat yourself. but yes, I've known a few people who had pet rats. All my why.

[Anonymous No.118998]

Havent read the whole thread so this may have been posted but I one read in an old book about a simple mouse trap.

Take a block of wood, drill an inch or so wide hole in it a couple of inches deep, then drive a nail through the wood so it enters the hole diagonally pointing inwards, then bait the bottom.

Rat will enter for the foot but be unable to back out due to the nail.

[Anonymous No.119069]

Anti-freeze. The reason dogs and little kids are always eating that shit and killing themselves is that antifreeze is sweet to the taste, tastes like fucking sugar. So put out a pan of ant-freeze the rats will drink it up.

[Anonymous No.119085]

>>117917
Why don't you do this, but instead fill the bucket with CO2 which is heavier than air. When rats fall in, they should die fairly quickly in the anoxic environment.

[Anonymous No.119116]

1. Get humane rat trap (see pic for example)
2. Trap rat(s)
3. Get GPS Tracking Device and attach to rat trap (or duct tape your Iphone on!)
4. Get weather balloon or two
5. Fill weather balloon(s) with helium
6. Tie rat trap with rat(s) to helium filled weather balloon(s)
7. RELEASE
8. ????
9. Profit

bonus points for designing and dressing the trapped rats in mock astronaut suits (we don't want them to actually survive their 100000 ft. high trip!). take pictures and post results before, during, and after.

[Anonymous No.119149]

>>118998
ohmygod, you made me cum

[Anonymous No.119635]

>>118998
yes, fascinatingly simple thank you
>>119116
are they stupid enough to enter a trap that size? everyone irl is saying they are highly intelligent for rodents
>>119069
>>118851
these are win
>>119085
coolface.jpg
>>118859
stupid.
>>118807
very interesting, have any diagrams?

[Anonymous No.119648]

>>11798
Fucking lol'd.

[Anonymous No.119658]

>>119635
dude sick fucking piece

[kyubii No.119674]

Nobody ITT think of the shotgun shell rat trap yet?

[Anonymous No.119676]

so simply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ

[Anonymous No.119685]

>>119674
what is that?

[Anonymous No.120171]

/an/on here..

Step 1- pic related

Step 2(lethal variant)- hammer

[Anonymous No.120174]

>>117917
>>120171
Do these two OP. But make sure you mix in antifreeze with the poison. AND put the traps somewhere that other animals you don't want to hurt will get into it. I think it is illegal to murder your neighbors cats and dogs. But it might depend on the laws of your specific area.

Anyways, rats go into trap, eat poisoned food. Then die from the antifreeze before they can chew their way through the plastic.

Best of all? Every few days all you have to do is dump a bucket full of dead rats in a hole and bury them.

[Anonymous No.120223]

>>117912
you guys are over-thinking this...

C A T

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[Anonymous No.120224]

>>120223

this or a terrier

[Anonymous No.121152]

use human cage-type trap. Make sure it's stainless steel with no plastic or wooden parts whatsoever. obtain a fire of some size (use your imagination!)

when rat is in cage, make a fire, throw cage on. lolololol.

everyone wins, except the rat which dies slowly.

[Anonymous No.121157]

>>120223
Most average house cats can not take on full grown new york sewer rats. Those fuckers will claw a cat's eyes out before it can kill them.

Plus, a cat will only kill one or two a week, especially if OP keeps it well fed.

Whereas traps can kill multiple rats a day.

[Anonymous No.121170]

>>121157
Depends on your cat. Rescue cats are good bets, especially if they had to fend for themselves early on - I have a rescued Maine Coon mix that goes through vermin like a champ. When there are vermin to be had, he'll hardly touch store-bought food. Cat is still the best answer, but for big nasty vermin get a big cat. Maine Coons are among the biggest; I once saw mine chase a fox off, and in the summer he's taken to hunting rabbits and weasels when he's run through the smaller fare.

[Anonymous No.121213]

I have three cats. two are good mousers (one is in training still). The oldest one regularly brings me things like rabbits that are as big as himself. I only have mice problems in winter, when they go under my house and the cats can't get to them.

[Anonymous No.121218]

here you go op

[Anonymous No.121225]

Simple rodent trap:

You need:

1 - Bucket
2 - Can
3 - Wire hanger
4 - Peanut Butter
5 - Stick

Fill the bucket halfway full with water, bend the wire straight, poke it through the can, coat half the can in peanut butter, lean the stick along the bucket so the mice can climb it to get to the bucket.

They'll try to get on the can with the peanut butter, it will rotate, they will fall in the bucket, swim until exhaustion, and drown.

[Anonymous No.121228]

Video example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R72OBVBKyo

Cheap, effective, and catches multiple rodents without having to reset like snap traps.

[Anonymous No.121240]

>>119116
Fill the rats with helium. Would be funnier.

[Anonymous No.121255]

>>121240
please do this and post pics

[Anonymous No.121269]

This one in super dangerous but works.
>it can you kill you and your rats.

[Anonymous No.121274]

Place a piece of cooked meat on the floor at night. Sit motionless nearby with a hammer. Smash rat when it comes to retrieve meat.

[Anonymous No.122274]

>>121225
>>117938
>>117965
so I made the 5 gallon bucket trap with the spinning can smeared with peanut butter, the fuckers licked the thing fucking clean without even climbing onto it.