Barrel Walk The Plank Rat Trap - Rats can jump higher than I thought. Mousetrap Monday

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[@censusgary]

Sometimes people think of rats as just big mice, but rats are a lot smarter and more wary, and therefore harder to catch, than mice.

[@ohianaw]

rats are just built different

[@ronsout]

I have a pack rat that I have been trying to catch for over a year now. I have even purchased one of the original Walk The Plank traps and set it up just like Shawn shows in the video. This Pack Rat doesn’t even eat the bait. I think maybe it is my deceased MIL from many years ago 🤣🤣

[@AmuckPVP]

@@ronsout It's why I think a shock therapy device would be better suited for these types of pest.

[@kei2142]

They got bigger brains don't they?

[@censusgary]

@@kei2142 Bigger and decidedly better.

[@fredrikherbertsson3447]

If you put birdspikes in a ring around the top of the bucket pointed downwards the rat will slide past them on his way to the bottom of the bucket, but it won't be able to jump up past the spikes.

[@leiatyndall8648]

Make it a Salacc!

[@leiatyndall8648]

Ugh, typo! Sarlacc!

[@Technoanima]

Don’t forget to oil the spikes. Then there’ll be no grip.

[@pigmeatmarkham898]

Good idea if you want to end up with live rats, but the only reason he used a dry barrel is because YT won’t allow him to show drowning/drowned animals.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@pigmeatmarkham898 Why don't you just gas them with the exhaust on the car (with a hose and a lid?). CO is a fast painless death when there's a lot of carbon monoxide

[@LeDrew8]

I noticed that once the rat got dunked the seeds went with it. It needs something to keep the seeds on for more catches

[@cuddyrafy4756]

Or he could use peanut butter and stick it on the sensor

[@HansMcGruber]

He usually smears some peanut butter on the end

[@promontorium]

Did you notice that? Things fall off do they?

[@managersamuel]

Peanut butter

[@stephensmith1470]

Or perhaps some sort of an automated seed dispenser

[@JoeGarofaloII]

"Those are some serious hops" - something I never thought I would hear Shawn say 🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

Unless he was doing a beer tasting. 😀

[@warrenarnold]

But just how many mice does this guy have though? I see him trap some every day and it seems they just keep on increasing. Does he rear them??

[@paulenglish7500]

@@warrenarnold rats and mice have never being in short supply in the wild, plus they are pet shop full of them.

[@deborakassanitsh2652]

@@warrenarnold 1

[@warrenarnold]

@@deborakassanitsh2652 yea that place is infested with vermins😅

[@Rapidashisaunicorn]

I love how it ate all the seeds that fell in before trying to escape

[@jimmellenberger8505]

"Hey, I'm stuck, better get my energy to leap out of this bish."

[@thogevoll]

That's cool. It really dumps quick. That rat actually seemed surprised. For live capture perhaps stack two barrels.

[@Vee_H.]

Maybe a light layer of nontoxic cooking spray or oil so there is no friction for the rat to jump.

[@atalhlla]

Like the surprisingly effective bowl of oil trap, which hopefully should still be somewhere in his collection of videos

[@kevlahead7278]

A few years ago I came up with a similar idea myself. The walking the plank bit was basically a finally balance length of plywood. I used peanut butter at the appropriate end of the plank which stays in place. Once the mouse falls in the plank returns to the correct position because of it's own weight.

[@ragnarlodbrok1605]

Thank you Shawn! I bought and used the walk the plank trap and it actually worked! In three nights it drowned one mouse each night. For a total of three mice! I never caught multiple mice in the same night yet. But, I'm satisfied with the results so far.

[@yland6003]

I think they should add a larger bait cage so that the bait won’t drop when the trap activates! I love this one!

[@DeirdreYoung1]

I think two inches of water at the bottom would hinder the jumping just enough - I'd love to see you test that, Shawn.

[@mtrmann]

Or maybe Shawn realizes that most people want vermin to be dead.

[@philipphoehn3883]

@@mtrmann KZbin doesn't like that though

[@darionblack4434]

@@philipphoehn3883 i think he saying like just enough just to make jumping harder

[@yafois988]

You need enough to prevent them from touching the Botton, like 6-10" of water. That would be the end of matter.

[@Coneshot]

A 3-4" deep layer of sawdust or kitty litter will allow live catch and stop most escapes.. or maybe a thin layer of oil to stop traction?

[@alexisgrunden1556]

1cm of oil, and their traction is nil, and their fur gets soaked so it's harder to leap~

[@mtrmann]

I'm happy with using the water...

[@-danR]

Nobody wants live-catch rats. This was just a demo for the plank.

[@dyinganthem]

second the motion for oil!

[@MrWirelesscaller]

@@alexisgrunden1556 quote: "1cm of oil, and their traction is nil, and their fur gets soaked so it's harder to leap~" Response: I was thinking along similar line, oil/greasing the inside of the barrel and fill it with about an inch or two of water, this way it'll weigh the rat down, enough water to slow it's running momentum, and if it jumps the combination of being wet and oil barrel will keep it from getting decent enough traction to parkour it's way up and out.

[@ejej6934]

Shawn: I lived in Alaska and made salmon jerky. People went crazy for it. Every year when the salmon are running up there I think maybe I should move back.

[@jdmather5755]

What about the mice, rats, squirrels, moles and voles? Did they like it?

[@jaya.0069]

Did you feed it to the rats?

[@LH-kz2nf]

I'm like these other guys and want to know if the rats thought it was good? After all this is what the video is about how to catch rats. Strange comment to make unless the rats like jerky

[@ncplantdoctor]

That rat took the bait and it was just like watching a corrupt politician get caught. However, this rat got out alone and politicians usually have their friends get them out.

[@DrLoverLover]

What a crap analogy

[@philipcummings4604]

Your politicians must be as BENT as ours

[@Dee13i]

Put something very soft on the bottom. This will absorb some of the energy from the jumping rat.

[@Hatarue]

Or slippery so they can't get a good momentum.

[@goreobsessed2308]

You fill it with water can't jump and then drown

[@clownchecked8155]

@@goreobsessed2308 i like the way you think

[@deecee784]

Water !

[@albertodelrio1852]

Glue traps at the bottom of the bucket might work

[@GM_-]

Shawn consistently underestimates rattus rattus. The species is far more tenacious and smarter. Maybe some guy will start a rat trap Tuesdays channel.

[@dandruff7807]

Out of all your rat/mice traps my preference is the rolling log type. Only one moving part, simple to construct & some peanut butter as bait. Add some mineral oil at the bottom of the bucket/container & the rodent will not be able to jump out (i think?).

[@quixotika3232]

Rats could chew the plastic so I recommend putting wire fenceing with small spacing between wires around the inside of the barrel to reinforce the bottom.

[@DaleStLouis-xb5mx]

The sensor could be a few inches in from the end, might catch more rats if they are skittish about going all the way out. Maybe use peanut butter (or glue) to stick some sunflower seeds to the plank. Or devise a bait holder that won't dump.

[@trevhib]

The sensor is towards the end of the plank for a reason. If it wasn't, the trap would go off with the rat far closer to the rim of the bucket, giving it a much better chance to grab on as the trap deploys.

[@h8GW]

Again, bridge type or seemingly-whole-lid type barrel traps would work better with rats, since it would let them think there might be an escape route.

[@amiller5885]

That's what I was thinking too.

[@pkz420]

It was the edge running around the bucket, part way up, that allowed the rat to double-jump out easily. It would have been more difficult if there was no lip to push off.

[@h8GW]

Or if it was oiled all to hell, since creaseless barrels are hard to find.

[@jTempVids]

Absolutely Fantastic. Such a good design.

[@claudettehernandez3402]

WILLARD! Able to leap over 2’ in a single bound!! Thanks Shawn

[@amigohamigavel340]

Hey Shawn ! Really like your videos . I dont have rat/mice problems , but still watch your channel because its really interesting and your videos are really nice. Keep up the work . Hope you and your family are safe.

[@babuhler3783]

Another Awesome video Shawn, THANKS!

[@jimmywise4538]

If you built a lid with a larger tunnel and then put bait at the end of that tunnel the rat may be able to jump up, but because it may get on the plank but because it flips down it'll block the hole so it can't get out.

[@petekinne2702]

Use a lid that fits the bucket. cut a large hole in it so there's just a 1 1/2" lip (greased). I think that would work.

[@WhenTheManComesAround]

Excellent looking design 👍

[@guislarcia6423]

Man, that’s one hell of a trap 👍🏼

[@nealdraper3751]

That's Brilliant!

[@DonTruman]

Very impressive. Best I've seen, for repeating, mouse AND rat trap. Might also catch squirrels?

[@GeoffCostanza]

You could still make it a live catch trap with that barrel by putting a half inch of oil at the bottom (peanut oil would double as bait), which would make their paws too slippery to jump and grab

[@justandjudge]

Liked to support. Dont let youtube stop you from keeping going!

[@yveskc1]

Brilliant idea 💡

[@appnzllr]

You know how they've surrounded the Empire State Building's observation deck with curved wire pointing inward. I'm wondering if something like that would stop rats from jumping. The idea of spraying oily substance around the top - or petroleum jelly - would work

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Maybe there's a material that would absorb the push of the legs, maybe some corn size foam bits or some low density foam cushion.

[@Minecraftian2345432]

There is. It's called water. Unfortunately, that would make it a lethal trap and KZbin doesn't like videos of rodents being killed by traps.

[@yafois988]

@@Minecraftian2345432 Correct, Shawn has realized this is WAY obvious YT will whine about things, and he lets US then figure out Live rats trap are "useless" so figure it out and add Water !! Then EOM for the things!

[@joecoen958]

Would screwed up newspaper in bucket work? The rat wouldn't have a firm foothold to jump, and the paper would absorb the push off .

[@LH-kz2nf]

@@Minecraftian2345432 you beat me to the water comment lol

[@KondorDCS]

Rats: "You will never take us alive, Shawn!"

[@joebloggsgogglebox]

I think the design could be improved by making it longer and putting the sensor a couple of inches before the end. Then you could stick some peanut butter and seeds to the end, and the rat would trip the sensor before it could eat the bait, so that the bait is still there to catch another rat. Also what's the point of having it tapered towards the end? Surely the rat would feel safer and hence more likely to walk on the plank if it is wider.

[@robertweekes5783]

This is probably the best multi-rat trap

[@eduarchavarria]

I have suggested before that a wall is needed all around the bucket, and also a tunnel to get to the plank, that way they won't be able to jump back. Otherwise the trap seems to be very useful.

[@mickenzietucker440]

I have 4 pet mice and 16 rats but for some reason I still watch all of these trap videos, live and kill, its just so interesting

[@garrettstevensen2467]

Has a serious design flaw - with one activation, 99.9% of all bait is gone (peanut butter, seeds, etc...) There needs to be some type of offset "bait holder" at the end of the plank that prevents losing all bait, during each activation.

[@HansMcGruber]

Thin layer of smeared peanut butter would be enough and it wouldn't come off

[@leiatyndall8648]

The small rectangular cup at the tip is the bait cup. It's placed there so the trigger is tripped when they reach over the red sensor for the bait. Shawn's done PB in the cup in previous iterations of this trap.

[@danoneill2846]

Great Job !

[@SBJCREATORS]

great video

[@TheRealDogfart]

Great for one rat. It needs a way to secure bait at the end for multiple rat captures.

[@jamesmillerjo]

'peanut butter'

[@TheRealDogfart]

@@jamesmillerjo Let's see if it works. I suspect there would be a lot of rats with peanut buttered undersides.

[@SaycoRa]

Good work Crawdaddy.

[@eamonahern7495]

Maybe that's why the rat wasn't too wary approaching the trap. It knew it could make the jump if it fell in. Maybe a clear cover would have kept the rat inside and made it easy for your viewers to see what else it'd do to try and escape.

[@roberttill3787]

i have seen a farmer do this. There was no trap plate and a sheet of tin across the top. Just a small hole in the barrel rim, and smelly cattle feed in the bottom of the barrel

[@j_h_o]

Mousetrap Monday has turned into Rattrap Runaway

[@johnjordan3659]

Love your videos

[@bendirval3612]

Maybe just more more soft stuff at the bottom? On the plus side the rat should be slightly less wary of it this time around as it thinks it will be able to hop out.

[@patriklindholm7576]

A lid level with the plank with a carved "entrance" matching it would keep the rat from jumping out.

[@afroman527]

Shawn, what it you put a thin layer of peanut oil in the bottom of the barrel? Like a quarter of an inch thick.. That could make it too slippery to jump out and maybe also help attract them. I'd love to see that in action!

[@davidchamlee2058]

Vaseline smeared around the top 6" of the barrel will keep them from escaping. Axle grease would work too, but smells pretty strong to rats.

[@darlatidwell6255]

Good video, and apparently some good moose jerky. 👍

[@MsFishingdog]

great job

[@johnhiggs4724]

Good stuff dude.

[@kirbywaite1586]

What would you do with a barrel full of angry rats in the morning? Also, the bait disappears after each catch. How would you catch more than one rat? There needs to be a platform that fits into the barrel with a very slippery funnel in the center right beneath the plank so that no previously-caught rat is visible to a new arrival, and also to prevent them jumping out.

[@TR0Y72]

рекомендую на конце трамплина подвесить или замотать сильно пахнущую еду для крыс, это лучше мотивирует подойти к центру, чем сыпучие материалы подвесить что-то будет лучшим вариантом, но чтобы крыса не успела ухватится за это ------ I recommend hanging or wrapping a strong-smelling food for rats at the end of the springboard, this is better motivates to approach the center than bulk materials hanging something will be the best option, but so that the rat does not have time to grab onto it

[@waynep343]

Traps for catalytic Converter thieves. A friend has a motion detector without bulbs. When it goes off one set of wires turns on lamps in the house. The other turns on a 24v transformer wired to a lawn sprinkler valve that turns on tapered hose nozzles aimed under their cars.

[@blujeans9462]

Oh my! I can't even imagine living in an area where that happens! I've never even had my package taken and they leave it just a few feet from the public sidewalk. Another friend was away when a large package was put on his front door - he lives on a very busy road. Still sitting there when he got home a week later.

[@Technoanima]

Wow. Rat catching!!

[@mitchellfolbe8729]

American Ninja Warrior wants that rat's number for next season.

[@sixaout1982]

Wouldn't oil at the bottom prevent them from jumping high enough? kinda like that peanut oil trap you posted a while back

[@smelltheglove1726]

I was wondering the same

[@-danR]

The purpose is to drown them, not just catch them. He wasn't expecting escapes, but the real demo here is showing the improved plank design. For the working system, there will be water, and they will simply drown.

[@FrancisSims]

We all thinking the same thing

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Like you said, if there was water in the drum, the rats wouldn't be able to hop out. Apparently, YT would rather see babies bitten in cribs and disease's spread, opposed to people being educated on dangerous pest control. Great job Shawn!! Great job to the inventor of this trap as well. Remember, there are no native rat species to North America, they were brought here by the Europeans so you don't have to be concerned with any of them.

[@evil1by1]

It's the peta types. They actually do want to see human babies die and vermin protected because they are evil. Animals do not have intrinsic value like humans

[@jyrikortesmaki8848]

Rat just chillin bottom and eatin rest of snacks. Then just meh im done and jumps right off.

[@white-bq9in]

Still hung up on the animal using a stick to beat that one snaptrap. Crazy stuff.

[@ronrichmond4694]

👍👍👍 Rats are serious athletes

[@jamesjahoda1613]

Perhaps the paper cone trick as well as the deep barrel.

[@Bolverkr13]

If you put a small amount of water at the bottom, they won’t drown, but it will prevent them from jumping very high at all

[@Phu9Vlog]

Thanks.

[@MichaelMantion]

he should have a bait basket at the underside of the very end.

[@brianlanders5306]

That's a good idea, when a rat triggers the sensor a hopper of seeds above are released a little at a time after the trap resets, not a bad idea.

[@AmuckPVP]

Great idea! Now we just need someone to make & sell these.

[@leiatyndall8648]

Unnecessary. The bait cup is already built in. Look past the red sensor toward the tip & you'll see the rectangular bait cup. That's where the peanut butter goes.

[@cooljammer00]

You should glue the seeds to the platform so they don't fall when the platform tips.

[@roberttill3787]

Cattle feed in the bottom of the barrel smells so strongly the rats will enter the barrel searching for it. You dont even need a trap plate.

[@dawnmichelle4403]

Great video! Too bad about the yootoob, but informative and entertaining nonetheless 😊👍🏻

[@DonLee1980]

use something like peanut butter, so it'll stay on the plank. putting seeds there, you'd have to refill after every catch

[@larryehrlich57]

The pointy parts needs to be longer so the Rat reaches past the sensor to get the bait...which needs to be glued on too lure the rat

[@Me-th3gj]

I'd cover it with a dome lid and only leave a hole big enough for them to go in on the plank.

[@gwjunkie1789]

Shawn, modify the bucket so they cant jump out. Maybe some one way flaps that fan out like an iris valve?

[@roberttill3787]

A shet of tin across the top

[@Gabberag]

I saw a rat jump out of one of those big oil drums. you gotta put spikes at the bottom of the barrel or something lol

[@jimcampbell8061]

Maybe a one way door half way down that opens easily to let the rat fall thru but cannot be opened from below. Then again water works permanently

[@kei2142]

Shawn encountered a rat ninja

[@hiloviking]

‘Next time feed me more corn.’

[@triodak]

With rats due to their size the bucket diameter and height needs to be much larger. More like a drum. I miss bigger versions of those traps on this channel. You can't cach rats effectively with small versions designed for mouse. The plank need to be long almost to the second side of the drum. You put the plank on top of the drum and put second drum upside down on top of it. At the beginning of the plank you install small neodymium magnet and a piece of metal. This way plank is stable under load up to certain point. This allow the mouse or rat to get deeper into the trap. You put peanut butter 4-5 inches above plank level on opposite site of entrance (entrance hole in the top drum). Smallest and lightest mouses will need to go to the end of plank and rise its body to reach the peanut. So their centre of gravity will by furthest from entrance thus giving maximum momentum. At that stage the force of magnet should be compromised and the plank should drop down. By moving the magnet between entrance and the hinge of plank you adjust the needed force to trip it. I would love you Shawn to made it and test yourself. Just adjust magnet or magnets with your smallest pupils :) Big rats will not go so deep into the trap but will not feel that something is wobbling so it will be more effective against them.

[@adrn25m]

I was thinking that a clear plastic lid for the bucket that fits on tightly and only has a hole cut out for the trap so that any rats could not jump back out.

[@SuperFredAZ]

Shawn, I have seen a number of KZbin videos where the user makes up a mixture of flour, sugar and either baking soda or plaster of Paris as a safe "poison' claiming the baking soda or plaster does nasty things to the mouse/rat digestive system. Maybe you could test this out?

[@kirbyvacuummadman1814]

I used a 5 gal. bucket that worked just fine. Just a little dog food in the bucket and a stick to climb up . The mice jump in eat the food then can't jump back out.

[@skohaya]

How deep of water do you need to drown them, especially if you get many in one night. Wish you showed how you attached the ramp too. Getting ready to set mine up.

[@kshred3043]

To misquote jaws, "You're going to need a bigger bucket !". 😲

[@anussurfer]

Could put a a quarter inch of oil in the bottom.

[@nominalvelocity]

I kinda got the impression your crash test rat at 0:30 don't want to be a crash test rat no more. Kinda felt sorry for the little guy right then 😆

[@Mizu.]

yay

[@kensmith5694]

Put a block of foam rubber in the bottom so the rat doesn't have a firm surface to just from.

[@jonson856]

This thing needs a lid, similar to the flip&slide. 1st the bait wont fall off 2nd the rants cant escape

[@spudrubble]

It appears maybe it needs a bit more area past the sensor to hold bait so when the rat goes to eat bait past the sensor his head would trip the sensor. No real place for much bait past the sensor.

[@ladoo33]

I would like one to use outside in my yard

[@gabbysgoods827]

I couldn’t believe it got out !!!

[@dirkdiggler5581]

What is an effective way to catch mice that are Inbetween floors. I don’t know the word but like In the space between 2 Rooms on top of each other? Does something like the slip and slide on the upper room work? My issue is that the mices found a wasp nest in those in between space and the eat now from it and I’m worried they gonna explode in numbers soon. I live in a region where mice transmit a lethal illness so I’d like to get rid of them asap..

[@willbart1236]

Rats invented parkour.

[@Ryanlikes2dab]

serious hops

[@cell718]

You have to oil the sides that should work to.

[@mkal7852]

Shawn why didnt you wear an eyepatch on that video image preview?😂

[@wethepeople7629]

Use a thin layer of oil on bottom and you got yourself a winner!