The New Hotness

The larger vole trap boxes didn’t survive the early spring rainfall, so we decided to upgrade the fleet with more durable boxes:

Vole Box - finished — Vole Box – finished

I obviously need a larger light box.

The trap boxes come in 7 quart and 3.5 quart sizes, although we expect either will comfortably accommodate a single vole.

They’re made of polypropylene plastic eminently suited for laser cuttery, so I borrowed the holes from the cardboard box setup:

Vole Box - hole cutting — Vole Box – hole cutting

The clamps on the knife bars held the angle block and boxes in pretty much the same position, so I didn’t realign anything after figuring out a pair of magnets would hold the lid to the angle:

Vole Box - lid fixture magnets — Vole Box – lid fixture magnets

The box side is slightly sloped, so I probably should have angled the block to tilt the lid, but this isn’t a precision job:

Vole Box - lid fixture — Vole Box – lid fixture

The white smudges on the lid come from vaporized polypropylene:

Vole Box - fume deposits — Vole Box – fume deposits

The body count thus far is just one field mouse, but the season is yet young.

The New Hotness

Vole Trap Boxes: Deluxe Edition