How to Build an Old-Fashioned Guillotine Style Mouse Trap
Russ Chastain 06.17.19
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YouTuber Shawn Woods of “Mousetrap Monday” is trying something new with this video. Viewers have complained that his videos don’t usually show him building his custom mousetraps, so this time he did the work of capturing the process on video — so that you too can make your own mouse guillotine!
He starts with a block of wood, and it’s all quite simple. He uses only some wood, some steel strapping, and a few bits of odd hardware. Before you know it (well, slower than that but he does speed it up so the entire video is still only a bit more than 12 minutes long), he’s got a mean-looking trap and a bleeding thumb where the trap caught him! Ouch.
This would be a satisfying way to slay some vermin. Off with his head! But it would have to be reset each time, so it’s not as efficient as, say, the old bucket “mill” method. But a dead mouse is a good mouse, and the methodology is not as important as the result.
This build video doesn’t show the kills, because YouTube. So if you want to see those after you view the video below, click here.
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