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Setup

Set up your Mascall Mill

You’ll need a standard 5-gallon bucket, a stick ⅛ to ¾ in thick and 18 to 27 in long (a 1×2 furring strip, lath, a yardstick or a paint stir stick; not needed with the tower) and some peanut butter. No tools.

Got the tower? Do step 1, then the tower steps in place of step 2, then steps 3 to 5.

  1. 1

    Clamp it to the bucket

    It comes assembled. Slide the bucket’s rim up into the slot, with the inner jaw inside the bucket. Tighten the thumbscrew until the plate sits flat against the outside of the bucket: firm, not brute force.

    The mill clamped on the bucket rim, seen from the side with the bucket wall cut away
    1 rim in the slot2 thumbscrew3 plate4 inner jaw, inside5 vane
  2. 2

    Add your stick

    Got the tower? Skip this step: set up the tower instead.

    Take the clamp pin screw out of the end of the walkway, hook the ramp clamp on, and screw the clamp pin screw back in, hand-tight. Slide one end of your stick into the ramp clamp and tighten the stick screw until the stick is held firmly, then let the other end rest on the floor. The ramp clamp swings, so the stick finds its own angle.

    The ramp clamp hooked onto the end of the walkway, with the clamp pin screw, the stick screw and a stick
    1 end of the walkway2 ramp clamp3 clamp pin screw4 stick screw5 stick
  3. 3

    Bait it

    Press a pea-sized dab of peanut butter into one of the bait holes on each vane. That’s enough. It has to be where a mouse can only reach it by stepping onto a vane.

    The mill seen from the side, with a pea-sized dab of peanut butter in a bait hole on each vane
    1 peanut butter2 bait holes3 vane
  4. 4

    Add water

    Put 3–4 inches of water in the bucket, and no more. Extra water doesn’t help. It only brings a mouse closer to the rim. (A live-catch add-on is in the works.)

    The bucket cut in half with the trap on its rim and 3 to 4 inches of water in the bottom
    1 3–4 in of water
  5. 5

    Put it where mice travel

    Mice run along walls. Set the bucket against a wall with the stick along it (or the tower close to the wall too), near droppings or chew marks. A garage, shed, barn, pantry, basement, or beside an RV or cabin is ideal.

    The trap on a bucket against a barn wall, its stick running along the wall to the floor
    1 stick along the wall

With the tower

The tower replaces the stick, so skip step 2 and do this instead.

The mill on its walkway, linked by the arched tower link to the top of a tower standing on its base
1 clamp pin screw2 walkway3 link4 tower pin screw5 top of the tower6 tower7 base8 stake holes
  1. a

    Stand up the tower

    Push the tower into the base. The top of the tower comes already on it, with the tower pin screw in place.

  2. b

    Fix the link

    Take the clamp pin screw out of the end of the walkway, hook one end of the link on, and screw it back in, hand-tight. Do the same with the tower pin screw at the top of the tower and the link’s other end.

  3. c

    Set the base down

    Let the tower hang straight down from the link. Set the base down where it lands (about 4½ in out from the end of the walkway on a standard bucket). The link holds the top, so the base can sit as it is on concrete, wood or ground. On soil or turf you can also push the three stakes through its stake holes, but you don’t have to.

Then carry on from step 3, Bait it.

Setting several traps

If it isn’t catching

Still nothing after two weeks in a good spot? Email us a photo of the setup from the side, and we’ll sort it out.

Checking and emptying

Check it every day. Wear gloves when removing mice. To empty it, loosen the thumbscrew, lift the trap off, and empty the bucket. Clamp it back on and top up the water and bait. Wash your hands afterward. Clean the trap by hand with warm soapy water.

Tips

Stuck? Email support@mascallmill.com and we’ll help you get it working.