PawmateRolling Mouse Catching Device - Auto Reset Live Catch and Release Bucket Spin Roller with A Ring for Mice, Rats and Rodents for Outdoors and Indoors

It spins well and was not too difficult to set up although you will have to drill or cut a hole in the bucket. You will have to play with how tight the nuts are to make sure it doesn't have too much resistance when it tries to spin. The first night I set it up in a 5 gallon bucket with about 4 inches of water and some wood leading to the edges and I caught and drowned 1 mouse so i know it works. I have not caught anymore since that first night though but these mice are smart maybe they saw or can smell that one of them died in there and are avoiding it. That isn't an issue with the roller though it works as intended. I would recommend it.

Set up a 3 gallon bucket to fit under my kitchen sink.For the bait holder, following suggestions made by others, I cut a second disc out of a plastic container lid, and slid both discs to the center of the rod. I baited the inner surface of the discs with peanut butter, squeezing the two discs together somewhat so that a bead of peanut butter appears all around the circumference of the discs.There is room for only one ramp. I picked up a lath for 39 cents at Menards, cut it to length and rested it on top of a protruding end of the rod. Wanted the ramp to be more stable, so I drilled two small holes near the corners of the lath at the top end. Cut a thin wire about ten inches long and looped it under the rod inside the bucket between the washer and the nut, then brought the ends up over the rim of the bucket and down through the holes in the lath, then bent them outward. Very stable, and the lath is easy to remove as needed. I oriented the ramp so the bottom end of it is against the wall where the mice travel.For the fill in the bucket, I used one gallon of RV anti-freeze marked non-toxic and bio-degradable. This liquid ends up being about 2.75 inches deep in the bucket.Next morning, TWO MICE floating in there!I will set up more of these contraptions in my garage, the attic and the crawl space. I have a nice stainless lifter for removing the mice, a transport container, and a final resting place for them under some bushes at the back of my yard.Very happy with this gizmo and the whole program.

I ordered three of these a few years ago, I've used them one at a time in an outdoor setting. I've only used one at a time on my back porch, and over time from being outdoors they start to get corrosion on them which allows the mice to maintain grip and avoid the plunge, so I changed them as this happened. The first 2 that I used were made of aluminum and spun nice and freely when first set up, the last one had been sitting unused until recently, when I opened the package I found that it was a different version of the product which uses a PCV tube instead of aluminum. I set it up anyway, and immediately notices the PVC does not spin freely and has more weight to it. Having had set up indoors in my garage for a week, with fresh mouse dropping all around, my suspicion that this one won't work have been proved true, as the the mice have been able to eat the bait multiple times without being caught.Shame that they changed the material and didn't change their listing. If would be asking for a refund on this 3rd version if it was not ordered so long ago. Seems you can't trust anything sold on Amazon any longer.

It worked but it wasn’t very stable. I did catch several mice.

Just received the rolling mousetrap, set it up, but the water in the bucket froze, so I think the mice/chipmunks slipped and fell, but the ice stopped them and they likely jumped out, so no mice or chips caught yet, BUT supposed to be warming next week, so hopefully I'll start catching these pesky critters.

I'm a mechanic so I was/am skeptical of the all threaded rod not letting the roller turn properly, it just doesn't seem right. But, it does indeed roll when I tape a U.S. penny to the top. Having trained a few people in the mechanical field, I see how this can be pretty easily installed wrong, so I included here the way that I did it that lets the taped penny roll it every time. I'll be placing this where my dad's bird pen tends to draw the mouse or mice.I drilled 1/4 inch(~6.5mm) holes right above the handle holes in a 5 gallon bucket from Home Depot and slid the threaded rod through the roller in place, all the way to the edge of the roller. Put 2(of 4) washers and then 1(of 4) nut in the inside of the bucket and threaded the rod through the nut until the side without hardware lifted out of the bucket so I could put the other 2 washers and another nut in place. Threaded it through the 2 nuts and both sides of the bucket until the rod was evenly spaced with a just big enough gap that it spins freely. Got the last 2 nuts and put them on the rod sticking out of each end. I then tightend 2 nuts on each side of the bucket at a time with wrenches until there was a bit of resistance from the nuts squeezing the bucket. Made sure the roller still has just enough gap to freely spin inside the 4 washers and added some vegetable oil on each end and spun it up.