Push it into the ground once. The sun runs it from there, all season.
A solar stake you push into the ground once. It works to make the soil around it a less comfortable place for burrowing pests to tunnel.
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Each stake covers roughly 3,200 sq ft around itself — about a 30-foot radius. Tell us how big the area you actually care about is, in square feet, and we'll suggest a pack.
3 units · $33.77 each · free U.S. shipping
Add to CartFront lawns, back yards, vegetable beds and one very contested putting green — the ordinary ground that something decided to tunnel under.
Moles and voles work by feel. They dig where the soil is quiet and predictable. The stake sends a short pulse down its shaft into the ground roughly every 30 seconds, so the soil around it stops being that. The point isn't to kill anything — it's to make your lawn a worse option than the field next door.
Results vary with soil type, how long the tunnels have been established, and what's feeding the population nearby. Sandy and rocky ground carries the pulse less well than loam. This is a deterrent device, not a trap or a rodenticide.
The two standard answers are a steel trap in a tunnel and poison bait pushed down a hole. Both sit in the ground your children and your dog play on, and neither is something you want to go back and check. Here there is nothing buried, nothing to swallow and nothing to find by accident.
Push the spike into soft ground with your hand until the collar sits on the soil. That's the install. The panel under the domed cap charges it in daylight — no outlet in the yard, no extension cord across the lawn, and nothing to replace in November.
The pulse weakens the further it travels through soil, and it doesn't cross a driveway or a concrete path at all. One stake covers roughly 3,200 sq ft — about 30 feet in every direction. Anyone telling you a single unit protects an acre is describing physics that don't exist.
A trap is a commitment: set it, find it again, deal with what's in it, reset it. Bait is worse — you're putting poison in the ground your kids and your dog walk on, and whatever eats it dies somewhere you can't see. A stake in the lawn is a thing you push in and forget.
For a burrow under a foundation or a slab, you should — we say so on this page. But a lawn with a few runs in it is not that job. Mole and gopher removal is typically quoted per animal, commonly $150–$350 each, and the next one moves in from the field regardless.
Vibration deterrence is not proven to clear an established tunnel network, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Soil matters, and animals adapt to anything perfectly regular. What this is: a passive layer that makes a patch of ground less attractive, on solar, asking nothing of you.
Nothing buried, nothing baited, nothing with a spring in it hidden in the grass. If your reason for shopping is that you're not willing to put poison or steel in a yard your family uses, that's the whole pitch here.
Every option below has its place. Here's where each one costs you something.
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| Nothing to check or empty | ✓ | ✗Reset the trap, deal with what's in it |
| Nothing buried for a dog to dig up | ✓ | ✗Poison bait and gas cartridges in the run |
| Animals leave unharmed | ✓ | ✗Traps and bait are meant to kill |
| Survives rain without reapplying | ✓ | ✗Granules wash out, sprays need redoing |
| Still working next summer | ✓ | ✗Refills, replacements, another season's cost |
| Nobody has to come out to your yard | ✓ | ✗Per-animal quotes and scheduled visits |
One honest exception: if something is burrowing under a foundation, a slab, a retaining wall or a septic field, call a licensed wildlife company. Structural burrowing is a removal job, not a deterrence one, and some ground-dwelling species are protected in some states. A stake is the wrong tool for that, and we'd rather say so than sell you one.
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Push one in this weekend. If it isn't for you, you have sixty days and one email between you and a full refund.
Get PestOffWe know how this category looks. Half the internet says vibrating stakes are magic and the other half says they're junk, and you're supposed to gamble sixty-three dollars to find out which. So we made that gamble ours instead. Leave it planted for up to sixty days — a whole growing season — and if the lawn isn't better off for it, send one email and we'll refund you in full. No restocking fee and no explanation required — just keep the box, and send it back in it.
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