I finally got my pocket gopher killer working. This is the third version
of
it, and I believe this one is a keeper. It uses a welding torch handle
and
some other fittings to put propane and pure O2 down a gopher burrow. Then
a
spark. The concussion kills them, removes the oxygen, and collapses a
good
bit of the tunnel. Go to Rodenator.com and look at their videos. Theirs
is
$1800, and no tanks or regulators.. Mine was from parts I had, and could
be
built for $50. Tanks and regulators extra, bringing the whole deal to
about
$500.
Yesterday, I was working in the driveway, and one was shoving dirt out of
a
mound. Why that cheeky little guy! I went and hooked up the gopher
device,
and within a few minutes he was in gopher heaven.
I've used poisons, traps, flooding, but this works.
Steve
--
"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere
critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and
imperfectly,
not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."
Theodore Roosevelt 1891
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