"Eggs Zachtly" <re@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> SteveB said:
>
>> 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
>
> $500 to kill a gopher. LOL
>
> I got a gopher this afternoon with my $30 spade. Then I used the spade
to
> cut out some sod, where a garden bed will go. Tomorrow, I'll use it to
put
> a nice edge around a few other beds. I could probably find some other
uses
> for it. What else can the gopher killer do, for all the money that it
> cost?
> --
>
> Eggs
It can hire out for $200 a day to kill other people's gophers. Try that
with a $30 spade.
Steve
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