We seem to have a few wild coyotes and a fox. Groundhogs have disappeared.
"Srgnt Billko" <frrt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Eggs Zachtly" <re@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
> >
>
> I've been using a hav-a-hart and then shooting them in the trap with a
.22
> and then shoving the carcass down the hole. That discourages other
chucks
> from staying there. But now they've moved under several of my sheds so
it
> might be time to sit quietly for a half hour and use the 12 guage again.
>
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