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Post by foxtrapper on Jun 17, 2020 15:15:06 GMT -5
Acetylene pumped down the hole. You get a pleasant and satisfying thump when ignited!
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Post by magman on Jun 17, 2020 18:26:43 GMT -5
Another chipmunk bites the dust.
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Post by bushog on Jun 17, 2020 20:17:31 GMT -5
Next they'll be pulling Alvin from the big screen....
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Post by dougader on Jun 17, 2020 21:34:13 GMT -5
Simple. Find an open gopher or mole hole or find a tunnel, put 1/2 cup of so of sulfur flakes in the opening and turn on the weed burner. It melts the sulfur and the sulfur fumes, smoke and heat is blown through the tunnel system. Just make sure stuff isn't bone dry when you do it! I buy the sulfur flakes by the bag at the ag supply house. If I get most of them in the spring when they start then any outliers that find their way in during the summer I use the Gopher Hawk trap and catch them with that. I learned of the Gopher Hawk from a guy who maintains the large state rest areas along the highways here in Oregon. I cleared out a 4 acre property with this method. The neighbor instructed me on it. I figure in a couple years I smoked out over 300 gophers. One really big sucker charged out of the hole right at me. He didn't make it. Sometimes the smoke would be pouring out of holes in the ground for about 25 yards or so. They sure make a mess of things. The moles in the yard were tougher. Took one out with a 12 gauge. Nothing left!
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Post by bula on Jun 18, 2020 6:46:08 GMT -5
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Watch your six..LOL. Am having Caddy Shack like visions. One of my 1st jobs was on a very good 18 hole golf course. Am channeling my inner Bill Murray. Wonder where that 'Nam era floppy bush hat is ?
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Post by magman on Jun 18, 2020 7:26:25 GMT -5
When I worked the golf course in Colorado, didn't see gophers and such, but was overrun with jacks
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Post by bradshaw on Jun 18, 2020 10:22:28 GMT -5
Acetylene pumped down the hole. You get a pleasant and satisfying thump when ignited! ***** Cautionary taleAcetylene is extremely sensitive to sparks and static electricity. Dan Wesson’s son, Seth, learned this the hard way. Seth described to me how, as a teen, he inflated plastic garbage bags with acetylene to create an extreme BOOM at ignition. As he filled one bag from an acetylene tank, the loose acetylene exploded. blowing one of Seth’s eardrums. Forever deaf in one ear. Likely cause, static on the plastic. David Bradshaw
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Post by x101airborne on Jun 20, 2020 7:41:07 GMT -5
I freakin HATE gophers. I have used 12 gauge buckshot, 45 ACP, 45 Colt, 410, 22, etc. My best success was ordering "giant destroyer" gopher gassers off Amazon. Grab one, insert fuse, open tunnel or hole, light the fuse and cram it in. We are in sand country so I back it up with a couple handfulls of loose sand from around the hole. They really seem to work well.
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Post by bushog on Jun 24, 2020 6:55:44 GMT -5
Those twitchy striped rats do a lot of yard damage. What are you eradicating them with? Good luck and happy hunting! Chipmunks.... They eat everything the little lady plants around here. I've finally found a solution... A 5 gallon bucket half full of water, a 1"x4" of your desired length and a small bag of sunflower seeds. Float a layer of the seeds on top of the water so it looke like the bucket is full of them, make a ramp going up to the rim of the bucket hanging over the bucket by about 5", place a trail of just several sunflower seeds up to the top of "the plank" where you put 4 or 5 seeds and that's it. Staples from a staple gun can be used for ledges so the seeds don't roll off. The greedy little suckers scurry up the plank eating seeds as they go and when they get to the top and see that "bucket full-o-seeds" they jump right in and good by chipmunk. I caught 10 the first afternoon I tried it. Couldn't believe it. I made a ramp with a platform so the "plank" is parallel with the ground. GTS and you'll find some U-tube videos if my description doesn't get you there. I'm up to 20 now.... What's the limit on chipmunks?
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Post by bula on Jun 24, 2020 7:08:52 GMT -5
Limits ? Recipes ! LOL.
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Post by magman on Jun 24, 2020 7:42:08 GMT -5
Only seem to have one or two chipmunks left. Now I have to deal with 'chucks. I have 3 in the ditch by the road. Trying to figure out how to safely liquidate them.
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Post by xgbx on Jun 26, 2020 21:30:52 GMT -5
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Post by crazycarl on Jun 26, 2020 22:23:16 GMT -5
Any access to borrow a particularly game Dachshund, Jack Russell, or a Rat Terrier?
Our 3 y/o Dachshund actively hunts. Little clown kills everything he can catch, from field rats to rabbits. Eats blue tailed skinks like popcorn & has even taken a couple low flying birds. Once he learns to shut up & quit alerting the squirrels, he'll be all over them.
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Post by bamagreg on Jun 29, 2020 5:51:22 GMT -5
Acetylene pumped down the hole. You get a pleasant and satisfying thump when ignited! ***** Cautionary taleAcetylene is extremely sensitive to sparks and static electricity. Dan Wesson’s son, Seth, learned this the hard way. Seth described to me how, as a teen, he inflated plastic garbage bags with acetylene to create an extreme BOOM at ignition. As he filled one bag from an acetylene tank, the loose acetylene exploded. blowing one of Seth’s eardrums. Forever deaf in one ear. Likely cause, static on the plastic. David Bradshaw I have a similar story. A good friend of mine has a welding/fabrication shop. One time his teenage son was out in a field filling big plastic bags with acetylene (and a little oxygen mixed in). He would then attach a lit cigarette to it and back away and wait for the boom. This went well for a couple of tries but then on the third time as he was getting out of his truck I guess static electricity set of the big bag of gas. It not only burst his ear drums and blackened his eyes but it also blew the windows and headliner out of his truck! He had a hard time explaining that to his dad!
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