Ta da! 2 dead moles!

[MossRoad]

That's something interesting about moles.... when it gets dry, and the worms go deep, the moles go deep, too. And then you don't notice them because their tunnels aren't pushing up your lawn. I also read that they have twice the amount of red blood cells per measure as humans. That's how they can breath in tunnels where oxygen is scarce.

Here's a good read on moles....

Mole control, biology and trapping help, 1986, professional, author, tom schmidt | The Mole Man

 

[dickfoster]

While not as much fun as blowing them up, I think just pumping the hole full of propane or acetylene would do the job. A few sniffs of that and they would die without all the dirt blowing up and destroying the lawn. Since propane is heavier than air, it would stay in the mole tunnel and the mole would either have to exit or die.

I saw a UTube of a guy who plumbed a hose from the exhaust on his car to a gopher or mole tunnel. Carbon monoxide is probably the lowest cost poison gas to use especially with gasoline prices at the current level.

 

[Pilot]

Would probably only work with older cars. Newer cars have cleaner exhaust.

 

[MossRoad]

There's been several reports of people accidentally remote starting their newer cars in attached garages and getting carbon monoxide poisoning. Newer cars are still deadly for CO.

 

[k0ua]

There's been several reports of people accidentally remote starting their newer cars in attached garages and getting carbon monoxide poisoning. Newer cars are still deadly for CO.

Exactly. Newer cars with working catalytic converters don't make as much Carbon Monoxide as older cars of the same displacement. There is nothing changed about fuel air mixtures and the production of Carbon Monoxide. But the CAT converter does change some of it into CO2. Of course the CO2 buildup can displace oxygen and kill you too. Various pollutants are much less with newer cars, but you can't change the basic reaction. You will have a difficult time killing them with the exhaust from your Nissan Leaf or Tesla though. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

I just read an article that said some hybrid car (can't recall which one), has a keyless starting system. You can start the car with the FOB in your pocket while you're in the car. The owner could get in and start the car's heater to warm it up, and then exit the vehicle. The car will keep running on electric until the battery discharges enough to cause the gas engine to start up. Then the CO starts pumping. People don't think about stuff like that.... they just don't. The manufacturer of the car had to add software that shuts the car down after a time. I know our 2013 Impala has remote start. You can start it and it will run for something like 8 minutes. It shuts off if you don't get in, put a key in, and turn it. You can remote start it twice. Then it won't remote start again until the key is turned. I think that's to lessen the chanced of CO buildup and/or some EPA thing about running cars? Anyhow, its a good feature.

 

[k0ua]

I just read an article that said some hybrid car (can't recall which one), has a keyless starting system. You can start the car with the FOB in your pocket while you're in the car. The owner could get in and start the car's heater to warm it up, and then exit the vehicle. The car will keep running on electric until the battery discharges enough to cause the gas engine to start up. Then the CO starts pumping. People don't think about stuff like that.... they just don't. The manufacturer of the car had to add software that shuts the car down after a time. I know our 2013 Impala has remote start. You can start it and it will run for something like 8 minutes. It shuts off if you don't get in, put a key in, and turn it. You can remote start it twice. Then it won't remote start again until the key is turned. I think that's to lessen the chanced of CO buildup and/or some EPA thing about running cars? Anyhow, its a good feature.

We had a 2006 Impala with remote start, and we used it some. Mostly when getting ready to come out of a restaurant on a very hot or very cold day and wanted a comfortable car. I would never start a car in our garage. That is just foolish. For one thing there is never a reason to do that. Other than maybe for a few seconds, after you replace the battery (which really really sucked on the 2006 Impala) or the starter.

 

[MossRoad]

We used the remote start on the 2013 Impala quite a bit when it would sit outside. It's nice in that no matter what you have the heater/AC settings on, if its cold, it puts it to full heat and defrost and turns on the rear defroster and melts the ice off all the windows in just a few minutes. In summer, again, no matter what the settings are on, it turns on the AC full blast. As soon as you get in and turn the key, it goes back to whatever manual settings you had it on last.

Our garage is detached, so CO isn't a problem to the house. And we don't use the remote start on it in winter if its stored in the garage (no snow and ice on the windows), with the exception of it being really, really cold, like 0F. Then its nice to run from the house to a warm car. :thumbsup:

 

[oosik]

Some of you have moles, I have pocket gophers. Same problem, slightly different animal. Every once in a while I will go on a trapping jag and catch 25-30 of the critters. Things will look better for a little while. Then here come all their relatives from out of the woods and its right back where it was.

I've gotten lazy in the last few years and not trapped anything. Conditions in the yard have stabilized and there are only a few new gopher mounds every year. As long as they don't damage anything - I can learn to live with the status quo. A lazy man's answer to this situation.

 

[jerrybob]

We have a dog who loves to find and kill moles......he has gotten three in the last week. Unfortunately......he tears up the yard worse than the moles. That boy can dig a hole faster than a backhoe.......kinda of funny to watch him pounce, dig and come up with a mole.