How to murder sub-terrainian rodents!

[ModMech]

Use your tractor! I found an old piece of silicone hose (rubber will melt, don't use it) that *just* fits into the exhaust pipe on our tractor. Insert the other end into the hole the rodent made in your yard or field and let the tractor run for a couple hours.

You could also use a generator, lawnmower or other small engine, but diesel is better because the EGTs are lower.

See the video here: YouTube

Good luck with your exterminations!

 

[Egon]

Might have to use a gasoline engine to get the carbon monoxide.

 

[oosik]

Well, since the "offenders" are right in my front yard - I still use the 'ol Victor gopher traps. Traps make no noise. Eight day on the trap line - eleven caught.

 

[rekees4300]

Moles tore up the yard this past month. Had a Labrador who loved to dig them out but he died in May. Bought a 4-pack of poison "peanuts" from Amazon and now no more moles!

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[2LaneCruzer]

Moles tore up the yard this past month. Had a Labrador who loved to dig them out but he died in May. Bought a 4-pack of poison "peanuts" from Amazon and now no more moles!

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Watch the poison peanuts around pets. Our neighbor killed his Cocker Spaniel with them. Dog dug them up and ate them.

 

[rekees4300]

Watch the poison peanuts around pets. Our neighbor killed his Cocker Spaniel with them. Dog dug them up and ate them.

That's good advice. We are currently dogless. However something has been digging them up ... Coon(s) I suspect (which would be a bonus).

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

A friend of mine who owns a lawn service told me the easy way to get rid of them.

Kill their food.

They eat grubs. Treat the lawn with a grub killer and they won't come looking for food that isn't there. Problem solved.

 

[ericm979]

I may try that.

I've tried nearly everything else sort of a Rodex 4000 to deal with pocket gophers in the lawn. The best I've found is Cinch traps. I get them from gophers limited. You have to keep on top of it though, placing and checking them daily until the gophers are gone and then checking pretty often for new ones. The traps need to be placed in active burrows.

 

[CalG]

Compressed air at about 1000 psi (or more) and 12 grains of lead at 10-30 yrds is my style. ;-)

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Compressed air at about 1000 psi (or more) and 12 grains of lead at 10-30 yrds is my style. ;-)

I use a 4-10 with number 7 or 8 shot. Just walk down the tunnels and keep checking for them to push them back open. Sooner or later you will see where they are working on pushing the dirt back up and follow the tunnel to where it isn't punched back up and watch. I see the dirt being pushed back up and at that point where the ground is moving hold the shot gun about two inches above the ground and drop the hammer. If you don't hit him the shock will kill him. I usually take a long old screw driver and dig him up just to make sure. Have elimated hundreds of them this way. I have used gum, mole peanuts, spike traps and never kill one but the 4-10 works.

Moles eat earth worms also and not just grubs. So you would have to kill all the worms also and I don't think that can be done.

 

[Dftodd]

Our mini dachshund used to take care of our infestations in the yard. He ran a tight ship too Only issue, was keeping the yard smooth. Depending on the critter you could end up with a cavern in the yard or a ditch following a mole trail. Then I would have to run around with the tractor and box blade and fill in the "weiney traps" as my wife lovingly referred to them as

 

[oosik]

Well, its been about ten years or more since I last ran my pocket gopher trap line. Now when I mow there are these "dusty explosions" as I run over their mounds.

Been running the trap line eight days - eleven pocket gophers caught.

 

[JerryK]

I fought moles for about thirty years before I finally won. Tried just about anything except small nuclear warheads under portable concrete domes.... Then I won...... I moved....

 

[oosik]

None of the dogs I've ever had would pay any attention to the gophers. Several of the barn cats, over the years, would lay at the gopher mounds and wait for hours. They occasionally caught one. Their main diet was mice. Cats always had a dish of dry cat food that the magpies enjoyed also. Cat occasionally caught a magpie and ate it - ugh.

 

[teejk]

Our mini dachshund used to take care of our infestations in the yard. He ran a tight ship too Only issue, was keeping the yard smooth. Depending on the critter you could end up with a cavern in the yard or a ditch following a mole trail. Then I would have to run around with the tractor and box blade and fill in the "weiney traps" as my wife lovingly referred to them as

We have 2 of those dachies... They do LOVE to dig (and are relentless in their pursuit).

 

[kcflhrc]

Walmart sells Gopher Gas, awesome stuff

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Well, its been about ten years or more since I last ran my pocket gopher trap line. Now when I mow there are these "dusty explosions" as I run over their mounds.

Been running the trap line eight days - eleven pocket gophers caught.

When I was young on the dairy farm in Minnesota we use to trap pocket gophers and they had a bounty so we got 75 cents for a pair of front legs. Some times the little varmints would chew their leg off to get out of the trap so we would have to keep that leg until the next one that chewed their leg off so we would have a pair to turn in. They would pack their hole shut when caught and when we would pull them out they were mad and raise cane. All the farmers from miles around would want us to trap them. I don't think we ever hurt the population of gophers.

 

[bindian]

I fought moles for about thirty years before I finally won. Tried just about anything except small nuclear warheads under portable concrete domes.... Then I won...... I moved....

So the moles kicked you out?:confused3:

My tractor dog was relentless on moles. He was always digging and would eat them whole when caught.
hugs, Brandi

 

[JerryK]

So the moles kicked you out?:confused3:

My tractor dog was relentless on moles. He was always digging and would eat them whole when caught.
hugs, Brandi

Yes, Sis.... I guess I am a wuss....... [ It was also a little about retiring and wanting to get out in the country, the hustle/bustle, with some elbow room.... but those little ^$#^%$#^ creatures kicked my butt..!!!! I have nightmares about them tunneling X amount of feet each day heading for my new property... to show up someday circling my yard... It's only 200 miles, and I know they are coming.... ]

 

[Egon]

Mole control!

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