Dead animal in pipe

[gsganzer]

Plug both ends and route your lawnmower exhaust into the pipe. Put them in a permanent sleep.

I wouldn't worry about retrieving them. They'll decompose and wash out at some point.

 

[gsganzer]

Plug both ends and route your lawnmower exhaust into the pipe. Put them in a permanent sleep.

I wouldn't worry about retrieving them. They'll decompose and wash out at some point.

Ha! Just realized the OP is in California. Probably forced to use an electric mower. Ohhhh.... the irony!!!

 

[plowhog]

Just realized the OP is in California.

I have a ranch in CA but I'm at my residence in NV.

I put rat poison through the grate a few hours ago. Since they have been trapped with no food I'm guessing it was eaten up quickly.

I did try pushing the fumes from a roadside flare through the pipe but the pipe is too large and too long for that to be effective. Don't have a good way to get a draft through it without risking their escape.

 

[WinterDeere]

I'll admit that it took me three pages of watching this thread, to finally open a new tab and learn what a marmot is. We don't have those around here, but it looks like a miniature ground hog!

 

[gsganzer]

I have a ranch in CA but I'm at my residence in NV.

I put rat poison through the grate a few hours ago. Since they have been trapped with no food I'm guessing it was eaten up quickly.

I did try pushing the fumes from a roadside flare through the pipe but the pipe is too large and too long for that to be effective. Don't have a good way to get a draft through it without risking their escape.

I wasn't making an issue with you, just having a chuckle over some of the California restrictions that are being proposed/imposed.

With shooting as my first choice, some method of trapping and then poison would have been my next options.

Good luck and let us know if you get them!

 

[34Willys]

Western Marmots are basically same as Eastern Ground hogs, just more stately, because they bust their ass trough a lot of Granite. They still reek havoc on pastures and foundations.
I would set some Conibear 220's at the entrance and guide stick them in.
I've caught skunks and small racoons in a 110, but Marmots have big necks.
Here's a few suggestions from Jim and Jesse on how to get them out of a log.

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Patrick

 

[square1]

Call roto-ruter, that's their name and away goes trouble down the drain.

them or some like them can walk a high pressure walking nozzle down the drain and flush them out.

it is done around here in field drainage tile plugged with corn stover.

^^This^^
Had this situation in the parking lot drain at work.
They pushed a reverse direction spray tip past the carcus and pulled it back with high pressure water. It wasn't pretty, but it worked.

 

[plowhog]

having a chuckle over some of the California restrictions that are being proposed/imposed

No problem. Had a river otter decimate my fish in CA. I learned that to trap it on my own property, I had to take some classes, purchase a hunting license, purchase a trap, register the trap with a unique serial number with the Dept of Fish and Game-- and that's what I remember. Way over $1,000 in cost to trap one otter.

Lucky for me, before I went through all that it died of lead poisoning.

 

[WinterDeere]

How's anyone to even know if you've trapped an otter on your own property?!?

We had several ground hogs around our house and barn, when I bought this property. I bought a Have-a-Heart trap, set it out... and caught one of my dogs. Good thing it wasn't a kill trap.

Second attempt, I caught a groundhog, and relocated him about 1 - 2 miles from our house. He had some unique coloring, and was the only resident of that nest, so I easily recognized him when he found his way home a few days later. Apparently, if relocated less than 3 miles, they'll often find their way home. I'm also told it's illegal to relocate them, at least around here.

After that, I started catching them in the trap, and just shooting them in the trap. Stick a .22 rifle thru a gap in the mesh, and he'll usually come over and sniff the end of the barrel. Easiest head shot on earth. No one knows or cares how many I've killed, in my own yard.

 

[plowhog]

After that, I started catching them in the trap, ... No one knows or cares how many I've killed, in my own yard.

Things are just a touch more crazy in CA. Fortunately on rural properties things make more sense.

My neighbors all advised to "just take care of it."

 

[WinterDeere]

Things are just a touch more crazy in CA. Fortunately on rural properties things make more sense.

My neighbors all advised to "just take care of it."

I'm on a cul de sac of 4 - 10 acre fully-manicured properties, between two properly-urban, but small and older towns. I never know whether to call my neighborhood "suburban" or "rural", as it's truly neither, rather somewhere in-between.

 

[plowhog]

I'll admit that it took me three pages of watching this thread, to finally open a new tab and learn what a marmot is.

Well, here is a picture of one, although he has certainly "seen better days."

Now I have to figure out how to fish out the second one. btw those are 12" pliers next to it.

 

[bigtiller]

That's a big sucker. How did you get that one out?

 

[plowhog]

It had pretty much plugged the 8 inch pipe at the end. With a lot of putrid water backed up in the pipe behind it. when I removed the block from the end of the pipe ... whoosh ... out it came along with a mess of flies and some really bad smelling liquid.

Did I mention how bad it smelled?