A better way to kill moles and gophers?

[MTGreen]

Must have been M-80s, Black Cats wouldn't do much other than make noise. Can you even buy M-80s anymore?

Last ones I saw/bought were in Tijuana before 9/11

 

[tomplum]

A guy told me he uses carbide pellets. When damp it produces acetylene gas I guess. He said it will kill them w/o lighting, but it isn't half as fun.

 

[jaxs]

Must have been M-80s, Black Cats wouldn't do much other than make noise. Can you even buy M-80s anymore?

Last ones I saw/bought were in Tijuana before 9/11

In part you can thank me and my heathen buddies for inability to buy powerful fireworks now days.
We drilled a hole for fuse in 1.5" pipe ,screwed a cap on pipe,packed it with black walnuts and KA-BOOM we had ourselves a bazooka. Couple pieces of wood and baling wire for handles so one of us could hold and point it while another touched it off. The explosion was so powerful some walnut shells were busted into pieces making an impressive pattern on side of barn along with dents from whole nuts.

 

[lilranch2001]

Hold my beer and watch this...

The dogs scooched FAST!

 

[tomplum]

That video reminded me of a rather parched yard that I saw ~ 10 years back when I went to a customer's house. I guess 2- FIVE GALLON gas cans worth of fuel were dumped down the mole holes in order to send them packing. A match was involved there too.

 

[MTGreen]

That video reminded me of a rather parched yard that I saw ~ 10 years back when I went to a customer's house. I guess 2- FIVE GALLON gas cans worth of fuel were dumped down the mole holes in order to send them packing. A match was involved there too.

And likely a 12 pack or two I'm thinking...

 

[Habitect]

Thanks for all of the feedback and stories. It's amazing how creative people have gotten to try to beat these things! We used to have an indoor/outdoor cat that helped, but she became coyote food (we think). Since we have kids, the new cat is now indoor only

 

[jaxs]

Thanks for all of the feedback and stories. It's amazing how creative people have gotten to try to beat these things! We used to have an indoor/outdoor cat that helped, but she became coyote food (we think). Since we have kids, the new cat is now indoor only

When kids were home I tried to keep working cats and dogs from being family pets in case they fell victim to hazards of their job. Rat Terriers I mentioned earlier are too mean by nature for kids anyhow. Electrified booby traps are effective in reducing likelihood of attacks on small animals and fowel. 60 days following when coyote and Bob cats are born I place chicken,dog,cat or whatever I want preditors to fear like the devil himself in an electrified wire cage sitting on ceramic legs. If momma gets her hair curled by an electric cat,dog or chicken I believe she will not only steer clear of them but teach her young to as well. I haven't owned a ratter in 3 years but a lady down the road feeds cats that frequent the same drainage near my house where i often hear and see coyotes. It took some convincing the first year I asked her help furnishing a decoy but she's all in now. I can't recall the last mouse or rat turd I saw in my buildings and think coyotes and cats both are responsible. It has crossed my mind to rig a watermelon for the coyotes but I decided to share in payment for their services other 11 months of year.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

In part you can thank me and my heathen buddies for inability to buy powerful fireworks now days.
We drilled a hole for fuse in 1.5" pipe ,screwed a cap on pipe,packed it with black walnuts and KA-BOOM we had ourselves a bazooka. Couple pieces of wood and baling wire for handles so one of us could hold and point it while another touched it off. The explosion was so powerful some walnut shells were busted into pieces making an impressive pattern on side of barn along with dents from whole nuts.

We would pound a piece of appropriate size water pipe in the ground on an angle, lite an M-80 pushing it with a stick down the pipe with a dead D-cell batt on top.

BOOM, and you would see the batt land in a fresh disked field a quarter mile or further away.

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

One old time effective method no longer viable is the flex tailpipe extension from car exhaust to mound…

Friends father said it worked great with his old 1950’s Plymouth…

 

[MTGreen]

One old time effective method no longer viable is the flex tailpipe extension from car exhaust to mound…

Friends father said it worked great with his old 1950’s Plymouth…

No longer viable?
Why not?

 

[ultrarunner]

No longer viable?
Why not?

My friend tried it several times with his 2021 Honda and it did nothing.

My guess is new vehicle exhaust is too clean?

 

[1Mech]

In part you can thank me and my heathen buddies for inability to buy powerful fireworks now days.
We drilled a hole for fuse in 1.5" pipe ,screwed a cap on pipe,packed it with black walnuts and KA-BOOM we had ourselves a bazooka. Couple pieces of wood and baling wire for handles so one of us could hold and point it while another touched it off. The explosion was so powerful some walnut shells were busted into pieces making an impressive pattern on side of barn along with dents from whole nuts.

Those were the days, pre-nanny state!
Amazing thing is, we all survived to tell the stories, riding bikes with no helmets, playgrounds without padding, riding in the back of the pickup, sometimes falling out!

 

[jaxs]

My friend tried it several times with his 2021 Honda and it did nothing.

My guess is new vehicle exhaust is too clean?

A couple of TBNers with a six pack and could probably change that in a hurry.

 

[MTGreen]

My friend tried it several times with his 2021 Honda and it did nothing.

My guess is new vehicle exhaust is too clean?

Interesting, I was under the impression that catalytic converters were mostly for NOx emissions but looks like they change carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide (CO to CO2) as well. Well I suppose the old exhaust tube in through the window suicide method is out...

The Main Components of Vehicle Exhaust Gases and Their Effective Catalytic Neutralization : Oriental Journal of Chemistry

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[ultrarunner]

Yep… too clean but never clean enough…

 

[garry1p]

I used a trap to catch squirrels and on occasion would catch a skunk. I would through an old blanket over the cage, take it to the driveway and run a vacuum hose from my truck exhaust under the cage, skunk would take a few minutes to fall asleep and for some reason never wake up! 2004 Chev p/u.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Propane in the tunnels and a match work.

A pheasant farm did that about 30 years ago around here when I was on the fire department, 300 acres and three houses later we had the fire put out.

 

[MossRoad]

we all survived to tell the stories,

Most of us ... I know of two people locally that were killed by consumer fireworks, one killed by an antique cannon that exploded, and when I was maybe 8 years old I witnessed a neighbor kid pick up what he though was a dud cherry bomb, it went off in his hand and he lost some fingers forever.

 

[MossRoad]

I used a trap to catch squirrels and on occasion would catch a skunk. I would through an old blanket over the cage, take it to the driveway and run a vacuum hose from my truck exhaust under the cage, skunk would take a few minutes to fall asleep and for some reason never wake up! 2004 Chev p/u.

I just let them go in the back yard...

Catch & Release Fishing Is For Wimps

A real sport is catch and release skunk trapping!!! :laughing:

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