FILL IN GROUNDHOG TUNNEL

[nwngunner]

I just let my dog kill them. I have had him kill about 25 of them.They got up under my shop floor and actually caused the cement floor to colapse over the years. I Pulled the broken slab out with the tractor and there was so many tunnel. The dog had a great time got about 5 of them that day.
Helps when you have a half german shepard half lab that weights in at 125 pound to take care of them for you.

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[sdkubota]

Buy a Rodenator, backfill the hole and repave.


Rodenator R1 Pest Elimination System @ Rodenator

I have never heard of this...the videos were great! Now I need a Rodenator because they are cool!

 

[Gary Fowler]

I have never heard of this...the videos were great! Now I need a Rodenator because they are cool!

That just looks like a version of an oxy-acetylene torch. If you just want them dead in the hole and have acetylene, just run the hose inside the tunnel and fill it with acetylene. It is heavier than air and will stay in te hole. Now if you want to destroy your driveway add O2 to it and you have a bomb. As a kid, I made one from a gallon milk jug. Dad had some old dynamite fuse and we taped a long piece to the perforated cap for ignition. We got the cutting torch set to cut and then popped it out and filled the jug with the gas mixture. To ensure we had all O2/acetylene, we filled the jug with water and inverted it in a tub of water and screwed on the cap while underwater. We dug a hole deep enough to cover the jug and lite the fuse. Of course we had way too long of a fuse and it took about 3-4 minutes to go off. When it did, we had a 3 foot diameter hole in the ground. I sure wouldnt want to mix oxygen and acetylene and fill a hole under my driveway and set it of. Heck just go for dynamite and do it up right.

 

[djw250]

You can pump a portland cement, bentonite and water slurry with a trash pump. It is pretty liquid for a while, and sets up pretty quickly. Same stuff well drillers use to plug abandoned wells. Only thing is you MUST clean the pump very thoroughly as soon as you finish pumping unless you want a one-piece pump. The mixture we used was 10 gallons of water per 94 lbs (sack) of cement with up to 8 percent bentonite powder which is about 8 lbs per sack of cement. The bentonite makes it gel quickly so if you use that you have to move fast. You can mix it in a barrel or tank using the trash pump. We used a pump that had a removable impeller plate so you could clean it better.

 

[bigdad]

Are you talking about Groundhogs or VC?

"That just looks like a version of an oxy-acetylene torch. If you just want them dead in the hole and have acetylene, just run the hose inside the tunnel and fill it with acetylene. It is heavier than air and will stay in te hole. Now if you want to destroy your driveway add O2 to it and you have a bomb."

 

[Mark Page]

ave to wait til he harvest themYou've got to killem' first before you repair the damage. If you fix the damage they'll be likely to start excavation again. One property I hunt has a big maple on the edge of the field, I use it for ranging. I hunted the place one afternoon and nobody showed figured I must have cleaned them out (unlikely).
When I got to my hide I spotted a gh hole under my ranging tree that was not there the previous evening. It's amazing how fast they can tunnel.
There is another farm I've been trying to get permission on for 2 years without any luck. I've left my card and I stop by now and again to say high but no permission. The place is lousy with hog holes. I can park out on the County road and count 10 or twelve holes only 200 yards away.
End of last summer I got a call from the owner, he was spitting mad. He was picking corn with his vintage Farmall H when the right rear wheel fell into an extensive labyrinth of holes and snapped the right axle. He had seen my card and wanted to know how soon I could start hunting them. The gun and ammo were in the truck, I threw on some camo and headed right over there. Using some round bales for cover I popped 6 of them from one spot in the hour before dusk. I hunted the place hard last fall and this spring and have put a dent in them. His beans are up now so I'll have to wait a month or so before I head back.

 

[Mark Page]

You've got to killem' first before you repair the damage. If you fix the damage they'll be likely to start excavation again. One property I hunt has a big maple on the edge of the field, I use it for ranging. I hunted the place one afternoon and nobody showed figured I must have cleaned them out (unlikely).
When I got to my hide I spotted a gh hole under my ranging tree that was not there the previous evening. It's amazing how fast they can tunnel.
There is another farm I've been trying to get permission on for 2 years without any luck. I've left my card and I stop by now and again to say high but no permission. The place is lousy with hog holes. I can park out on the County road and count 10 or twelve holes only 200 yards away.
End of last summer I got a call from the owner, he was spitting mad. He was picking corn with his vintage Farmall H when the right rear wheel fell into an labyrinth of holes and snapped the right axle. He had seen my card and wanted to know how soon I could start hunting them. The rifle and ammo were in the truck, I threw on some camo and headed right over there. Using some round bales for cover I popped 6 of them from one spot in the hour before dusk. I hunted the place hard last fall and this spring and have put a dent in them. His beans are up now so I'll have to wait a month or so before I head back.

 

[muddstopper]

An easy way to kill them in their hole is to use a roadside flare. Strike the flare and throw it down their hole. the fumes of the flare will sufficate the ground hog. Once the hog is dead you can use a trash pump and a watering trough and hose to pump a slurry of sand into the hold. Just dump the sand in the water trough, fill with water, and drop the suction hose down into the sand, it will suck the sand and pump it thru the dischargehose. The water will drain off inside the hole and pull sand all the way to the bottom.

 

[HankTheThird]

Rodenators SUCK

I have never heard of this...the videos were great! Now I need a Rodenator because they are cool!

The Rodenator company is here in Midvale, Idaho. Big problems with the quality of the product and the company is going under because of quality control issues. Look at the post below and follow that guy's advice. You don't need an overpriced 02 device to do the trick.

 

[HankTheThird]

That is good--just DON'T use the Rodenator

An easy way to kill them in their hole is to use a roadside flare. Strike the flare and throw it down their hole. the fumes of the flare will sufficate the ground hog. Once the hog is dead you can use a trash pump and a watering trough and hose to pump a slurry of sand into the hold. Just dump the sand in the water trough, fill with water, and drop the suction hose down into the sand, it will suck the sand and pump it thru the dischargehose. The water will drain off inside the hole and pull sand all the way to the bottom.

You guys all have the right idea. As someone who knows the Rodenator line pretty well, I strongly recommend AGAINST it. It looks great on the videos, but that's what PR and promotional videos are supposed to do--make you want to buy the product. the guy who owns the company is a real sheister and the product quality is total crap. No service behind the sale. Do it yourself, really.