Gopher Gitter and Mole Muffler

[k0ua]

Good idea. Gas the little buggers.

Is it wrong that i was laughing during the video:thumbsup:
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Me too!.. "oh, yeah, their getting it" you bet their getting it. There are no alive moles in that network, you can bet your ole weed wacker on that!
Get 'em.

James K0UA

 

[77bronco]

Then there's always this:

Gophers Pest Control | Moles Burrowing Rodents @ Rodenator

 

[NC tractor driver]

Then there's always this:

Gophers Pest Control | Moles Burrowing Rodents @ Rodenator

Oh man, I gotta get me one of those. :laughing:

 

[bikerdib]

Oh man, I gotta get me one of those. :laughing:

Yeah, I was really interested in it till I found the price; $1600+

 

[dieselscout80]

I'd have a shovel and water hand in case you start a grass fire.

It looks like it will work though. :thumbsup:

 

[Fxfymn]

Nothing is ever really new is it? Like all farmers my Grandfather hated groundhogs because of the damage they did to his garden. He would run a hose from the exhaust of his AC Model B into the groundhog holes and let it run for quite a while to gas the critters. The AC was a 1937 model he bought new.

Of course this is the same guy who had his grandson help him remove old apple tree stumps by putting a 1/4 stick of dynamite under the stump. But that's another story.

 

[boggen]

interesting to say the least. and craigslist normally has cheap old weed whackers. hhmmmssss.

 

[2manyrocks]

Any old worn out push lawn mower should produce plenty of Co2 as well, but this one is pretty clever.

If you start pumping propane into the ground and igniting it, could very well blow up more than moles depending on where the mole tunnels go in your yard.

Now blowing up your own yard....is sort of like the reason why a person tries to get rid of the moles in the first place.

 

[jimgerken]

So far, so good. Two different tunnel systems, two MoleMuffler treatments, no repeat offenders. I wish I could actually SEE them gasping and choking, and then puking and falling over, but I guess as long as they die and quit digging, it's good enough for me.

Did learn one more thing about moles. The last tunnel system I hit, was only about 12 feet long, and no visible means of entry or exit. So I am standing there with the engine running, studying the tunnel, thinking "How the heck does the mole get in there? Where did he go?" So I took a wooden dowel and stuck DOWNWARD at the one end of the tunnel, the end that faced the woods. Sure enough, the tunnel goes downward, at about a 45 degree angle, into the ground really deep, like maybe 8-10 or more inches. Where it goes from there, I can't tell of course. But that explains a few things. I was left wondering how far the exhaust will travel down in there, killing multiple moles, entire families and colonies of moles. Ok, maybe a bit optimistic.

 

[ham]

This should definitely work and it tells you why the EPA rightly so is going after lawn products in the future. But I have to tell one on my self.

I used a device with a hose and attachment for my pickup muffler cause we had a real mess with an explosion of gophers and a wedding coming up. So I connected up my 2003 HD Hemi and set to work....I now think we need to lighten up on the auto industry for a couple of decades because right now after a few hours of running that thing it didn't kill one little gopher....didn't even phase them. Finally my brain bulb went off and I got my 59' Ford pickup and connected and it killed everything in a certain radius with certain lethality...Ha!...

Hence this will work.

Hint: We are just bigger gophers