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Posted by SteveB on April 28, 2008, 8:58 pm
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>>We used to use "woodchuck bombs" to kill woodchucks in the fields.
>>These are just glorified smoke bombs, woodchuck sized. Haven't seen
>>one in 20 years, and don't remember how they worked.
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> Could you use CO2 to suffocate him, since it's heavier than air?
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> Too bad they don't make M80's any more.
Tried lots of things on local pocket gophers. Am currently making a
oxygen/propane device to flood the tunnel and ignite it. Down side is that
you don't want to use it anywhere close to buildings, as a couple of
Canadians recently found out. 20 acres burned and $200,000 damage to
outbuildings and machinery. They got off with a $1500 fine each, IIRC.
Try exhaust. Lawnmower, tiller, ATV, car, whatever you got.
They can throw up a blockage in a tunnel in a heartbeat, so it may take a
couple of three tries to get them.
The tunnel exploders have an advantage in that they collapse a lot of the
tunnel, burying the occupants, and not just hanging out a "Burrow Empty"
sign for the next interloper. But not that close to any structure. I've
gotten some pretty good low "thump" sounds from deep explosions, and then
some shallow surface ones that sounded like a .357 Magnum with a short
barrel close to your ear. If the gas goes out a vent, it hugs the ground
and can ignite grass or anything flammable, as was the case with the
Canadians. If it fills a shed, you got one of them Mythbusters explosions.
Steve
Steve
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