Groundhogs

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

17 minutes ago, bcgold said:

Twenty pound propane bottle with a hose attached with out the regulator so when it's turned upside down liquid comes from the hose, insert hose into ground entrance pack with dirt. Turn on propane with bottle upside down and watch for other open holes with gas escaping then you know the tunnel has been filled.

 

Propane is heavier than air and the stinky stuff is added to alert for leaks. Stinky stuff will also coat the walls to the tunnels the beats don't like it and will not return.

 

A few tubers ( idiots ) get carried away by adding oxygen then blow up the tunnels, no need to do this as propane gas does not support life as we know it.

Now that I reread this, wouldn’t there be issues with soil quality in that area after that? 

 

[Herder 2,354]

13 minutes ago, LengerichKA88 said:

I want to be a little less conspicuous than that @Herder 😂

 

A long length of hose sometime after sunset.   What the neighbors don't know wont killem. Just the groundhogs.  

[formariz 11,987]

28 minutes ago, LengerichKA88 said:

Now that I reread this, wouldn’t there be issues with soil quality in that area after that? 

 

Worst than that. Would it happen to ignite,in an enclosed area like that, believe me it would not be pretty. Very dangerous.

The smoke bomb works. It will kill them in the hole. Find all holes and place one in each hole.

[Tractorhead 9,064]

How about an electric fence?

 

Or ask him fot the Weather..😂

 

Ok sorry, the Clown deep inside has just won if i‘m answered..

 

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

6 minutes ago, Tractorhead said:

How about an electric fence?

 

Or ask him fot the Weather..😂

 

Ok sorry, the Clown deep inside has just won if i‘m answered..

 

I’ve tried, but he runs away before I get close enough to ask 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

 

Thats another reason I want him gone: not very neighborly 

[Tractorhead 9,064]

But honestly, s far as o know, they didn‘t like Vibrations and louder noise.

 

I had some Trouble with a mole.

the 2Week Action plowing with the Tractor and acting after with Tiller seems to chase Them,

maybe this will work.

[bc.gold 3,403]

50 minutes ago, formariz said:

Worst than that. Would it happen to ignite,in an enclosed area like that, believe me it would not be pretty. Very dangerous.

The smoke bomb works. It will kill them in the hole. Find all holes and place one in each hole.

 

Every time you use a rattle can of paint your holding a bomb in your hands and worse yet is as I said propane is heavier than air, say you had a stairwell leading from the garage into a basement this is where the propane is going to settle - potential BOOM or a flash fire.

 

Propane needs a good mixture of air aka oxygen to ignite, I've used LPG with a regulator to paint with a Binks type spray gun but always worked outdoors. LPG is oil free so you'll never get fish eye in a finished paint job, air compressors are notorious for adding droplets of oil into a paint job/

 

Since the ban of CFS's as aerosol propellants propane and butane have replaced them.

 

As for the stinky added to the propane it's probably bio degradable, it's main purpose to to alert to a leak, if the stinky wasn't added propane has a sweet smell.

 

It was not until 1941 that the aerosol spray can was first put to good use by Americans Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan, who are credited as the inventors of the modern spray can.[3] Their design of a refillable spray can dubbed the “bug bomb”, was patented in 1943, and is the ancestor of many popular commercial spray products. Pressurized by liquefied gas, which gave it propellant qualities, the small, portable can enabled soldiers to defend against malaria-carrying bugs by spraying inside tents in the Pacific during World War II.[4] In 1948, three companies were granted licenses by the United States government to manufacture aerosols. Two of the three companies still manufacture aerosols to this day, Chase Products Company and Claire Manufacturing. The "crimp-on valve", used to control the spray was developed in 1949 by Bronx machine shop proprietor Robert H. Abplanalp.[3]

[edit] Propellant

If the can was simply filled with compressed gas, either it would need to be at a dangerously high pressure, or the amount of gas in the can would be small, and it would soon run out. Hence, usually, the gas is the vapour of a liquid with boiling point slightly lower than room temperature. This means that inside the pressurised can, the vapour can exist in equilibrium with its bulk liquid at a pressure that is higher than atmospheric pressure (and able to expel the payload), but not dangerously high; yet, as gas escapes it is immediately replaced by more evaporating liquid. Since the propellant exists in liquid form in the can it is desirable that it be miscible with or dissolved in the payload.

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were once often used but since the Montreal Protocol came into force in 1989 they have been replaced, in nearly every country, due to the negative effects CFCs have on Earth's ozone layer. The most common replacements are mixtures of volatile hydrocarbons, typically propane, n-butane and isobutane. Dimethyl ether (DME) and methylethyl ether are also used. All these have the principal disadvantage of being quite flammable. Nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide are also used as propellants to deliver foodstuffs (for example, whipped cream and cooking spray). Medicinal aerosols such as asthma inhalers use hydrofluoroalkanes (HFA): either HFA 134a (1,1,1,2,-tetrafluoroethane) or HFA 227 (1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane) or combinations of the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosol_spray#Propellant

[peter lena 8,580]

used to shoot prairie dogs in montana when we could not fish due to wind, regular stuff. the ranch owner used to have a guy regularly come out , just to shoot. he would rent a chevy carryall 4x4 for a week to carry all his guns, by the end of a week that  chevy smelled like a mafia staff car. pete 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,490]

Dry ice.

Works on rats it will work on groundhogs...

kills nice and quiet, they go to sleep as the ice “melts” into gas and they don’t wake up...

pour ice chunks in holes, seal quickly with dirt then piece of wood...

no smell...

pre-buried bodies...

cheap...

Done....

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,274]

Dry ice. Now there's one I had never heard of...

[Pullstart 62,790]

I’m surprised I haven’t read the obvious answer yet...  after all this is a tractor website!  Hook a length of exhaust pipe from your most potent  and run the other end into the ground.  When the canary don’t chirp, air quality ain’t much good underground.... right?

[WVHillbilly520H 10,373]

1 minute ago, pullstart said:

I’m surprised I haven’t read the obvious answer yet...  after all this is a tractor website!  Hook a length of exhaust pipe from your most potent  and run the other end into the ground.  When the canary don’t chirp, air quality ain’t much good underground.... right?

I thought maybe you meant run 'em down with the mower deck engaged, I did that to a snake in the ditch a couple summers ago... equals pretty good meat grinder.

[Herder 2,354]

53 minutes ago, pullstart said:

I’m surprised I haven’t read the obvious answer yet...  after all this is a tractor website!  Hook a length of exhaust pipe from your most potent  and run the other end into the ground.  When the canary don’t chirp, air quality ain’t much good underground.... right?

Go too sleep. Go too sleep.

[Ed Kennell 38,022]

2 hours ago, pullstart said:

I’m surprised I haven’t read the obvious answer yet...  after all this is a tractor website!  Hook a length of exhaust pipe from your most potent  and run the other end into the ground.  When the canary don’t chirp, air quality ain’t much good underground.... right?

Been there...it works for moles.

 

[Ed Kennell 38,022]

The crystals (calcium carbide) used in old carbide miners lamps works also.      The moisture in the ground reacts with the calcium carbide and produces acetylene gas.    This is what burns in the miners lamp.

BTW, I used one of these in 1957 while working in one of my Grandfathers 3 hand dug coal mines

Edited April 25, 2019 by Ed Kennell