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Posted by Eggs Zachtly on May 4, 2008, 8:55 pm
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>> SteveB said:
>>
>>> I finally got my pocket gopher killer working. This is the third version
>>> of
>>> it, and I believe this one is a keeper. It uses a welding torch handle
>>> and
>>> some other fittings to put propane and pure O2 down a gopher burrow.
>>> Then a
>>> spark. The concussion kills them, removes the oxygen, and collapses a
>>> good
>>> bit of the tunnel. Go to Rodenator.com and look at their videos. Theirs
>>> is
>>> $1800, and no tanks or regulators.. Mine was from parts I had, and could
>>> be
>>> built for $50. Tanks and regulators extra, bringing the whole deal to
>>> about
>>> $500.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, I was working in the driveway, and one was shoving dirt out of
>>> a
>>> mound. Why that cheeky little guy! I went and hooked up the gopher
>>> device,
>>> and within a few minutes he was in gopher heaven.
>>>
>>> I've used poisons, traps, flooding, but this works.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> $500 to kill a gopher. LOL
>>
>> I got a gopher this afternoon with my $30 spade. Then I used the spade to
>> cut out some sod, where a garden bed will go. Tomorrow, I'll use it to put
>> a nice edge around a few other beds. I could probably find some other uses
>> for it. What else can the gopher killer do, for all the money that it
>> cost?
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>>
>> Eggs
>
> It can hire out for $200 a day to kill other people's gophers. Try that
> with a $30 spade.
LOL =)
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Eggs
A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of
marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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