Playing with gophers

 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

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 SteveB said:


$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

Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man
who can't get his pants off.

 


  I've gotten rid of many gophers with just my size 12 New Balances.  
Tamp down the tunnel and either (1) catch them in the cave in or (2)
they just get annoyed and leave. Done this a couple times a year for the
last couple of decades.

 

It can hire out for $200 a day to kill other people's gophers.  Try that
with a $30 spade.

Steve

 SteveB said:


LOL  =)
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