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That does not always work on gophers as they plug some of their runs up. I have a pipe and I take off my lawn mower muffler and replace it with the pipe. It works some of the time. Interesting as it works with gas engines, but did not work using my diesel.

Black Hole Rodent traps do it every time.

But at 2000 bucks, that's some pretty spendy amusement.

I ran a propane cutting torch for years at work. I wonder why a fellow could not run a Victor torch head with a rose bud down the hole for a few minutes then light the gas off with a grill ignitor.

Greg, how about it?

Gassing doesn't work, the little pricks fill the tunnel blocking it off before it can ever take effect on them or their offspring! Might wind up with the fumes in your house though....


Phil

that's the ticket


and as an added bonus it'll teach you how to remove a candy bar from a swimming pool

A petite blonde I work with does exactly that on her lawn. She and her daughters get a kick out of it when that gopher pops up in the jug. It works.

Ground squirrels and gophers are two different animals. This jug trick might work on gophers.

Acetylene torch and a match! Will also blow coyotes out of a den in a culvert...to a fair you well!!

I've had good luck running a hose from my Jeep's exhaust pipe. Dixie Gun Works makes a .32 caliber "mouse trap" that isn't as reliable but is more fun. Its a little brass muzzle loader that has a sort of a spoon shaped lever that sticks out over the muzzle. That's the trigger. You load it up with a few grains of Pyrodex and a pinch of birdshot and place it in the tunnel. When the critter tries to shove the spoon out of the way, it blows his head clean off. The difficult part using it for moles and such is getting it facing the right way so he comes at it from the front.

RobJordan: My wife owned a beauty shop for 27 years in the Windemere (bucks up!) neighborhood of Seattle.
Gopher (REAL Gophers!) capital of the U.S. of A.!
Each spring and summer the Doctors and lawyers wives would come to her shop at closing time and gather a bag of cut human hair!
These ladies would interupt a gopher run/tunnel with a shovel and place a handful of cut hair in the track.
Legend has it that the cut hairs would enter their soft skin/pelt and some how infect and kill them.
AND according to the many dozens of repeat hair gatherer/placers this is the MOST reliable/effective way to kill lawn gophers.
I prefered rockeries, landscaping and shrubs to lawns so I never got into the gopher killing myself.
Best of luck to you with whichever method of gopher eradication you choose.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Pocket gophers can devastate a hayfield. The farmer I know who runs a Rodenator or something like it enjoys seeing it go boom so he alibis the cost. Plus he gets to blow up tunnels for his neighbors. Don't know if he charges but he could, or just has fun with it.

Don't think I'd let Calvin near my lawn with it. The field next door is full of pocket gophers but they stay away from my lawn. Short grass I suppose.

Had a minor ground squirrel invasion a few years ago. A combination of "hunting" with Colibris and whatever the poison bait I got at the farm store was handled it nicely.

You need to bring in a professional hunter... a Great Blue Heron.

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Love the comment "eew. He ate it alive!"

John