Marginally OT?

Do you by any chance have a propane tank ?. Simply vent a quantity of propane into the burrow, let set for 15 minutes, then toss in a burning rag. Cheap, effective, quick, and you can vary the amount of propane depending on whether you prefer, rare, medium, well or extra crispy.

Gunner

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke

You can't be serious! ......are you? Gawd I hate those critters Lane

Actually gadgets to do this are commercially available, here's a link:

Cheers, Stan

Quite serious. Other gases work as well. O/A torch sets are handy for this, though a bit more dangerous.

Gunner " >> ......The world has gone crazy. Guess I'm showing my age... I think it dates from when we started looking at virtues as funny. It's embarrassing to speak of honor, integrity, bravery, patriotism, 'doing the right thing', charity, fairness. You have Seinfeld making cowardice an acceptable choice; our politicians changing positions of honor with every poll; we laugh at servicemen and patriotic fervor; we accept corruption in our police and bias in our judges; we kill our children, and wonder why they have no respect for Life. We deny children their childhood and innocence- and then we denigrate being a Man, as opposed to a 'person'. We *assume* that anyone with a weapon will use it against his fellowman- if only he has the chance. Nah; in our agitation to keep the State out of the church business, we've destroyed our value system and replaced it with *nothing*. Turns my stomach- " Chas , rec.knives

actually there is not much of a roar or smoke..more like a muffled Wooof! and a bit of flame out the many entrances. Do practice a bit of moderation at first, when applying the propane , and dont be surprised if a blazing rodent pops out one hole or another. Add some O2 at the same time..and it gets a bit more interesting

Gunner, whom prefers to lay in wait, pellet gun in hand and dispatch the varmints via a head shot. " >> ......The world has gone crazy. Guess I'm showing my age... I think it dates from when we started looking at virtues as funny. It's embarrassing to speak of honor, integrity, bravery, patriotism, 'doing the right thing', charity, fairness. You have Seinfeld making cowardice an acceptable choice; our politicians changing positions of honor with every poll; we laugh at servicemen and patriotic fervor; we accept corruption in our police and bias in our judges; we kill our children, and wonder why they have no respect for Life. We deny children their childhood and innocence- and then we denigrate being a Man, as opposed to a 'person'. We *assume* that anyone with a weapon will use it against his fellowman- if only he has the chance. Nah; in our agitation to keep the State out of the church business, we've destroyed our value system and replaced it with *nothing*. Turns my stomach- " Chas , rec.knives

Oxygen-acetylene? Don't give him ideas. Acetylene is seriously explosive. I picture a fellow's entire yard landing upon his roof.... If one were to use oxygen and propane, I would think it would be prudent to have the thing lit before introducing a lot of it into the hole.

No doubt , I wouldn't be able to wait long enough for big tunnels for OA to get real interesting. Guess , you could do that *just* in case you didn't get them all or have to get busy doing something else.

i dont have a set of plans, but this is what i saw years ago for getting rid of moles... take your gas powered lawnmower and remove the muffler from it and then put a flexible tube( like the old time flexible metal hose from an old time gas can.... and then put that end into the hole and put some rags around the tube to block it up so the fumes/exhaust will go down the hole.. let your mower run for a while and the moles will never come out...

Every couple years I get the hint that back with white stripe kitties have moved in under the shed. I toss in a dozen moth balls and they seek other accommodation. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Fun might be to run O/A from a torch into the hole for a few minutes, then touch it off with a (very long) match. Can imagine a strip of lawn exploding like you'd laid a length of det cord there. Never tried it, though. Yet.

John Martin