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Nov 23, 2008 5 Replies

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SteveB 17 years ago

My wife has asked me to stop using the gopher blaster. Says it is too hard on the dogs, and I'm becoming accident prone. I have merely detached it, but not discarded it.

Now, I am trying a piece of conduit 18" long cut on a 45 on one end. Use a probe to find the tunnel. Insert the conduit. Lift it a couple of inches. Insert a dowel to clear it, then pull out the dowel. Insert a piece of Dentine sized xylitol sweetened chewing gum and push it into the tunnel with the wood dowel. Seal the hole.

I don't see the big deal. The dogs get scared of the hair dryer or other dogs barking on TV.

It's always something.

Steve

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72 Mach1 17 years ago

Apparently one can also buy this as a alternative sweetener for sugar in a more or less pure form. Would be interested in knowing if this actually works. Rick

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Bill Marrs 17 years ago

You could try our method. Find open hole, dump in a big scoop of sulfur (we get it at the local farm supply store). Poke in a propane fueled big burner head, and burn some sulfur. No more gophers.

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Watson 17 years ago

Let your wife hoist your cylinders, and use auto exhaust to kill your gophers.

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SteveB 17 years ago

I would need to make some sort of cake in order to have it in an edible form for them. I did one hole in the front yard on one very persistent gopher, and so far in the past 12 to 16 hours, there's no new dirt. Maybe I got the little darling.

Finally.

Steve

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SteveB 17 years ago

I have set off railroad flares and let them burn. Trouble is, they can block a tunnel in seconds, and you don't get that tunnel.

Steve

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