Gassing gohpers

[motorstuff52]

The pocket gophers are digging up our farmyard worse than usual.
I am thinking about using a flexible metal exhaust pipe on the 8N to gas the gophers with carbon monoxide.

Has anyone had any luck doing this? I am also concerned if it will hurt the tractor. Will the back pressure hurt the valves?
Thanks
Mike

 

[hd6gtom]

Its done all the time here. Works well. I have also had them in hay fields. I hook up a tank type NH3 applicator and make a couple of passes thru the area. Gets rid on them asap.

 

[Dean]

Works great for me on ground hogs.

Doesn't take long.

Dean

 

[hunkydory]

(quoted from post at 14:15:41 11/08/18) Its done all the time here. Works well. I have also had them in hay fields. I hook up a tank type NH3 applicator and make a couple of passes thru the area. Gets rid on them asap.

!@#$ pocket gophers are a plague around here. Can you tell more about how you apply the NH3? Does it hurt what's growing there?

 

[RM-MN]

I've pretty much quit gassing gophers with my TO30 Frerguson.....because I can't find any. It has taken about 3 years of gassing and I still get perhaps one or 2 per year on 230 acres.

 

[MRinMN]

works great, no effect on the tractor.

 

[MRinMN]

gassing

 

[motorstuff52]

Thanks to all for help. I can't speak for the gophers but I doubt they will thank you.
Mike

 

[Ken(Ark)]

I read about using NH3 and was thinking any gas that is heavier than air would probably work . Propane is inexpensive and easily obtainable . No need to mix with oxygen and ignite it . I have armadillos holes that are bigger problems for me . I found this on a web search ,


[i:8a89b071d2] I use a 25-lb. propane tank, running a rubber hose between the tank and a 2 to 3 ft. long piece of 1/4-in. dia. pipe. I find the gopher run and put the pipe down into it. Then I turn the tank upside down to force the liquid propane down into the run. A cupfull will do the job since one cupful expands 250 times when it turns to gas.[/i:8a89b071d2]

 

[nashranch]

My version of a mole blaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOT-HhvlsNU

 

[grizz02]

I just use my 4 wheeler, gassing them has been the best kills the little ones too

 

[motorstuff52]

What are you squirting in the carb to make the smoke?

Do the moles or gophers try and escape or do they stay in the hole?

 

[hunkydory]

(quoted from post at 19:00:54 11/09/18)
I read about using NH3 and was thinking any gas that is heavier than air would probably work . Propane is inexpensive and easily obtainable . No need to mix with oxygen and ignite it . I have armadillos holes that are bigger problems for me . I found this on a web search ,


[i:dc996c3994] I use a 25-lb. propane tank, running a rubber hose between the tank and a 2 to 3 ft. long piece of 1/4-in. dia. pipe. I find the gopher run and put the pipe down into it. Then I turn the tank upside down to force the liquid propane down into the run. A cupfull will do the job since one cupful expands 250 times when it turns to gas.[/i:dc996c3994]

That has potential. Since they tend to plug the holes the gas would likely stay in the tunnels. Have you tried it?

 

[nashranch]

(quoted from post at 07:05:57 11/10/18) What are you squirting in the carb to make the smoke?

Do the moles or gophers try and escape or do they stay in the hole?

I used a 50/50 mix of MMO and Seafoam

 

[Ken(Ark)]

(quoted from post at 19:09:14 11/10/18)

(quoted from post at 19:00:54 11/09/18)
I read about using NH3 and was thinking any gas that is heavier than air would probably work . Propane is inexpensive and easily obtainable . No need to mix with oxygen and ignite it . I have armadillos holes that are bigger problems for me . I found this on a web search ,


[i:11aad955b4] I use a 25-lb. propane tank, running a rubber hose between the tank and a 2 to 3 ft. long piece of 1/4-in. dia. pipe. I find the gopher run and put the pipe down into it. Then I turn the tank upside down to force the liquid propane down into the run. A cupfull will do the job since one cupful expands 250 times when it turns to gas.[/i:11aad955b4]

That has potential. Since they tend to plug the holes the gas would likely stay in the tunnels. Have you tried it?

I have not tried it . In the next few months I plan on filling in the 5 - 6 armadillo holes in the pasture . I plan on shooting some propane in and plugging the hole so my livestock does not break a leg .

If I keep the fields mowed the armadillos tend to dig in brush piles and other heavily covered areas . I may never know if the propane had any effect unless I find a fresh hole next spring .