"SteveB" toquerville,utah@zionvistas wrote in message
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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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"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere
critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and
imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be
done." Theodore Roosevelt 1891


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