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

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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]
 
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?
 
(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]
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That has potential. Since they tend to plug the holes the gas would likely stay in the tunnels. Have you tried it?
 
(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?
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I used a 50/50 mix of MMO and Seafoam
 
(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]
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That has potential. Since they tend to plug the holes the gas would likely stay in the tunnels. Have you tried it?
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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 .
 
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