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DitchWI

11-03-2005 08:08:46




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Anybody out there have more gophers than you know what to do with?My place is being over run by the little basterds.What,if anything,are you guys doing to controll these things?I have been trapping them with great results but seems that as soon as you think you have most of them they invade again in a short time.I'm at the point I think I should invest in THE RODINATOR,they are not cheap, so I was thinking that i could do some gopher control work on the side to pay for the thing.The thing is, around here i.e.WI.,MN.I don't see to many people out trapping or trying to control these pesky vermin the way they used to.When we were kids that all we did all summer so we could get bounties from the county.Whats your opinion on this - will farmers and the like be willing to pay some one to get rid of there gophers? Or is this just not that much of a problem in the big picture of things?

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Dick Hamilton

11-07-2005 16:27:01




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
Here in the east it is woodchucks that cause the problem. LP Gas works real well. It is heavier than air so by putting the hose down their hole it kills them very shortly. It would probably work on gophers. Worth a try. Dick in cool, but still beautiful Finger Lake Region of NYS.



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tortmort

11-03-2005 19:24:43




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
I do not know how many acres you have, I have 20 and many many gophers. I use a bait applicator whcih is a probe you push in the runs/tunnels and turn a crank to deposit bait. Works very well. I have a very nice one made by a local guy in Anza, California which cost about $ 80.00. Worth every penny.



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Bill(Wis)

11-03-2005 16:16:59




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
Buy some small, cheap transistor radios. Tune them to a local station you can get real good reception on that plays only rock music. Hang them down in the holes set at full volume. The key is that it must be ROCK MUSIC AND IT HAS TO BE LOUD! Drives them absolutely crazy and they move away.



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MN Scott

11-03-2005 20:07:29




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to Bill(Wis), 11-03-2005 16:16:59  
I think my gophers would just plug the hole and just start digging in the other direction. LOL



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MN Scott

11-03-2005 15:42:37




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
I'am having the same trouble with gophers on my farm in SE MN to. Been trapping them but they seem to keep ahead of me. Little buggers seem to move in the old tunnel system when the old occupent is gone. I've been considering a RODINATOR to as they destroy the tunnel system preventing new ones moving in. Mostly big farmers around here would not stoop to the lowlly job of trapping gophers. As for shooting them pocket gophers spend their whole life under ground so that is out. There is a gopher posioning machine that makes a burrow under groung and lays a stream of poison in it but they don't always work. If you were close to me I would split the cost of a RODINATOR with you and blast them to gopher heaven!

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joe*redneck

11-03-2005 15:12:56




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
I use my good old .22



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Vern-MI

11-03-2005 14:45:11




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
We had a horrible mess of them and tried using small gas engines by feeding the exhaust gas down into the holes. We put a little oil in the gas to see where the hole openings were and added more engines as necessary. It never completely got rid of all of them but sure did put a dent in our population of them.

This year we had chipmunks by the boatload. Even had them in the house. Some were wandering around in the sofit above the kitchen sink and one was in the dining room in a potted plant. When he got scared he tried sliding down the plant stand wire leg and got his foot trapped at the point where the wire leg returned on itself. He was promptly caught and expedited to chipmunk heaven.

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Walter Squires

11-03-2005 11:58:09




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
This summer I had a terrible infestion of chipmonks around the house, they were burrowing under the brick patio, down the foundation and pilling dirt under the house. I tried everthing and the only thing that worked was a Hav-A-Heart trap baited with peanut butter, it took a while but one by one I caught all of them.



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37 chief

11-03-2005 09:05:58




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
Gophers are a big problem.When Dad was farming he would pay me .25 for each gopher I would catch. That was good money in the 50's. I think what you are doing is the only sure way, one at a time. Stan



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Steve from Arkansas

11-03-2005 08:30:37




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to DitchWI, 11-03-2005 08:08:46  
Here in Arkansas moles are our big problem. Some people grow castor beans. You drop the beans down into the mole tunnel. They are poisonous to the moles. When we bought our farm from an elderly woman she had several castor bean bushes around the yard. We had four small children so we got rid of the castor beans. Then we had children and moles. would this work on the gophers?



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jimNCal

11-03-2005 18:04:29




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to Steve from Arkansas, 11-03-2005 08:30:37  
My wife's sister SWEARS by castor beans as gopher control. I keep the grass and weeds as short and sparce as I can, encourage owls and snakes to live near, trap, drown, and cultivate with my Aussie Shep/bitch running behind crunching them up. In short, WHATEVER WORKS!!



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730 virgil

11-03-2005 15:43:37




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 Re: OT Gopher Control in reply to Steve from Arkansas, 11-03-2005 08:30:37  
we have 2 barn cats and a red tail hawk the gophers are a lot less than used to be the only thing they raise heck with the rabbits too



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