bug bombing gophers?
 

anyone here try using room foggers on gophers and/or moles? ive read a number of threads here on gopher wars in doing a search and garnered some additional knowledge but wondering the groups though on bombing them?

had used those gopher gassers, but the great state of CA has now outlawed them so they are unavailable. I am aware of road flares and may go that direction but have a number of the room foggers laying around that I am considering using. thoughts?

never had gophers when I lived in the burbs, but since moving to the mountains I am being overwhelmed and am at my wits end. ive gotten a couple with traps over the last 5 months, but they have been very ineffective to this point. ive also tried the beeping things you bury and that is only driving the dog bat***** crazy with the tilting of the head from side to side as they go off in a chorus beeps. they are really ruining the sound of the hills...:D

Those things that look like a M80 explosive? They never worked for me. I bought gopher pellets. They are inserted into their tunnels with a spike like applicator. Spin the little handle to leave a pile of pellets. It worked for a while. If they don’t ingest enough to kill them it only makes them sick and then they won’t touch the pellets again.

Plug up as many holes as possible, run a hose from the exhaust pipe to the tunnel complex, start the car and let it run for a while. Carbon dioxide settles, will fill the tunnels up. Carbon dioxide can also be generated a number of ways, aside from car exhaust.

Plastic gallon milk jug filled with water.
My place was over-run with gophers when I moved in. Totally eliminated them in one season

You're living in the "mountains". Use a weapon of your choice, should be fun as target practice.

Spare the snakes.

How does that work?

Keep a water filled jug handy. When seeing a gopher run into a hole...stand the jug upside down into the hole. They stupidly run upstream right into the jug.
Cap the jug and leave it in the garbage. :)

That I'd like to see. They must be stupid! lol

Try a different dog.

same method...but a single gallon jug works better. They squeeze right thru the small spout.
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this one is better...
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It's not so stupid to run upstream if you think about it.

lol...language in this one
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OK.

Nix the dog idea.

Legit!

Thanks... Amazing. lol :)

I have major problems with gophers. I think I'll try the milk jug method. I've tried everything else. When you put a gas bomb in the tunnel, they just backfill at the first whiff. I've used the pellets with the spike applicator. They just push the pellets out of the hole. I've had decent success using a hose with a four hose manifold on the end. I'd have four shorter hoses hooked up and put each in a hole. I've had the most luck with a plain ole gopher trap. I attempted to make my own rodenator but couldn't get the fuel/air combo right. I'll do some more on that some time. I hate gophers.

I'm surprised that Captain Caveman doesn't just wack those with his club and then put the little bisches on a Ritz!

I don't think the foggers will work. After you trigger it, it only runs for a few minutes.

i was sitting here alone laughing out loud watching the video with the guy, the shepard and hose. that was good stuff.

i tried a single bomb late yesterday after posting this and unlike when placing traps the hole was not backfilled over night so it remains to be seen if it was effective. when the thing was running i did see it daylighting 7-8 feet away out another small vent hole which i promptly plugged up so that indicated the vapors are traveling the tunnels.

i too have used the posion pellets with little relief as well. spoke with my pops last night and he told me the farmer below his property uses a propane tank and rod to pump just the gas into the tunnel and has had some success this way. finds a tunnel, places the rod into it and pumps propane for 30-40 seconds. i may try this soon.

im reluctant to put much water into the tunnels as I believe they have made their way under the concrete patio which goes to the basement wall so the water will likely by pass the French drain that handles the lawn irrigation run off. I don't want to have water infiltration into the house by soaking the fill behind the wall.

ive got a few more bombs that I may blitzkrieg them with at a few different hole locations at the same time to see if that will work.


ill keep ya posted and may just have to try the water/dog/shovel whack approach...

You need a rodenator!!!

https://youtu.be/tjdky7hBp-E

Gasoline works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbQkZ7B3QE

Seriously though, at my last house we had 8000 sq ft of lawn and the soil was very conducive to gophers. My rottie was destructively trenching the place trying to get them so I decided to teach her how to team hunt gophers and it became a fun game every spring as we collected dozens of them.

She would alert-bark whenever there was a new interloper with fresh diggings. I would bring over the garden hose and run water down while also feeding in the pile of fresh dirt. This would raise the water level in the tunnels and always bring the varmint to the surface for a breather hole. She would hear them coming to the surface and point, I would put water on the spot and up popped the gopher. She would grab it, give it the death bite, and place the kill at my feet waiting for praise and a treat. The whole process usually took 5-10 minutes and was 95% effective. Only a very rare time did a gopher escape the team hunt. This was a fun game we played for many years during gopher season and she probably got 200 of them. Best dog ever!

Turning lemons into lemonade.

Rodenator is out of business. There is a company producing a product called Gopher Blaster - at least the last I've known.

[QUOTE=Evans, Marv;10745009]Rodenator is out of business.

I wonder why...what could possibly go wrong??

This is what we do. Though our beagle isn't nearly as good at it as our old lab. Our current lab loves to play but she goes full Lenny on them and they don't last as playmates very long, which works for us as well.

Sometimes our old lab wouldn't wait for me and would snag them on her own. Probably 2/3rds of all of them were killed by her alone and the other third by me spotting one and shooting it or using the hose with her.

In CA we would just put a hose on the truck and the other end down the hole and let it idle. Kept the yard clean for 4-5 months.

call PETA for advice


record the call and post it here

Wow. I bought parts for my rodenator from them about two years ago.

I've used several methods, traps, water down the hole and my border collie. I've reduce the population significantly but i still have them. It's a weekly task to set traps and check them every few days later.

I’m sure their liability insurance was crazy! 🤣🤣🤣.


Wouldn’t be that hard to recreate with a weed burner and a grill igniter though honestly....

Will USPS ship them in a jug ?

Website says to they sold their assets to a new company Rodent Eliminator:

Rodenator

Sid. That's the avenue I tried to take. I put together a nice sort of recreation using two weed burners, welding valves, back stop valves, etc. The problem was I couldn't get the gas mixture right. I tried to adjust it with the valves, but it wouldn't work. I reinstalled the orifice from one of the weed burners on the gas side, but haven't retested it. I understand the gas/air concentration has to be between 2.15% and 9.2% gas for the mixture to ignite. Otherwise nothing will happen. I don't think I'd start a company with a product like this considering how lacking in common sense some people are.

Pet Badgers work great

don't know about that, but my garbage collector has picked up four or more live gophers at one time in gal milk jugs. The compactor quiets them down quickly.:)

That's exactly what I use. Works great.

We gon et meat toniiiiight!!

Isn't gopher over a pit a staple of any true caveman's diet ?

Best gopher killer I know of....

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Last time I had gophers I chased them with bombs, water etc for months. Got the gum, put two sticks down two different holes and haven't had a gopher since.

Don't know a lot about what the gopher eats but when you eliminate the food source for the mole, the mole leaves. They eat grubs. Kill the grubs with a bag of grub kill pellets. I used a spreader and did my lawn and my neighbor's. It takes a month for the granules/pellets to get in the soil and kill the grubs.
I tried everything suggested on the internet. A landscaper/friend came by for a visit and I showed him the mole mounds. He just said to go buy a bag of grub killer. It worked but unfortunately the neighbor two houses down now has to deal with that little bastard.