ground hog removal
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Topic: ground hog removal
Posted By: pinball
Subject: ground hog removal
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2018 at 10:31pm
| seems like a ground hog has taken residence under the corner of my building. any thought of how to get rid of it. |
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Posted By: ac45dave
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2018 at 10:33pm
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live trap and a 22 rifle worked for me the last few times. ------------- 54 wd-45gas ; 56 wd-45d N/F w/fact p/s ; 63 d-17 sIII N/F gas ; 60 D14 N/F ; 67 d-17 sIV N/F gas ; 63D15 sII W/F; 39rc#667 ; 2021 massey 4710 fwa ; gravely 2 wheel tractors |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2018 at 11:12pm
| what's it hurt'in? |
Posted By: Animal Cracker
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 2:54am
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shameless dude wrote:Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 5:12am
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[QUOTE=shameless dude]what's it hurt'in?[/QUOTE Hey Shameless, most of us farmers would swap you a crate of groundhogs for a crate of snow in July for in your hay field or soybean field.
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 5:39am
| Conibear trap works for me unless you have critters that don't need to be eliminated. Never was able to catch a ground hog in a live trap. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 5:54am
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pour some diesel down a long section of 2" poly pipe , then a glug or 2 of gas. wait 2-3 minutes, then toss match at the hole. If you get the 'mix' just right, the concussion from the explosion kills the critter, get it wrong, and well, corner of your house will need a bit more than a 'lick of paint' to make it better. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 7:18am
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Is that some diesel an exact measurement? |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 8:09am
| Gas it! Run a hose from an exhaust pipe into the borough, seal it up around the hose, then just wait a while. Killed a skunk that way using my G. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 8:48am
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I thought someone on here, a while back, said to drop some bubble gum down the hole. ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 11:30am
Organic fruit loops here were saying they liked Juicy Fruit  better. But we have squirrels that live in the ground like a groundhog but still just a squirrel.But if you really want the cute
little bugger gone I suggest stronger measures. Something like phostoxin tablets like you would put into stored grain to kill the bugs. Will not even have to fix the shed after the explosion some are wanting . Just make sure you don't breath too much of it . But Creston's trik will do the same thing. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 1:53pm
| I use gopher grenades. Get them at the hardaware store light it and drop in the hole cover with cardboard. It's just a smoke bomb that's deadly so don't breath it. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 1:58pm
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#6 shot in a 20ga at 20 yards won't do it. Thought it did but he's back. He'll get 12ga if I can catch him out again. I'll have to check out the gopher grenades to. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 2:20pm
| An 8 foot black snake might do the trick. |
Posted By: Ken(MI)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 4:04pm
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Keep a .22 handy and let the air out of it, quick, cheap, and easy. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 4:14pm
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An 8 foot black snake might do the trick. then....... how do you get rid of the snake !!  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 4:54pm
| Farmer near me poured 5 gallons of water and 1 gallon of gas in a woodchuck hole and the resulting explosion his wife felt at the house saying the dishes were rattling around in the cupboard! The farmer told me he would not do that again as it was a way for an old man to kill himself! I have had success with hydrated lime or used cat litter poured down a hole. The woodchuck moves on and digs a new hole somewhere else. I have use road flares or the smoke bombs with varying degrees of success. Best success is shotgun,rifle or conibear trap |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 7:05pm
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 7:17pm
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Last one I removed was with a 22. Hit him twice before he fell over. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 9:04pm
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Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 9:56pm
| I put used cat litter in one hole in the machine shed they never opened that hole again. If i want to live trap them I try to set the trap so they have to run in, sometimes I set some wood or cardboard or another trap to guide them in. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2018 at 10:15pm
| They were digging holes under our country church porch foundation. They were knawing holes up thru the floor. Minister pulled his 222 off the wall and out waited them. Us guys were sworn to secrecery, he didn't want the gals to know. |
Posted By: whatscooking
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 4:30am
| When I was farming with my dad we had a hog operation which means lots of hog $hit. All week long as I would haul the manure to apply to the fields I would keep tract of the groundhogs I would see. If I had time on Sunday, only time you could hope for some time off, i would go to the creek and load up 1000 gal of water and get the dogs and head to the groundhog holes, didn't need to take a gun. Put the pipe in the hole and real soon out they came. One time a skunk and her young came out, we all scattered. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 6:01am
| I always thought it an expensive measure to kill a woodchuck as some Farmers would use Anhydrous Ammonia shooting that down the hole! Also could be dangerous for the operator! And I have had them tell me of using liquid cow manure to fill a hole. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 2:37pm
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Had one dig two holes in the middle of the barn dirt floor. I took 3" chlorine tablets used in swimming pools and broke them up into a few pieces and threw them down into the holes then covered them back up with dirt. Will see on my next visit to farm if it kept them out of those holes. They will take your breath away and maybe theirs. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 9:01pm
| is that used cat litter or new cat litter? |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2018 at 9:41pm
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Or was it a litter of cats? |
Posted By: ford8nwd
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 7:06am
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An apple in a live trap always worked for me. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 7:46am
| Used Cat litter. As I told my Aunt ,I would move out of my hole if somebody dumped Cat Sh#t down it! Got another woodchuck last night with the conibear at my mother's house. That makes 4 so far.2 at the barn 2 at the house porch. They are this year's litter making their winter's home until they dug into me! I have been told Badgers eat woodchuck's . I would like a pet Badger! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 6:17pm
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Problem wif badgers is that they might move inta the hole... [TUBE]4r7wHMg5Yjg[/TUBE]
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Posted By: GreenwoodCreations
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2018 at 6:43pm
| I have always had good luck with ripe tomatoes in the live trap and a dispatch shot: would catch and release but wouldn't wish these varmits on anyone, I have seen them roll a concrete foundation for a building burrowing under it. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2018 at 8:51pm
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I had one burrow under the concrete in my shop. Having a large collection of old small engines, I picked 2 of the smokiest and gassed them out. 1/2" pipe is the most common size of exhaust and is the same as a gas appliance connector. I just put one end under the slab, packed the opening with mud, filled both engines full and let them run until out of gas. Whatever was under there is dead because the mud packed in the opening never was disturbed afterwards. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Joe in Manty
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2018 at 11:54pm
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Have had trouble in the past around the buildings and foundations. Every year I get through most of the summer and hope they have moved on. This year I got lucky until about three weeks ago and then spotted one. I have now set 2 conibears where there is activity at new locations and are hoping for results. They get a one way trip to the woods!
Joe ------------- Dad's '52 CA, '68 One Seventy My '61 D15 |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2018 at 6:56am
 
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