I routinely use the exhaust from my lawn tractor. It not only kills the tunneler, it kills all the other underground citizens in the complex. I have had a lot of luck with this method. It also keeps poison and traps away from animals and children.
I rigged up pretty cheap, I just went to the auto parts store and got a heater hose that would slip over my exhaust pipe. It's also the way to kill gophers, gets the babies in the spring and fills all tunnells and compartments.
If you pull out the choke a little on the tractor so it smokes, you can often find the other entrance to gopher holes once the smoke starts coming out. This keeps you from gassing complexs that you have already gassed. Just mark em and move on.
Often, it is the next year or so before any more try to homestead on my place.
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Last edited by rockogre; 04-12-2005 at 10:55 AM..
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