[TheForge] Way OT --- Gopher Vacuum

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

My neighbor down the road had a gadget for gophers that we can relate 
to. It had a 20# propane tank and a 122 cu ft oxy tank too..regulators 
and valves fed an explosive gas mixture into the holes and a spark plug 
on the end of the pipe set it off...it was great fun...but the gophers 
didn't seem all that bothered...except they were probably deaf as old 
blacksmiths....Pete F

xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> This is way off topic, but saw a news short that reminded me of a thread 
> here a couple of years ago on getting rid of gophers.   The news short 
> was an old one, but showed a guy who built a huge truck mounted vacuum 
> that he used to  suck prairie dogs out of their holes for farmers.    
> Says he sells the animals rather than killing them.   They are unharmed 
> by their trip through the machine.    Pretty funny watching them shoot 
> out of the tube into a holding chamber.  Suprisingly they were pretty 
> docile when plucked out of the chamber and held with bare hands (not 
> something I would do)
> 
> Charles
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