My war on underground terrorist.

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oldgrowth

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I have been fighting several groups of underground terrorist for years and finally bought some heavy artillery to help put a hurt on them. I have been involved in this war since early this summer and have put a serious dent into the varmints. It is not over but I am beating them back. Several times a week, I patrol the perimeter of the restricted area of my property for any infiltration the enemy. They keep probing the edges of the property but I am almost always able to stop them before they get very far into the restricted zone. I am not sure of the death count because most of the time they attack from underground locations and their dead are covered from the explosions.

I have a video of some of the action here:film . It may take a while to load, especially if you have a slow connection. It is about 7 megs. and a wmv format, so I am not sure you can view it with Quicktime.
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Cool, :thup :thup will you come up and conduct a search and destroy mission on the underground terrorist cell in my lawn? :xnaughty

Warren
 
oldgrowth,

Very amusing even if it weren't effective.

It looks like the guy is injecting oxygen along with some kind of fuel (gasoline?) into the ground in many places and then igniting it all? Explodent tilling is the result.

We know that neccessity is the mother of invention and that the ingenuity of American farmers has led to many great things, but this is pretty incredible.

Them terrorists must be dealt with any way we can do it.

Thanks for the laugh.

Dan
 
Dave,

Cool new technology. Back in my horse farming days I would run a hose from the upper irrigation canal into the varments upper entry and let it run. Sometimes it would take an hour for the all the holes to fill. It would stop that clan for a while :twisted: At least until some new explorer would blunder into the old tracks. It was a never ending battle, waged weekly, and though I never really won, the process kept me from doing many others.

Good luck, and cool video. May the body count rise and the turf be yours

Harvey
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dave, wildman, dude,
take a deep breath, regroup and consider my humble recommendation. you're using sticks and stones when in fact you should be employing one, or all of my favorite toys. raytheon makes a great little fim-92 stinger anti-aircraft missile, or you could try one of the m1 abrams, m26 pershing or perhaps the successfully tested m46 patton tanks. i'd also consider the m224 60mm mortars, the 105mm gun t8 howitzer or maybe my favorite, the m777 ultra lightweight field howitzer. now if the little guys still persist, try some of the armalite ar-18's or browning m 1918 automatic rifles and perhaps i'd throw in some m224, 60mm mortars. last but not least would be just a dab of good old c4. hope this helps, i feel your pain.
best regards
pat
 
dave you are having way to much fun, can I come play?
We have been fighting the same little guys here all summer. we have tried water and poison and gas bombs. where did you get plans for your weapon? these guys are tearing up my yard.
 
Dave- I got two of these mole chasers from Harbor Freight about $7 a piece.
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They don't really work that well, but I always know which way the wind is blowin'!

PS they also have a solar powered mole chaser for about $8.
 
Where did you get that nifty piece of equipment? It certainly wouldn't work on my lawn, where I should be instead of writing this.

Another problem is that you don't have a body count to give the generals so they can show pacification.

Boris
 
That is funny--but what lawn? Keep it up--it may beat plowing the field.

I wonder with all of the high tech gear, if you could snake a fiberoptic video camera with some missle attatched down the hole and hit them individually? Realistically, I suspect after the first explosion they have taken refuge in the underground bunker and are laughing at you!
 
Warren – you are right, it is I.

I am injecting oxygen and propane into their holes (a mixture of 3% propane and 97% oxygen). Moles are very susceptible to concussion and when the mixture goes off it makes quite an explosion. Even if they are not killed by the initial blast, it should get some of the others from the concussion. Propane is heavy so it will flow into the hole and into the lower chambers.

The field I am doing was disked early this summer, so there was no sod on it and it throws more dirt from the explosion than a lawn or field with grass on it. I no longer have moles in the field but they keep moving in from the timber, especially in two areas. The field has been planted now so every time I see any sign that they are moving into the field, I blast them.

The mole gun I am using was developed by a farmer in Idaho about 15 years ago. He started a business to market the device but went bankrupt. Now there are three companies I know of that make similar devices. They cost from $1,500.00 to $3,500.00 and that is without the tanks.

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When we lived up in Bellevue Wa we had those varmits we tried the water boarding didnt work then a friend sugested EX-Lax Great stuff they left and never came back What a Great product Try it it works
 
Dave, that is a very lean mixture. To get full usage of maximum explosive power would require about 17% propane and 83% oxygen. The latter combination would provide about 5 times the energy and would be very dangerous, I expect (flying rocks, etc.).

I suspect the cost might be in the regulator which makes sure you don't get too much propane in there! Running it the way you show could get you a burnt butt if the mixture were 17% propane!

Thanks for posting the video. Everyone I have linked it to enjoys it a lot. Great fun.
 
Can't you just see those little shell shocked, fat pawed buggers, down in the depths of Dave's field, huddled together over a map of future tunnels to be dug. The map is drawn in the dirt, and shows a large tunnel leading out of the field and into the yard, and then ending under the center of Dave's living room. Scribbled in the dirt, C 3 H 8+O 2 with an arrow pointing to the living room with a bullseye right below Dave's Barcalounger.

Oh, I guess I have read too many Farside Cartoons.
 
Dave – I never stopped to figure out the percentages until I read your post. What little directions that I got with the gun are vague. The 3% and 97% I got from another manufactures web site.

After your post I figured out the ratio I am using and it is 12 to 1 or 8% propane. It seems to give me the biggest explosion. As I increase the propane mixture the explosive power starts to go down. If I decrease the propane mixture, I sometimes will not get an ignition.

I set my oxygen regulator to 38 psi and the propane regulator to 17 psi. I then open the oxygen valve on the gun 1 & ½ turns and the propane valve ¼ turn. I have tried small variations from those settings but this seems to give me the most bang for the buck.

I will inject the mixture into the hole for 20 to 45 seconds based on my observations of the area and structure of the opening. I have guessed wrong and had the explosion come back at me and become engulfed in a ball of fire. It only last for a second and with earplugs in, the only downside is getting showered with dirt. I do not have rocks in my soil so that helps but I have had a few small grass fires when a tunnel came out on the fence line where there was dry grass.

Robbi – you almost had me feeling sorry for those little shell shocked, fat pawed buggers but this is war and if I let my emotions get involved, I could very easily lose the war. I am going for the shock and awe and hope I can keep them on the defensive and not let them regroup and mount a counter attack.

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