Wildlife, living next to nature

[footfootfoot]

I shot the latest intruder, Monax marmota, the other day. Brazen bastard made a nest/hole right in the middle of my garden. I was too lazy/depressed to deal with it right away, certainly didn't bother skinning it. A couple of days of resting in the sun and heat and it was time to stuff it back into its hole. Pretty stinky. I dragooned the kids to help fill it in since I am off shovel duty for a few more months while my shoulder recuperates. Even shooting with the rifle on a rest was a bit much. Anyway, after a bit of inspired whining and claims of enslavement and imminent death by heat stroke they got the hole filled in and raked. I collapsed as much as I could with my feeeeeeeeeeet and then I wondered if maybe I could collapse the entire gallery...


Suppose I was to snake a hose into the tunnel and then filled the tunnel with a lot of propane and maybe a bit of O2 as well, and then detonated it from a presumably safe location (HA woodchuck roulette!) by means of a wire fed into the hloe along with the hose. Maybe that would make enough of a bang to collapse the whole gallery. Proapne is lighter than air and thus sinks.

Is this maybe the most brilliant idea you've heard from me? Maybe I can time it with the 4th of July festivities.

Could I make a convincing case for "I had no idea that would happen." if things go south?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Proapne is lighter than air and thus sinks.

[nowhereman]

As long as the gallery doesn't extend under your house

[Griff]

We had a chicken massacre here in which we lost all layers to the foxes. Benny was doing his best when out and about but when he's inside he can't enforce the rule of law. The plan was to lock up the chickens as soon as we saw predation but teh fox was too efficient. I made a long covered run for the turkeys because I know they're dumb but the chickens lack of wit around predators surprised me.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Griff

... but the chickens lack of wit around predators surprised me.

Chickens have been resting on their wit laurels since the days of vaudeville. We haven't heard anything funny from them since the crossing the road joke. Not that that excuses the fox's behavior.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

The other lighter than air. I meant that other thing than air.

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The other lighter than air. I meant that other thing than air.

Um. What the hell are you talking about? Do the stoichiometry by all means, but do please give us the detailed equations ... or, hell, just blow stuff up. If you want anything of value left afterward, consult a female. We'll do the calcs for you.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

If you want anything of value left afterward, consult a female. We'll do the calcs for you.

If you want anything at all left (and I ain't talking about blowing shit up), leave the calculating females out of it entirely.

[glatt]

Depends on if they search your internet history. It would make a good story though.

[BigV]

Chlorine. Sinks because it's heavier than air.

www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/chlorine/basics/facts.asp

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by BigV

Chlorine. Sinks because it's heavier than air.

www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/chlorine/basics/facts.asp

No recipe for how much turpentine to add to make it explosive. I suppose I'll have to do the stoichiometry myself, then?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

No recipe for how much turpentine to add to make it explosive. I suppose I'll have to do the stoichiometry myself, then?

If you insist on going BOOM, stick with the propane, *something* will eventually work. But the chlorine does have the advantage of NOT blowing up your house, and working continuously down, down, downward. You can get an almighty-motherfuckload of chlorine fumes from a tablet of chlorine used to disinfect swimming pools. I nearly killed myself fucking around with that shit. I was intent on bleaching a colored shirt to whiteness. I broke up a good chunk of one of those hockey-puck-sized tablets in the bathtub with water, knocking it around and briskly rubbing the shirt in the little bit of water. And then, all of a sudden like, I couldn't breathe. I mean, maybe the muscles were working, but just pumping the poison around with vigor proportional to my rapidly escalating panic. I staggered outside and lay in the junipers, gasping. It took a few hyperventilated trips back into the house to open ALL windows and doors and turn on every fan I own. It seemed like a very long time before the air was breathable again, much longer than it took to just drain the tub.

There's no doubt that such an event in the burrow would render it unlivable, driving them out to be shot if they didn't die underground.

[orthodoc]

Sarge ... no, please withdraw this video. This is a snuff film of a blue canary, and why you posted it is beyond me. Please take it down.
Yes, anhydrous ammonia will kill us - humans, animals, all of us.

You have control of this video and I don't ... just asking you to consider the consequences to others and not post it in this way.

[Big Sarge]

you are correct. I am rather macabre due to some events. As many have guessed I can have an extremely dark side. I apologize and thank you

[footfootfoot]

V, the chlorine, even better when mixed with ammonia!, is fine and dandy but the guy is dead already. I want to collapse the gallery so it is uninhabitable. More of a pipe dream really since a major part of the gallery is under my shed and my and my contiguous neighbor's lawns and gardens. The last infestation was a few years ago and my neighbor at the time gassed them in their dens. I think the corpses kept the galleries vacant for a few years. Anyway, shooting them is all good fun and practice for the Woodchuck Zombie Apocalypse.

Ortho, thanks for the offer to help with my quackulations.