Posted on 09/08/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT by Dan Evans
I thinking 80 lb. shaped charges.
That situation no longer attains hence the need for other means to control them.
But, I'm sure you're much smarter than all those DNR folks, ranchers, wildlife management specialists, CDC people, etc etc etc...
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Do you need a permit or can anyone just go out there and start blowing them up?
There are better gasses to use. Also it would only be effective in the deepest parts. The pressure of the blast ensures a more complete kill and help identify where the treatment was effective so you can minimize the number of applications needed to clear a field.
So, you can see the commercail possiblity: How much could you charge users a fee to go blow up pastureland with high explosives?
Yes, I probably am.
Application time would vary depending on the gas concentration. It's hard to control, and hard to know if you had an effective kill, and where the gas had an effect. You could concievably pump a lot of gas into the burrow and make them real sleepy for a while, but the effect would wear off like a person surviving a faulty gas heater in their house.
The propane blast is quick, and probably uses a LOT less gas than a gas-kill (CO or CO2)method would need.
Once outside a harware store some gal had a petion to sign for "Ban Trapping of Animals".
I told her I thought that was a great idea, and smart of her to do it ouside a hardware store. She looked at me kind of funny and I said - "you know - to ban the rat traps, mouse traps and mole traps they have in their garden section". She quickly said "Oh - no, not THOSE kinds of traps". I said why not - those animals are soft and furry and have cute little noses - in fact my son has a rat as a pet (my son was with me at the time). She said it was for traps like for mink and animals "like that". I told her I wouldn't sign it unless it banned ALL traps and walked away. (Oh - I forgot about the hornet and wasp traps!?)
I'd go in a second! If the farmers market this right, not only will they have to buy the explosives or hire the manpower, they could actually wind up making money on the deal.
Around here (Chicago suburbs), chipmunks tunnel next to your home and create mega-problems with sunken sidewalks, etc. I trap 'em and release 'em into the forest preserve (on the other side of the tollway :-).
I can't wait to see how the "Pearls Before Swine" cartoons take this on.
Shalom.
You get 'enjoyment' from blowing away animals?
I heard a story, probably urban legend, about a Darwin Awards near-miss. Some guy was drinking beer on his back porch and taking pot shots at prarie dogs. One ducked down a drain of some sort so he decided to smoke it out. He poured gasoline down the hole, struck a match, and reached the match inside. Unfortunately, the match couldn't catch the fumes so he stuck his head in to reach further.
Blew himself over the top of the house into the front yard. He didn't get the award because he survived.
Shalom.
"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the prairie dog...."
I would think torturing them would be, but not a quick bullet.
Now going after large animals that might pound the snot out of you if you miss - that might qualify.
Shalom.
Do you rag on preple for killing mosquitos, too?
Lots
preple=people
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