And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Good Thing He Didn't Blow Himself and His Dogs Up Too
We dispensed with the pocket gophers in our band's practice field using a tool attached to a oxy acetylene mixing valve. Replace the acetylene tank with a propane tank. The tool attaches in place of the torch tip, is a tube about five foot long and has a pizeo igniter at the far end. Stuff the far end in the gopher hole, shoot a 5 count of gas mix into the hole and then press the igniter. Hearing protection is recommended. Excitement can occur if the valve is held open too long.
Brazil I think. 3 or 4 years ago. The man had a problem with wasps in his back yard, so he used gasoline. I use gasoline (it works well, ammonia or bleach not so much), but I don't play with the matches.
I remember over 70 years ago watching some rock head try to burn out a yellowjacket nest by pouring gasoline down the hole. Even as a little kid I was aware of the local war vets trying to talk him out of it, and just shaking their heads when the explosion happened.
That is the fastest I have ever seen anybody rototiller the garden! Fantastic. I wonder if it will work on my vege garden?
ReplyDeleteDidn't blow the beagle up, but it sure looks like it has a severe PTSD problem.
ReplyDeleteMust have been a leaky gas or propane line. The resulting pool of flammable vapor can be burned off safely. But that is not how to do it.
ReplyDeleteI think he was after gophers.
DeleteWe dispensed with the pocket gophers in our band's practice field using a tool attached to a oxy acetylene mixing valve. Replace the acetylene tank with a propane tank. The tool attaches in place of the torch tip, is a tube about five foot long and has a pizeo igniter at the far end.
DeleteStuff the far end in the gopher hole, shoot a 5 count of gas mix into the hole and then press the igniter.
Hearing protection is recommended.
Excitement can occur if the valve is held open too long.
Brazil I think. 3 or 4 years ago. The man had a problem with wasps in his back yard, so he used gasoline. I use gasoline (it works well, ammonia or bleach not so much), but I don't play with the matches.
ReplyDeleteI remember over 70 years ago watching some rock head try to burn out a yellowjacket nest by pouring gasoline down the hole. Even as a little kid I was aware of the local war vets trying to talk him out of it, and just shaking their heads when the explosion happened.
ReplyDeleteCaddy Shack - did he get the gopher?
ReplyDeleteGonna have to rename that Beagle 'Lightning'
ReplyDeleteI love how the top beagle came around and gave him with the "WTF did you do THIS time" look
ReplyDeleteThe little bug in the bottom left doing a 180...
ReplyDeleteIndestructible cockroach coming back to look for scraps.
DeleteHoney, I remember hearing you say you were considering a pool.
ReplyDeleteThat guy is my hero. Getting shit done.
ReplyDeleteY'all probably didn't notice the bug walking behind the guy as he's lighting the match, but after the explosion, the runs the other way. 😅
ReplyDelete