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On 17/03/2015 8:46 AM, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 15/03/2015 07:26, Fran Farmer wrote: so does fumigating their burrows by shoving a hose onto the end of an exhaust pipe of a leaded petrol car and shoving the end down the burrow and then closing over all holes with dirt and leaving the car running for a while. These days that means you have to find an old car where lead is added to modern fuel It's not the lead, it's the carbon monoxide that does for them. Anything without a catalytic converter will do - which includes old diesels as well as petrol. A lawnmowers would probably do - although you'd have to run a lawnmower an awfully long time to get much exhaust. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it was the lead in the fuel - I was trying to say that older petrol engined cars are the ones to use. Diesel engined vehicles are, for some reason,deemed to be 'useless'. I don't know whether that is just an old farmer's tale but it's always older petrol cars that have the lead to added to the fuel that are used regardless of any diesel powered vehicles that might be on hand. I've used the old petrol car exhaust trick on rat burrows round my chook pens using my 1952 Morris Minor. That worked for quite a while. I'm girding my loins to do a rabbit burrow on the edge of our 'lawn' where the blasted bunnies have dug a warren between 2 rocks. There are a few fox poos round the entrance and at least 8 rabbits have been shot at dusk on the 'lawn'. But it needs even more action taken. I'm thinking an old Riley might be the way to go this time round. |
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Fran Farmer wrote: On 17/03/2015 8:46 AM, Vir Campestris wrote: On 15/03/2015 07:26, Fran Farmer wrote: so does fumigating their burrows by shoving a hose onto the end of an exhaust pipe of a leaded petrol car and shoving the end down the burrow and then closing over all holes with dirt and leaving the car running for a while. These days that means you have to find an old car where lead is added to modern fuel It's not the lead, it's the carbon monoxide that does for them. Anything without a catalytic converter will do - which includes old diesels as well as petrol. A lawnmowers would probably do - although you'd have to run a lawnmower an awfully long time to get much exhaust. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it was the lead in the fuel - I was trying to say that older petrol engined cars are the ones to use. Diesel engined vehicles are, for some reason,deemed to be 'useless'. I don't know whether that is just an old farmer's tale but it's always older petrol cars that have the lead to added to the fuel that are used regardless of any diesel powered vehicles that might be on hand. I've used the old petrol car exhaust trick on rat burrows round my chook pens using my 1952 Morris Minor. That worked for quite a while. I'm girding my loins to do a rabbit burrow on the edge of our 'lawn' where the blasted bunnies have dug a warren between 2 rocks. There are a few fox poos round the entrance and at least 8 rabbits have been shot at dusk on the 'lawn'. But it needs even more action taken. I'm thinking an old Riley might be the way to go this time round. Your garage sounds at least as interesting as your garden :-) J. |
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On 17/03/2015 09:25, Another John wrote:
In article , Fran Farmer wrote: On 17/03/2015 8:46 AM, Vir Campestris wrote: On 15/03/2015 07:26, Fran Farmer wrote: so does fumigating their burrows by shoving a hose onto the end of an exhaust pipe of a leaded petrol car and shoving the end down the burrow and then closing over all holes with dirt and leaving the car running for a while. These days that means you have to find an old car where lead is added to modern fuel It's not the lead, it's the carbon monoxide that does for them. Anything without a catalytic converter will do - which includes old diesels as well as petrol. A lawnmowers would probably do - although you'd have to run a lawnmower an awfully long time to get much exhaust. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it was the lead in the fuel - I was trying to say that older petrol engined cars are the ones to use. Diesel engined vehicles are, for some reason,deemed to be 'useless'. I don't know whether that is just an old farmer's tale but it's always older petrol cars that have the lead to added to the fuel that are used regardless of any diesel powered vehicles that might be on hand. I've used the old petrol car exhaust trick on rat burrows round my chook pens using my 1952 Morris Minor. That worked for quite a while. I'm girding my loins to do a rabbit burrow on the edge of our 'lawn' where the blasted bunnies have dug a warren between 2 rocks. There are a few fox poos round the entrance and at least 8 rabbits have been shot at dusk on the 'lawn'. But it needs even more action taken. I'm thinking an old Riley might be the way to go this time round. Your garage sounds at least as interesting as your garden :-) J. You need a man with a ferret. |
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On 17/03/2015 8:25 PM, Another John wrote:
In article , Fran Farmer wrote: On 17/03/2015 8:46 AM, Vir Campestris wrote: On 15/03/2015 07:26, Fran Farmer wrote: so does fumigating their burrows by shoving a hose onto the end of an exhaust pipe of a leaded petrol car and shoving the end down the burrow and then closing over all holes with dirt and leaving the car running for a while. These days that means you have to find an old car where lead is added to modern fuel It's not the lead, it's the carbon monoxide that does for them. Anything without a catalytic converter will do - which includes old diesels as well as petrol. A lawnmowers would probably do - although you'd have to run a lawnmower an awfully long time to get much exhaust. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it was the lead in the fuel - I was trying to say that older petrol engined cars are the ones to use. Diesel engined vehicles are, for some reason,deemed to be 'useless'. I don't know whether that is just an old farmer's tale but it's always older petrol cars that have the lead to added to the fuel that are used regardless of any diesel powered vehicles that might be on hand. I've used the old petrol car exhaust trick on rat burrows round my chook pens using my 1952 Morris Minor. That worked for quite a while. I'm girding my loins to do a rabbit burrow on the edge of our 'lawn' where the blasted bunnies have dug a warren between 2 rocks. There are a few fox poos round the entrance and at least 8 rabbits have been shot at dusk on the 'lawn'. But it needs even more action taken. I'm thinking an old Riley might be the way to go this time round. Your garage sounds at least as interesting as your garden :-) LOL. His garage is very interesting. My only involvement is to lift or hold or jump in when told to do so or to say "Really dear? How dreadful/nice". |
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"Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 17/03/2015 8:46 AM, Vir Campestris wrote: On 15/03/2015 07:26, Fran Farmer wrote: so does fumigating their burrows by shoving a hose onto the end of an exhaust pipe of a leaded petrol car and shoving the end down the burrow and then closing over all holes with dirt and leaving the car running for a while. These days that means you have to find an old car where lead is added to modern fuel I do rats like that. We use a hedgecutter engine to smoke them out into the jaws of the terriers. It's so much kinder than poisoning. Either the rats are dead immediately or they get away. I stopped poisoning ages ago after i kept find rats dying slowly and had to kill them myself. So I have the dogs in. they re very good. My cat has to stay inside otherwise he'd be an ex-cat. So they the terriers sweep through. No rat will live. Although once a very big rat here took off half a terrier's nose but she didn't mind. She killed it anyway. It was under tree roots and she dug it out, and it gripped on to her face. Boyfie says no about big rats. He does the little ones. Big ones with chisel teeth, absolutely not. |
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