I was going to say that!
You beat me to it.
An option is to pipe a mix of propane and oxygen into the tunnel, place a spark plug igniter into the tunnel and set it off at a distance.
Yeah,.......no. I had a next door neighbor do something similar to that to eradicate ants that were seemingly taking over his backyard near the far end of his concrete deck. He didn't use propane but he used gas. He lit it from a far (using the gas trail) and whoosh! Ants gone to never, never land. He played it safe and after the fire had gone out, he doused the entire area for about 4 hours.An option is to pipe a mix of propane and oxygen into the tunnel, place a spark plug igniter into the tunnel and set it off at a distance.
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I had a mole problem several years ago and I got rid of him with several of these around where he was burrowing
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Yeah,.......no. I had a next door neighbor do something similar to that to eradicate ants that were seemingly taking over his backyard near the far end of his concrete deck. He didn't use propane but he used gas. He lit it from a far (using the gas trail) and whoosh! Ants gone to never, never land. He played it safe and after the fire had gone out, he doused the entire area for about 4 hours.
About a week later, I get home and I'm blocked by all of the fire trucks outside. So I pull over and park up the street, wondering what in the heck is going on. Walk out back behind his house and he lost about 8 or 9 large bushes, half of the lawn in the backyard and three trees no longer had leaves on them. Everything was just black. House was okay (mine too) but wow. I asked the fire Marshall what caused this and he knew immediately what caused it. He said that it was a smoldering fire buried deep underground that the dousing of the fire after the "ant kill" my neighbor performed didn't put out. The fire somehow smoldered underground for a week and then found a source to come back up above ground and the rest was history. Both the neighbor and I were amazed at just how far ants can dig down and out.
I think I'll leave the propane and fire idea alone after experiencing that.
Tom
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