Rats of the fields! 😠
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- **They may just be "gophers" but to us they are rats and they can destroy crop and equipment. So I wanted to talk about the problem they can be.
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I love Mike's Q&A portions of the videos. Best part!
Mike telling me what a combine sounds like with dirt and rocks in it @4:40 was the best thing I've ever heard
Telling us how you really feel is one of your best qualities! Mike don’t ever change and thanks for just being you and sharing your opinions with us!
Whether we want to hear it or not! 😂😂😂
Maybe you can train them to retrieve the wrench you dropped in the ground cracks last year.
I could listen to you all day. I know gophers are an awful problem for farmers, but you have a way of describing things, complete with sound effects, that just crack me up. I know it's not a laughing matter, but I can't help myself hearing you describe things. You talk about obese hawks that can barely fly, and gophers with houses with fancy walkways. I think your way of looking at things keeps you sane. As I mentioned yesterday, you tell us the nitty gritty about farming, and that includes the huge problems caused by gophers. Wish I had found your channel sooner.
Mike a guy in Glasgow has a anhydrous ammonia tank in his pickup with a 50’ hose. The anhydrous ammonia is heavier than air, Don claimed that it would prevent them from living in that hole for a year to 2 years. Don would stand on the foot piece, give about 3 to 5 seconds of gas, shovel dirt over the top of the hole.
One thing that I did with an old 20 pound LP bottle. I filled it up, connected a spud to a 50 foot 1/4” air hose, 1/4” ball valve, 3 feet of 1/8” pipe.
Turn the bottle upside down on a pickup, open the valve, stick the pipe about 6” down the hole, open the ball valve, give 3 to 5 seconds of liquid propane down the hole. Shovel dirt over the hole. The reason for the old tank is the skunk juice in the propane. Skunks are a natural enemy of gophers, so other gophers will stay out of the hole.
Good luck.
Hello from north east Montana.
10 miles from the Canadian border.
Yeah! They and any rodents really hate Methyl Mercaptan smell (= "skunk gas" or the smell that are from Sulfate methode Paper mills). You can buy it from chemical "shops" and only use a drop in a hole.
Badgers too
My grandparents farm is in NE-Mont! 42 miles from Canada, 11 from ND. Born and raised a city kid my whole life, but love that area and the farms.
@@JC80thaBEST They most of farmed east of Medicine Lake.
I live in Opheim. Raised on a farm-ranch 20 miles south of Opheim, 30 miles north of Glasgow. I grew up on the northern edge of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 2&1/2 miles from the north side.
10 miles from St Marie or Vietnam era Glasgow Air Force base. It was a SAC base.
Hello from north east Montana.
10 miles from the Canadian border.
@@darrelfuhrman8217 I grew up in Lustre In the 1980's ... practically neighbors!
Greetings from Minnesota. The Gopher State.
Call Bill Murray, he’ll get rid of those pesky gophers.
I said golfer!!!!
😂👍
You mean golfers?
@@MrThisIsMeToo it’s not my fault noOne understands you...
Is that legal? 😂
I thought I was watching Caddy Shack for a minute there.
Dam gophers 🤣😂🤣
Mike... this feels personal 😂😆
I get it now...
Why Zack's son(Mr. Millennial) spends HOURS, if not DAYS, messing around and trying to trap these little bastards.!🤣!.
I thought it was a bit silly.!😡! and just an unnecessary way for him and his mates to pass the time.!🙄!.
BUT... NOW, I get it.!🤓!.
I now understand.!🤓!.
Get the little bastards.!😤!.
You should have a holiday around them, and a competition seeing who can catch the fattest.!🤣!.
Now, I'm not advocating cruelty.!🧐!.
It must be a QUICK/CLEAN kill.!🧐!.
But...
It should be a THING.
LOVE THE VIDEOS🥰.
KEEP 'em COMING🥰🥰.
RICH (UK) 🥰🥰🥰.
Our hawks cant even fly around here cuz they are so dang obese. Lol i f’in lost it.
I used to complain about pocket gophers in our hay fields. But they were no where near as bad as what you have to deal with. Recently they seemed to be more prevalent and I noticed badgers had made a meal of them. So there are cycles like you said. Take care.
There's a bounty on them around here. Plus usually the farmer with match the bounty also.
You folks earn and deserve every dollar you make. Weeds, climate, animals, etc.
It is very nice from you that you have gave them a name and that you know how they are and what they prefer!
We use something called a rodex or a rodenator. They use compressed oxygen and Propane. We go out with 2 wands on 50 ft hoses. Watch which holes are active with the pups coming out of the hole. We give the holes a 30-45 second injection of propane and oxygen and hit the ignitor. The key is to get the active hole with the little ones. You might get 8-10 at once
The concussion kills the Gopher or ground squirrel and collapses the hole. It's very effective especially if both wands are on different ends of the same hole. We blast them early in the spring in our hay fields then harrow the mounds down. Then if you get a new one you blast it.
Thanks for the video Mike appreciate you and your family and teammates. “Our hawks are obese”😂💯👍
Here on Brazil one of the Animals that most cause damage on fields and places are wild boars, and their population keeps blowing up,
Awesome Video and Much Love from Kentucky 🇺🇸
Putt on some Celine Dion music. That will scare them off.
Mike i love your videos! Been watching over a year almost every one of them. There is not such a thing as too long video when it's from you 😁 Happy farming!
Mike I can tell from the tone of your voice your just kidding us you really like them gophers, I bet if you found a sick one you would take it home and look after it until it was better and then return it to the wild, your a really great guy. 👍
We deal with woodchucks and they eat our wheat and they love soybeans. What we use to get rid of them with conibear traps and 22 shot. We have also used gasoline down the hole and then light it the combustion kills them .
Hey Mike, I just love it when you rant. Here in the Midwest we have groundhogs. Not as bad, but still aggravating.
You are very hard-worker
Would be cool if you found the time Mike to do either a truck tour or a multi part equipment tour
We have reached the point of Mike's midseason freak out :)
We were developing a gopher issue in the South East until the flood of 2014 looked after them.
Well done Mike! Good video. Dang things are brutal in Alfalfa as well.
Mike your a legend man, you nail it every video 🤙
I live in Northwest Ohio and we have a few fields that we have a problem with groundhogs. Those things love the hell out of little soybean plants like you wouldn't believe. I like to sit out by the field at my house with my 22 and see how many I can pop.
Mike saying BRUH is my highlight of the day lol
Bruh
👍enjoy your videos
I love how you explain things brother. Your awesome Mike. I'm a farmer in Taber. I wish you all the best off luck this year. It's going to be freaking hot. We are blessed with irrigation. I'm praying for rain for you guys brother.
i know it's a tradeoff but maybe hedgerows with trees, bushes and water? habitat for all your friendly badgers, hawks, etc?
😂😂 love your combine empression
one of the reasons I carry a ,22 in the cab. Its fun, challenging, and helps pass the time. I'm getting better at it with auto steer.
Getting rid of gophers is like a fart in a airtight container there is no way of getting rid of it you live with it lol.
Nice analogy. I find if funny: can't shoot them enough. If gun doesn't work, use bigger gun. But as a city ish person, I find alot of intrest in these things. I like to learn
Hola Mike!!!! Saludo desde argentina.....llévame a trabajar con Tigo...me encanta esa tarea de campo
On our farm we used to take the water truck flood there holes and waited they came out. Not a happy gopher.
Last Saturday I got a 6 pack and 20 gallons of gas, pour a little down each hole, wait 2 minutes and light 1 hole and Boooooom!!! Try it fire blowing out holes 40 foot away.
I hear ya Mike. In northern Montana we have the same problem. The spring flood of 2018 reduced our gopher pop. by 99%. Probably from a disease of some sort. Prior to that we spent days putting out gopher bait. We tried to complete our baiting by the end of March, before mating or the birth of litters. That technique was quite succesful.
Come on Mike!! Were not the Goffurs (and the Buffalo) there way before the Fendt1050 or the farmers. Just give them a bit of conservation space!! & build lots of Hawk & Owl boxes.
1:05 the best .22 you can get ur hands on scope, target practice, ha!
Dear Canada
We’ll see you gophers and raise you nice
Cheers Australia
cool. we have ground hogs big then gopher but i use bubblicious bubble gum to control them. try it see.
We always would take a flex pipe put it on a diesel tractor then put it down a gopher whole let the tractor run for 40-45 min you would see the gas coming out all the holes some would come out but most would just die in the holes
What I'm hearing from Mike is he wants a suppressed .22 so he can open the tractor door and pop those suckers while rolling along. Might not do too much for population control but at least it would help pass the time while seeding!
Until he's shooting while moving and puts a round through the door.
Are guns legal in Canada these days?
@@delbutler885 Mike with a gun, lol
@@vanilakung7563 no they are not
@@vanilakung7563 yeah they're legal in Cunuckistan, but they come with an absurd level of restrictions on where and how.
Spent many a afternoon with the 10-22 in my relatives fields around waldec pickin em off.
Be glad you don't have problems with wild hogs. A few pigs can easily dig up an acre during the night. For those of us who grow grass for dairy cows, it's pure hell. Soil that contaminates feed is not something a dairy farmer wants and small stones can destroy machines
Braahh ....... Braahh .... 😂, the person who drove by at 11:15 thought, hey Mike .... that's a long ... " Hello sir " 😃
If I lived closer I would pay to hunt those fields.
youll go broke from ammo cost
Used to haul water from the creek in 5 gallon buckets to dump down the gopher hole. The dog would take care of them when they came up. We got $0.10 each.
You are so nice to feed those little critters.
Well here in Indiana we hook a hose up to the exhaust of a vehicle and put it down the hole and seal it up with the vehicle running to get rid of the moles. Maybe that would work for you
Over here in nz we have resetting traps that can cycle up to 100 times to help deal with our pest management not sure how well it would work for gophers but it is a very scalable solution
Mike, you are very emotional regarding gophers, could you describe the noise the combine makes again when it sucks up rocks? :-)
😂😂I’m sorry I really shouldn’t be laughing but he makes it so funny
We had badgers and beavers as our nemesis and my grandpa and dad had a $50 bounty for a badger. We dropped a tractor tire in a badger hole and broke an axel during harvest one year. From that point on there was a riffle in every tractor cab. Got pretty good at leaning over the front tire of the tractor and picking off the badger at 60 to 100 yards every spring. Didn't even have to pick up the carcass just stuck a flag by it and my grandpa would come by from the road with spotting glasses and verify the kill.
Hahaha chigga chigga! Ever tried strict 9? That stuff is like candy to a goepher.
Great rant
You can plow their burrows, you can pick them off with a .22, you can even blow these varmints up with a fuel/air charge. Still never stops them completely. Best eradication method my dad ever had for Prairie dogs I don't think you can buy anymore (They're our menace down in the Texas cattle pastures). They were tablets that dissolved into a poisonous heavier-than-air gas in the burrow.
" Our Hawks are so fat they can't hardly fly " best line.
Carry a223 with you in your tractor great fun
That was a good ole fashion mike rant
I reckon a thermal scope on 204r would be a bit of fun... Is Wombats that do this kinda thing in Australia
Hey Mike pick up truck propane long lead and a spark plug happy days for the farmers 😂😂😂
Black-footed ferrets are the best hunters for gophers and prairie dogs
I agree totally with Mike goghers are terrible cause a lot of damage
Years ago when the practice was to drain smaller sloughs into larger sloughs in the spring in hopes of drying areas of the fields prior to seeding we would also pump some of the water down gopher holes forcing the gophers to the surface and then use a 22 rifle to kill as many as possible as these rodents scurry across the field.
Added some fun to the boring task of moving standing water from one low spot to another low spot.
Haha we have done that on my dads farm in southern Alberta as well
A nice propane and oxygen mix combined with a spark helps and entertains at the same time!
You need to introduce snakes into your area! Gofer problem sorted!
I was hired for culling those guys in the fields in North Dakota. My friend and I were in our High School Rifle Club. His Dad was Coast Guard. He got us together and we took a trip. We used fully automatic M1 Rifles and we got hundreds of them and didn’t even make a dent! It’s a huge problem for all Farmers it’s too bad in Canada you guys don’t have access to firearms!😔🖖🏼🇺🇸
Sure we got guns yet but we cant use fully auto guns legally
@@nathanvandebruinhorst9960 we can’t get fully automatic here without a special Certificate from the ATF. It’s possible to get it though with a clear background and a fee.😏 A Ruger 10/22 and a nice scope would work well even out to 100 yards (meters ) and be inexpensive for ammunition. a .243 would be a wonderful Rifle for it too. 🖖🏼🇺🇸
@@erickamekonapeper4007 Ya that is what i getting at but i didnt explain very well. lol yup a 243 works really good ive found out only ammo is a bit pricey for them on a good year
So first you say guns don't work and then that they need guns ?
In Holland we use Mole bombs its Some kind of realy explosive firework
Ask your Fendt dealer if they can send a pack of German wire-haired Dachshunds with the next order and then have them roam free on the field while you're seeding or what ever. These dogs are ment to go into holes and will attack anything down there even badgers. "Dachs" actually means badger in German and they were bred to kill them even if they're only half the size or even smaller than a fully grown badger. They're vicious little beasts if in attack mode and won't budge until they got their pray.
In southern Alberta I love the sound of a hollow point 10 22 an a gopher fighting
Hi bro i watch your all videos 👍👍
What really helps with their numbers is to sprinkle the small fruit flavored gumballs around their holes not the cinnamon or mint just the fruity flavors and it doesn't take many and they eat the gum and it gets rid of them. Safer than poison cause another animal won't die if they eat the poisoned gopher. Did this to a 10 acre section that had like a hundred gophers after a week there were just a few
we have the same problem in our hay fields with them eating grass and that really make the head shake
they love corn and soybeans here in ontario lol
wow. so many rocks in the field
We also have lots of gopher in western manitoba. Very bad for hay fields.
Real Canadian gopher's fur pyjamas and long johns would be a great addition to your store :)
Love from India ♥️♥️
We have feral hogs I know your pain but we also have better options as far as remedies. Still can't control them. I will tell you a good trick though. Works on armadillo down here may help you there. Get a propane tank and a grill regulator hose cut the jet end of the hose stick the hose down the hole and let it rip. Also you can throw a smoke bomb in and cover the hole.
Hi Mike, I'm from northern MI. Curious if hunters could get permission from you to hunt your ground rats?? Until your crops rise and hide them would be really good hunting!!
The people making the loudest noises about not 'dealing' with pests are the ones living the furthest from where those pests are... Most of them probably have no idea of how their food is produced... Likely think it's made in the supermarkets where they buy it...
Pity running a set of rippers through the whole paddock would be prohibitively expensive in time AND money...
I heard explosives might help your situation out. I saw it in a movie once so it must be true
Tell the whole story please. You forgot the clay dummy gopher as well. Explosives without clay dummy do not work.
I worked on a 250 acre farm in southern Pennsylvania for one season. I removed 77 gophers from the farm and didn’t make much of a dent in the gopher population. The most effective way to remove them was to park the liquid manure tank over the hole and open the gate, the gophers would swim out and I’d dispatch them via rifle or just run them over with the tires. They’d reproduce at an amazing rate.
Very interesting 🧐
A falconer with a couple of harris hawks and a mink man could help.
I can see gun mounts being fitted on the tractor !
Mike had one heck of a gopher rant with himself today. Hope he’s ok now. A propane wand with an igniter on the end is what we use around here, boom.
Here in North Dakota we call them prairie dogs, they RUIN thousands of acres of grass pasture land and make a huge mess, also they make huge holes that cattle can break legs in, a total varmint that was brought to North America back in the 1700 - 1800's A total non native pest!!!!
@Wayne Creek Land and Cattle Co. My mistake you are right they are native to North America, I stand corrected
Just gotta have someone on the tractor or combine shooting gophers or geese while you're in the field. Light em up like we do
this fall if you are going to use the pickup header, it would be appreciated if you explain why you might use one over a drapper
Pickup headers are for if you swather your crop down.. One would swath for a few reasons, but more prominently it's done up north where the temperatures are cooler and the growing season is shorter. Swathing can bring your crop in much faster, therefore getting it harvested it earlier. But I will talk about it when we gets to harvest season.
Hey Mike I've got a question, I think you've been on that tractor 🚜 way too long, chill man , its just a Gotha 🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐭🐭🐹🐰
We use to use gas boobs for ground hogs. Worked not bad. Then the coyotes wiped them out
If I lived closer Id love to help you with your gopher problems. Spent many summer days trying to control gopher populations.
Put gopher bait in your mid row banders when you do canola.