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) 🥰🥰🥰.
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.
@@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.
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 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!
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.
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. 👍
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.
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 .
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Co2 is heavier than air. How many holes think you can fill with one cylinder? Will they hear the noise..stay in the hole and have a really long dirt nap?
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
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.
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
that gopher @00:51 looking at you like "come at me, i dare ya" lol..be cool if you put some baby land mines and all you hear in the background is little pop noises.."ahh yes there goes one of them"
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!!
We have pocket gophers over here in North Dakota I had one that was trying to attack my front tire once. I don't know if they're legally blind or just partially but they spend so much time underground when they come out they don't really know what's in front of them.
Mike you're a smart man . Can't you invent a way to get rid of the gophers ? Would it help if you left the field fallow for a year ? Maybe find something they hate to at least get them out of your field ... Just a suggestion
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.
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!
enjoy your videos I farm in central Minnesota if you have a anhydrous bar and tank g0 over the bad spots with that it will kill them 100 percent Allen Minnesota
Common to have this many holes in one spot... dude, it’s one colony and they are all connected... lol. I’ve flooded them before, then pop them with the .22 as they run out a different hole. Watching the water and plug the holes, camp out on the last one... thwawp...many hours of fun growing up in Montana...
I can’t see good old mike doing this but I can picture a farmer put seeding, seed a gopher, pulls out the shotgun opens the door while moving and gets rid of the thing “damn gophers”
What about a deep ripper? Something 10 rows wide 24" deep? If you pick up rocks one st a time seems like before seeding you could deep rip over their colonies
No natural predictors living there, would it help if there was some woodland here and there. We have problems with rabbits, hawks in the area seem to be helping a bit
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
Maybe you can train them to retrieve the wrench you dropped in the ground cracks last year.
Our hawks cant even fly around here cuz they are so dang obese. Lol i f’in lost it.
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! 😂😂😂
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) 🥰🥰🥰.
I thought I was watching Caddy Shack for a minute there.
Dam gophers 🤣😂🤣
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!
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.
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? 😂
It is very nice from you that you have gave them a name and that you know how they are and what they prefer!
Thanks for the video Mike appreciate you and your family and teammates. “Our hawks are obese”😂💯👍
Awesome Video and Much Love from Kentucky 🇺🇸
Mike... this feels personal 😂😆
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!
There's a bounty on them around here. Plus usually the farmer with match the bounty also.
Well done Mike! Good video. Dang things are brutal in Alfalfa as well.
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.
Hey Mike, I just love it when you rant. Here in the Midwest we have groundhogs. Not as bad, but still aggravating.
Here on Brazil one of the Animals that most cause damage on fields and places are wild boars, and their population keeps blowing up,
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. 👍
You folks earn and deserve every dollar you make. Weeds, climate, animals, etc.
Braahh ....... Braahh .... 😂, the person who drove by at 11:15 thought, hey Mike .... that's a long ... " Hello sir " 😃
Mike saying BRUH is my highlight of the day lol
Bruh
Hola Mike!!!! Saludo desde argentina.....llévame a trabajar con Tigo...me encanta esa tarea de campo
We have reached the point of Mike's midseason freak out :)
Mike your a legend man, you nail it every video 🤙
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.
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 .
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.
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
😂😂 love your combine empression
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
1:05 the best .22 you can get ur hands on scope, target practice, ha!
Would be cool if you found the time Mike to do either a truck tour or a multi part equipment tour
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.
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.
Putt on some Celine Dion music. That will scare them off.
😂😂I’m sorry I really shouldn’t be laughing but he makes it so funny
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.
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.
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.
Mike, you are very emotional regarding gophers, could you describe the noise the combine makes again when it sucks up rocks? :-)
cool. we have ground hogs big then gopher but i use bubblicious bubble gum to control them. try it see.
On our farm we used to take the water truck flood there holes and waited they came out. Not a happy gopher.
You are so nice to feed those little critters.
i know it's a tradeoff but maybe hedgerows with trees, bushes and water? habitat for all your friendly badgers, hawks, etc?
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
We were developing a gopher issue in the South East until the flood of 2014 looked after them.
I reckon a thermal scope on 204r would be a bit of fun... Is Wombats that do this kinda thing in Australia
Hahaha chigga chigga! Ever tried strict 9? That stuff is like candy to a goepher.
we have the same problem in our hay fields with them eating grass and that really make the head shake
Spent many a afternoon with the 10-22 in my relatives fields around waldec pickin em off.
Hey Mike pick up truck propane long lead and a spark plug happy days for the farmers 😂😂😂
" Our Hawks are so fat they can't hardly fly " best line.
That was a good ole fashion mike rant
You are very hard-worker
👍enjoy your videos
In southern Alberta I love the sound of a hollow point 10 22 an a gopher fighting
All l can think of is caddy shack 🤣 I feel your pain though.
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.
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
Co2 is heavier than air. How many holes think you can fill with one cylinder? Will they hear the noise..stay in the hole and have a really long dirt nap?
We also have lots of gopher in western manitoba. Very bad for hay fields.
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
Mike i got a question. Omg u crack me up m8. The wife doesnt understand why im laughing my longs out at the Phone. Haha
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.
Lucky where we farmed close to Winnipeg there was really none of then around.
I love this channel what a great explanation can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂😂
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.
Very interesting 🧐
A falconer with a couple of harris hawks and a mink man could help.
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
that gopher @00:51 looking at you like "come at me, i dare ya" lol..be cool if you put some baby land mines and all you hear in the background is little pop noises.."ahh yes there goes one of them"
If I lived closer I would pay to hunt those fields.
youll go broke from ammo cost
I can see gun mounts being fitted on the tractor !
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!!
Grandpa used to swear by running an nh3 bar over towns.. used to love shooting gophers but don't have many anymore.
Hi bro i watch your all videos 👍👍
We have pocket gophers over here in North Dakota I had one that was trying to attack my front tire once. I don't know if they're legally blind or just partially but they spend so much time underground when they come out they don't really know what's in front of them.
They come out with dust on their heads. Brilliant. 😂😂😂
Put gopher bait in your mid row banders when you do canola.
Mike you're a smart man . Can't you invent a way to get rid of the gophers ? Would it help if you left the field fallow for a year ? Maybe find something they hate to at least get them out of your field ... Just a suggestion
Did you ever try to suck them out their holes with a grain vac? They use something similar to rescue them here.
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.
Love from India ♥️♥️
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.
Hola viejo como estás , cuánta hectárea haces por día con cada máquina. De que ciudad o pueblo sos de Canadá
enjoy your videos I farm in central Minnesota if you have a anhydrous bar and tank g0 over the bad spots with that it will kill them 100 percent
Allen Minnesota
wow. so many rocks in the field
The worst is when Badgers move in!
In Holland we use Mole bombs its Some kind of realy explosive firework
Common to have this many holes in one spot... dude, it’s one colony and they are all connected... lol. I’ve flooded them before, then pop them with the .22 as they run out a different hole. Watching the water and plug the holes, camp out on the last one... thwawp...many hours of fun growing up in Montana...
We have just as big of a gopher problem on our farm near Cudworth SK.
I can’t see good old mike doing this but I can picture a farmer put seeding, seed a gopher, pulls out the shotgun opens the door while moving and gets rid of the thing “damn gophers”
What about a deep ripper? Something 10 rows wide 24" deep? If you pick up rocks one st a time seems like before seeding you could deep rip over their colonies
No natural predictors living there, would it help if there was some woodland here and there. We have problems with rabbits, hawks in the area seem to be helping a bit
What if you put a pole up with a platform for the hawkers and eagles to nest
Hey Mike I have a question. Why don't you just carry a 22 and pick them off as you see them?
What is your opinion on ground hogs? Cause here they are a big nuisance and are similar to gophers and prairie dogs, but a lot bigger