If you flip around the spike to the open end and screw it down into the hole you made with the spike you can clear out the hole very easily. Then tap on the end to shake the dirt out the spike. Just don't pack in so much dirt as to split the pipe.
Omg what a great idea!! I've been setting this dang thing every day but we live in Western WA and it's really hard digging around here so there's always freaking rocks and crap that plug up the tunnel and my metal things aren't spreading out, they're going inwards and it's ruining them.... So thank you!
I have been doing that with mine and have great success. I use a piece of 1” pvc and hammer in the run with a rubber mallet. This seems to clear the dirt better
This is a GREAT idea! If I only had a place in my yard that didn't have so many rocks that I even have trouble getting the probe to get down to the tunnels. I don't know how the moles manage or even why they would want to be here... but, there is no place on my property you can even stick a 5' digging bar and make it stand on the first toss. 🤣 It's not all bad... I have sent over 70 moles from my moonscape paradise to mole heaven... and I think word is getting out!
I have been using a shovel and taking a plug out of the ground. Taking a plug out exposes both directions of a tunnel. I then set a trap each direction about 6 inches back from the exposed tunnel from the removed plug. I can easily center the trap in the tunnels . If income back in a hour I can see if there was activity, (piled dirt) on one side or another. I have caught 10 in 48 hours of trapping on 12 acres (hayfield). Neighbors cave caught 31 on 40 acres of pastureland (2 weeks). My neighbor and I each have 4 traps.. hardest part is finding mounds now the hay/grass is high.
Thanks. I am not sure what you mean but want to learn. Do you dig out a small hole in ground to expose the tunnel. Then you set two traps on either side of the hole about 6 inches away. And then do you leave the center hole OPEN? Or did not not understand you? Thanks. By the way, I purchased 3 of these traps.
I have not had much luck. I tried it in the back yard and the front yard. finding the hole was not as easy as I thought it would be. Maybe with your system I have more luck. In the front yard I had to use a wood mallet and provided tube to make the hole.. I could not just push it down like so may videos show. did you use electric conduit? I don't know if PVC would be strong enough. What did you cap your pipe with so you could push on it without hurting your hand? appreciate you info.
WHERE YOU SEE A MOUND OF DIRT, USE THE PRONG AND PRICK THE DIRT WITH IT, IF YOU FIND A WEAK SPOT, USE A GLOVED HAND AND DIG INTO THE DIRT UNTIL YOU FIND THE TUNNEL, THE TUNNEL ISN'T THAT LOW, MAYBE HALF A FOOT, THEN PLACE GOPHERHAWK INSIDE IT WITH THE OPEN HOLE ALIGNED WITH THE TUNNEL, NO BAR IN THE MIDDLE, THEN REPACK THE TUNNEL WITH DIRT AND DIRT THE TOP OF THE SOIL AROUND THE HAWK..ON MY 2ND ATTEMPT TODAY, I REPOSITIONED THE HAWK IN ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL DOING THIS EXACT WAY I'M TELLING YOU AND IN 2 HRS, I HAD YELLOW ON THE MONEY, CAUGHT A POCKET GOPHER EASILY
Recently started using it. I have caught one gopher in past 7 days. I have eroded dirt below elevated garden where gophers live. After waiting a lot I got impatient today and pulled it out, I noticed a lot of dirt inside the mesh basket, as if the gopher filled it to annoy me! Lol. Maybe it only works on a perfect flat land!
Gopher hawk is my latest waste of money and time. Like all other ACME products that fail to catch the roadrunner, this one is just like: smokebombs, poison worms, poison pellets, scissor traps etc. I have spent all my money on these and now a gopher hawk. Three weeks of use, not one caught, but I do have a destroyed lawn for my troubles. I am switching to grub killer and now concentrating on the food source , the traps don’t work
Sorry to hear that. Are you going for Gopher or Moles? They do not work well for Moles which to fail to trigger the trap because they are smaller and go under the trigger. I caught a couple of Gophers in the first 24 hours.
@@2musiclover534 i use them in my business I run 15 to 20 at a time on different occasions. You have to learn what the gophers doing and where to place them.
Liked. Well done! What kind of pipe is that? Diameter? Is it just PVC? I do wonder if the Gopher gets wise to the gopher hawk if they are in the same nest.
I have several gopher hawks. They don’t compare to gophinator traps that goes inside the tunnels. Just get gophinators and use the gopher hawks as a backup / extra traps.
@@leelunk8235 jfc lol you think you got me huh? 🤣 I meant horizontally in the tunnel. Iv had successful trapping business going on 14 years now what do I know though. One thing I can tell you no professional shows up with a damn gopher hawk lol.
@@jamesstewart2560 MOST PRO'S DON'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT ABOUT COMMON SENSE, I'M NOT A PRO, BOUGHT A GOPHERHAWK AND IN 2 HRS, HE WAS CAUGHT AND DEAD GO FIGURE, IT'S ALL ABOUT KNOWING HOW TO PLACE IT
If you flip around the spike to the open end and screw it down into the hole you made with the spike you can clear out the hole very easily. Then tap on the end to shake the dirt out the spike. Just don't pack in so much dirt as to split the pipe.
Omg what a great idea!! I've been setting this dang thing every day but we live in Western WA and it's really hard digging around here so there's always freaking rocks and crap that plug up the tunnel and my metal things aren't spreading out, they're going inwards and it's ruining them.... So thank you!
I have been doing that with mine and have great success. I use a piece of 1” pvc and hammer in the run with a rubber mallet. This seems to clear the dirt better
This is a GREAT idea! If I only had a place in my yard that didn't have so many rocks that I even have trouble getting the probe to get down to the tunnels. I don't know how the moles manage or even why they would want to be here... but, there is no place on my property you can even stick a 5' digging bar and make it stand on the first toss. 🤣
It's not all bad... I have sent over 70 moles from my moonscape paradise to mole heaven... and I think word is getting out!
I have been using a shovel and taking a plug out of the ground. Taking a plug out exposes both directions of a tunnel. I then set a trap each direction about 6 inches back from the exposed tunnel from the removed plug. I can easily center the trap in the tunnels . If income back in a hour I can see if there was activity, (piled dirt) on one side or another. I have caught 10 in 48 hours of trapping on 12 acres (hayfield). Neighbors cave caught 31 on 40 acres of pastureland (2 weeks). My neighbor and I each have 4 traps.. hardest part is finding mounds now the hay/grass is high.
Thanks. I am not sure what you mean but want to learn. Do you dig out a small hole in ground to expose the tunnel. Then you set two traps on either side of the hole about 6 inches away. And then do you leave the center hole OPEN? Or did not not understand you? Thanks. By the way, I purchased 3 of these traps.
@@2musiclover534 yes, exposed center hole with traps set on the tunnels that are exposed…
@@2musiclover534 on 15 acres (12 acres of grass) in 14 months I have caught 84 pocket gophers.. a couple of times as many as 8 a day.
I use an auger drill bit, slightly smaller than the trap. Harbor freight.
I have 2 of these. Love them!
I tried the Gopherhawk on moles here in S. FL, but it does not work well in the shallow tunnels in the sandy soil. I haven't caught a single mole.
I have not had much luck. I tried it in the back yard and the front yard. finding the hole was not as easy as I thought it would be. Maybe with your system I have more luck. In the front yard I had to use a wood mallet and provided tube to make the hole.. I could not just push it down like so may videos show. did you use electric conduit? I don't know if PVC would be strong enough. What did you cap your pipe with so you could push on it without hurting your hand? appreciate you info.
WHERE YOU SEE A MOUND OF DIRT, USE THE PRONG AND PRICK THE DIRT WITH IT, IF YOU FIND A WEAK SPOT, USE A GLOVED HAND AND DIG INTO THE DIRT UNTIL YOU FIND THE TUNNEL, THE TUNNEL ISN'T THAT LOW, MAYBE HALF A FOOT, THEN PLACE GOPHERHAWK INSIDE IT WITH THE OPEN HOLE ALIGNED WITH THE TUNNEL, NO BAR IN THE MIDDLE, THEN REPACK THE TUNNEL WITH DIRT AND DIRT THE TOP OF THE SOIL AROUND THE HAWK..ON MY 2ND ATTEMPT TODAY, I REPOSITIONED THE HAWK IN ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL DOING THIS EXACT WAY I'M TELLING YOU AND IN 2 HRS, I HAD YELLOW ON THE MONEY, CAUGHT A POCKET GOPHER EASILY
Recently started using it.
I have caught one gopher in past 7 days.
I have eroded dirt below elevated garden where gophers live.
After waiting a lot I got impatient today and pulled it out, I noticed a lot of dirt inside the mesh basket, as if the gopher filled it to annoy me! Lol.
Maybe it only works on a perfect flat land!
After trying nearly every other method without success I caught my first mole with a “Gopher Hawk” trap today.
Plan to order a second one soon.
What size pipe?
Great idea!
Gopher hawk is my latest waste of money and time. Like all other ACME products that fail to catch the roadrunner, this one is just like: smokebombs, poison worms, poison pellets, scissor traps etc. I have spent all my money on these and now a gopher hawk. Three weeks of use, not one caught, but I do have a destroyed lawn for my troubles. I am switching to grub killer and now concentrating on the food source , the traps don’t work
Sorry to hear that. Are you going for Gopher or Moles? They do not work well for Moles which to fail to trigger the trap because they are smaller and go under the trigger. I caught a couple of Gophers in the first 24 hours.
Ben using gopher hawk for 1 year and have caught over 200 gophers with it great tool if you know how to use it. Best timed catch is 2 minutes 😂
One unit? Or more? And have you replaced the feint wire basket? Thanks
@@2musiclover534 i use them in my business I run 15 to 20 at a time on different occasions.
You have to learn what the gophers doing and where to place them.
@@2musiclover534 thanks for the reply. Yes it's for moles. Marketed as the thing that would work but nothing does...
I have caught two gophers in 2 weeks. The gopher activity has slowed way down!
What kind of pipe is that?
Liked. Well done! What kind of pipe is that? Diameter? Is it just PVC? I do wonder if the Gopher gets wise to the gopher hawk if they are in the same nest.
Only thing I've caught with the gopher hawk is myself. Ouch!
I use some thing like this it helps when they are deep.
I use a GH with great success and I definitely can see the benefit of getting the dirt out of the hole. What is your pipe made of, it looks like PVC?
I found the rebar is better
Auger bit is easier
I have several gopher hawks. They don’t compare to gophinator traps that goes inside the tunnels. Just get gophinators and use the gopher hawks as a backup / extra traps.
GOPHERHAWK GOES INTO THE TUNNEL, SO YOU'RE WRONG
@@leelunk8235 jfc lol you think you got me huh? 🤣 I meant horizontally in the tunnel. Iv had successful trapping business going on 14 years now what do I know though. One thing I can tell you no professional shows up with a damn gopher hawk lol.
@@jamesstewart2560 MOST PRO'S DON'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT ABOUT COMMON SENSE, I'M NOT A PRO, BOUGHT A GOPHERHAWK AND IN 2 HRS, HE WAS CAUGHT AND DEAD GO FIGURE, IT'S ALL ABOUT KNOWING HOW TO PLACE IT
@@jamesstewart2560 IN 2 HRS I CAUGHT MY GOPHER WITH THE HAWK INSIDE OF THE TUNNEL
These are absolute junk!
The Gopher hawk works great, until the gopher has the gun