Beaver Dam Removal
Scrotoroot
I'm needing to get rid of a couple of beaver dams and their mounds. Is
there some simple agent I can use (fertilizer, etc...) to get rid of them.
Preferably something that will blow apart sticks and mud but nothing too
strong. Answers will be appreciated. Scrot...@aol.com
Scrotoluphogus
scrot...@aol.com
DAVID PARSONS
I don't know how effective explosives would be, unless you use a BIG
explosive you would not likely kill them all. Mebe you should try to gas
them, I've seen commercial smokebombs that are 40% sulfur and are ment to
kill moles. Of course, this deals with how accessable the beavers dam is.
Ideas anyone?
-Dave
Nightshade
Beaver Dams do blow up well with explosives. The military once in a
while gets tasked to do it in the areas around their posts. I believe
the group we had go out used cratering charges for the most part, which
is ammonium nitriate (fertilizer) with a TNT charge to set it off.
donald j haarmann
Scrotoroot <scrot...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970528052...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
> I'm needing to get rid of a couple of beaver dams and their mounds. Is
> there some simple agent I can use (fertilizer, etc...) to get rid of
them.
> Preferably something that will blow apart sticks and mud but nothing too
> strong. Answers will be appreciated. Scrot...@aol.com
> Scrotoluphogus
> scrot...@aol.com
>
The Colonel got his gopher.
Colonel LM McBride US Army Retired
The Explosives Engineer May-June 1947
Gopher hole mining is resorted to certain, or rather uncertain, formations,
but I doubt if anyone heretofore ever mined a gopher hole.
Here in southern California with its twelve months of summer, the pocket
gophers work full time during the day and time-and-a-half at night, with a
portal-to-portal bonus.
For more than a year one of these subway mining engineers, with the most
efficient self-contained tunneling apparatus in existence, had been working
under my lawn. Every morning there would be one or two new "dumps",
sometimes an open raise the hadn't been backfilled.
I knew it was futile to try to drown him out, as all the water available
come from Boulder Dam. Besides, the meter rates are rather high. Traps were
useless, as Mr. Gopher knew more about them than the inventors.
Several times, after finding a fresh open hole, I sat quietly by it with a
.22 pistol ready and waited for the gopher to tram up a load of muck and
show his head. I would wait a quarter-hour, sometimes a half-hour, then get
impatient and take time out to get my pipe or a drink. Upon my return, I
would find that Mr. Gopher had neatly closed that stope in meantime.
On two or three occasion I fired a shot down the hole when I saw, or
thought I saw, dirt moving. Later it was evident that I had been wrong, I
then tried my .45 S&W revolver, thinking that the .22 hadn't penetrated the
muck pile he was pushing up the incline. But, "no soap."
I then resorted to figuring his transit course by plotting preceding holes
and distances with the hope of intercepting him at the next opening. My
"trigernometry" formerly tried with the .22 and .45 revolvers.
Having done some gopher-hole mica mining in the Black Hills, worked a
couple of years with the Homestake, and later taught the subject of
explosives at an Army school, I resorted to the use of this invaluable
material for both construction and destruction - explosives.
With a Hercules elective blasting cap, two or three ft. of Primacord, an
improved contact switch of the booby-trap type, and a dry cell, I rigged up
a contraption as shown in the accompanying diagram. I pushed it down an
open raise of Mr. Gopher, as shown. Result: mission accomplished; gopher
obliterated.
[Dry-cell wired to electric blasting cap w/ 6 foot leg wires, and spring
contact type switch. Cap connected to Pimacord.]
J. Noonan
On Wed, 28 May 1997 21:52:49 -0500, Nightshade <nght...@usit.net>
wrote:
>DAVID PARSONS wrote:
>>
>> Scrotoroot wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm needing to get rid of a couple of beaver dams and their mounds. Is
>> > there some simple agent I can use (fertilizer, etc...) to get rid of them.
>> > Preferably something that will blow apart sticks and mud but nothing too
>> > strong. Answers will be appreciated. Scrot...@aol.com
>> > Scrotoluphogus
>> > scrot...@aol.com
>>
>> I don't know how effective explosives would be, unless you use a BIG
>> explosive you would not likely kill them all. Mebe you should try to gas
>> them, I've seen commercial smokebombs that are 40% sulfur and are ment to
>> kill moles. Of course, this deals with how accessable the beavers dam is.
>> Ideas anyone?
>> -Dave
Old Timers claim that the fumes from the nitroglycerin in dynomite
will drive beaver away from an area without even blasting the huts.
Killing beaver may be illegal in your area.
Edward Buker
As long as you don't need to kill the beavers, I would suggest black
powder. It's no high explosive or anything but let's face it you're
blowing apart sticks and mud. I'm assuming that this dam is in a secluded
location on your property if you want to blow it up so shrapnel is not an
issue. A few large pipe bombs would probably do nicely. This is
assuming of course that you are smart enough to make one with out killing
yourself and you do not have experience with other explosives. Water
proof cannon fuse is usually available. Ask around town in stores that
sell gun products. If they have it, they probably don't have it sitting
out (that's hot it is here). I don't take responsiblility for any of your
actions, but that is how I would remove a damn.
Nick
David Richards
In article <5mus32$f...@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net>,
I wouldn't suggest anything of the sort.
If you own the property, and are in a rural area, and beavers are not a
protected species, ask your neighbors what they do- if explosives are the
trick, they'll tell you how to legally purchase dynamite and caps.
Believe it or not, you can get in a lot more trouble building your own
illegal low-explosive pipe bombs than jumping through a few legal hoops
to legally acquire and use real explosives.
--
David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three
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Edward Buker
d...@ripco.com (David Richards) wrote:
>In article <5mus32$f...@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net>,
>Edward Buker <e.b...@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>As long as you don't need to kill the beavers, I would suggest black
>>powder. It's no high explosive or anything but let's face it you're
>>blowing apart sticks and mud. I'm assuming that this dam is in a secluded
>>location on your property if you want to blow it up so shrapnel is not an
>>issue. A few large pipe bombs would probably do nicely. This is
>>assuming of course that you are smart enough to make one with out killing
>>yourself and you do not have experience with other explosives. Water
>>proof cannon fuse is usually available. Ask around town in stores that
>>sell gun products. If they have it, they probably don't have it sitting
>>out (that's hot it is here). I don't take responsiblility for any of your
>>actions, but that is how I would remove a damn.
>
>I wouldn't suggest anything of the sort.
>
>If you own the property, and are in a rural area, and beavers are not a
>protected species, ask your neighbors what they do- if explosives are the
>trick, they'll tell you how to legally purchase dynamite and caps.
>
>
>Believe it or not, you can get in a lot more trouble building your own
>illegal low-explosive pipe bombs than jumping through a few legal hoops
>to legally acquire and use real explosives.
>--
>David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three
It all depends on where you live. Around here blasting caps and dynamite
are very unavailable without a blasting liscense. If you can easily get
dynamite then by all means do so. Here you can't, and people around here
don't care if you do blow up a beaver dam or two anyway. the response I
gave was appropriate for where I live. If I didn't know how to make
explosives and had little experience using them, black powder is what I'd
use. Black powder is a real explosive, it made many a train tunnel back
in the day. Don't under estimate it because it is the oldest eplosive
composition.
Nick
chew...@gmail.com
> I'm needing to get rid of a couple of beaver dams and their mounds. Is
> there some simple agent I can use (fertilizer, etc...) to get rid of them.
> Preferably something that will blow apart sticks and mud but nothing too
> strong. Answers will be appreciated. Scrot...@aol.com
> Scrotoluphogus
> scrot...@aol.com