01/04/08, 01:59 PM
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garden guy
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: AR (ozarks)
Posts: 3,516
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Originally Posted by wogglebug
RATS:
Dig hole (couple of full shovel's-worth) cutting across their tunnels.
Three-quarter's-fill a can with sulphur (sulfur).
Set the sulphur alight. It smoulders (smolders), with a lot of smoke - sulphur dioxide - heavier than air. Tip it so the sulphur is at the level of the rim - rest it on loose earth. It will melt. You don't want it running out, but you also don't want the smoke to smother the fire before air can feed the fire.
I repeat, you really don't want burning molten sulphur running around a rat's nest that may be bigger and deeper than your barn, filled with whatever combustibles rats have gathered.
Put a sheet of metal, or maybe fibre-cement board, across the top to confine the smoke. The sulphur dioxide will fall downwards into the tunnels, then fill them up from the bottom.
You should have thrown a shovel-full of dirt over any exits you know of, then heeled it in, and be watching with an air-rifle for any escapees through routes you didn't block.
Know that this is poison, so you won't want to leave your livestock there while it's going on. You either, to whatever extent you can manage it. This is a chemical weapon, banned by the Geneva convention. Don't let it screw-up your lungs.
Know that this is fire in a building, so keep aware, and don't leave it unattended. You burn the barn, your insurance won't cover it, so stay awake.
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Appreciate your ideas. I dont have to worry about insurance I am probably an idiot for it but carry none on anything but liablity on the car (the trucks are both dead had it pretty roughf with vehicles) Course the 70 ford hauled 15 loads of compost from an hour away for the tranny gave out. My hen house use to have coons get in thru the eaves fixed that with tin but it is still a long way from rat proof one side on the inside part is only slab wood with cracks and their are holes on the corners I guess that is one of the bad parts of using a place that is 45 years old eventually i will re build it and make it tighter just so much to do and so little time and my priority is my garden and making hoop houses since that and eggs are our sole income. Our place is totally organic I would not be able to use toxic substances. Thanks for the thoughts
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