Rat smoker

Manny

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
In the middle.
Friend just takes the bar off a chainsaw puts in 3 times the amount of oil as you should and it works well with the exhaust pushed into a hole. Just keep revving and smoke poors out. Just watch out it can choke the engine up quite badly and a new plug is needed more often.
 

Muddyroads

Member
NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
Reminds me of former colleague who decided to smoke moles off his posh lawn. He had some sort of pale blue 3.5 litre Alfa Romeo we used to call the battleship. He drove it onto the lawn, where it promptly sank. He then connected the exhaust to a mole run with his wife’s vacuum cleaner hose and put a weight on the accelerator. The vacuum hose melted, so he had to find something more robust which he left running for an hour or so.
The following morning he had ruts in his lawn, his wife still wasn’t speaking to him, he had a fair bit less fuel in his car and the moles were back with a vengeance!
 

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
The smoke helps as a visible aid to see the job you're doing and rats hate it, but it's carbon monoxide that kills them. It's a deadly odourless, colourless gas produced from incomplete combustion, same as what kills people when boilers aren't maintained. Any engine that's worn, running rich or has a blocked air filter will make it.
Yet another benefit of running old tractors, you'd be a long time sat there with a tier 4 ad blue machine piped down the burrow
 

Wurzeetoo

Member
As said above I just put extra oil in my old cheapy chainsaw. Was a bit like spinning plates as I couldn’t keep it in the right position due to short pipe and the angle of the hedge. Really shows how many tunnels and routes they have though. If I could have had my old terrier around rather than my mate with a shotgun would have cleaned up easily
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
The smoke helps as a visible aid to see the job you're doing and rats hate it, but it's carbon monoxide that kills them. It's a deadly odourless, colourless gas produced from incomplete combustion, same as what kills people when boilers aren't maintained. Any engine that's worn, running rich or has a blocked air filter will make it.
Yet another benefit of running old tractors, you'd be a long time sat there with a tier 4 ad blue machine piped down the burrow
actually a diesel would not normally produce sufficient carbon monoxide and of course a modern petrol car not thanks to the Catalyser.
Any small petrol powered tools will though.
 

Tractorstant

Member
Location
Monaco.
Reminds me of former colleague who decided to smoke moles off his posh lawn. He had some sort of pale blue 3.5 litre Alfa Romeo we used to call the battleship. He drove it onto the lawn, where it promptly sank. He then connected the exhaust to a mole run with his wife’s vacuum cleaner hose and put a weight on the accelerator. The vacuum hose melted, so he had to find something more robust which he left running for an hour or so.
The following morning he had ruts in his lawn, his wife still wasn’t speaking to him, he had a fair bit less fuel in his car and the moles were back with a vengeance!

YES, I thought it was just my farther who was as mad as cheese! He did this with a TR7 and a hose pipe! Didn't work and the engine died of overheating!
 

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