[ben2go]

We have a huge groundhog that visits every spring. Usually, we can aggravate him/her enough to go back into the wood lot behind us. This year the pain in the neck is holding steadfast. I have houses very close around me so I can't just open fire on the critter. I tried trapping several times but no luck. Any advice on ridding my property of this beast? It's burrowing under my concrete floor for my building and under the walls of my enclosed carport.

 

[locodave64]

Might like this -> https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-Get-Rid-of-Woodchucks-Ground-Hogs

I think ammonia down the hole or lime around the hole is what I would try 1st? See if that gets rid of it. Then not a happy camper.

No work? Find all the holes and mix in bleach? Cover the holes.

 

[rayjay]

Benjamin Marauder

 

[Tractor-Holic]

I used to have a huge mamma ground hog living under my shed,she had many babies and though they didn't really bug me much other than the piles of dirt they excavated in the shed's "floor",my neighbors were angry at them for eating their flowers and garden veggies..

After a couple of years some of these predators moved in,and I haven't seen a ground hog,chipmonk,rabbit,possum,skunks,only a few gray squirrels and racoons are still coming around once in a while..

 

[ben2go]

Might like this -> https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-Get-Rid-of-Woodchucks-Ground-Hogs

I think ammonia down the hole or lime around the hole is what I would try 1st? See if that gets rid of it. Then not a happy camper.

No work? Find all the holes and mix in bleach? Cover the holes.

I've tried several things on that list to no avail. Lime, I will have to consider. Will it hurt cats feet? We have several feral cats about but they run from the ground pig.

Benjamin Marauder

I have several high powered air rifles. Unfortunately, the entrances to his tunnels are such that I would be shooting at my neighbors houses, my house, or my buildings.

I used to have a huge mamma ground hog living under my shed,she had many babies and though they didn't really bug me much other than the piles of dirt they excavated in the shed's "floor",my neighbors were angry at them for eating their flowers and garden veggies..

After a couple of years some of these predators moved in,and I haven't seen a ground hog,chipmonk,rabbit,possum,skunks,only a few gray squirrels and racoons are still coming around once in a while..

We have a couple Coyotes running around. They are more interested in the small doe and fawn.

 

[rayjay]

I can't imagine missing something as big as a groundhog as my normal vermin are chipmunks. You could always lay a section of log or some other back stop in place or make a blind to allow shooting from a safe direction [ if there is one ]. I'm fortunate that my typical shot is downward from a window with lots of trees beyond and a large earth bank beyond the creek.

 

[poncho62]

Groundhogs usually have an entrance and exit to their burrows. What I did was close one end with dirt and run an old vacuum cleaner hose down the other. Seal that with dirt...Hook that to the exhaust pipe of your tractor and let it run for 1/2 hr or so.......Groundhog takes the big dirt nap, doesn't feel a thing.

 

[deereboy55]

Groundhogs usually have an entrance and exit to their burrows. What I did was close one end with dirt and run an old vacuum cleaner hose down the other. Seal that with dirt...Hook that to the exhaust pipe of your tractor and let it run for 1/2 hr or so.......Groundhog takes the big dirt nap, doesn't feel a thing.

Found a ground hog under my storage shed ,,,used a piece of steel pipe and a garden tractor and gave him 1/2 hour of exhaust gas also. Never saw him again and the hole was never dug back up.

 

[PA318Guy]

.22 caliber and a good shooter!

 

[UpstateTony]

Cant shoot it, trap it.

https://www.amazon.com/OxGord-Relea...ds=havaheart&qid=1559086972&s=gateway&sr=8-15

 

[ben2go]

Good ideas. Trapping has proved unsuccessful thus far.

I can only find one hole that I know he uses. The others are in the dense wood lot behind my property. Unfortunately, I've had a run-in with my neighbor recently and she has laid down the law, literally. She didn't want me cleaning off the utility pole that provides my properties with power.

To add, I haven't seen the vermin today. Maybe our smells around the area ran him off for awhile.

 

[Tractor-Holic]

A guy who has a garden every year told me he pees in a jug and spreads it around his garden ,says it wards off critters that like to eat the veggies before he gets to harvest them..he uses a home made green house he built out of PVC pipe hoops and plastic covering,but some rodents burrowed under the sides and got inside,after he started using the urine around it he claims they haven't been a big problem like they once were..

 

[ben2go]

I never thought about the pee pee angle. We go tinkle around behind the building right beside where his hole is. It doesn't seem to matter. Maybe his nose is broken.

 

[wally2q]

light a road-flare and shove it in the hole you know he has, and then cover that hole with dirt, but make sure the flare is far enough in the hole that it doesnt get covered-up with dirt.

The flare smoke will come out the other hole - then you know where that hole is, and can now work the exhaust-pipe trick a day or two later, when he comes back into his hole and gets all comfortable after the flare-smoke session.

that 2nd hole shouldn't be too far away.... typically within 20feet, but the max ever documented was 45 feet... still not that much, to clearly find the flare smoke oozing out of.

 

[Walt 2002]

Tractor-Holic's fix reminds me of our daughter buying coyote urine to put around flowers. She complained about the cost and I told her, "Did you ever consider how hard it is to get a Coyote to pee in a bottle?"

Walt Conner

 

[mikeinri]

Road flare? Brilliant!

Mike

 

[Country1966?]

I used to trap them for fun as a teenager. Around farm fields and barns.

They have wide bodies so offset a 1 1/2 size leghold trap to one edge of the hole. that doesn't get him get two one on each side. They are not smart you will get him.

Tell neighbors to keep pets inside or you may get them too.

 

[Greybeard09]

You could go all "Caddyshack" and use explosives... Not that I'm recommending this or anything.

 

[bontai Joe]

I've tried several things on that list to no avail. Lime, I will have to consider. Will it hurt cats feet? We have several feral cats about but they run from the ground pig.



I have several high powered air rifles. Unfortunately, the entrances to his tunnels are such that I would be shooting at my neighbors houses, my house, or my buildings.



We have a couple Coyotes running around. They are more interested in the small doe and fawn.

Youi mentioned that you have several feral cats. You need a bigger cat. My aunt had a 20 pound tom cat that used to bring medium sized ground hogs to the front porch as his gift to her. Seems guns are out, how about a bow and arrow, crossbow?

 

[ben2go]

Thank you all for your advice and ideas. I think all of our activities around the area of his hole has ran him off for now. It's been 2.5 days since he's been spotted on our property. There's also no fresh tracks or dirt moved since I piled a bunch of leaves and dirt around his hole. I was getting ready to smoke him out and have my son standing in the edge of the wood lot ready to lay down some lead.