[AT] Thanksgiving Day tractor chores+trees

[charliehill]

Roy, I know you addressed this to Farmer but I just happen to be at the 
computer as the message came in.
Anhydrous ammonia is ammonia that is compressed into a liquid but becomes a 
gas at normal atmospheric presure and temp.   Corn farmers inject it from a 
liquid nurse tank into the ground.  This is done with a small hose or tube 
that runs along the back side of a chisel.  Several of these small chisels 
are pulled a few inches underground with a tractor.  The Anhydrous permeates 
the ground.  Somehow or another it works the same way for the corn as 
Nitrogen.  Someone else will have to explain that too you.  As far as the 
effect it has on a gopher, open a bottle of household amonia and take a good 
deep sniff right out of the top of the bottle.  Now multiply that by about 
100 or so and imagine that is all you have to breath and you'll get the idea 
about how the gopher feels.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Thanksgiving Day tractor chores+trees


>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> Back when I was still grain farming I used Anhydrous ammonia to get
>> rid of groundhogs.
>
> Farmer,
>
> Pardon my being not familiar:  Is anhydrous ammonia a kind of powder
> or granular dry stuff?  Sounds like it got mixed with some water as
> you dosed the hole.
>
> Seems like whatever it is, a dose of it down each ground hog hole
> would  make a very unfriendly atmosphere in the burrow.  I remember
> from when I was a kid a smoke bomb, some burlap bags and a shovel for
> the dirt being used to deal with ground hogs.  Maybe the smoke bomb
> made sulfurous smoke that created sulfuric acid in the lungs of the
> hapless ground hogs.  I think Geneva conventions or something outlawed
> that kind of thing in warfare among people.  No doubt OSHA had done
> away with those smoke bombs, too.  As with the purple poison-laced
> granular sugar you could get to beat the flies in the barn.
>
>>  Ground hogs are no longer a problem here, I haven't seen one for
>> years. Coyotes ate all of them...
>
> No doubt you are inclined to be very helpful, but please do not send
> any Coyotes here for us to use on the ground hogs.  heheh.  (we have
> sheep)
>
>  Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
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