Wood Chuck questions

old · Jul 13, 2012

Ok so how many dens will one wood chuck have or do they have more then one hole to each den??? So far I have found 3 tunnels 2 are about 50 feet or so apart and the other one is here under the edge of the house and about 200 feet form the closes other tunnel.
By the way I know of at least wood chuck that has sprung a leak today and did you know they make some odd sounds??
I have also plugged up each of the tunnels I have found with rocks or in the case of the one by the house with dirt and the shovel so to open the one by the house it has to move the shovel or the hole

ldj · Jul 13, 2012

How much could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

glennster · Jul 13, 2012

woodchucks will have one main den, they can tunnel 5-6 feet deep and up to about 30 ft long. they do have several small escape tunnels coming off the main tunnel. i prefer using bodygrip traps on em. set em right over the hole. be careful if you have dogs or cats that snoop around, you may need to put up some wire fence around the holes till ya get em.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2012

Ell thats easy, he'd chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

pete 23 · Jul 13, 2012

But, how much ground would a ground hog grind if a ground hog could grind ground. Taken from Dennis the Menace years ago.

Paul from MI · Jul 13, 2012

DEpending on location I usually deflate them with my old 12 gauge single shot. Been pretty reliable so far. The main hole to the den will usually have excavated dirt around it, the escape holes do not.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2012

They most of the time have 3 holes to a den.Two of them have dirt piled around them and the third one will be a drop hole with no dirt around it. If you pile rocks over openings they will just burrow a new hole. Around here they are trapped, gased or shot to get rid of them. Several times we had a huge water tank and dumped enough water down hole till chuck came up and put shovel in behind it blocking hole and let the dogs have them.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · Jul 13, 2012

A good way to get rid of them is to find someone with a New Holland net wrap roundbaler and get a whole bunch of net,pack the holes full and when they try to tunnel out they get tangled in the wrap and die.The NH wrap is black and about the size of chicken wire and seems to work better than others.

El Toro · Jul 13, 2012

I poured some gasoline down a hole many years ago and stood away and drop a piece of burning paper.
I didn't know if it fixed him until the following year when another hog was cleaning the same hole and out came a skelton. When there were no houses behind me I would shoot them. I have one of those have-a-heart traps and I lost count of how many I carried away. They won't go in that trap anymore. Several houses around me the owners have small buildings for storing their mowers. They're not on a slab and the hogs live under those buildings. I guess it provides a cool home. Hal

Clodbuster · Jul 13, 2012

Do you use a Connibear 220 or a smaller body grip? I have some just moving into central Nebraska. Trapped 13 badgers this year and now I just saw a dangnabbit GROUNDHOG!!!!! I do have a permit, just to be legal ya know....

BushogPapa · Jul 13, 2012

Had good results with plugging the holes and putting a flex pipe from a pickup in one of them..
Pre-Converter model or riding lawn mower..
With the pickup, I usually pour some oil down the carb, to be sure all the holes are covered..you will see the blue smoke...
If they don't come out, they aint coming out...
I also use the Large double-spring Cona-bear traps over the holes...Flawless..!!!
My .17 HMR is deadly with the plastic tips blunted and it is not loud...
Ron.

Royse · Jul 13, 2012

Got a similar problem here Old.
I smoked them out by plumbing the exhaust pipe of a skeeter fogging 8N into the hole. That worked until they came back.
Been trying to get them with a live trap, but that hasn't worked for me so far.
Mine are digging under my shop's cement floor, just behind my 500# propane tank that heats it, so not a good place to be shooting.
What I have done is feed them some melon and melon peel. They seem to like that, Honeydew or musk melon.
Then I set a trail out away from the shop to where a fire stick is usable.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 13, 2012

Stick a lighted Road Flare down the hole before you close it up usually takes care of the problem

Bill in IL · Jul 13, 2012

I got one in a 220 this spring. Didn't kill him but he was ready and waiting when I came around.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 13, 2012

Conibear 160's work best, around here. Be sure to stake the trap, so the buzzards don't carry your trap away.

DoubleR · Jul 13, 2012

Its been my experience that they seem to have 2-3 holes. I use the 220 traps and place one over each hole. They will sometimes stay in there for a few days but they got to come out sooner or later. I know you said earlier you can't use them because of pets. I have got a few with a live trap but its not as easy to get them to go in. Plus you got to waste a bullet on them after they do. I have had some luck with the live trap covered to make them think they are going into a hole. I have tried gassing and smoking them out with no luck. We use to have a dog that would take care of them when I was growing up, that was pretty handy. She'd wait outside the hole for them to come out. They will put up a good fight but she would get them behind the neck and break it. Then shake them until they were no longer moving and then walk away.

old · Jul 13, 2012

Years ago I had a dog that would take care of most any thing like that also but he is long since gone and now days all my dogs are house dogs. I have one that could do that if she was taught to but she is a wimp as is. The old dog I had would take on a beaver and live to do it again but that did take its toll on the old thing. Still have his son here but he is getting to old to take on any thing but his bed. He is 15 years old so not doing as well as he once was

KIP in MX · Jul 13, 2012

Reminds me of the Geico commercial where the woodchuckes are tossing the guy's firewood in his pond.

Rick Kr · Jul 14, 2012

I have found they have 2-3 holes per den. I use concrete blocks over the holes on flat land, good size field rocks in the ditch banks and pound them in. Dump a little gas in first.

When I see them 20ga or .22. Or live trap.

Rick

scotc · Jul 14, 2012

I've had good luck with the rodent smoke bombs. Or a half a bucket of diesel, half bucket of water, then a little gas to carry the flame in. First close the hole up so the shovel fit over it, if you smack the hole good once the fuel's going, you can force the flame through to the vent holes.

If you can dump a ton of water, or a large slurry spreader full of really soupy slurry, into the hole all at once, if they come out, you'd think they were drunk.

The holes without dirt around them aren't for escape, they are for ventilation. The wind/breeze moving over the dirt pile at the one hole, will create a slight vacuum, pulling fresh air in through the other holes.

Jim in michigan · Jul 14, 2012

we had two dogs, one a big dumb bluetick collie mix and the other a ancient beagle.They would work together and kill groundhogs, seen them many times play tug of war with them until they had two pieces of groundhog.Lots of people around here call the Whistle Pigs

Red Mud · Jul 14, 2012

5 gallon propane tank and a hose, fill the tunnel with propane and make a fuse, light it and get way back and watch"em fly. If going for distance set your cut"n torch like your going to cut with it, put the flame out and leave the torch set to cut, slide a hose over the tip and the other end down the hole. this time light the fuse and get way way way back and give"em a sendoff to remember.

casenut1 · Jul 14, 2012

was recently told to use brown sugar and portland cement mix.

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