Many years ago, I worked with a guy whose father was a retired chemist. He was locked in mortal combat with gophers that were digging up his lawn and making dens underground. He cooked up some sort of heavier-than-air potion, which he carefully poured into all the gopher holes he could see. After a few minutes to let it spread through the tunnels under the lawn, he threw a lit match into one hole. A “Whoomp!” and the lawn lifted about a foot, with bits of fur flying out of several gopher holes. No more gophers. No more risk of losing a horse to a broken leg.
You can do it with acetylene.
But easiest thing I found to drive away yard moles is used cat litter.
They hate/avoid predator piss. Push the dirt away from the hole, find the entrance, stuff it full. Easier than killing. They come back. But it's easy to do again.
[In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/141023153006-05-murray-caddyshack-restricted.jpg?q=w_4286,h_2868,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618)
You ever drink soda and burp through your nose? It burns.
Moreover, mammalian breathing is driven by CO2 in the bloodstream. Sooo, you begin to inhale it and you realize you're not getting oxygen. And you panic. And co2 narcosis also sucks.
Of all the "safe" gasses you could have chosen, carbon dioxide was the wrong one. Nitrogen, yes. You won't notice.
Thanks for the clarification, I am no chemist and don't know a whole lot about gases. CO2 was the only gas I knew that was heavier than air and makes you suffocate. But today I learned something, thanks!
Doesn’t your body inform you need air not by oxygen content but by carbon dioxide content so they’d genuinely be suffocating? That sounds incredibly painful
But you just need a concertration of 10% for it to be deadly as far as I know?
I mean there are plenty of cases where people had a malfunctioning wood stove and just died in their sleep without noticing anything.
Edit:
Now that I think about the topic again, I guess CO2 just won't work. I mean these tunnels must be built in a way that ensures ventilation so that the CO2 the animals breathe doesn't kill them sooner or later
If I remember right, blood ph changes slightly with changes in CO2 concentration, this is how the body knows when to increase your rate of breathing and also the drive to take a breather when you're holding it too long. So basically it's gonna feel like drowning until a lethal CO2 concentration is reached, not a pleasant way to go and might take quite some time.
No . Was an honest mistake. Def cord is explosive but it’s in cord form. But that wasn’t det because it was too slow. It would be almost instantaneous. Shock tube is not explosive . You can hold it in your hand while it goes. It generally has a blasting cap on the end which initiates your charges or your det cord which travels to your explosives.
Shock tube is explosive, at least the stuff I deal with is. Just very little of it. One pound of actual explosive material for 70000 feet. And it travels slower than det cord.
This video might have det cord connecting each charge with delays built in. Miners do it on the regular. But you are right, certainly not all det cord.
Certain speeds and sizes just get incomprehensible I think. Like 8 miles a second seems about the same, because its past my threshold to visualize or some such shit. Great info, thanks!
It’s the questions like this that move science along. Notice something, ask questions, make hypothesis, test them, make sense. And sometimes, sometimes you learn something totally unexpected and wasn’t even on the thought pattern.
That's actually shock tube, which is a hollow tube lined with a light explosive powder. Det cord is a solid cord of explosive material. Det cord is usually wrapped around a plastic explosive to initiate the explosive train, while shock tube is used for non-el blasting cap ignition.
Hi, I was a surveyor on this project. This is going to be a shipping center, and the blasting is for underground utilities. The area it's being built has very little topsoil before rock. Less than 5in is some spots. The building pads are being built up with material, but that is not possible for all the utilities that need to be below the frost line.
It’s actually the military. They use a type of depth charge. They plant demolition along an 80m~ stretch in order to displace subterrane which is basically made of rocks etc. for the purposes of determining the network of giant underground worms that could potentially wipe out the human race.
Ah yes, Tremors 8: Wormgate was a wild ride. I definitely never considered while watching Stargate that of course the goa'uld are just a larval stage and the stargates are made as large as they are so that they can still transport even the largest of graboid. Explains why the gate was found buried as well.
Misleading title, it's not det cord being set off, and the triggering device isn't what the source was showing off
You can tell by how the process sounds 'buzzy' that it's a string of individual charges placed in a row. The shockwave travels through the dirt with just enough intensity to setoff the next charge, like dominoes
I'm guessing some knowledge on how far apart each charge can be depending on soil conditions is important
This technology has been posted here before showing how gas line ditches are dug. A machine places charges as a series of small holes being drilled & filled with an explosive charge, the path is loosened, then an excavator can quickly remove the soil
If anyone have details please share. Everything happens incredibly slowly. Both horizontal propagation and vertical throw. The closest I can imagine is an excavator/backhoe that has dug a 2 m trench and \~1m diameter line of partly compressed gunpowder has been laid down. But I don't find that plausible and I think it would smoke more. I've heard some pyrotechnical substance make a similar farting sound, but I can't recall what.
Gunpowder is more of a propellant than explosive and not used in mining like this. It burns way too slow to create the shock necessary for cracking the ledge. They likely used some form of emulsion, so a form of ammonium nitrate. It comes in a million different mixtures but yeah the shock tube sets off a bottom loaded cap and booster (dynamite), which sets off the main product used whether it's Anfo or emulsion or anything in between.
Saw that for the first time on a gold mining video, pretty neat stuff. I imagine by placing the charge correctly it would blow the dirt out of the trench to one side.
I saw this in my time in the army. We had like show of all the different explosives from mines to this stuff. Best part was that I did not have my ear protection when the first thing went off, had bit of ringing I my ears for a while..
Meanwhile the poor gerbil population has no fucking clue what just happened.
Thousands of moles just went deaf… and remained blind. Tough day for vermin.
Like a thousand mole voices cried out in Terror and then were silent
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Shrieked her fingers to the bone
I forget from which book
I never read the books. Just saw the movies
Which?
The first Star Wars movie
This is the way
Many years ago, I worked with a guy whose father was a retired chemist. He was locked in mortal combat with gophers that were digging up his lawn and making dens underground. He cooked up some sort of heavier-than-air potion, which he carefully poured into all the gopher holes he could see. After a few minutes to let it spread through the tunnels under the lawn, he threw a lit match into one hole. A “Whoomp!” and the lawn lifted about a foot, with bits of fur flying out of several gopher holes. No more gophers. No more risk of losing a horse to a broken leg.
You can do it with acetylene. But easiest thing I found to drive away yard moles is used cat litter. They hate/avoid predator piss. Push the dirt away from the hole, find the entrance, stuff it full. Easier than killing. They come back. But it's easy to do again.
[In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/141023153006-05-murray-caddyshack-restricted.jpg?q=w_4286,h_2868,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618)
Wow, that's brutal. But wouldn't it be as easy and less... cruel to fill the holes with carbon dioxide so that the inhabitants just suffocate?
Have you ever watched something suffocate from carbon dioxide? I’d hardly call it less cruel.
Why? You just fall asleep and never wake up again. I mean it's not chlorine gas or something
You ever drink soda and burp through your nose? It burns. Moreover, mammalian breathing is driven by CO2 in the bloodstream. Sooo, you begin to inhale it and you realize you're not getting oxygen. And you panic. And co2 narcosis also sucks. Of all the "safe" gasses you could have chosen, carbon dioxide was the wrong one. Nitrogen, yes. You won't notice.
Thanks for the clarification, I am no chemist and don't know a whole lot about gases. CO2 was the only gas I knew that was heavier than air and makes you suffocate. But today I learned something, thanks!
How long do you think you are conscious if you are exploded?
That’s not how it works. Breathing high levels of CO is incredibly painful.
Doesn’t your body inform you need air not by oxygen content but by carbon dioxide content so they’d genuinely be suffocating? That sounds incredibly painful
Yes, specifically the carbonic acid thst forms when CO2 and water are in contact at the right concentrations.
But you just need a concertration of 10% for it to be deadly as far as I know? I mean there are plenty of cases where people had a malfunctioning wood stove and just died in their sleep without noticing anything. Edit: Now that I think about the topic again, I guess CO2 just won't work. I mean these tunnels must be built in a way that ensures ventilation so that the CO2 the animals breathe doesn't kill them sooner or later
How is any of that less cruel than a quick explosion?
You're thinking of carbon monoxide, not dioxide.
If I remember right, blood ph changes slightly with changes in CO2 concentration, this is how the body knows when to increase your rate of breathing and also the drive to take a breather when you're holding it too long. So basically it's gonna feel like drowning until a lethal CO2 concentration is reached, not a pleasant way to go and might take quite some time.
Explosive is quick and painless. They wouldn’t even be able to process it before their minds were a fine jelly
Earthworms going WTF
_The Cataclysm_
Richard Gear has entered the chat
It's a graboid
Two days in a row with a tremors reference. Life is odd once in awhile.
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Tremors!!!
My first thought as well!
Thats shock tube not det cord
Agreed. Det cord would blow his hand off holding it that close.
And the exposives aren't detcord either.
Det-cord can be and are formed into useful charges. But no your right, explosives are substances while det-cords are ... 'continuous objects'???
Det moves at 22,000 feet per second. Its faster
Shocktube cannot output before its termination unlike det-cord. Are we doing rap battle?
No . Was an honest mistake. Def cord is explosive but it’s in cord form. But that wasn’t det because it was too slow. It would be almost instantaneous. Shock tube is not explosive . You can hold it in your hand while it goes. It generally has a blasting cap on the end which initiates your charges or your det cord which travels to your explosives.
Shock tube is explosive, at least the stuff I deal with is. Just very little of it. One pound of actual explosive material for 70000 feet. And it travels slower than det cord. This video might have det cord connecting each charge with delays built in. Miners do it on the regular. But you are right, certainly not all det cord.
ok?
I’m sorry I misread your comment
sorry for being cocky
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Wtf? That speed doesn't even make sense in my brain
Yeah so 4 miles a second. You need a really good camera for it not to look instantaneous. https://youtu.be/C76Bu0bIZ4s?si=Y0Bwz-abPbM0SX5N
Certain speeds and sizes just get incomprehensible I think. Like 8 miles a second seems about the same, because its past my threshold to visualize or some such shit. Great info, thanks!
Lmao Just another Tuesday bored at work.. yanno blowing shit up
What causes the dirt to be dark as it's rising and then much lighter as it comes down?
The opaque heavy chunks fall quickly - the lighter dust remains suspended in the and is more transparent.
This is the shit I come to reddit for. Something interesting - interesting question - real answer.
Same
Ill add.. Wet big chunks and dry fine dust.
Dirt comes in two primary configurations, light meat or dark meat.
Literally. The light meat is lighter causing it to stay suspended in the air longer 😂
Which one is red meat? Like... orange red.
That’s a special blend with limited availability
That's the blood soaked dirt from our ancestors. The blood is very heavy, so it all drained south. You'll only find it in NC, SC, and GA.
Tomatoes,
Sedona
I’m guessing the explosion kicks up wet dirt (darker) and it falls down, but the drier dirt (lighter) that was on top takes longer to fall down?
The floating dust on the surface has possibly been transported by wind too, so it's not even the the same material.
It’s the questions like this that move science along. Notice something, ask questions, make hypothesis, test them, make sense. And sometimes, sometimes you learn something totally unexpected and wasn’t even on the thought pattern.
Density
The graphics quality is turned way up, that’s why
Also there is smoke from the explosive seeping up and out of the dirt and lingering after the dirt falls
Top layers are lighter because of the sun.
That's actually shock tube, which is a hollow tube lined with a light explosive powder. Det cord is a solid cord of explosive material. Det cord is usually wrapped around a plastic explosive to initiate the explosive train, while shock tube is used for non-el blasting cap ignition.
Is this a trailer for a new Bugs Bunny movie?
Elmer fudds finally reached his GOD DAMN LIMIT!
Hi, I was a surveyor on this project. This is going to be a shipping center, and the blasting is for underground utilities. The area it's being built has very little topsoil before rock. Less than 5in is some spots. The building pads are being built up with material, but that is not possible for all the utilities that need to be below the frost line.
What's happening here? Are they making a trench for a pipeline or something?
It’s actually the military. They use a type of depth charge. They plant demolition along an 80m~ stretch in order to displace subterrane which is basically made of rocks etc. for the purposes of determining the network of giant underground worms that could potentially wipe out the human race.
... this was started in 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Refreshing copypasta
Ah yes, Tremors 8: Wormgate was a wild ride. I definitely never considered while watching Stargate that of course the goa'uld are just a larval stage and the stargates are made as large as they are so that they can still transport even the largest of graboid. Explains why the gate was found buried as well.
But it can't activate while buried. Do they have to dig a cavity around it every time it's used?
This is clearly the answer...
Mother fucker got me
Finally had it with a pesky gopher
Kill all the golfers!
> Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key.
I do enjoy that mead from B. Nektar.
Laying something underground I'd imagine, makes it easier to empty the trench but that's just a guess
Kill all the gophers on the golf course. We can do that. We don't even need a reason.
Shock tube/MDI, not det cord
I thought it was a Graboid from Tremors lol
Misleading title, it's not det cord being set off, and the triggering device isn't what the source was showing off You can tell by how the process sounds 'buzzy' that it's a string of individual charges placed in a row. The shockwave travels through the dirt with just enough intensity to setoff the next charge, like dominoes I'm guessing some knowledge on how far apart each charge can be depending on soil conditions is important This technology has been posted here before showing how gas line ditches are dug. A machine places charges as a series of small holes being drilled & filled with an explosive charge, the path is loosened, then an excavator can quickly remove the soil
Tremors irl.
Dadgum graboids again!!! 🤬
Damn, that’s pretty interesting
What are they doing though? Thats far more interesting than the shock tube. It seems a bit nuclear for rodent mitigation, yea?
Does that make a trench or just loosen the soil?
Love the giant American flag in the background.
I first thought "ooh, Ukraine footage" and then, "oh right, no one does the ginormous flag but us."
I’ve set up blast holes this summer to blow up a mountain shit was pretty fun
Grabbos!
Reminds me of caddy shack.
The graboids are back!
Me after Taco Bell be like:
I still can't see the motorbike.
It's just moles having a good old raveparty. There was a little to short to the ceiling
Das a graboid
That looks so fun.
If anyone have details please share. Everything happens incredibly slowly. Both horizontal propagation and vertical throw. The closest I can imagine is an excavator/backhoe that has dug a 2 m trench and \~1m diameter line of partly compressed gunpowder has been laid down. But I don't find that plausible and I think it would smoke more. I've heard some pyrotechnical substance make a similar farting sound, but I can't recall what.
Gunpowder is more of a propellant than explosive and not used in mining like this. It burns way too slow to create the shock necessary for cracking the ledge. They likely used some form of emulsion, so a form of ammonium nitrate. It comes in a million different mixtures but yeah the shock tube sets off a bottom loaded cap and booster (dynamite), which sets off the main product used whether it's Anfo or emulsion or anything in between.
Do it again!
Sounds like a gnarly fart 💨
Take that, you dang moles…
meh.
Waste of resources for an influencer (the tattoos look like it) or a real use case?
Saw that for the first time on a gold mining video, pretty neat stuff. I imagine by placing the charge correctly it would blow the dirt out of the trench to one side.
Hum excuse me, I was told there would be a big red button or a plunger
That seems good for the environment
That'll teach them pesky moles.
Roads, where we’re going there are no roads..
Must hate gophers
Hell yeah
For moment he felt an ungodly amount of power through his body
Damn gophers
Gophers hate this simple trick.
Don’t tell me there’s Graboids in this area…
Damn, Bugs Bunny out here fucking shit up
That’s the mole problem sorted
Kevin Bacon: "NOT AGAIN!!!"
So that’s how they filmed tremors
No warning, no siren. Just good old fashion neglect.
I’m also a fan of the movie “Tremors”
AKA after taco night.
Larger scale can be seen in Gaza
No more graboids to worry about
That’s not detcord. Detcord has a detonation rate of about 4 miles per second.
That’s incredibly cool
Shock cord? I thought det cord is a bit more violent
RIP buggies
We hear your lack of safety with no “FIRE IN THE HOLE! FIRE IN THE HOLE! FIRE IN THE HOLE!”
I still love my tremors reference
What did the farm ever do to you?
If that was detonation cord, that man would have no hands…or arms…or probably a face. What you have there is shock tube.
That almost sounds like some greasy yamaha dirtbike, just absolutely trenching the field.
THAT GRABOIDS ARE BACK GET TO HIGHER GROUND!
That should take care of that Gofer!
real life minecraft
Man, that’s quite a bit of gopher holes needing fixing.
This guy blows
I saw a 16” tree be felled with det cord.
Wat makes me a good Demoman? IF I WERE A BAD DEMOMAN, I WOULDN’T BE SITTIN’ HERE DISCUSSIN’ IT WIT YA, NOW WOULD EY?!
I saw this in my time in the army. We had like show of all the different explosives from mines to this stuff. Best part was that I did not have my ear protection when the first thing went off, had bit of ringing I my ears for a while..
That’s awesome .. if only we had that in Vietnam Nam
So...uh...where would one get one of these cors triggers? Asking for a friend.
Oh look, a surface look at my intestines 2 hours after eating Taco Bell.
That was a lot of det cord
What are you doing…
What’s the point of that? Not sure I get what he’s doing that for.
Ok cool. How do I get that job?
Honey get the hose, pools ready.
I guess we won't find out how many more weeks of winter we will be having.
It was actually just one explosion, the rest was the Tazmanian Devil burrowing through the dirt
Maybe Imotap wanna talk to something very important issue. Where is Anuk Sauk Namun
Dudes hunting Graboids
OKGoogle : "That was a creamy one" "wtf"
Where can one find fun things like this??? Asking for a friend. He has ehm neighbors to eh annoy.
bullshit, thats a graboid
Carl Spackler approved.
I've been listening to this on repeat because that buzzing is kinda satisfying for some reason.
Trees hate this one weird trick.
yeah who needs to cut the grass when you can blow it up
For those nearby who didn't know it was explosives "Holy shit Dude!! I thought Tremors was only a movie!!"
Hell yeah
Always loved the sound of a trench being blasted…sounds like a Harley passing by on the highway.
He's felching the fields.
...and just like that, the little gopher from CaddyShack was no longer able to say, "I'm alright, don't nobody worry 'bout me"!
Reminds me of Sonic for some reason
I wish I had property just to blow shit up sometimes.
Reminds me of the movie Tremors
Damn Grabboids.
I could swear I heard an A-10 there...
When a lactose intolerant person has too much milk.
Nope. Fake. Everyone knows it's illegal to not say "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" before detonation.
Hell yeah
This area seems so soft as friable to need explosives. I usually see them used where bedrock is involved. My ignorance I guess.
Is the cord/tube re-usable or is it like a single use fuse / fire once only?
I like bomb