Saturday, January 19, 2013

Burrow Blocker at Work

The squirrels have burrowed holes the size of Volkswagons (truth!) under the walnut ranch road.  To the rescue:  Burrow Blockers!  This Central Valley firm injects a slurry of sand and water down the enormous burrows of the ground squirrels and fills the burrow with sand, blocking further use of the hole.  Eventually, the squirrels are eliminated (sadly, they are a vermin in the orchard, and destroy trees, the crop, as well as the road).  www.burrowblocker.com

The holes are marked with flags for fillung with sand, then the rig with its sand/water slurry moves along the road, placing th e delivery hose down each open squirrel hole.

As the sands pumps down the hole--which in one case took over 500 gallons, thus the Volkswagon analogy--the voids are filled with the sand which dries and is a blockage to further squirrel activity.  The sand fills the hole all of the way to the top of the hole.

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