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I made one of these and I’m 0 for 5. Gophers keep pushing it full of dirt without setting it off. I know it works cause I tested it. Any suggestions?

I used a 1” masonry bit with my hammer drill in sandstone.

I use a 1 3/8 masonry bit - one hole ~ one pole

I made one of these, and I had to run the wires over the top of the canon because the little bastards plugged all the wires in front of the canon with dirt and it didn’t go off

Thanks!

Genius, I made the fix - was able to return the “new” knobs to Amazon. Webber needs to steps up its QC and permanently fix this problem. At this point I’d pay $30-50 for 3rd party knobs with metal inserts.

Hello there, As a suggestion add a counter weight to the T-Post to assist in getting it past the hard pan, and take some strain off your shoulders, Best wishes KPP nz

Several years ago was asked to help some friends fix their fence here in central Montana. If your not familiar with this area, we have similar shale and sandstone as well as many bluffs/cliffs of this rock on the edge of ravines and coulees. I am a contractor by trade, but also have a small ranch. I took my small portable gas powered generator and a Milwaukee hammer drill with a 3/4 inch masonry bit to drill holes not only in the layered dirt, but also straight into the solid rocks of the bluff right up to the edge. No more 'A' frame wood constructs or tree branch barricades!!! Once the hole was drilled, pounded those 'T' posts straight in!! (Might want to back fill those holes in the rock to keep the water out. Expanding spray foam works great.)

Yeah. I used a hammer drill with a generator and a half inch long mason bit in limestone shale.

Did we just become best friends!!!!!!

Six years later and you're still helping people with your advice. Thanks for the tip

Even with the video being 2 years old, I took great satisfaction in the sound of the trap going off while you were setting the one for the video. I would 100% do this if I didn't have my 4 year old daughter driving her power wheels all over the property. What I've been using with great success are gopher hawk traps. 105 gophers in the last month using 16 traps for the other gopher haters out there reading this! We keep a tally sheet on our fridge. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to share this. You really made my day. 😊

You can also just buy a new manifold with the orifices already installed

Just had a professional fence installer tell me he couldn't put in all my posts due to rock. He would have to rent a heavy duty compressor to power a jack hammer. He didn't even put in half of the posts he was supposed to because of rock. Perhaps my rock is harder than your sedentary rock, don't know, but thanks for your video.

I put zipties on mine

It sure helps me..... I am in Arizona and there is no soft pack here we have rock and a substance called Caliche which is actually the base to make Portland cement...... never thought about drilling and i think it will be a big help here..... thanks a bunch

If this is going to work my friend you will save/make me a lot of money... I had myself thought about drilling a hole, but it did not cross my mind to use steel for the posts... What a dumbass 🥵... Will post results in a few months (we have a lot of limestone on our pastures around here - maybe 5-10 cm of earth, below that mostly limestone)...

what kind of bit are you using?

I use my Jack hammer. Needs power so not as portable as your drill. But same concept.

Just to make people aware...orifice sizes can vary on the grills. My Weber Spirit 2, E-310 has 3 burners and the orifice size for it is 0.9mm or .035"

I can't fu ck ing believe I never thought of using a masonry bit. I used them all the time running pec pipe and wires through brick n cement etc. Sheesh a light dawns on Marblehead

Facing some rock on my property. Will definitely do the drill bit, but im also going to check in on renting a power post driver.

Thanks for the video, it was my smoking gun convincing a old timer that wanted to know if there were special tools made for getting tposts into rockbedded areas along a new fence line located in very remote rugged areas. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

I do not want to receive a package in the mail from this guy.

I have been building fences for years and placed t-posts in rock 75% of the time. This has to be the biggest joke I've ever seen. The drill is not a hammer drill, the drill is small, the bit is short, and HES NOT DRILLING THROUGH ROCK. Wake up people, us common sense.

I've been using hole spray in the 40oz can.

hammer drill

Awesome, just starting my project in the Texas Hill County and after 6" of soil it's solid limestone. This will help!

Another way is to heat UP the face plate(with a torch) and knock it OFF with a hammer !!!

Thank you , I learned a very good hint today . I faced a similar problem and had to put the project on hold . I may go back and finish my fencing project now . I admire the fact that your son is willing to offer help unlike many kids of his age. Salute from Sadi Arabia 🇸🇦

Great Video Tim the toolman

My soil is Glacial till, lots of big rock. I use a 1" bit on my roto-hammer. 1 inch gives a perfect size hole to drive a T post in.

Great! Thanks for sharing.

They pull off

@27:14 "What do we hear? The BOOM! The Boom-Of-Death!" The sound of Victory!

This is extremely helpful! We have 12 acres on hard bed rock to dig thru in northern Arkansas. Putting up a fence seemed like a daunting task until I saw your video. THANK YOU!

"This one probably blew him pretty far back in the hole" LMFAO 😂 This guy is as Looney as I am with these destructive little critters. I'm coming up with all sorts of Mole eliminating devices from ones similar to this one, spring loaded spikes of death, piano wire suicide snares to the Mole Electric Avenue BBQ Assassin trap.

How did you get the knobs off?

great video!!! YOUR THE MAN!

Awesome tip! Thank you!

Dude thank you so much 🙂

I have a Weber 470. I just replaced the whole valve assembly, all new burners, and new knobs. I originally bought the bbq for around 2000$ now they are going for 2900. Was very disappointed in WEber when I called an got some gal that could hardly speak english at their call center in freaking Chile....what a sell out Weber!

Where do u buy #62 drill bit

First off get a better ladder. Second and more importantly get the kid a helmet. First time off grid ? Safety First.

Hi what size drill holes would you need to convert to natural gas. Anyone know ?

240p we meet again

a step further!!!

Good video but did you film it with a pager?

Thank for sharing the info, we are facing the same issue with underground rocks.

I used plastic zip tie’s