brjh123 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Have a large termite mound in my garden -which I want to remove - have already bent my garden fork -what advice please can anyone offer. Drenching with hose (also tried) does not seem to have any 'softening' impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inzman Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Got a neighbor with a tractor, he could run over it a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerry123 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 a couple of bang fi should do the trick (excuse spelling) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leo202 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Yes go to your local firework shop and buy the biggest bangers you can get, then go to your local hardware shop and find a drill to match the diameter of your bangers. Pop in to the 7/11 and buy some toothpicks. When your home drill holes in the mound and place the bangers in, I've found that drilling in a spiral upwards around the mound has the best effect. Gather up all the local children and give them a tooth pick each, light the bangers and watch the mound shatter to smithereens. Tell the toothpick kids that you'll give 50 bhat to the one that fills there toothpick up with live termites first. When the winner comes with a full toothpick tell the kid he could of got a few more on and just give 20bhat, the kid will still be happy and no more termeits and a saving of 30 bhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farma Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 We used to use them crushed down for tennis courts when I was a kid. The easiest way was to cut around the mound base with an axe then tip them over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 They can be as hard as concrete, I ended up having to use a Makita hammer drill to break an entire underground city of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenKong Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Gather up all the local children and give them a tooth pick each, light the bangers and watch the mound shatter to smithereens. Tell the toothpick kids that you'll give 50 bhat to the one that fills there toothpick up with live termites first. When the winner comes with a full toothpick tell the kid he could of got a few more on and just give 20bhat, the kid will still be happy and no more termeits and a saving of 30 bhat. And I thought I was a cheap sh*t. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leo202 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Gather up all the local children and give them a tooth pick each, light the bangers and watch the mound shatter to smithereens. Tell the toothpick kids that you'll give 50 bhat to the one that fills there toothpick up with live termites first. When the winner comes with a full toothpick tell the kid he could of got a few more on and just give 20bhat, the kid will still be happy and no more termeits and a saving of 30 bhat. And I thought I was a cheap sh*t.The drills are expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJS 7R Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 TNT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrjlh Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Large Sledge Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farma Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 To expand on my earlier post. There is a knack to removing them. I was shown it by an old railway ganger and removed 50 or more as a 12 year old/early teen. Cut all around the base using an axe just where the mound meets the ground. You can then position crowbars to tip the mound over. The area under the mound is a crumbly honeycomb of crunchy dirt and will require fill after the mound is removed. We would then use sledgehammers to bust up the mound. The powdered mounds were then used like a poor mans concrete to make dirt tennis court and carport surfaces. It was a case of spreading it out, lightly watering it then rolling with a heavy roller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topt Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I trust the Op has already killed off the termites - not knowing how close the mound is to the house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taff33 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Open up the top then pore used oil cooking or engine oil in to it,it sounds silly but it does work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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