Ok guys, what is this? I've so much to learn...

[MountainGirl]

Found this on the ground, it runs for about 50'. Thought it might be the top of a tunnel of some sort, poked a stick around in the 1" dia hole where it stopped, felt hollow for about 6" down but didn't trail back along under itself.

It's point of origin is in a sandy pile next to a tree.
Any guesses what created it?
I sure appreciate y'all helping me learn about things here.

(And I'll just use this thread when the next mystery show up)

 

[Sam7sf]

A north Vietnamese tunnel. Get your rifle.

 

[TxStetson]

Mole or gopher probably.

 

[General Zod]

 

[MountainGirl]

I forgot to mention - it wasn't there yesterday. This came overnight.

 

[Sam7sf]

I forgot to mention - it wasn't there yesterday. This came overnight.

Definitely nva with an sks.

 

[MountainGirl]

Mole or gopher probably.

Maybe a mole.. They're small, yes?
That whole strip is under 2" wide -

 

[OutlawStar]

Its a job for Dale Gribble! Your barn cats, hawks, and owls are not doing their job!

I remember those mole tunnels at my great grandmothers house. She got tired of people driving across her yard on snowmobiles in the winter and left the mole traps in place after first snow. It didn't damage the snowmobiles like she had hoped.

 

[Geezer]

 

[Ausländer]

@OutlawStar beat me to it...

We used traps like that in the military to get rid of groundhogs, moles, etc... Ours had the old school tall bicycle flags attached to them so you could do a drive-by and see which ones had been activated.

 

[Otto_Mation]

Looks like a mole but I have never seen one that goes for 50'.

 

[General Zod]

Looks like it killed the grass above it as it tunneled through - moles eat grubs and worms, while gophers eat plant roots. So, I'm thinking you've got a gopher. Not that the rest of the grass is green, but it's at least still there.

 

[Byrd666]

Part of it looks like a dry ground crack, and part of it looks like mole/gopher tunnel.

 

[Army 1911]

Dillo den.

 

[seeker_two]

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[MountainGirl]

Looks like it killed the grass above it as it tunneled through - moles eat grubs and worms, while gophers eat plant roots. So, I'm thinking you've got a gopher. Not that the rest of the grass is green, but it's at least still there.


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It not only killed the grass above the roots, it ate it or carried it away, and covered 50+ feet in one night. Can gophers do that?

Maybe I can get a better picture. It's as if I'd have taken a 2" putty knife, and drug it across the lawn, 1/4" deep, taking up all grass material.

Gonna try for a better pic -

 

[Sasquatch]

You need more snakes around your property

 

[jimbo]

I have moles and they leave a raised mound on their tunnel under the grass and the grass mound is about 2 inches high. I can stomp the mound down by walking on it. Your tunnel looks like the grass on top of the tunnel is gone. So I would guess gophers are your problem. Just a guess.
Either one is very hard to kill.

 

[General Zod]

The collapsed tunnel (or trough maybe) is weird - here the moles and gophers only leave occasional raised mounds where they poke their heads up out of the ground. But that could just be your soil conditions.

Now if that's not a collapsed tunnel and is actually a trough dug in your lawn with the grass completely removed...then I have no freakin' idea what did that and you'd better arm up in case it comes back.

 

[MountainGirl]

Ok, no raised areas - but it does look like after they did whatever, they left behind a thin layer of fine sand to dress the whole top of the run -

But wait - there's more mystery. At the end, around the hole, (where I put the stick) there is almost a perfect a circle of red leaf crumbs - and there is no other plant material (trees, bushes, etc) in this 2 acre yard that has those red leaves - (they look brown in the pic, but they are very red) And they are no where else along that...whatever the hell it is.