This nasty bastard came out of from under a pile of old lumber in our barn and tried to attack my brother in law. Luckily he had on some really thick coveralls with jeans underneath and it didn't break skin or he would be getting rabies shots. Carroll county is sending the corpse out to get tested.
Was a freak occurrence for sure and a reminder as to why we keep firearms handy around the farm. Health dept thinks we should know if it was rabies by monday.
You guys wanting to hunt ground hogs need to search out the Vegetable farmers. The one up near me is paying $5 to a trapper for each one he catches and kills. Save a farmer money is always a good in. Also ask farmers growing soy beans. Most rotate fields every other year to it. If you're in the air ground a hog hole in soy fields look like a bomb crater as they eat everything around it. Or they eat heavy on the edge of the woods or rock break
Farmers hate them because they destroy beans and even worse on vegetable. If you had a garden you know how they bite one tomato 3 times and grab another one. Every farmer knows stories of someone that either died or got hurt breaking a front tractor wheel in a ground hog hole and rolling or damn near rolling a tractor.
Oh they will destroy equipment. Imagine a large harvester running along and the front wheel goes down in a hog crater. The machine takes a beating. The head tends to dive into the dirt on at least the one side, this means that repairs are required. Right in the middle of harvest. If they can't be made quickly, crop may be lost due to inability to harvest.
It's bad news.
Yeah, given the mention, I can see how that could indeed be a problem. Just goes to show my lack of knowledge with regard to farm life and equipment.