Pop was a pipe fitter/welder. We were running a 6" steel pipe from the plant we were working at out to various holding tanks on the property.
Inevitably 2 to 3 days a week when we started up in the morning there would be some variation of critters "napping" in the 40' stalks of pipe we were handling. After a 2 hour circus one morning trying to unass a skunk an old sideboom operator stopped laughing long enough to show us how to get them out of the pipe. He had us pick up one end of the pipe about 6 to 8 feet off the ground with a front end loader. He grabbed a torch and cranked up that sweet spot and hung the end of the torch(unlit) into the lower end of the pipe. After about 2 minutes he set that puppy off with a now lit torch. I'm pretty sure when them skunk hit the ground, they were hairless. I know for a fact they took the odor with them.
Oxygen and acetylene or a potent mix when properly applied.
Inevitably 2 to 3 days a week when we started up in the morning there would be some variation of critters "napping" in the 40' stalks of pipe we were handling. After a 2 hour circus one morning trying to unass a skunk an old sideboom operator stopped laughing long enough to show us how to get them out of the pipe. He had us pick up one end of the pipe about 6 to 8 feet off the ground with a front end loader. He grabbed a torch and cranked up that sweet spot and hung the end of the torch(unlit) into the lower end of the pipe. After about 2 minutes he set that puppy off with a now lit torch. I'm pretty sure when them skunk hit the ground, they were hairless. I know for a fact they took the odor with them.
Oxygen and acetylene or a potent mix when properly applied.
