Vacuum trucks are versatile machines — cleaning sewers, potholing utilities, prairie dog control.
Yes, prairie dog control. That’s what one man has been using a vac truck for over the past three decades.Gay Balfour operates Dog-Gone Prairie Dog Control out of Cortez, Colorado. In 1991 he had the idea of modifying a sewer cleaning truck into a varmint vacuuming machine. He bought a truck on sale from a nearby sewer district and configured it specifically for capturing prairie dogs alive. The suction power is strong enough to pull the prairie dogs from their holes but slows them down as they approach
