home made traps

[bob maier]

Dbfalls, if I'm reading what you printed correctly your swim thru traps are 36" long? I think you will find that is to short to consistently catch otter/beaver. With the inside door design you don't have enough room for the door to close before the critter is thru the trap. Just my opinion but I think you'll catch more w 4' traps. If your paying $24. For a 20' length of 1/4" rod your getting robbed, think I payed $8. For the last on I bought.

[hardkorrhunter]

200' of cold rolled 1/4" round stock costs me some where around $50. But I order straight through the company I work for on a payroll deduct. We order out steel through the chihalis steel company so I don't have to pay for shipping and we get a company discount of around 10%

[danderson]

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[dbfalls]

Your right Bob that was a miss print. I need proof read before I post, it should have read 200'. I make guillotine doors like Advanced Traps has. The springs are the expensive part, haven't found a spot to buy them in bulk yet. The trap is big enough. Caught beaver in them last year, plenty of room. Go to advanced traps web sight and watch his videos. I've only caught raccoon in then so far, haven't found a good spot for beaver yet.

[bob maier]

Dbfalls, I thought you were using swing doors, guillotine door will work on 3' cages. Just hard to hide the doors w a trap set  in a run. When set doors would stick out. I'm paranoid about theft, hopefully you won't have that problem.

[dbfalls]

I haven't yet Bob but the Kirk DeKalb trap and the Comstock trap I have they both have 10' of 5/16 cable attached to them. So I can lock them down.

[Humptulips]

I promised I was going to get a picture of my new cat traps I made so here they are if a little late.

Single door,closes from side, conibear trigger, 10x18x42



Small door in side to aid in setting. No frame work in back 1/3 of trap.

[Machias]

Bruce how much do those cost you to make?  Any chance you can show a close up of the trigger and locking mech, or maybe a drawing?  Thanks!

[Humptulips]

Bruce how much do those cost you to make?  Any chance you can show a close up of the trigger and locking mech, or maybe a drawing?  Thanks!

Cost of materials is just over $25. Time you paint them you have pretty close to $30 in one. There is no locking mechanism on the door. It is a spring loaded door and closes from the inside  so the pressure of the springs holds the door against the door frames. Look at the picture and you will see the pieces in the corner of the door frame that look like braces. The door is held tight against them by the springs when sprung.
The trigger is basically the same as my swim throughs.


That is off one of my swim throughs. The cat traps use the same design but the trigger extends from the side of the trap instead of the top. I also moved the mechanism to the center of the door so it held it open evener. Turn one of my swim throughs on its side and that is pretty much what you have in my cat traps. Only one door on the cat traps though.

[Machias]

Awesome, thank you!!

[kirkdekalb]

Your right Bob that was a miss print. I need proof read before I post, it should have read 200'. I make guillotine doors like Advanced Traps has. The springs are the expensive part, haven't found a spot to buy them in bulk yet. The trap is big enough. Caught beaver in them last year, plenty of room. Go to advanced traps web sight and watch his videos. I've only caught raccoon in then so far, haven't found a good spot for beaver yet.

[patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. The infringing party will be liable to the owner of the patent for all profits made from the use of the invention, as well as any harm which can be shown by the inventor, whether the infringement was intentional or not. (See: patent, infringement/quote]


I have a patent Dbfalls. You just told the world you are breaking the law and you are encouraging others to do the same. I have given the right to no one. Read the law again, especially the part about liability.


Kirk DeKalb

[onetrapper]

Oopsie

[dbfalls]

 I am sorry Kirk didn't mean to infringe on your rights. Tell me, unless I'm mistaken the springs and the way they are set up to power the door are what you have a patent on correct? And if that's the case I will take the springs off the  6 doors I've made and revamp it with my own design. One more thing why don't you sell replacement parts for your traps such as the doors. Because the trigger and the dog on your traps can be purchase at stores or on line and they are what conibear uses. Thank You

[dbfalls]

In my last comment I forgot to mention that there is no profit in trapping. That went out the window when the tree huggers made it so we had to use cage traps, and gas is over $3 a gallon. It's a hobby not a business. The only business is those that mine the miners.

[ruger357]

  I would have to agree with that no one here is trying to take any business from you we are all just here to in joy the hobby and save some money in doing so. I know I for one can't afford to go spend 200bucks per trap and if you have the ability to build it by all means do it. That's just my