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Title: A lot of trap building
Post by: Bigshooter on May 22, 2013, 06:51:49 PM: Trapperguy22 and I have been doing a lot of trap building. Here's a pic of some almost finished collapsible traps. My hands are killing me already and we have just started.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Beartrap on May 22, 2013, 07:42:54 PM: what is the size? They look small.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Bigshooter on May 22, 2013, 08:25:58 PM: 6x8x22 and 6x8x24. For rats.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: 3nails on May 22, 2013, 08:36:56 PM: While you're at it, mix in a couple of these designs. My multiple catch rates increased dramatically with the double wides with the 2" upper extension and the singles with the extension. :twocents:
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Bigshooter on May 22, 2013, 09:12:23 PM: Quote from: 3nails on May 22, 2013, 08:36:56 PM
While you're at it, mix in a couple of these designs. My multiple catch rates increased dramatically with the double wides with the 2" upper extension and the singles with the extension. :twocents:

We made 10 double wides. But I didnt take a pic. What's the extension?
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: 3nails on May 22, 2013, 09:52:33 PM: The trap with the rats in it is 6"w x8" tall. The door is 6x6 so when the rat bites the top of the cage (which they almost always do) there is still room for another rat to push in under the first one. All of the traps I make now are this style because of how well they have trapped. My double wides have this also.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Bigshooter on May 22, 2013, 10:26:32 PM: Quote from: 3nails on May 22, 2013, 09:52:33 PM
The trap with the rats in it is 6"w x8" tall. The door is 6x6 so when the rat bites the top of the cage (which they almost always do) there is still room for another rat to push in under the first one. All of the traps I make now are this style because of how well they have trapped. My double wides have this also.

I see now.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Cougar125 on May 23, 2013, 03:14:51 AM: I get the 2" extension making it a 6"x8", but wouldn't a 3" extension, 6"x9", make it easier for a rat to push through? I have never built a trap, but plan to after deployment, and I'm thinking if 2" works, then 3" would be just as easy, if not easier for rats to push in.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: Jonathan_S on May 28, 2013, 04:27:47 PM: Quote from: Cougar125 on May 23, 2013, 03:14:51 AM
I get the 2" extension making it a 6"x8", but wouldn't a 3" extension, 6"x9", make it easier for a rat to push through? I have never built a trap, but plan to after deployment, and I'm thinking if 2" works, then 3" would be just as easy, if not easier for rats to push in.

I imagine it would make it easier still. However I don't think it's very necessary.

I am no master at muskrat trapping but I've caught several hundred in this setup and I've had up to eight in a "double wide" with only a 2" dropdown.

I agree with 3Nails, those "double wide" traps are great for bottom edge sets and will catch mink too. Sometimes it's hard to pull a cold mink that's up to his hips in the 1x2" wire though.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 28, 2013, 08:40:01 PM: I have used both and think both the collapsible and the double wide have their place. If you have wide run close to the truck the double wides work good. If you are walking to a pond a ways you can carry two dozen of the collapsibles easily and if it is a wide run you can put two traps side by side. As for the bite bars I have caught them in both and multiples in both so I am not sure.
Title: Re: A lot of trap building
Post by: pnwmtnmn on June 02, 2013, 10:53:29 PM: I build all of the traps shown and more I build a double wide with the "bite bars" and also in a folding version, In a folding you cannot have a "bite bar" unless you want to carry wire or zip ties to secure it across the front.