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Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: follow maggie on July 05, 2024, 08:59:17 AM

Title: Wire cutters
Post by: follow maggie on July 05, 2024, 08:59:17 AM: A couple years ago there was a thread on here where cutters for steel cables was brought up. I’ve spent a couple hours searching & cannot find it for the life of me. I need a get a set of cutters able to cut steel wire this year since I’m going to some places where trapping occurs during bird season. Does anyone know of a good set of cutters able to cut steel cable?

Thanks for the help.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: CP on July 05, 2024, 09:06:26 AM: .
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: wadu1 on July 05, 2024, 09:12:12 AM: Is this the one you are looking 4.
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,261500.msg3548404.html#msg3548404 (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,261500.msg3548404.html#msg3548404)
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Mustelidae on July 05, 2024, 09:16:48 AM: https://www.fntpost.com/product/standard-cable-cutters-66710661b11eb

These are what I use for cutting cable for all my trapping needs. It says they cut up to 3/32" but I cut 1/8" on the regular and it works just fine.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: follow maggie on July 05, 2024, 09:44:35 AM: Quote from: CP on July 05, 2024, 09:06:26 AM
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:chuckle: :chuckle:

I like your thinking! It’s a bit cumbersome though.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: 300rum on July 05, 2024, 10:06:18 AM: Never saw the thread but I have the Knipex 8" bolt cutters, they are handy. They have the leverage of a blot cutter but are more of a beefed up wire cutter. Don't let the term "bolt cutter" through you off.
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Post by: greenhead_killer on July 05, 2024, 11:07:10 AM: I’d look at getting a pair of Klein lineman pliers. Should cut trap cable no problem
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Post by: Cylvertip on July 05, 2024, 11:30:24 AM: DeWalt 7.5 Compound Cutters. - they have them in diagonal or linesman. They will cut through the thicker Python cable locks pretty easily (have cut several to retrieve trail cams due to tree swell making it impossible to turn the key in the lock) . Should work for any trap cable not meant for a grizzly. Not expensive and pretty compact.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: TeacherMan on July 05, 2024, 12:10:52 PM: I use two sets of pliers trapping. A set of lineman’s pliers and a hand set of cable cutters. The cable cutters are more than capable of cutting #9 wire with ease and 1/8” cable like butter. The only reason I carry lineman’s pliers is not to dull my cable cutters on tie wire that I’m constantly cutting.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Loup Loup on July 05, 2024, 01:24:45 PM: Just open the snare loop. No reason to cut the cable.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: TeacherMan on July 05, 2024, 01:39:34 PM: Quote from: Loup Loup on July 05, 2024, 01:24:45 PM
Just open the snare loop. No reason to cut the cable.

I’d still recommend having cutters, especially if it take you any amount of time to find your dog. I have no idea how many animals I’ve taken that had twisted the cable to the point you couldn’t open it, including my own English springer years ago. He was fine because his thick hair, he had decided to take himself for a walk while I was at work. I had my urban fox line when I lived in AK. There was just over 1,000 acres across the rd from my house I had a loop in. I made the mistake of taking him with me at night for his walk when I checked it. My wife called me at work saying he had gotten out and she couldn’t find him. Right away I knew he had went down the line. First snare I got to had him in it, he got very lucky the micro loc didn’t like his thick coat.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Loup Loup on July 05, 2024, 03:14:31 PM: When these guys are hunting with their dogs, if a dog gets in a snare, it stops and waits to be let off the leash. It’s easy. I would call your situation a free roaming dog issue. I’ve never seen a dog twist a snare cable at all.
Also I’ve caught a couple lost hounds, and one lost chukar dog, and returned them to their owners.
I was called by a musher. He’d had a dog get off the chain and he couldn’t catch it. It was eating a dead deer along the rr tracks and he was afraid it was going to get hit by the train. I set foothold traps and had it in a couple days. No problems.
As I said, just open up the loop and let your dog out. Or open the trap and let your dog out. No sense in spending more time and energy destroying another’s gear.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: lewy on July 05, 2024, 05:54:32 PM: Klein lineman pliers or fencing pliers from the feed store
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Ridgeratt on July 05, 2024, 06:20:19 PM: These and if there's a stainless wire it wont Knick the cutting edge.

https://www.amazon.com/Klein-D213-9NE-High-Leverage-Side-Cutting-Linemans/dp/B07DJ665ZK/ref=asc_df_B07DJ665ZK?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80195759881317&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583795278077508&psc=1
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: TeacherMan on July 05, 2024, 06:24:18 PM: Idaho required my daughter and I to take trappers ed when we moved here even though I’ve trapped over 30 yrs. The gentleman that taught the class out of Orofino said he gives out several pair of cable cutters a yr to all the hound guys in his area like the ones I posted. Lineman pliers don’t cut cable snares very well, even good ones. They are great on wire, not good on cable. It surprises people, most have never actually tried cutting a 3/32 cable. I can say I’ve cut and made 100s if not 1000s of snares. There is one tool you use to cut with. The thread was asking what actually cuts cable. And not ever dog sits, I know this first hand. I’ve returned collars with tags before to owners. With all the different kinds of locks and kill springs on snares and the thickness of a dogs hair it can be near impossible to reverse the lock. I also recommend carrying a piece of rope and a wooden dowel for larger conibear traps. Practice opening 330s a few times with it and you’ll be pretty fast at it.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Colin on July 08, 2024, 10:42:20 AM: Quote from: 300rum on July 05, 2024, 10:06:18 AM
Never saw the thread but I have the Knipex 8" bolt cutters, they are handy. They have the leverage of a blot cutter but are more of a beefed up wire cutter. Don't let the term "bolt cutter" through you off.
This is what I carry as well.

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Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: Pudelguy on July 08, 2024, 05:38:32 PM: Quote from: Loup Loup on July 05, 2024, 03:14:31 PM
When these guys are hunting with their dogs, if a dog gets in a snare, it stops and waits to be let off the leash. It’s easy. I would call your situation a free roaming dog issue. I’ve never seen a dog twist a snare cable at all.
Also I’ve caught a couple lost hounds, and one lost chukar dog, and returned them to their owners.
I was called by a musher. He’d had a dog get off the chain and he couldn’t catch it. It was eating a dead deer along the rr tracks and he was afraid it was going to get hit by the train. I set foothold traps and had it in a couple days. No problems.
As I said, just open up the loop and let your dog out. Or open the trap and let your dog out. No sense in spending more time and energy destroying another’s gear.

Sorry, but my bird dog is more valuable than your snare, if she gets caught, the snare gets cut. Snares kill bird dogs every season, hence the subject being brought up. I carry bicycle cable cutters made by Park Tools.
Title: Re: Wire cutters
Post by: follow maggie on July 09, 2024, 05:51:33 PM: Thanks everyone. Been out for a few days. I picked up a pair of the standard cutters that Mustilidae posted @ Scheels. Picked up a set of linemen’s side cutters too. I appreciate the help.