here are the pics of the bucket trap i use that i get the kit at the snareshop.com $35 for each kit and then 2 buckets...only about an hour or less per bucket to put together

I have a few. I do several accounts for nursing homes and restaurants requiring trapping coons from dumpster enclosures. I like them because no one seems to figure out they are traps! Have never had one stolen or even tampered with.

However, coons will destroy the activating rods about every 3rd catch, which is a bad ratio. If the rods were enclosed in some type of conduit or tube it would make the traps hold up a lot better. Yes, they are 1/4" rods, but turning them into a pretzel isn't even a challenge to dumpster-diving coons.

I sure miss Dennison,,,,,,,rip grandma and grandpa......

PS.....cronks has a good pork tenderloin samich......

ron...that would be an easy fix...i will have to try that with the pvc...probably 1.5" to go over it...will go to menards today and try that

I have one. Drawbacks: it's very bulky, about 1.5x the size of a Tom 1079. Also, the bait door - being made of plastic, duh - is subject to being shredded by the first coon that feels like it. When that happened to my trap, I could see that with about two minutes' more work, he would have been outta there!
Other than that, a good and serviceable trap, that- as Ron says - doesn't really look like a trap.