just finished my rat stretchers. Made 2 Large, 2 med., 2 small. I don't trap to many rats so didn't need to do so many. Now just to do the belly wedges.

Just picked up 2 dozen Bridger #2 Dogless from Jerry Jr. and a dozen dogproof traps. Borrowing some and dipping a dozen for Jerry.

Traded a dozen Montgomery #2 Dogless and 5 Victor #2 DLS for a recurve and half dozen arrows. Not sure if it was a good deal or not.

I’m boiling traps on my stove and will hang in my basement to dry before dipping in FMJ. I have a dozen in the pot now and another dozen on deck.

I’m loving my new gas stove with one of those 80,000 BTU burners. It’s making quick work of this pot of water.

still making wax dirt made 10 gallons so far tested some yesterday as of tonight water still setting on it, using 1/2 pound wax to 1 gallon dirt

just finished belly boards for my rat stretchers. Getting everything ready now for fall.

Going to watch Trapper Jake for the umteenth time. What an amazing man he was. Imagine the amount of knowledge that passed with him.

Welding up 6 dozen 48" coni supports for 110s. then make a few dozen more 48" 330 h stands

Hauled in a 122 lb beaver from the arkansas river, had it almost in the boat....then i woke up......

Made about 7 gallons of waxed dirt since it was hot and NOT raining.

Made 3 dozen cable stakes.

Made a deal with MINK I LOVE IN trap shed, more traps

Got 30 gallons of dry dirt sifted and ready to wax this weekend. My first year trapping and completely forgot about getting dirt ready, so sifting dirt with a colander really sucks!

I've been converting a corner of my shop building into my fur shed. Today I put up my skinning machine I bought from ADC. It looks good I can't wait to use it.

Welding up a few drags

finish dipping some traps.The KBL dye is good on my old traps but the newer traps are a little lite.I did 2 doz 110 1 doz 11 and 6 220 and still have dye left.GOOD STUFF

I boiled traps and bought some 2x4’s to make a trap hanger in the yard tomorrow. I want to be dipping traps tomorrow.

Waxed dirt and waxed dirt

Had an extra smart pot cooker laying around as a gift. They work great for melting several pounds of clean unscented parafin wax! Then just move setting to low Which on this thing was about 160 degrees and fed it a steady diet of traps all day long. Was cleaning the garage anyway so this was my side gig. Ran about a hundred traps through it during the afternoon.
Safe, no flames, easy to control the temps, and hey it was something we had and were not using anyway. When it cools off overnight I just put the sealed lid on it, locked it down...so wax stays clean in there and ready for more future dips.
I should see if the Mrs has any more cool things we don't use around here.
Jim

Bucket of #2 longs waxed and ready to go.


Bucket of new degreased, but undyed and waxed #3 Bridger ready to go.

Good idea Jabne , thanks for sharing. Only thing I did today was look at some tanned fox hides hangin on my wall.

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Jim, I like long springs and I'm a huge #2 long spring fan. Just seeing that bucketfull raised my blood pressure a couple notches.LOL

The smart cooker is a heck of an idea too, by the way. Thanks.