boiling traps ,I love doing this ,an getting ready for fall ,how many of you do it the old way

me

pcr I like your set up , I have a few friends coming over Wednesday to do there traps , they only have a few so we get together at my place an have lunch

we cook over an open fire like that all we can all summer and fall.that's last year and i can tell by the pile of smushed black walnuts in the road this mornin its close to time again.usually first sat. in oct.--archery opener.

I cold soaked this year in black walnuts just for something different. Old school.

Old school here also,enjoy the smell and fall is in the air,knowing burn circles are going to start appearing in the near future.

I do I'm not going to change now if it ain't broke don't fix it.

propane here- boiling




waxing-

I quit doing this years ago, figuring this as just another chore that needs to be completed as quickly as possible. Now you got me thinking maybe it's one of those things a guy should slow down and enjoy. Thanks for the reminder.

It's time. Old school here. Wood fire with a simmering pot of staghorn sumac dye works for me

its gotten to be enough of a ritual with me that i'm usually amazed by the people that stop that weekend.

I got a big pot from Cabelas years ago to short my time to boil my traps over a wood fire that will dye them, then use a LP burner to wax them after. I been doing this since I started trapping . As for conibears I just cold dip in a rubber mix with gas that I bought from the fur buyer I had deal with many years ago and bought what he had left at the time. I let those traps hang till the smell is off of gas. then done with them.

Most years I simmer them hard over the campfire like that....some years its in the Garage over propane.

We are still in a heat wave here Trapper. I wait for that first cool spell and get the old pot out and get a fire going and make a couple of days out of it. The smell of the wood fire and the crispness of the early fall air just makes me want to puts some traps in the dirt.

Old school, kinda... I made a boiler out of a 55gal drum a few years back to replace an open fire.

Weed burner heats the barrel and the tip of the flame heats the wax at the same time it goes quick that way.

I did mine a couple weeks ago. Open fire for dyeing and turkey cooker for wax.

All my land traps are powder coated. So It's a few minutes to power wash and dry and set. But I do miss the fall trap boiling well I think I do. LOL

You guys have some nice set ups.

another funny one i do every year is run down the road at daylight and sweep the crushed black walnuts from the people runnin over them.if you don't get em quick though the squirrels and deer will about clean the road.filled a 5 gal pail this morning and watched a nice buck while doin it.