Re: Smashed Trap Repair (Pictorial)
[Re: Tactical.20]
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12/31/19 03:22 PM
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I had to fix a couple number 3 Bridget's, #3 Northwoods, and 1-75 Northwoods, vice and pliers, vice grips, big hammer. If your traps are 1/4" round rod laminated, base plated the will hold up a lot better if run over, worse thing is a liquid manure wagon, many tons of weight, some tractor, fertilizer spreaders ran over my modified #3's and traps we're not damaged I have found that they get the worst damage when they are run over while sprung. Like when it gets too wet and soft for me to drive on the farm lanes and I spring the line off (like right now). I spring them and toss them up on the center hump or edge as far as the chain will allow. A couple of years ago a farmer used a tractor with front tires in the center (not his regular tractor) to pull a manure wagon out to the fields. My traps were sprung that day. The smashed pile got a lot bigger! Interesting about the laminations and base-plating, It makes sense. As I said above; I laminated all my Bridgers last year, have to get new springs on them. Hopefully that will save some jaws.
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Re: Smashed Trap Repair (Pictorial)
[Re: Nessmuck]
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12/31/19 03:25 PM
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I’d spend the 12.00 and buy another trap.......:)..... But seeing you got 90..... that would get a little pricey Send your damaged traps to me Nessie!
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Re: Smashed Trap Repair (Pictorial)
[Re: Sullivan K]
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12/31/19 03:33 PM
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I believe you should not be using a claw hammer to pound on an anvil. That is what a ball peen hammer is made for. Claw hammers can chip when hitting hard surfaces. Claw hammers are made for driving nails into soft wood. I have only seem a claw hammer chip once, but it did break a pretty good chunk off the head of the claw hammer. You should do some research on difference between ball peen and claw hammers. You are right Keith. In my defense: this is a brand new shop, still setting it up. Everything in the old shop was crated up, the building was torn down and this one was built in it's place. I have a crate full of peeners, cross peens, drift punch hammers, club hammers and many more around here somewhere. I guess I should dig them out.
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Re: Smashed Trap Repair (Pictorial)
[Re: Lugnut]
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12/31/19 08:33 PM
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I’d spend the 12.00 and buy another trap.......:)..... But seeing you got 90..... that would get a little pricey Send your damaged traps to me Nessie! I don’t have a tractor...to run them ovah ...lol
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Re: Smashed Trap Repair (Pictorial)
[Re: Lugnut]
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01/01/20 11:23 AM
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I think Bob nailed it. The first tire springs them and if the second tire hits them that's when the most damage is done. If they're run over set in the bed the damage is not too bad. If they're hit while sprung they can get mangled pretty bad.
A deep bed helps if just one tire gets them while set. My beds are usually at least three inches deep with a double stake swivel staked in the bottom then filled with peat. The levers and jaws sit on little shelves I pound into the bed for trap stability. They only have a thin layer of peat under them. The trap is covered with one-half to an inch of peat with a depression over the pan (place foot here please).
I've had some run over in the bed and missed by the trailing tire that were barely damaged.
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