Re: Plowed traps
[Re: danny clifton]
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01/09/20 09:43 PM
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rick brocious
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get a metal detector and go get your stuff. you can probably fix most of them It happened to me one year and thats what I did . They actually weren't that far from where they were set .
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: Finster]
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01/09/20 09:50 PM
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gryhkl
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Plowed under and run over. It's happened to me many times and it's part of doing business. It's not that the they average farmer doesn't care. They are very busy people and probably the last thing on his mind was your traps. This is how I look at it too. Most who trap farm land have had this happen. I have found a few with a metal detector that I was able to fix or save parts from.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 10:39 PM
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Bob
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Yup, several times. I never complain though, because I am a guest on their property. It’s not the farmers responsibility to know where your traps are, he’s got a living to make. I had one landowner that saw me checking near where he did some tractor work and he texted and offered to replace any traps that got messed up, and I politely turned him down. It’s one of the hazards of trapping farmland, if you don’t want traps run over don’t set em in fields.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/09/20 11:23 PM
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NonPCfed
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I'd be more concerned taking out one of their big tires and costing them to repair or replace.
One nice aspect living in an area where there is an actual winter where no field work can get done. They're not even supposed to spread manure nowadays in the dead of winter, just will run off with the thaw.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 01:43 AM
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Tactical.20
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My dog found a couple that got buried in Wyoming once With her nose
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 02:11 AM
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i trap early season here so i have traps run over and or discked under every year. between combines, tractors pulling wagons, tractors plowing fields, semi's, farmers in trucks, sprayers, lime trucks, soil testers, deer hunters driving around. etc etc. its pretty rare not to have at least one or two traps run over or plowed under a year.
i've had farmers tell me they will not be working the ground until spring, only to come to a plowed up field a few days later. or won't be working the ground for a few weeks or at all and then out of the blue there it is all plowed up.
had one farmer once tell me he wouldn't be working the ground at all and so i set traps that day only to come back the next morning to a plowed up field. that one really (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) me off. lol
had another farmer tell me he was done working the ground for the year and so i set traps. 3 days later he disc it again.
working around dairy farms i have no doubt that the illegal mexians like running over your traps. have had them watch me make sets and come back the next day to run over traps.
i could go on and on
Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 02:18 AM
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bluegrassman
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if your gonna trap farm ground you got to get used to it happening and get used to fixing traps. i they run it over with one wheel its usually just reset it and go but after that first wheel runs it over and the trap snaps shut then if another wheel runs it over thats when it gets all bent up.
you need a cheap metal detector. usually when there disced under there usually right there where you set them. just buried. try to get a pretty good idea in your mind about where they are when you set them. just in case.
Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 02:25 AM
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bluegrassman
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i've gotten pretty good over the years at setting locations where there not gonna get runover, etc. it amazes me sometimes how no matter where you set them someone comes along and runs them over. place you would think no one would ever run them over some one does. lol
Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 08:18 AM
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Kevin Stake
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A Bridger and a Jake cannot hold a loaded semi trailer of corn either. I found that out this year. Got the Bridger fixed working on the Jake. I would find a metal detector and go find them, they might be ok.
It is more blessed to give than to receive
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 09:05 AM
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Wright Brothers
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I have a detector and fresh batts in Butler you are welcome to use. It has never failed to find traps. You do not want to know machinery repair costs.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 09:09 AM
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careful,we are not high on their list and a lot of times it would be easier for them if we were'nt there.i feel for ya-have had dozens damaged and my first thought is always-man i hope i didn't mess up the farmers machine.
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 09:34 AM
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You guys have it rough, lol Not saying I don't feel for you but....try setting 100 conch pots, and losing 20% EVERY YEAR...and that bouy isn't buried but floating high and bright. Most are run over and cut off by recreational boaters , frankly , by guys like a lot of you out recreating, and I go out of my way trying to keep them out of the line of fire. When I add up the lost conch, crab, eel, etc, gear, it adds up to serious money for replacements. I don't complain, I just make more and carry on, it's part of the business. Just thought I'd throw that out there as a comparison...
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Re: Plowed traps
[Re: chewy]
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01/10/20 09:58 AM
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Macthediver
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Yep you can add me to the club got some out there now gone 40 years or more.. Last 6 I had plowed down took me three trips with metal detector but I finally found them all. They had been gone over with a chisel plow and only one stake got hit. So they were all still staked in place all fired, just covered enough couldn't see them. Had some years ago chiseled over and covered with slurry manure too. That was in the days before I had a metal detector. Those are some that are still out there somewhere. The slurry manure adds a whole different dimension to the search. Have had plenty traps run over by combines or tractors making turn at end of a field when working it. Thought I had them traps set where wouldn't get hit. Just no accounting sometimes for where they may run machine or turn, stop off load. Just live with it if you have lots of iron out in lots of ground.
Mac
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