Doing some cleaning and dyeing traps. I will wax a few days before setting .

Looks like a fun day outside.

NIce job concrete man. Working on set up for our outdoor firepit this fall. I am going to use a full sheet of plywood to dump hot traps onto for cooling and drying so we don't stain our pavers around the pit. I can't remember the last time we boiled/dyed traps over a wood fire and its dang time the boys learned how I did it years ago.
Will be picking a bucket of walnuts soon for the job, too.

Watch you got there, MB 650's?

Let them sit over night and taking them out today .
Maple leaf dose good to.

The smell of a wood fire and trap dye stirs a man’s soul.

Got mine dyed last weekend. Waxing tomorrow.

Soon.....

Brings back so many memories.

Like taking my moms good cooking pot to boil traps in when I was about 10 years old.

Started getting coyote traps ready this morning.

I dyed my traps for the first time, usually just wax them. I used sumac berries, turned a real nice dark color. Last weekend I finished up on 150 gallons of waxed sand. All my baits and lures have been received. The buggy has been gone thru. I think I'm ready for Nov 1 when I'll set for coyotes. Will pull them for deer season, then reset till fur goes bad.

Got my traps waxed today

Had the kids helping me remove grease from the new 160s and removing rust from last years traps. Hope to dye them and wax them soon.

Soon, real soon I will be sitting over steaming pots of trap soup. It snowed here this weekend, that kinda got me hot and bothered to start trapping prep.

X2!

Made up 4 dozen bullet anchors with 18" of 3/32" cable this AM.

Got make some anchors also. 12 inch is about the length I make but I have 20 inches of chain if it is Sandy ground are the bullet anchor home made or bought.

I just have to put tags and anchors on new traps. I had most everything ready during my coffee vacation earlier this year so not much left to do.

Been doing a little howling at night to locate some yotes, driving around my trapline loop picking up turds. Getting antsy for putting traps in the ground

Getting some final land approvals and confirmations. Finished up the garage (trapping shed) recently so we are pretty much ready to go!

Concretman those anchor ends in pic are bought. I already had a jillion feet of cable here and a supply of double ferrules so I just ordered 4 dozen super stake bullet style anchor ends only from MN Trapline and went to work pounding them out into nice 18" anchors. Some of ground we trap on is plowed corn and bean fields and these hold well even if it rains and ground gets soft. Some areas are hay fields that haven't been plowed in years and you just about cant get these back out of that ground once pounded in.
I have to hike into most places we trap. I know its not efficient but unfortunately around here if I can drive in so can every other yahoo with a truck or 4 wheeler and we had enough issues with the coyote pickup army around here i started getting way back into the sections and made sure we had to cross something deep to get there. Also picking places like flat picked bean fields with only a line edge between say corn and bean field or a little weedy fencerow, those have been great coyote spots but dont seem interesting to the hunting crews. I've learned that earth anchors keep theft down as well as picking key hard to get to spots. I lose a lot of trap check efficiency but still catch animals and at least still have equipment left at end of winter. The earth anchors cut down on weight to carry in for sure.
Thanks concreteman!
Jim

Thanks Jim been using wolf gang but they are hard on drivers.

Finished up my trapping shed mostly for the season so ready to go!