Not sure what you guys do --but what I do my be of some help. I have a few large swamps I trap in. But the problem is packing in gear. In the very early fall i drop a few 5 inch cedar trees ( thats what my swamp has a lot of) I cut my length of logs to 6-8 feet and attach my traps to them with about ten feet of chain. I have used some of my logs for years as I just stand em up when i am done with em.
Any you guys do anything different???

Yeah slot of folks do that, think the proper name for those are clogs but I'm mean their a drag.

I build about all my drags out of doubled rebar then again I want my drags to anchor and animal in basically my front yard if I want.

Not a thing wrong with that.
Mac

It's a great way to go in those situations.When I was younger,I had some walk in lines in wilderness areas and I used a lot of clogs with cable extensions or cables around trees.I still have a few places where I do that.I have a few places where I stash rock drags,wired up to attach the trap to.I have also cabled to a light drag like the Sabertooth Junior and then another cable from the grapple to a heavy stone to keep it stretched out.It worked very well.Don't sell those Juniors short.

Great idea. Then you don't ruin your back pacing drags.

Wolfdog,
I once had a guy bet me a drag (very similar to yours) couldn't stop him. . .
So I had one on a 12 ft snare , already attached and I handed it to him.
He slipped his bare leg ( he's wearing shorts) inside the loop and cinched it around his mid thigh.
His bet was that he could run at full speed and make it across the yard.
He was almost at top speed, when the drag caught.
He required a number of stiches at the local hospital.

Clogs have been used for over 150 yrs by trappers. I only use 5-6’ of chain tho. Anything more is a waste IME.

A coyote would hit the end of the cable do a header then get up and run the other way and the drag would come free.

I was setting some traps on wolf sign when I trapped In Canada. The trap was Sterling 600 I had about 10 feet of chain on It and It was attached to a 2 prong wolf toggle. The set was made along side an old logging road. It snowed that night we never found the trap or what was caught In It. I figured that critter got caught and headed down the road.
I'm not a fan of using drags.

Had something similar happen to a guy at out heaver day deal at my church. Got asked to bring some if my traps and fur for display. One trap was a dip in one penny old prototpe drags. One of the guy asked about it and made a similar bet. Drag caught and his nice church pants got messed up and he had a mean looking Charlie horse lol

Why we put two prongs on it beav. One frees ,drag flips over, that prong catches just like the first one did. Make me just right and they corkscrew, to clean themselves out and catch better. Made a bunch for a buddy out in the midwest and she said even in frozen ground they where pinning totes in place. Not all drags are made the same. Honestly you count pay me to use 80% of the drags I see offer now days

Years ago I mentioned those on here and a trapper asked if I ever had a beaver chew one up.
Made me think, I had no beaver at that time.
Had great luck with coon in small water.

I use wooden fense posts quit a bit. Especially for dps when ground is froze or I'm too lazy to pound in stakes and such.

with a 24 hour check... I bet you would be ok!

What type of drag should I use here?

A stake.

A truck tire.

Wolf Dog
How may wolves have you caught using drags?

Your telling me this person Is pinning coyotes or what ever on frozen ground. You didn't mention If there was any cover on that frozen ground. I'm here to tell you If you make a set along the edge of a 300 acre harvested bean field and the ground Is frozen and your using a drag other then a cement block or a truck tire your going to be spending a lot of time looking for that coyote. When caught they don't always run Into cover.

I agree with that,Beav.I have caught animals in the edge of brush and have them head across wide open ground with no cover in sight.Couple that with a snow,after a catch and you have a problem.Often,when animals are caught on a drag,they head for home.With a weighted drag on a steep hiill,they will usually go straight downhill.Lots of variables.I once lost some valuable daylight looking for a lion on a dragged trap.It was on a steep rockslide and I went up and down that slope too many times until,just at dark I found the empty trap all wrapped up and the cougar was long gone.That is a good outcome but if I had not found that trap,I would have lost valuable trapping time over several days,not knowing.

With stakes I can predict where the animal is going to be.I do often back up a staked wolf trap with a drag (in timber) and of course there are always situations where drags are called for.That is when I use them,when it makes sense,not just "because".Same goes for earth anchors,clogs,chain around tree,double stakes,triple stakes...on and on.

Spot on Taximan.

You already know the answer to the first sooo
Apparently so ,his words not mine. Guy is trapping them mid west fields no real big cover or anything like that,. Again says they pin them down . I'm not trying to sell or bring anyone iver to the drag side I'm just stating what I've been told. I don't know if frozen ground for him is differnt or what. I made my drags to work so that not having cover would not have to be a problem . Took one bad experience with a coon and a grapple in a cow pasture to show me some stuff. Regardless belive what you want use what works for you don't drink eveyone koolaid