The lake we live on has been over its banks for a few years now so we lost a lot of topsoil along the new shoreline. The wife was cleaning up junk and driftwood and came across this old number 3 longspring trap hooked on a tire chain rig with bent stake. We have been here 21 years so it’s older then that.

Cool find. Makes you wonder was it set or dropped nearby.

Under a cedar tree not 80 yards from the back of the house not sure

very nice...

Tag on it?

Thats Cool

No tags here it’s a armature set up just rigged together lucky it was on dry land all of those years it looks like the trap is still useable.

Nice!

They don't last that long around here, must not be as acidic out your way.

Just saw it was on dry land, not as bad that way.

Don't last long here either. I found a 1 1/2 Victor coil spring that was in the water for who knows how long. It was practically dissolved. Nothing even salvageable on it.

was setting for a beaver in a bank den reached for a stick on the bank noticed a chain so finished setting ended up pulling 6 220s out of the grass asked the property owner he was like no one ever has trapped here before told him what i had found he was like i guess you got some traps

Needs more chain.

Tire chain works as a drag and a chain at the same time.

So that’s where I left that!!

I looked at it closer today the makeshift stake was bent almost 90 degrees the trap factory ring was on the cold shut on the top of the stake and so was the tire chain in the same cold shut loop? I just don’t get the idea of the setup the tire chain might of been caught in some hay machinery in the past causing the bend in the stake.