I have a newfound respect
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06/26/22 06:15 PM
06/26/22 06:15 PM
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Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,723 SW Georgia
Wanna Be
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Yep, I’ve read for years about y’all northern and western guys frozen ground and rocky ground. Well, we are experiencing a serious drought and driving an anchor is like driving it through a solid block of cement! About 6-8” is all I’m getting before my shirt and shorts are soaked!! So far it’s held everything caught, but I couldn’t imagine an entire trapping season of doing that. My hats off to y’all!!!
I’m seriously thinking of getting a 5# or larger hammer. My 3# is killing me!
Last edited by Wanna Be; 06/26/22 06:16 PM.
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7613434
06/26/22 06:52 PM
06/26/22 06:52 PM
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Joined: Sep 2021
Posts: 352 Southeast Louisiana
Slipknot
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I’m slowly swapping all mine out to chain. It’s much easier to coil up the excess below the trap. With cable I’m having to drive it in outside the bed and stretch it across so the end doesn’t poke up. And yes, the South seems to be either clay or sand. I trap mainly clay. I may look into the chain style I have to anchor outside also due to using shock springs. The clay and gravel are my biggest headaches here..
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7613481
06/26/22 07:59 PM
06/26/22 07:59 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960 Northern Nevada
Bob
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Round here I have some spots that I can drive a super stake 15”. But there’s a lot of country I trap that you just flat can’t use stakes of any kind. Couple inches of duff and then bedrock. Some places you get sand for 6 inches and then hard pan, might as well be rock for the purposes of driving a stake. I use mostly drags, or if there’s a sturdy juniper nearby I’ll tie off to that.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Boone Liane]
#7613685
06/27/22 07:40 AM
06/27/22 07:40 AM
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Joined: May 2018
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Wanna Be
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Pre-drilling is your friend.
I pack the rotary hammer and a 7/8x12” bit year round. Guessing a masonry bit?
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7614137
06/27/22 07:23 PM
06/27/22 07:23 PM
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jabNE
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And you can always go back to cross staked rebar and a bigger hammer.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
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06/27/22 07:31 PM
06/27/22 07:31 PM
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Boone Liane
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Pre-drilling is your friend.
I pack the rotary hammer and a 7/8x12” bit year round. Guessing a masonry bit? Yup. Saves me, saves my drivers, money well spent. 7/8” works good for fangs. Makes a big enough hole they drive like butter but not so big they won’t grab. Tried 1/2-3/4 which were still awful hard driving in hard ground. Used to burn up a driver in a month, now one will last me a year or two! But, most of my ground, most of the year, a single piece of 24” rebar will hold any coyote alive.
Last edited by Boone Liane; 06/27/22 07:32 PM.
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Boone Liane]
#7614267
06/27/22 09:58 PM
06/27/22 09:58 PM
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Scott__aR
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Pre-drilling is your friend.
Saves me, saves my drivers, money well spent.
7/8” works good for fangs. Makes a big enough hole they drive like butter but not so big they won’t grab. X2
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7614680
06/28/22 02:17 PM
06/28/22 02:17 PM
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Bob
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Prehook your drags, you won’t have to chase em down very often. Or use very heavy drags or “clogs”. Many times my “drag” is just a 30 or 40 pound rock that I find at the set and attach to my chain with wire, or a big juniper bough. In fact probably half my traps just have 8 feet of chain and no stake ring or anything, I only use them that way, saves me having to pack stakes or drags with me. Not even the toughest coyote is gonna drag one of those very far. Usually within sight of the original set
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: I have a newfound respect
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7614799
06/28/22 05:15 PM
06/28/22 05:15 PM
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Yukon John
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I’m slowly swapping all mine out to chain. It’s much easier to coil up the excess below the trap. With cable I’m having to drive it in outside the bed and stretch it across so the end doesn’t poke up. And yes, the South seems to be either clay or sand. I trap mainly clay. Load that cable so it coils up, works for me anyway.
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