About 20 miles from Florida line. 2 days in on a 14 day job..

For your viewing pleasure...

Nice!!
Paid contact or just because?

Good job,nice country.

Nice! Is that dirt as sweet as it looks?

Savell would be proud. lol

Paid..

Don't do any "just because" trapping anymore....

Some pretty pineywoods cattle pastures. Beautiful representation of fire managed southern pine forest.

The clay hills are hard as concrete. Have already broke 2 homemade pogo drivers....uugghh!

Sandy spots are OK.

Don't get many jobs this time of year but owners have seen coyotes recently on trail cams during daytime and dont like that as they deer hunt a little too. Also, several hundred head of cattle here...but they have them pastured up on one end of property due to logging operations underway...thank goodness....can't trap in them dang cows. But they left a bunch of donkeys in the wooded pastures...about 4 or 5 traps a day are stomped and crapped on...

That is EXACTLY what I'm encountering here. My last pogo driver will likely be destroyed tommorrow. But I only have a few more gaps to set then it just trap checking mostly.

Surprised the donkeys don’t keep the coyotes at bay.
Maybe it’s mules I’m thinking of. They keep mules I guess in the pastures with the horses on the plantations and NOTHING gets in the pastures. They pull dead deer out on the regular. Heck I won’t even go out there. My son said it took a while before they would let him inside the fence, lol.

Owners put a couple donkeys in with the cattle for "protection "....and they reproduced. There are about 6 or 7 donkeys now. They want them gone, but says no market.

This place is 4000 acres divided into several large fenced pastures, so the donkeys have a large roaming area, but their tracks are all over the property. They run from my SxS...

Log truck drivers are having to open and closes gates when entering and exiting property because of those donkeys....they don't like that...lol

Have you tried wolf fang type anchors Patrick?
Pogos are a nogo here for dirt trapping when it’s dry or froze.

Excellent job, cool pics

Haven't tried em yet, but was just looking on-line at the PCS Trapping Supply version that's 7 ga thick. $39.95 per hundred ends. At that price, I think I can make them cheaper and faster than 2" washers and jhooks.

And I'm sure they will drive easier and truer. I cut and leave so it's still cost efficient.

Do you know anywhere to get them cheaper than $39.95/100?

I need at least 300 to 400 ends b4 January. Have 4 predator jobs lined up starting in early Jan thru Feb. Gotta get a bunch made.

I have to deal with bears on some of the locations....what a ride they will give a good drag.

My hands/wrists and back says that I'm not allowed to pull/dig up/auger out stakes anymore....I cut cable. Pitch trap into SxS and go...

I ran SSs with chain on all my traps for years. It is a good system if you can/willing to retrieve your stakes.

If I can find chain, I’ll have drags for next Summer! Seems our Winters are wet the past few years, don’t have to worry about anything frozen, lol. It’s like now when we go through our dry spell that the ground is like cement that the drags would really come into play in those areas you literally can’t drive an anchor in or even hope to get one up if you do.

A good coyote-sized drag like FT sells with 10 feet of American made #3 chain attached to a Bridger and then pinched onto the toe of a 150 lb yearling bear will be carried for a ride or a climb. Makes for a long delay in trap checking that day....

Donkeys vary in ability and aggression. I've got a cousin that has a small cattle operation and he tells me that you got to go through a few to find a good one but a good one will kill anything canine and the really rough ones are a danger to cattle and anything that moves.

I can pick wolf fangs up at conventions for $32 to $35 a hundred Patrick.
Sometimes get them real cheap from individuals selling out.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled.