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

... bear down on em Swamp

Paid..

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

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

... get out of here and quit messin this mans post up .., you’d likely be wading around in that water looking for beaver like a Honduran lookin for El Paso if you was there lol

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

Sandy spots are OK.

... hey Mr Swamp... how do you like getting out on those sugar sand looking spots only to find clay 3 inches down lol

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.

... Swamp... I’ve never ran the pogo set up... but do run the super stakes on chain..a quick pilot hole with a smaller smooth rod and the super stakes go in fairly easy in clay ... takes an auger to get them out though

... thinking drags hid under a trash mound set in clay anymore though lol

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.