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Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7826964
03/22/23 01:23 PM
03/22/23 01:23 PM
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Kentucky
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I use the pink pipe insulation, without a backing, under the pan. I just cut it into squares and keep them stuffed in a ziplock. I also use aluminum door screen wire over the pan.

Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7829277
03/25/23 01:00 PM
03/25/23 01:00 PM
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I have to premise this by saying I don't set a trap for coyotes until the last week in November or around December 1st. So the soil and weather conditions can really vary from then until the last of February when I pull them. When I set a coyote trap I expect it to function during tough weather conditions and have a catch. Why do folks use material that will absorb and/or hold water (then have the potential to freeze)? Paper towels, coffee filters, fiberglass insulation, even pillow batting have all proved (to me) that in wet, freeze/thaw soil conditions that they are not dependable. IN early fall, warm weather or little moisture areas where the soil does not wick H2O into those materials it will work, but not here. The only item not susceptible to ice/rock hard formation (in our climate) around or under the pan is AIR. A void under any dog or dogless pan is the only dependable "undercover medium" I want. You can use synthetic covers to drape over the pan (Latex, nitril, nylon, plastic bag(s), etc.), use synthetics under the pan or use some natural material under or over the pan (grass/vegetation, wax paper, screen above and sawdust, peat moss etc. below) to fill space or get the void. I am prone to use natural material that is inexpensive, needs no retrieval after the trap is pulled and has little or NO prep time so its wax paper rolls, cut, folded and placed outside a few days before use for me. Have caught coyotes, coons, fox, mink, dogs and feral cats in traps that were set and received rain, freeze, snow, thaw, refreeze, thaw, re-refreeze, rain, freeze during and through more cycles than I can count with wax paper. I have caught coyotes consistently with no trap bed care 60 days after such a period using AIR as the substance under the trap pan with both wax paper and trimmed plastic bag covers. Wax paper wins in the long run for me. ..........................the mike

Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7848148
04/18/23 04:52 PM
04/18/23 04:52 PM
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I use stiff screen. I make a 'slip-on' pan cover. The pocket, I use window screen, then staple pocket to stiff screen.
With stiff, heavy screen I don't have my covering sagging when using weeds, chopped leaves or haylage.
Covering stays in place after heavy rains or wet snow, keeping a natural look.

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Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7848151
04/18/23 05:00 PM
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wetdog (member here) made me a mold to form stiff screen into a pan cover.
Works great.
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Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7848158
04/18/23 05:20 PM
04/18/23 05:20 PM
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For coon, mink, and rats i still use the old leaf trick.
For canines i use fiberglass screen

Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7848179
04/18/23 05:52 PM
04/18/23 05:52 PM
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Cool thread. I use Polyfil--however you spell pillow stuffing.

It's easy and I have used it since I started trapping 15 or so years ago. Is there a reason not to use it?

Re: pan covers [Re: CageB] #7848226
04/18/23 07:29 PM
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Pack rats love the polyfil here in tx...js

Re: pan covers [Re: la4wd54] #7848359
04/18/23 10:08 PM
04/18/23 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by la4wd54
Pack rats love the polyfil here in tx...js

Yep. I have switched over to = Aliuminum screen wire on some traps here in West Texas.

Re: pan covers [Re: Blaine County] #7848684
04/19/23 11:37 AM
04/19/23 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Blaine County
Cool thread. I use Polyfil--however you spell pillow stuffing.

It's easy and I have used it since I started trapping 15 or so years ago. Is there a reason not to use it?

Probably not in Oklahoma, but here that polyfil will get full of water from rain or melting snow and freeze hard.

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