Seldom. I’ll find out is Fall. I just built a couple but look forward to your design/video. Thanks

Thanks Mac! It wasn’t my idea, a Canadian fella posted an older Youtube video showing how he made them. The video was very poor quality but I was able to understand the principle so I took it from there and I think my video is a little easier for folks to understand if they want to build their own.

Thanks for the compliment Mac!

As I watched and rewatched others video of their floats there was a common theme about the trap either being too low or to high, usually too low and with their design there was no adjustment other than adding weight to the front. Also, the beaver wanted to climb onto the float from the side and I think because of the lure holder being too short/too far from the trap.

I kept taking my floats over to a local pond and trying them with a trap on until I felt I had the answers. My design is such that the springs aren’t locked into the float by use of a slot so I can raise of lower the traps to the degree I want above water. Also, the floats float pretty level with a 330. I also added a piece of pvc pipe for the “1/2” float rod to slide up and down on rather than become wedged and get hung-up.

Good thoughts. Again thanks. With the price of most fut where it’s at the experimenting provides much fun.

2 dozen to add to the line decide to add some Chain extensions to a few more this year. I runabout 1/2 with 18 extra inches of chain. My old dog kennel is where I hang ‘em for a couple weeks before I wax.

Took time to clean the wax from the night latch and bottom of the pan on my MB 550s . Noticed that the cast jaws have four different markings on them. I have bought about four dozen of these over the years. some of the inside jaw spreads are about an eighth of an inch wider, but they all still work great

I love my MB’s but I started going with closed jaws for that reason. Some offsets are really offset in my opinion. The first couple of dozen were what I considered “offset” the ones after that seemed to have a much larger offset.

I have to use the offsets to stay in state regs but have wondered about that. The fox is pretty much gone in my area so have not had a problem with pullouts on Coyotes. I currently run 550 offsets and the original MB #3 Alphas and will be trapping for a few days in Kentucky this year so am really anxious for season.

Yep. 365 a year. But I envy those who just clean and dip traps in the summer. I can honestly say = I HATE = cleaning and dipping traps. I know it has to be done. But here I am in West Texas with a make shift close line and Formula 1 dipping MJ 600 Sterlings 12 at a time. Things are slow here. Mostly snare work So Time to do the cleaning and dipping. Wish I could pay someone to do it for me ! LOL!

Secured up 300 more acres from a farmer friend