I just bought Mitlyings trap bedder! Saw it on Bob Jameson’s old eastern fox trapping dvd and I’d like to try it. Anyone use it???

Here it is! Just came today from F n T!

Ashley, for the older style traps with the narrow trap pan posts that style will work on the smaller jaw width traps. For the new wide base pan posts, you would need the model #3 I believe. It has a wider fork that will slide thru and under the pan and over the other jaw as intended for it to work properly.

So it keeps the pan up? Novel idea, I've just gotten used to eating dirt and getting it in my eyes a few times a year! Lol

Yeah I guess you can place it and then stomp your heels on the dogs to bed it down! Then slip it out. I will also miss the dirt shower!!!!

I’m sorry not the dogs, the levers

Shoot I guess I bought the wrong model! I use MB 450

Well now you’ll have to buy a couple dozen that it will work on.

Yes Bob I just bought the number 3 model as well as two drags for fisher trapping and gelatinous urine because why not?! Take all my money

I don’t need any more god blessed traps that I don’t have time to set ha ha ha

Now that’s not the attitude of a trapper, you just need to buy the traps because you never know when you’ll need to set them, you may only set them once in your lifetime but you did use them.

Criminy, BOB!!!! I don’t need a lecture!!! Ha ha ha ha!!!

Trust me I love spending money on trapping stuff but I’m beyond spending and not catching a fox!!! Call me stinking coon magnet! Lol!!!

Get a = Small tomato juice V8 can or pineapple drink can or soup can. Cut a slot for the dog. And use that Just figure out WHAT can will go over your pan. And cut a slot in it

What a neat idea!!! I have bedded traps without this device, just thought it would be an extra helper.

with them not being worth much in 7-6 years the excess population is well into the millions even with several rounds of parvo

I think I’ll just trap and dispatch. Even if no one uses the pelts I feel I am still doing a service for disease control

I was going to buy one just to hold the traps open while i file off sharp edges, even 1-1/2's can be hard on little grey fox. I'm thinking of going to the 450's see if they are easier on them. I hate to see a cut foot on an animal a customer might also see that, makes us look bad.

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I’m all for buying a better trap if it helps the public image and animal welfare!

I probably have used the Mitlyng trap bedders longer and harder then most over the last 35 or so years. They sure help keep me from eating dirto/peat flying into your mouth / eyes and some pinched fingers. They also help allow you to bed a trap with both hands " using hard packing pressure "at the same time for a faster bedding method. You guys using 4 coil traps may appreciate this little tool more than me.

I took a few pics to show those that may not be familiar with the tools function and use.



The #3 model is the tool with the wide gap fork. From the package, It is not wide enough to slide past the wide pan base of traps like the MB 550 which is shown.

I paint all my tools and coated some to be very visible and to prevent rust over time. I use all the sizes at different times. I can bed well without them, but I still use them when I feel it is needed.

You will notice I attached a stove threaded bolt thru the tools pre drilled hole at the base of the bedder. This gives me a handle to pull back and remove the tool once the trap has been bedded. When the trap has been bedded the tool will be a bit below the ground grade, so pulling it back to disengage it, is difficult to do without disturbing the bedded trap.





This model bedding tool needs to be spread wider to be able to fit around the wide pan shank and then slide over the opposite jaw. This is the proper length needed for a sure fit / no fire insertion. I used the crank handle on my vise to straddle the tool fork over it. By pounding it with a hammer I got it spread to the proper clearance that was needed to pass by the widest point of the pan shank. It would probably be a good idea to heat the tool fork briefly with a propane torch to heat the metal prior to banging on it. I did not, but it would be advised.





These two traps shown are an MB 550 and a Victor #3 with the appropriate bedders installed.



These are new tools out of the package.





This photo shows a new model #3 with my modified #3 tool on top of a MB 550.



This is a Duke #4 trap which is about the largest jaw spread trap I use. It is shown with the longest Mitylng bedding tool that is available to my knowledge.