Thanks for the memory. Thats where dad sold all his 80's fur. Its a roofing place now. Those were the days.
Good heavy duty box traps for sale at Autumn Oaks in Richmond Labor Day weekend at the Richmond IN fairgrounds. Some guy builds them and used to stack a trailer full of them for the show.
You are welcome to camp at my place if you need a spot to stay.
https://www.ukcdogs.com/autumn-oaksThe Coons Den in Palestine, Ohio used to carry a coon sized, 30" by 14" by 14", heavy duty box trap, with a solid metal door, they were fantastic. They later switched to an all wire trap, of a lighter gauge, that were decent. I would love to have about 2 dozen of the original trap. My original box traps are beat up or missing from being loaned out.
I have 1 smaller trap, built like the coon sized ones. I once caught a 26 pound boar coon in one. He barely had the space to blink. He had near perfectly took on the shape of the box trap. I think the heavy door tapped him hard on the rear end, startling him so badly, he pushed in as hard as he possibly could. I couldn't have packed him much tighter with a hammer.
The solid metal door made it much easier to approach skunks and to release catches, in the rare cases where I chose too. I got no back outs in them, like I did occasionally with the lighter door traps.
I had a coyote that would travel down my line and raid my box traps and a few very large coons that would do the same. 2 strategically placed 1 1/2s just in front of the door stopped that problem whenever it occurred.
Keith