Swamp,are you using all 750s on those trays? If using other traps what are you running for pan tension?

No...not all 750s. Currently have 750s, Bridger 5s (see pic above), and NoBs Beaver Extremes....all in trays. Also have 3 or 4 of those same traps on the Black Widow stands I have.

I have some CDRs too, but they are not currently in the water. Will be soon.

I haven't measured pan tension, but I run em stiff....probably 5 to 6 lbs. I miss small beaver but usually snare or 330 those nearby anyway. Or I have to return and trap there again...uughh!

All my beaver'in is nuisance control.

Yeah that tail is a long one. Interesting the solutions we come up with for beaver trapping issues. I probably would never go to the trouble as a #’s type fur trapper but certainly see the value of those trays in the ADC realm.
Thanks for sharing!

Patrick turned me on to the trays a few years ago.
Absolutely deadly. Allows the placement of footholds on those complete muck spots that bedding a trap is pert near impossible.
I built mine with plywood bottoms and cut a slot for the baseplate on my CDR’s to fit into.
I agree with beaverpeeler. If I was blowing through fur trapping, I wouldn’t bother with the extra baggage, but for nuisance work in open water it’s the cats behind.
I too have taken a LOT of doubles.
Another thing I love about them is it allows me to set deep enough to pretty well stay away from the coon. Important for me in this high population coon country.

Very good share. Especially the adaption of the guy's DVD you mentioned and coming up with the trays. Very good idea. It is awesome that you gave credit to the guy. As soon as I saw the tray I thought to myself, hey, sort of cool take off.
Thanks

Mac

Those trays are a pretty slick idea. This is a great thread.
I'm jealous of the green grass and open water!

Where can these trays be purchased?

They are easy to build yourself.

Just some scrap lumber

I see where those Missouri beaver have been tasting that lumber...lol!! Until they climbed up on top of the tray....

That’s the first tray that I built Patrick. It’s been through the wringer lol.
It’s accounted for a bunch of troublemakers lol.

I like your narrow design and slots to snug the trap.

How deep is the tray?

Inch and a half
Frame is a ripped 2” by 4”

great photo WOLK !

Clay sent me a picture of his trays and I manufactured about 2 dozen or so to fit my T85’s. Works like a champ on knee deep muck in the river where you can’t stomp a good trap bed in. Not a very good picture of mine but good results.

Those sit ok right on the muck? I saw swamp wolf put legs on his, jut at wondered if you tried that ever or no?

Mine set good on the muck. Stake right through the plywood in 2 spots. Before using them the beaver were stomping the trap down in the muck with the goop under the pan preventing it from firing.

Just remembered to take a pic a few min ago. I like the legs as I can take my foot and push them down in mud and they don't try to float back to surface b4 traps are placed. Don't have to carry extra stakes. Once down...I stand on the tray edges to seat them good in the muck.

Mine are built with 3.5" sides so the beaver has to step down onto trap after he climbs onto tray. I've trapped coyotes, fox, and bcats for so long and it's ingrained in my small brain for the quarry to step down onto the trap.

The tray pictured has been repaired after 5 or 6 years of beaver battering.