That was a cool video. Thx for posting.

I used to set the springs on the rudy red wolf 4 1/2 by hand.
That is a lot tougher than a new belisle or new sauvageau.

Been doing the same thing for forty years. It is getting a little harder but I still manage.

Been doing it that way for 50+ years, but at 81 the traps are getting stronger.

WOW!!!!!!, when I was young, I could not for many years, the young guy that trap with me last spring could,

Ever catch your weenee?

I don’t believe he ever caught his third knee but I watched him get caught by the foot on the other side of creek. Made him hobble across the creek before I’d help him get it off. No sence in both of us getting soaked.

One of these days I’ll make a quick video of how I hand set 330’s, maybe include setting a #114 or 4.5 Newhouse just for kicks.

As much trapping as you've been able to do these last few years...you sure you'll remember how?

I’ll puzzle it out!

Always set them by hand

Holy smokes, when did all that gray hair show up?

Always use setters,,,,, woss I guess…….

But you can raise them over your head and say,,,,,,there can only be one…….(adc trapping following up on usda)
Hylander …………

I dyed my hair before the video to look older and more decrepit! LOL

Since NewHouse114 decided he couldn't let the "skinny 18 year old" comment go un-challenged I figured I'd revive my original thread.

I thought I was good untill I see a guy at the trappers meeting sitting belisle 330's by hand in his hands while he was sitting down.

was that the conference that Boco went under-cover

There’s no way I could do that. I can set them with my boots by stepping on the eye on the spring side and then holding the eye with my other boot inside the square. But that trap scares me. Something slips and comes up and hits my hand before I set the safety, somethings getting broken.

I've only used a set of 330 setting tools once; then promptly lost them.
I'm pretty sure that those of us who grew up setting 48's by hand figured out some of these techniques many years ago.
The only thing I don't like about Belisles are those stiff safety hooks, I like to be able to flip them on with a flip of the wrist. I have figured a way to loosen them up though.

nope....lol