Hammer does great work!

That "step here" pan is pretty cool.

Your work looks awesome.

Thanks everyone!

I figured a few people would get a kick out of that haha!

Love these mods. Makes me wish I was a better welder!

When I look all those beautiful works of art plus the absolute master pieces of craftmanship I am thankful to heaven that I do not know how to weld or own a welder So I can admire from a distance but not become a trap owner poor man by indulging my myself in that type of spending money Nice work and great pics and of course keep up the good work .

Your traps remind me of Kwik fish. All the different patterns, colors. They look very nice, too nice to put to use.

Hate to say it,,,,,,,but,,,,,,, some off you suck at welding.....

My mod.
If I apply for a special permit to trap beaver in WA, foothold need to be padded.
Carl did not make padded cdrs.
Nothing was written in rcw.
Some hose and friction tape and a heavy long chain.

I quit applying to permits years ago because of the the bs in our department.

Now I only use Comstocks mainly, Basket traps and Duke extra large Cages... No specical permit required

Little bit self conscious about my welding capabilities but hear is some of my recent work.

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I like it!

Very nice! I converted a few number two bridgers to dbl longs they work pretty darn slick!

Nice little but aggressive water line drags.

I was going to remove it to do a cleaner job, but it’s a swine dogger to get the trap apart! Might have to invest in a coil spring tool.

Hammer, when I picked up this welder I got some metal with it that matched the frame of the traps I was working on so decided to try make my own there. The jaws, springs a dog are spare parts though. Watching your videos had me wanting to try a dogless longspring trap though

What kind of welder did you pick up?

I believe it's a Clarke it was my grandpa's and my grandma let me have it after he passed since I was the only one using it. Had access to all kinds of scrap for a while but had to stash a bunch when the rest got sent to be scrapped. Was making my drags and the laminations for trap jaws out of scrap that my grandpa had laying around for years.

Not a trap mod but trapping related started machining a batch of my drivers for cooncreektrappers. They get machined, heat treated, nut and washer put on, and now will be powder coated. Here’s a start of the first batch of 100.

I posted these on another thread a week or so ago when it warmed up so I felt like tinkering with traps. I had added pit pans and dogs, a center mounted swivel and shock springs already. But I wanted to add some JC Conner lams to the #4 Bridger DLS's.