How do you do it?

Under special permit I can use conventional sets for trapping coyotes.
The ground I am setting is clay and road bedding that is hard as a rock.

I chipped 5 sets in, but it sucked,,,,, to much work ……

Thought about bringing a torch next time to melt the top couple of inches…

I did experiment with 2 above ground sets, but they consumed a lot of my mixed dirt…

Thanks

Love

Vinke

I've been setting by using trees and bushes as my tie off but that obviously relies on availability.

I have adapted Major Boddicker's method of using salted sand and the cheapest 1 gallon Ziploc type bags, usually store band. I get sand at Lowe's I just use the play sand, livestock salt 10 part sand to 1 salt.. Either chip out a bed or just find a depression, low spot etc. add salted sand, put trap in bag, I use 4 coiled #3, bed in the sand, cover with the salted sand, I usually blend it in a but, but have caught with no blending.

I had and ADC job last winter, homeowner was checking sets for me. I put in sets, three days later it snowed 12 inches, then 5 days later another 12 inches of snow, then it drop below zero for 10 days. Then a week later it rained and melted. I never remade or relured the sets, and homeowner didn't see nay coyotes on his security cameras (which is why he called me to begin with as he has 2 small dogs). Left sets for 2 more weeks, then caught two coyotes 3 days apart.

I have also chopped out beds, find a hatchet works well for that, then poured in salt or calcium chloride to soften bed and made set the next day after it had softened up.

Use a Pulaski, firemen's axe, to dug begs.

Thanks Mike,,,,,,

Borrow your Brother in Laws chainsaw and use it to notch out trap beds.

I must be rubbing off on you,,,,,, you type and spell like me now ……lol

Love

Vinke

The Castansa model you posted earlier?

I just use an axe. Sometimes a pick axe. Its a lot of work. Neither is better than the other. I always thought a pulaski worked best in nonfroze dirt. Its fast. Just unwieldy to carry.

are snares an option?

No not allowed under special permit…

X2

My Pulaski in 92-94 was named "Miss January" and I even carved that it it's handle. I finally broke it in the Salmon River breaks sometime in 94. It was a sad day.

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You WERE a stud…… hope the panties I sent fit…..
love
Vinke

I use a 3" masonry chisel

Now you have me thinking,,,,,, battery powered roto hammer …..
nice!
Canyon brothers for life!

I have used a pick axe. It’s a lot of work.

I do think the boys up north that that trap more on bare frozen ground do use a rotary hammer.

Peat, semi-dry dirt, and table salt... premixed at home and toted in a 10 qt. metal pail.

I chop beds out with an axe, lay wax paper, bed my trap, wax paper again, and cover with snow. I use drags or chain to a tree