I use a 3" masonry chisel

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

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Vinke

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.