Not to sound like an idiot, but how are you guys connecting the top of 330 stabilizers? I've never used them before and just bought some. They came with some kind of clip, but I can't figure out how to get it on. Or do you just clip on a carabiner?

Small twist of wire works for me

Push the tops together and stick a piece of wire 4 or 5 inches long, through them and give it a couple of twist. A 8' cable is through the spring eyes of the trap. The trap can't come off of the stabilizer. Connect the other end of the cable to a stake, bush, tree, root or something. That's it.
Rickey

I add an ad a link then a 6' cable with snaps on each end

I run an extra long wire from the trap swivel and twist the top of the H stand closed and then tie off to something solid all with the same wire.

I built mine out of 7/16” smooth rod. I made them with washers on top so I could clip/tie them together, but over the years I just stopped doing that. I just leave them stick straight up, unattached, and I have never had a trap come off of one. I made a few more a year two ago and did not add anything to the top, just a cut rod end.

I use a large spring clip.

Thanks all, I figured I was over thinking it.

I have a story about my deep stands with washers on top. I was catching the beavers for a lady with a pear orchard There were houses around the lake, but it was county jurisdiction. I had a stand with a sauvageau 11x13 located on the shore of a channel with a house right across the channel. Showed up and had a big beaver, but noticed shiny deposits on the washers. I couldn’t figure out what it was, so I went and talked to the customer about and she says “you know, there were a couple of kids over there shooting bb guns yesterday, and it looked like they were shooting across the channel about where your trap was”. So I got to looking, and sure enough, lead deposits in those washers. The washers were big, maybe 2” diameter with a 3/4” hole. The kids had been using them for target practice. At least they didnt steal my trap, and the pellets did not even dent the washers. I just had to laugh, that is something I would have done 40 years ago when I was the kid with the pellet gun.

I had a bunch of scrap/left-over 3/8” hot-roll (smooth) so that’s what I used for my deep H-stabilizers. Worked great straight up and traps & beaver stayed in the stabilizers.

Great Story