I had a little time this afternoon and decided I wanted to attempt a change over to a dogless pan on a #3 double long spring. I already had a dozen Bridger #2 dogless pans I bought with this project in mind.

I referred to some of the posts I’ve seen here on this conversion. It turned out to be really simple.

I cut a piece of 1/8” black pipe 1 1/8” long to fit in the ears of the Bridger pan. After removing the original pan I drilled out the ear holes to 1/4” and used a 1/4x1 1/2” bolt to hold the assembly together and clamped it in place on the cross frame after adjusting how I wanted it to sit.





I welded it with my wire feed. No need to critique my welds. I know I suck.



The pan sits about right.



The trap fully modified with base lamination and jaw laminations.



And I may cut the pan down. Haven’t decided yet. Stock it would make a pretty good cat trap but for coyotes I think the pan is a bit big. The blue lines are where I would cut it down.

Looks pretty dang good to me.

Way easier than any of the other adjustable pan modifications.

Those look sharp! I have been wanting to do this to some #2 DBL I have just not sure what pans to order. I really like how yours turned out

Keep going, you are on a roll!!

The #2 dogless pans would have to be cut down to work with a #2 DLS but I believe it would work.

NICE work Marty!

Looking good, you're set up is gonna be better than the one's I'm working on.
I'm just use old monty's dog less pan and ends with electric plates for big pan.
I got about 2 dozen #3's and 15 #4 double longs i plan to do.

Thank's for sharing

I need to buy a bunch of pans. I have 10 dozen #3 DLS and 5 dozen #4 DLS. I’d like to do them all. May have to sell some blood or plasma. Maybe a kidney.

Oh wow, yes you do got a bunch.
I've never dipped traps in paint but think I'm gonna try it on mine.
Gonna tumble them in the cement mixer so they will be clean metal.

I dipped some body grips this year. I like it a lot. I may start doing all my traps. I had some left over rusty metal primer and some gloss black equipment paint from my trailer build. I combined the two and came up with a great mud brown color. It would probably make a great land trapping color.

I happened to watch a YouTube video last night where the guy used a hardener with his paint on his traps. He didn’t elaborate on how much hardener to use but I may have to research that a little.

Excellent, yeah I've been watching utube on how to mix.
Think I've 2 qts brown/ 2qts black and gallon of mineral spirits.


Put 4 together tonight. Still gotta weld everything.

Now that’s a kill area on that pan.

Marty, your trap mod's look good to me.

Just make sure the little piece of pipe is heavy walled. So, you can make a strong weld.

I believe your finished trap will be a fine exposed Bobcat Trap. Be careful not to cut the pan to short. Like I did once!

Mark,

It’s schedule 40 1/8” black pipe. Plenty of meat and can use a 1/4” bolt to secure the pan and adjust pan tension. I’m going to have to go to a 1 3/4” bolt. The 1 1/2” is too short to get a Nyloc nut on and have it be secure.