This is a good conversation that brings up the reason why I added 1x2 fencing along the sides of my float. I’ve seen no evidence of this happening IF THE FLOAT WAS FLOATING FREE! This brings up another design factor of how to keep your floats away from the bank as the water recedes! If you allow your float to get itself hung-up on the bank as the water goes down, I have had beaver climb over my fencing and a hung-up float will almost guarantee raccoon will climb on your float and destroy the fake castor mound AND clean up all lure. These are just a couple reasons I gathered from experience as how I needed to design my floats to keep them always in the water all the time so everything has to swim into the float! The fencing really appears to deter beaver from climbing on & over it as long as the beaver is swimming.

Great float thread worthy of the archives Seldom!

I can catch a few smalls and mediums but they are mostly to smart around me.

I haven't made a trapping video in at least 3 years but this year with using the floats, I decided to start making a few. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/0Qf54-TKT64?si=jepcNsdma39_SnPI

Good post and video will need to make me some floats

Great video good info.

A video with an explanation of my float design-
https://youtu.be/j9J3KKRNdeE

Great video how tall is the wire above the wood?

Thank you! 4”

Ok thank you iam going to build 1.do you think its critical to have the wires of the trigger underwater so its more open for them to go thru.

Yup, I do.

Thanks

Thank you for sharing. We have a small river that is only about 10" deep and has a rock bottom these could be a great thing to use there. It will give me another project this summer. What type of foam do you prefer?

1”styrofoam , just what they sell at Lowes or Home Depot and I use Gorilla Ultimate glue in the caulking tube.

Thank you sir

Seldom . . I took some time this morning to watch your float videos. Very good explanations along with developmental history of your current design.

The planer board analogy was excellent in all respects.

Nice job.

Thank you for taking the time to watch them and the compliment!

The beaver float videos were great info!

Thanks for posting Seldom!

You get my brain in gear more than anyone on Tman!

[quote=Swamp Wolf]The beaver float videos were great info!

Thanks for posting Seldom!

You get my brain in gear more than anyone on Tman!
Thank you SW! I’ve always said that I don’t make videos for instruction or entertainment, I mean how many bouncing coyotes or dead beaver do people want to see. For me, as you said, “get my brain in gear”, that’s why I make videos!

Once again, great vid Seldom . You’d make a great instructor. Loud, clear and easy to pick up what you’re laying down.