This trap has been retired since 1 / 9 / 2006

Also named it Double Trouble ...( Might be gay )

But on that date...that trap right there ( mb750)...held two beavers

By the toes ...on a drowning rig. One weighed 30 lbs..and the other was 35 lbs.

Post up your special trap !!

A lot of my original Northwoods traps

I caught two coon in the same No.11 sleepy creek trap one time. Didnt save the trap for. anything special. And never had a camera with me.

Nice catch

I retired a half-dozen 1.75 Northwoods that are very special to me.

My brother passed away back in 1989. We were both actively trapping at the time.

One of our uncles cleaned some of his stuff out of his garage including a half-dozen Northwoods that he added to a truckload of steel scrap and dumped at the local scrapyard.

I happened to be a crane operator at that scrapyard at the time. One morning on my way to the break room I saw the traps and grabbed them thinking what kind of an idiot would toss Northwoods. They still had name tags on them and I was shocked to see that they had belonged to my deceased brother.

I marked them with a piece of wire and added them to my collection, I was using 1.75 Northwoods for fox back then and still am today.

After two seasons I had caught multiple red fox in all of them and decided to retire them before something happened and they were gone. I cleaned them, dyed and waxed them and they've been hanging in my office along with a sifter my brother made for the last thirty-plus years.

Great Story lugnut !!

That is spectacular!

I have a #1 Jump and #1 LS that belonged to my grandfather that are retired.

I have an older dog proof trap( bandit buster) that was given to me by a friend… he’s gone on to the kingdom with JESUS. I keep it because he was a very good friend.

I’ve still got a dozen of my original #2 longsprings I bought in late 80s and caught a jillion coyotes in them. I originally ordered #3 longsprings but they shipped me #2 longsprings. Was a check purchase no credit card online sales back then. It was too late to wait for another order so I just beefed them up and used them that season. They worked well and I never looked back bought more the next season with some of the fur check too.
I sort of retired them a few years ago, was afraid something would happen to them and getting hard to replace those.
Jim

I gave out some of dads Victor 1.5’s with his tag to some of his friends/family when he passed

Have 4 Monty 1.5 square jaw left out of a dozen i got from my grandmother when I was 14.
Also, a handmade 1.5 longspring I found in a rice patty in Korea.
Plus two 1.5 Victor longsprings with teeth i had modified as a young boy.

Sarge

Yep, a 48 Newhouse, if that trap was snaped shut, it held a critter. Decided I better retire it before it broke it's winning streak, or I lost it.
Will pist picture later.

15 NewHouse with a #5 pan. was last used by my father just before WW2 in Canada

I quit using my Helfrich traps because of their rareness and the fact that they are one of my favorites. I probably couldnt handle the fact that one got stolen or run over by a tractor.

The house I am in was built in the 50's by a trapper. A few years ago, his daughter, just up the road, was selling all his traps at the estate sale after he passed. I bought about half of them (mostly muskrat). A couple weeks later, her husband swings by with two buckets of traps. "Dad and I used to trap this creek (in the yard) and these traps just belong here." Every year I make sure to set a few of them, and a couple are hung up in the shop.

My pile of traps includes traps from both grandfathers and my dad stuff from the 70's and older plus some stuff I've picked up over the years. I had a pile of 330s in my luggage flying back from a funeral in Nebraska once that was sure they were going to interrogate me about. I don't know that they are retired but its not like I ever have them all out at once or anything either. I went to set a trap once and accidently dug up a trap that had been there for 20+ years, a small long spring. Dad or gpa must have set it. I would have hung that one up but it crumbled apart in my hands. I'd love to find a cache of lewis and clark traps but would settle for just having one lol. Someone had some of the Wolf Mans, Frank G, traps from Alaska. I'd love to have one of those too. Im a sucker for old historical / family stuff though.

Great pic Mole....what's the jaw spread on that suckah ??

Grandfathers spike mole trap
8 of my first traps that were my dads
One of my first dozen of coyote traps
Wife’s first mole captured trap
LT grays 5000 mole trap
And a board …

Have a triple clutch that was my dads my first catch was a rabbit roughly 65 years ago springs were weak enough for a kid to set probably why its still around Also have a Newhouse I believe #415 didn't clean it up yet that belonged to my wifes Great Grandfather He made a living trapping and shooting deer for the lumber camps Mother in Law gifted me his fleshing knife I do a coon every once in awhile to keep it from rusting