It appears that they are no longer being made. Anybody know the story? I have used them for years but let them go when I left Alaska and sold my many Alaska-oriented traps. I sure could use a couple now.

Kurt Beaugard...made them for years and just decided to hang it up

Probably a couple of dozen along the Willamette river shoals you could find with a medal detector during summer flow. I never got down to cabling them to the traps so lost 'em all eventually.

I actually find 3/8ths rebar cut into 24-30" lengths far better in the kinds of places I trap and it doesn't matter much if I lose a few during the season.

I’m sorry to hear that they are no longer manufactured. They are a pretty easy DIY project to fabricate & weld or as I did make my own using the principle but not neccesarily a carbon copy as you can see in my videos with my beaver skaters (name after those little skater insects you see on still water)
https://youtu.be/0g5yx0RKw7U?si=07uHvRPysQNJx9Se
https://youtu.be/pVP-0b9M6bY?si=Vz3O7027cYa-yw9w

I bought a half dozen of those once.
Hated them always tangled up with traps,and never held the trap solid.
I was going to trash them a couple years ago until I heard a local trapper used them so gave them to him.
I consider them junk.

Me too.

Junk? Hardly . . . bring yours to the fall rondy, Gary, if you've got any left. I'll take 'em off your hands.

KB stabilizer with a #150 bodygrip tethered with paracord. The bottom edge dream set for mink and 'rats on non-rock substrate.

After using the skaters I cut the 4 horizontal legs off and added a pair of 6” vertical legs. I liked them that way better so I could just stick’em in rather than sit on and stay put after the trap has fired, no problem for me to retrieve since I had placed the trap there as well. The principle of offsetting a coil spring properly was the trickiest part of making them work correctly.

Before transporting them, tie your paracord to the stabilizer and through the coil of the spring of the #150. Lay the #150 flat on the stabilizer, and wrap the extra cord around the unit. Tie the cord off to a part so it says in place. Load these up in a bucket or packbasket and away you go. Time to make a set, reach in, grab a unit, unwind cord, set #150 on stabilizer and tie off to something nearby. No tangles. You can pack dozens of these together without a problem.

Perhaps you tried to anchor a #110 size trap on the stabilizer. That is not a good fit, as the bend in the jaws does not allow the trap to set evenly on the stabilizer. The #150 takes care of this with the wider jaws.

Sidenote: I've used this stabilizer on traps from #150s up to #330s.

Anyway . . . they work for me.

No Mr. rat I don't have any. I gave them away just like Boco. And I'm with seldom they needed legs on them so they could be actually STABILIZED. I liked those stabilizers where a 110 H stand was welded to a 3-foot section of rod. Stabilized and staked all at the same time. And you could actually stand on the bank and with a hook you could pull up the trap and remove the catch. And then slid the trap back down the rod. Well, that was a bit more difficult. LOL