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KB Stabilizers #8622161
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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.


Just doing what I want now.

Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622174
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Kurt Beaugard...made them for years and just decided to hang it up

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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622202
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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.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622219
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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

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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622231
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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.

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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622244
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Me too.


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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622246
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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.


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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: alaska viking] #8622247
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After using the skaters I cut the legs off and added a pair of 6” legs. I liked them that way better so I could just stick’em in rather than sit on. The principle of offsetting a coil spring properly was the trickiest part of making them work correctly.

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Re: KB Stabilizers [Re: Boco] #8622249
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Originally Posted by Boco
. . . Hated them always tangled up with traps,and never held the trap solid. . . . .


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.


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