Where can I find the video that Boone put out?

Yes I would like to see it myself.

Milligan stomp works great for me. Ray Milligan method

Boons got another short clip out reguarding this discussion. Facebook group……The Complete Trapper, it’s not on his personal page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1277011765760169/permalink/27002284846139508/?
Another great clip Boone!

The country I’m trapping in right now is loaded with pocket gopher mounds. Bare fresh dirt shows itself everywhere. I have been using an old grubhoe to make a trench in the not flat ground and setting the trap, in this new dig. If I set on this loose ground, or on the edge of a badger dig, I still firm up around the trap, use minimal blocking, ie smallrocks(1”) and I know that the soil is loose everywhere around the area… proceed with the fabrication of the set…

Like Tejas, I use a brick hammer all the time. I never drive a stake with it. I force animals to the area of the trench and fine blocking works for me as nothing will step directly on a pebble. I didn’t come by this on my own, someone took the time to show it to me…coyote is a species of least concern in the venue within which I am working, but all animals can be caught here and my traps have to catch something as light as a skunk.

The grub hoe makes short work of things if you are not concerned about subtlety in the greater light of disturbed dirt all over the place when you arrive to begin with.

A grub hoe or Pulaski is a dream to whack out a trap bed with if a)you don't have to pack it and a separate hammer to drive stakes and b)you don't care about dirt flying everywhere.

The grub hoe is working here in this soil type. I use a wheeler, and the Stearns box on the back carries it, my Milwaukee drill and auger ,which can also buzz out the preliminary trap and chain area and dirt hole. Stake driver, and or stakes and traps and set bag. Front box for other hand tools ect. When l misplaced my trapstake hammer/ digging tool I threw my 8lb sledge into the large box temporarily.

I use a cordless weed trimmer liberally in this grassland Im trapping.

I wish I could get by with a lighter digging tool.

3 lbs is minimum in this country! The rotary hammer in chisel mode is a game changer.

And I still find myself packing my cut down sledge-digger too at times.

I'm still a beginner, but I can tell you that those traps have to be bedded solid. I have had experience on both ends. Pack them in too tightly, and around here, they'll freeze in. Trapping is all about balance.

I cut a roll of wax paper in half or less than half….you can put it under the trap,and a piece over the pan and under the loose jaw…after crumpling and uncrumpling…the dirt might freeze but the trap will come out of there…freeze proof dirt, waxed dirt, resetting with dry dirt if things are wet and it’s going to freeze. These are topics of a whole nother subject.

I started using a pick this year it ended up serving two purposes it made digging beds easy and when it was time to pull traps I could hook it in the swivel and use the handle to make leverage and made it easy