you folks that run alot of drags..... do you use just chain?

how many use just cable?

i have just always used chain, but weight could be an issue with a bunch of them, so this year i used about 4 feet of chain and about 4 feet of cable.

even thought about using just cable on some.

any thoughts???

why would you use drags? i dont understand it? why not just stake and find the animal when you get there instead of hunting for it?

if it ain't broke, why fix it. lol

wouldn't cable get all kinked up?

Cable gets all kinked up after a catch. Then she just don't lay flat any more!

You just rig them traps up with chain. Boogger and I are man enough to sling the steal for ya.

i have about 2000 feet of 1/8 cable and it shouldn't get kinked all that easy.

drags are for public use areas, so the critter can get out of sight. drags are very useful.

danny, putting just ten drags with over 100' foot of chain can get heavy on the four wheeler, with all the rebar and traps.

black dog, how many drags did you try with the cable and what size was it??

thanks j lord,

water n my boots, I don't know if others use drags for the same purpose as I do, but sometimes, it's just a little quicker and definitely quieter then pounding in a stake or two.

When I use a drag, it's not that I want the critter to run off down the road, I always wrap the chain and hook the drag or just hook the drag to a small sappling. On one overgrown road it was getting dark one night and I pushed a 24" T stake down about 18" and hooked on it. Next morning yote was there but buried in the dewberry patch on the shoulder of the road. That was a trip getting him to come out of there. lol Like I said I don't use a drag for them to run off 20 yards or more.

J, I has like you, I had a spool of 1/8 cable laying around so i made up a doz 10ft yote drags. After 1 catch they were toast! reduced to cable stake makings. LOL
I learned my lesson! BUT they did hold and will work!

Jlord, is that why I replaced the drivebelt in my 4 wheeler?

thanks creek trapper.

thanks black dog. heck i've already done five or so half and half, guess i'll use them as is for now, lol. most of mine won't be for yotes, but i'm sure i'll catch a couple.

maybe so creek. all that weight may be why i had to re place the axles on mine, lol.

Just used chain, less kinked up twisted up mess to deal with, easy to store and is a ONE time purchase, goofed up cable means you either have to get more cable or go to chain anyway, just start out with the best and you'll always have the best.

As for why use drags?

As lordy said, to keep animals out of sight but ive mostly used them cause im trapping in rocky ground where you CAN'T drive a stake.

I also use them at certain sets I don't want destroyed like a nice blind set. Often times a set here cannot be remade if it rains and the animal turns into a hog pen, thus a drag allows you keep a set working that would other wise have to be moved.

ok thanks

yeah you got a point on replacing stuff jackie......

anyone need some cable, lmao.

I don't know but I think J went to using chain on CDRs. lol

Did that a long time ago Danny, just kept quiet about it so kids wouldn't start off doing stuff they didn't understand. It became public knowledge after 'some' learned it for the first time so now i'll admit it.

Cheap as china can make chain what the heck, lol.

Now your trying to stir more trouble. You know most of the trappers argue about the China vs Made in the USA thing. lol

Can't find anything made in america anymore.