Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: carcajouhunter]
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I usually clap one end in a vice, and use either a screwdriver or a chisel and a hammer to open it. The HD ones are a rip to do though.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: minkmaster]
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10/04/08 09:03 PM
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Wait, nevermind, You said on the line, should have read your whole post.
It takes 1 tree to make 1000 matches, but 1 match to burn 1000 trees. - Unknown.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: minkmaster]
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i used a small flat head screw driver and twisted it took a try or two to get em but now i have a S hook tool and it works alot easyer for me
red fox trapper wannabe.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: minkmaster]
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10/04/08 09:07 PM
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Lil' Bit
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I have a pair of fencing pliers and a pair of vicegrips. Always does the trick for me. I grip the Jhook stem with the vice grips, and then take the fencing pliers and squeeze the middle pliers part around the jhook. Most of the time, that will partially open it. Then I move the pliers a little more towards the opening part of the loop and just pull. It opens right up.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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10/04/08 09:15 PM
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Not all S hook pliers are the same, I have one pair that easily opens J hooks, while another pair I have are pain to try to open them. I also have a pair of Ron Marsh's which work good.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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I just put the point of a trowel in the eye and give it a smack with the hammer. Opens it just enough to slide the cable out.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: Jonathan]
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10/05/08 04:21 AM
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when i leave the pliers or the s hook tool at the truck i attempt to usualy ends up with alot of cussin stompin and a heated argument with myself and a walk to the truck
There i said it....
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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I use a good pair of diagnal cutter some call dikes . Line em up with the openning and squeeze . It will open them enough to slip the cable right out . I don't reuse rivets either . They are a good deterant to trap thieves as well unless they are well prepared .
For openning them to put into the washers a pair of 1/4 in pipe nipples 6 in long .
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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Lil' Bit, I vaguely recall introducing you to that combination a year or two ago. You beat me to it. Hunter, Did you see this post? S Hook ToolJonathan Indeed you did two years ago! *mwah* Prior to that, I had the fun occassion to listen to John cuss in the other room while trying to open them a million different ways, usually ending in him cutting them off and us using copius amounts of replacement j-hooks unnecessarilly.
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
[Re: jdunlap]
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10/05/08 01:15 PM
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Vicegrips for me here, too. Just clamp em with the vicegrips on teh "back" side (away from the open side), twist the oter side of it sideways a bit with your pliers, slip out the cable. Qucik fast and easy. Once you get the hang of it, doesn't take too long to get them open. One thing though, be careful about reusing them more than once or so, 'cause they'll get soft from bending them, and won't hold as well...be a shame to lose an anmial becasue you tried to reuse a $0.11 or $0.12 cent J-Hook once too many times... Jeremy they don't get soft it is actually called work hardening. think of it as a piece of wire you bend it back and forth enough it breaks cause it gets hard
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Re: How do you open J-hooks
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they don't get soft it is actually called work hardening. think of it as a piece of wire you bend it back and forth enough it breaks cause it gets hard Good point, that is the correct terminology...my point was valid, but my terminology was certainly off! Jeremy
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