Let see some homemade traps

Couch bound for a few weeks after surgery yesterday. Thinking about tinkering with my welder once I can move around a little better. Lets see some homemade cage traps, especially if you built them out of unconventional stuff like metal barrels or something. I have a ton of scrap metal, pipes etc laying around thought it would be fun to build something and trap some critters with something homemade. . Need some inspiration to pass the time during my recovery.

Here's a bear trap

Looks like a nice place for a wood fired pizza

Praying your healing up properly!!!

Thanks Grousewit, Ive been contemplating a health awareness post, my issue is pretty much something that could effect 99% of the members here and I discovered it during a self check. Maybe i’ll write that up with my new found down time.

I'll add some details Inna bit

Not a cage trap, but a homemade wolf trap.

cool contraption Wolfie, I had a feeling you’d post on this one. A single door guillotine door is what i was thinking debating on a pull cord with bait or a pan. I can’t seem to find the horse panels anywhere locally, all i can find is 4” by 4” livestock panels.

Bearcat, the links don’t work but dang i’d like to see how you built a wolf trap

Got this on a trade looks like a kit maybe from the adjustments on it, it works.



My coon proof 14X14X36 12.5 gauge coon cages.

Look at jimmy comstack and kirk decalbs web sites

Some ring locks I made for a guy

Made 20 of these...17 were stolen.

Yeeeeppp I'm stealing that trigger

Better off with pan imo. Less of a pain baiting. But you can make a single door pretty easy did a video in YouTube of how I built mine. You can usually order horse panel in from the local co-op for no extra charge , thank they will just tops it on with their next shipment of regular panel. Here's a cool one somone who watched my video sent me


And my video

Nice.

They won't post for some reason, and my phone went belly up yesterday so I can't any off it. Sorry.

Coons are getting bosses bird feeders every other night , time to relocate them 😉

That’s a cool little set up Eddie. I was thinking that must be European and saw your location. The thread in the international trapping forum with all the neat designs is what got my wheels turning on some home made traps.

Thanks for trying. Stipid technology

How’d those hold up on coons with the wooden doors Newfox?

Yea it is similar to designs used in parts of Europe where traps built into box's are a popular choice for mink. With many trapping restrictions imposed across Europe and Scandinavia, a lot of traps must be used inside a box, or tunnel of some kind.

I tried to think of something that could be set by pulling a handle from the outside of the box, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's a very powerful trap, with a sensitive pan trigger.

Colony trap for skunks.

Hay are you the same Eddie from the hunting life forum lol ?

Those PVC ones look like a similar design for the spray proof skunk traps you can buy commercially, less the solid door. I was have a couple pieces of 15 inch pvc, that’s pretty close to what i was pondering. Thanks for posting

Someone else really liked your design apparently.

Double entry mink trap which can be set inside pipes.




Now that's a cool trap, have you had problems with mink tearing up your springs on the inside of your trap ?

Same one Wolfdog. Small world lol

Rock creek I just use it around the house but I suppose you could put flashing on inside of door, with today's plywood prices that's a $25 door lol

Lol nice to see you over here, I keep trying to invite more folks but no one wants to take the bait it seems

There was a fella from California that made cage traps but those were outlawed too. He has disappeared. Might took after Hupurest and turned Greenie.

Can forget the ole WA cage

Seesaw trap

Eddie43 I like that trap of yours do you have any more pictures of it Dave

Which one Dave? The one in the video?

Wolfdog, I haven't tried the trap yet. Hopefully this winter. That may be an issue, but I have seen traps on the market with springs inside. I may just wait and see when I test it out.

The round ones they like good for pipes if you make a bigger one 6, 8 or even 12 inches pipe

I'm not totally happy with the trap, but I literally made it out of what I had in the shed.

Thank you eddie43

I’ve always wanted to see someone try building one of these and put a pile of meat in it so the cage state guys can trap coyotes again.

Just use the same corn you use for hogs. The coyotes like corn and the nice that come with it. I actually caught a coyote and a coon in a tripwire activated hog trap at the same time. Get lots of pictures of coyotes in my small hog traps when I'm prebaiting hogs.

I was wondering about that, I figured with the size of the trap coyotes would go in it. I’d assume they’d start digging out pretty fast if you left them in there too long though?