PIN TOGETHER PORTABLE HOG TRAPS

[Lukeclayton]

Luke Clayton here.Anyone know of a place to get a portable, lightweight hog trap that 'pins' together?Ineed a trap that is light enought so that one man (me) can pack a couple of panels at a time back into the woods. Feel free to email me through the radio show web site www.catfishradio.com (http://www.catfishradio.com). Much thanks, LC

[riverhog]

if you can't find any, give me a holler and i can build you one

[Jordan1991]

yea here is a great one i have 3 of these and love them. check out the guys web site





http://www.goinfencing.com/Home.php

[Jordan1991]

Still Cant Beat this one

[ggonzales]

The best one I ever saw was a portable hog trap like the one you want, it was red with panels that connected togehther and you could put it in a big square or circle, with a door that had a spring on it and could catch multiple pigs, i wish I had a photo of the door, it was the coolest, that trap caught 22 pigs in one night!!! Problem is that it was so portable someone found it and stole it, never saw another one like it, damm!!!

[Lukeclayton]

. I FOUND one! www.gaterboy.com makes an aluminum 6 foot trap that ships economically and weighs about 50 pounds. Got one coming later this week and can't wait to put it to work. Does not have a bottom, which is good, the wire spooks lots of hogs when they step on it.

Can't wait to set the trap up near the house here. It's not for the commercial trapper but rather the guy that wants to trap one or two hogs to eat. It's six feet long and when anchored down with a T post or T post and tied to a sappling, will catch and hold hogs well. Check them out online. Good hunting and trapping to all of you. Luke Clayton

[Lukeclayton]

By the way, thanks guys, for all your input. I think this aluminum trap will be the cat's meow for what I need. I'm not interested in trapping a bunch of hogs,just one or maybe two at a time. That's about all I care to butcher, cure and turn into ham, etc.. Thanks again! Luke Clayton

[ggonzales]

Does anyone have any good suggestions or ideas on how to build a hog trap door that is either spring loaded or functions in a way that allows multiple pigs to enter the trap. I am planning on building a cirlce trap around my hog pipe and using panels and T post, but want to build a good hog trap door to catch more then one hog at a time with.

[Hogdude1234]

I think the way to trap multiple hogs is the way you rig your trip wire and the way you bait your trap. For example: I run a vertical trip wire in all of my traps. The wire running straight down keeps the first hog in the trap from tripping it by kicking a horizontal trip wire...and spooking all of the other hogs off...with the vertical wire there is more time usually for the hogs to pile in there and feed and then when they start moving around and fighting for the bait one of them hits the wire tripping the trap with several in there. Also, I bait my traps with the door wired open for a few days, or until I feel that the hogs are just piling in there and feeding without any hesitation. Then I set the trap. I once trapped 6 hogs in an 8 foot round trap in one night, 5 hogs the next night. All young, 100 lbs hogs. Got them all. They had rooted up 7 acres of wheat in three nights. I was thinking that if I baited the trap for one more night to begin with I woulda trapped them all in one night. ANY type of door will work if you got the hogs baited up good and the trap rigged with a vertical trip wire.

[Lukeclayton]

Good tip on the vertical trip wire.. That took some thinking and.... experience. Thanks much for the info!

[Hogdude1234]

Glad to share the info Luke!!! Another little tip is to use "mule tape" when rigging your wire. I run a simple hook made of a piece of heavy galvanized wire...from a cattle panel. I hang it from the top of my trap and it hooks under the door to hold it open. I run thin electric fence wire from the hook back to a length of "mule tape" that rides over the top of the trap...then another piece of wire from the other end of the "mule tape" down to the floor of the trap, or a horse shoe hammered into the ground...in my traps with no floor. I use a horseshoe because if I loose it, it is just a horseshoe left in the pasture or wherever and not a stake or something that may puncture a tractor tire or something. The reason for the "mule tape" is because it has no memory, and it rides good over the panel roof of the trap. Works great for me.

[Hogdude1234]

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Here is a little vid of me andthe portablepen trap in action!!! I have caught up to 22 head in this trap before. My good friend who also uses this trap has caught 60 head (including piglets)in one night in this trap. We actually have severalmore panels we could use to make it bigger, but I only needed so many for this particluar trapping job.

[killadeaux]

One of our traps has a vertical door with hinges on the top. We run a rope from the bottom of the gate, push the gate open and run the rope on top of a metal pole about 2 ft from the end of the trap. We place corn on the ground and lay the rope on top of the corn and then place 3 medium size rocks on top of the rope. When the hogs push the rocks to get to the corn, the trap door closes. This gives more time for multiple hogs to enter the trap before the gate closes. As hogs compete for the corn, inevitably, they will push the rocks to get to the corn releasing the rope. On Tuesday 3/23. we caught a sow and 13 piglets.

[ggonzales]

Man there were a couple of hogs in that trap that I would love to shoot, that black sow had a real nice razorback!!!

[Lukeclayton]

GUYS, MY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IS ON TRAPPING HOGS,INCLUDED PICS OF THE ALUMINUM TRAP AND 22 HOGS IN ONE TRAIL CAM PIC. GOOD HUTING AND.... TRAPPING TO ALL OF YOU. Go to www.catfishradio.com and click READ LUKES NEWSPAPER ARTICLE