Excellent...thanks for taking the time to share! I'm taking my trapping class with Ron this coming Sunday in Augusta. This gets me fired up to get out in my shed and start assembly!

Thank you. I was getting ready to go out to change oil on the mower. I poured myself another cup of coffee and watched. I learned a few things.

Very easy and effective. Great video.

Thanks for sharing

Great job

@trappingtoday

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Todd

Always enjoy a good tutorial, one can never learn too much!!

Good walkthrough! Im gunna be new to trapping this year so im binging trapping videos and getting ready for the season and ive learned alot from your podcasts and videos. Thanks!

Great tutorial on building this box. Just finished your book More than Wolverine, I enjoyed it and will definitely buy your next!

@trappingtoday

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video!!!! I am a fur trapper, and have a business doing nuisance trapping and exclusion, and I have much carpentry experience. So frequently doing similar projects. I was wondering if you would include the important step of smoothing the cut wire burrs on the entrance wire. Excellent! It would be easy to set up for production work to make many boxes. Miter saw with stops set at 11” and then 19”. M18 Milwaukee cordless stapler makes fast and very strong box assembly. The staples have high temperature glue on the legs. M18 cutter makes fast wire cutting. M12 stapler is great for fastening the wire to the box. A tapered router bit makes those slots. It takes a large router mounted in a router table set for center of the piece with stop set for length. Another method is to drill a 1” hole with a spade bit, then use a jigsaw with a fence against the side of the box with the foot adjusted for the angle cut. Cut to the hole. Best wishes.

One question where's the carpenter martin at? haha Great video on making that!!! Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up

That mesh, won’t you get troble with mice eating the bait? 1/4 inch is enough for mice to enter, or so I’ve heard.

@trappingtoday

Жыл бұрын

Mice usually go in through the front. They eat a little bait sometimes. No biggie. Probably helps attract marten!

Can't you do a baffle inside and have a larger opening for the fisher cats to get through? Or are you trying to limit these to Martin only? I thought it was a 5x7 opening when you put a baffle in.

@trappingtoday

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, yes there are two designs that allow for larger openings but the box is much larger, more expensive and time consuming to make, and in my experience doesn't catch any more fisher than this design.

@mikewhitman745

2 жыл бұрын

@@trappingtoday good to know. Thank you. I just sent my trapping license application in and will be making some boxes this fall, sounds like I can skip the larger box design.

Great demo! Only complaint: cutting with skill saw and your hand was holding the box ahead of where u were cutting… just an observation 👍 Otherwise excellent build👍 B Deacon Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

@mikewhitman745

2 жыл бұрын

Only complaint with your comment is you used u instead you.

Awesome! I want to make something similar for Possum and skunks. I nuisance trap woodchucks on my 1/4 acre property and would like to make a box for my 160s too to catch possums and skunks that use a woodchuck hole under my back patio deck next to the foundation.