RAT SNARING

[mole trapper 1,703]

What i am after is some input on what to use for the springers you attach to the snare, i have caught rats quite well over the years and always used hazel, trouble is it doesnt stay springy very long. Started a new rat job on a farm today absolutley heaving in them, brilliant super highways everywhere, got me rat snares, just need a better spring to attach them to any one invented anything for this. By the way only trying this as another form of control, put down nearly 30 kg of bait today.

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I used some high tensile steel rods once and they worked a treat. I just had a loop welded in the end for the snare to fit to (single strand rabbit wire I used) and made up the Vee and trigger peg from ash or Hazel as I couldn't think of an easy way round that.

 

Make sure the rods are not too springy to avoid the catapult effect though . . .

 

OTC

[mole trapper 1,703]

oh dear thats got my imagination running wild.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Mole Trapper; I too have been trying to figure out a source of 'Ready Made' rat snare benders. If some bugger on here would only start producing them I'd be in for a couple of dozen right away!

 

OTC; For a twist on the rat bender set that'll make ye toe nails curl: Go back to page one of this board and trace " Peg and Gun " as he expounds on the subject. Many of the earlier photo's are now gone, but percevere. Somewhere in there is his Nail Set. F*cking blinder!

 

I'm gagging to try it out myself ~ just need those bloody benders! Precious little, if any, hazel around here

[Ossie 11]

I'm gagging to try it out myself ~ just need those bloody benders! Precious little, if any, hazel around here

 

got the stuff coming out of me ears round here!

 

what about willow? will probably stay springy a bit longer. the high tensile steel sounds like the best option to me, i can't see it losing it's spring in a hurry! have a shop around, you might even want to check out your local diy/garden center type-place, they can be a veritable goldmine of stuff you'd have never thought of using.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Not wishing to sound like a hopeless whiner, Ossie. But even as I read that I glanced out the window here and thought; " If you could see what I'm seeing ....! ".

 

I live in a somewhat remote location, love. Back end of no where in fact. Out there, as far as the eye can see, in any direction, it's just open bog. There's Ash tree's and distant plantations of Sitka Spruce. Other than that? Juncas.

 

No 'Iceland'. No 'Argos'. No 'Garden Centres'. Not around here

 

Bottom line is, what ever I want I have to ship in. And asking, on line, for a length of steel that'll lift a pound weight just so is a bitch!

[Butler 396]

You can use inatube rubber for your springs

[Ossie 11]

that was more aimed at mole trapper, shoulda said!

ds, kinda guessed you lived in a pretty remote location by the lack of hazel, cos that bloody stuff will grow anywhere. and i have a friend who grew up on a farm somewhere in co. leitrim, i've never been, but i've seen pictures... i know it tends towards the arse-end-of-nowhere syndrome.

[Guest houndblair]

Ive tried this before.....but no hope!

[snareman 3]

What i am after is some input on what to use for the springers you attach to the snare, i have caught rats quite well over the years and always used hazel, trouble is it doesnt stay springy very long. Started a new rat job on a farm today absolutley heaving in them, brilliant super highways everywhere, got me rat snares, just need a better spring to attach them to any one invented anything for this. By the way only trying this as another form of control, put down nearly 30 kg of bait today.

silverbirch saplings , also ash saplings make great rat whips , i also use thin 3/16 th. fibre glass poles , those 1/2 inch round bendy plastic poles with the steel spike on the end , that are used to hold up the plastic sheep netting that is electrified , they can be found on any farm , and work very well , i have snared some very large rats with them , woodga uses them he also uses holly whips , p and g and duckwing also red dog are all good rat snarers , to get the black 3/16 fibre glass poles contact alan salmon the guy who sells the long nets, hope this helps, snareman.

[TOMO 28,462]

im sure i remember seing at P.G house or maybe on here. he used those bungee cords that have the hooks on the end . one end atached to the snare , and the other to any solid object.

 

i have never done it my self so i could be wrong