Trappers Tools

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Seive, mate? That's for when ye want to cover the trap over in soil. Cammo it from the intended visitor. I don't often, let alone always, cover my traps so. But, when I need to? Can't beat having a seive handy. It also helps to keep a box of summer dried earth in a dry place too. No good trying to seive mud over a trap, or frozen earth in the wintery months

 

Idea of using a seive, of course, is just to make a lighter covering and make sure there's no stones of bits of detritus in there which may find themselves between the jaws when the trap fires. Tiny stone in the lower jaw could mean disaster. As could a lump of earth holding the pan up.

[Neal 1,788]

Thanks for the replies to my querry. I was presuming that it was to help to verify the location of the tunnels too. As I said it is a tad blunt but that could just be due to wear and tear.

[stig 2]

Seive, mate? That's for when ye want to cover the trap over in soil. Cammo it from the intended visitor. I don't often, let alone always, cover my traps so. But, when I need to? Can't beat having a seive handy. It also helps to keep a box of summer dried earth in a dry place too. No good trying to seive mud over a trap, or frozen earth in the wintery months

 

Idea of using a seive, of course, is just to make a lighter covering and make sure there's no stones of bits of detritus in there which may find themselves between the jaws when the trap fires. Tiny stone in the lower jaw could mean disaster. As could a lump of earth holding the pan up.

 

 

Cheers

[Guest craftycarper]

some of them hammers resemble roofing tools like slaters hammers albeit a bit narrower, similar to something i've used at beaches in Dorset for extracting fossils out of rocks

[gav000 0]

I have not seen them out and about but will keep an eye out for them. If i find a couple does anyone want one then... but have to find them first will keep you all updated and post a few photo if i find some :)

[OldTrapCollector 376]

If I find a couple does anyone want one then... :)

 

Gav,

 

I would be interested in a few trap setters with names I don't already have stamped on for my museum collection at the right price . The same also goes for rabbit and dingo traps but you'd have to let me know what names/sizes/photos etc before I could tell you if they are traps I need and how much I would be willing to pay.

 

By the way - for some reason your message facility - PM (personal message) - is disabled so I cannot send you a PM??

 

OTC

[Guest craftycarper]

on ebay at the moment...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Trapping-Hammer-Fenn...1QQcmdZViewItem

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Nice work, CC! Looks the kiddie too.

 

Now; Any of you budding Trappers out there? Get f*cking bidding! Get that baby for anything under £25.00 and ye'll have done alright for yeselves. Save messing around with Australia, air mail costs and slipping past Customs, look.

 

In fact, if I didn't have one myself? Knowing just how bloody good they are, I'd go higher than that. After all, it's a tool ~ quality tool at that. Quality tools don't come cheap. They didn't sell chink crap in those days either. That bugger will have been forged in england and the man who made it will be long since dead. As may you be when who ever takes it on from you is still getting endless use out of it

[Madcowz 0]

They didn't sell chink crap in those days either. That bugger will have been forged in england and the man who made it will be long since dead. As may you be when who ever takes it on from you is still getting endless use out of it

 

That is so true.

 

hard to find anything well made these days.

 

They really don't make em like they used to.

 

 

/mad