Multicatch Squirrel trap

[Holdaway 2]

For my next trick I would like to produce a multicatch squirrel trap. I have seen the pics and they don't look hard, however, one thing I'm not sure about is the baffle.

 

Does this prevent the squirrel from getting under the flap door? Is that what it's for? Angle? Size?

 

Does anyone have any info or plans for one please? You know I'm not going to buy one!

 

Cheers all

 

H

[john b 38]

extract from a forthcoming best seller

 

 

Yes the idea is that the baffle is a plane sheet metal and stops the animal getting to the real door.

 

But seriously there are a few existing books you need to buy or at least borrow:

- Bateman's "Trapping a Practical Guide",

- Carnegie's "Practical Trapping & Conservation"

 

and maybe Haddon-Riddoch's "Rural Reflections". A history of traps this one but some fascinating pictures.

[Matt 160]

I was just about to recommend a soon to be published book.........

 

The Legg multi catch is a well proven, and often loved design. A PC friend was asking me recently if anyone still made them; he's been using his for 35 years and wants a couple more.

[Rolfe 2]

For my next trick I would like to produce a multicatch squirrel trap. I have seen the pics and they don't look hard, however, one thing I'm not sure about is the baffle.

 

Does this prevent the squirrel from getting under the flap door? Is that what it's for? Angle? Size?

 

Does anyone have any info or plans for one please? You know I'm not going to buy one!

 

Cheers all

 

H

The baffle just stands upright at the bottom of EACH angled door.......about 15 mm. It is purely to prevent the trapped squirrel lifting the bottom of the doors up. It is the same width as the doors.

 

Hope this helps .........if not i can send a picture later.

 

Rolfe.

[john b 38]

Rolfe - do you mean like this ? Just to protect the edge from being clawed up ? I've not seen one like that before

 

[Rolfe 2]

[The baffle just stands upright at the bottom of EACH angled door.......about 15 mm. It is purely to prevent the trapped squirrel lifting the bottom of the doors up. It is the same width as the doors.

 

Hope this helps .........if not i can send a picture later.

 

Rolfe.

 

Rolfe - do you mean like this ? Just to protect the edge from being clawed up ? I've not seen one like that before

 

Thats exactly right............that's all you need and the squirrel cannot lift the door.

 

Rolfe.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Jack Legg is the man who came up with the lower door baffle. Him and Fred Courtier ~ the Sparsholt Squirrel Stretcher ~ were trapping together when they observed how the b*stards were able to roll about, scratching at the bottom of the flap and so get back out.

[Holdaway 2]

 

Fantastic response!

 

Thanks guys, all very helpfull. I was thinking of making a baffle just a couple of centimetres high. Nothing knew in my design though! Beaten to it a couple of hundred years ago by the looks of it!.

 

 

Has anyone used one here? Any success? Does one inmate attract others?

 

I think Johns book is gonna be a corker!

 

Cheers all.

 

 

H