Good idea. One thing I started to do is rather than the nail in the jaws put the earth anchor between the jaws. Makes a good handle for dying and waxing then hanging. I always rinse with well water after dying to remove excess dye just because I can smell the dye and if I can smell it...
Fifty years ago I would throw the wax in kettle with the hot dye. It stays on the surface. Pull the traps out slowly and the job is done. Never heard of red dye, bags, or other bullshit, but did very well in the Adirondacks!!
I'm the same when it comes to sent, OCD...I used only part of your technique last season and it works....next season, it'll be propane as well...(subbed)
Hey thanks a lot for the video man im trying to get into trapping and im going off this old traping book and this video helped get some visuals of what I need to do thanks a lot
@@goodwoodtrapping4972 Check out Johnny Thorpe, Adirondack trapper and try to reset your "monkey see, monkey do" mentality!! Don't believe all the "snake oil" salesmen associated with the trapping industry. A hundred years ago a trapper would hang his traps in a tree near a successful set for use the following year. He never dyed or waxed them either.
i actually melt my wax on top of my bucket of water boiling,maybe 4 inches deep of floating wax..then let my trap sit on bottom, in the water, to get hot and slowly pull it up thru the wax and give it a shake.. . that stops the wax from getting too thick a layer. also i stick a nail between the trap jaws to seal those edges of steel smell too. then after they cool they go straight in my trap bag full of fall leaves and maybe a squirt of fox piss to be stored outdoors til trapping time.
way to technical for me. A tot with a lid is more than enough to protect them from scent. Biggest thing ive learned is if you smoke around them, or if you have your lures around them they will soak that smell in and they will dig it up every time. I smoke but with the tot and lid i have no problems with them.
I do the same thing... I use a big tote and throw my traps and stakes in then cover with peat moss. Works well enough that the sets start hitting right away.
It would be nice but where i trap a dirty trap will get dug out or craped on almost every time and i dont want to educate any thing, im fussy, fun trapping
Here in northern Arizona on big private ranches, 100000+ acre places where i trap, coyotes and cats see and hear few people, very wise to foreign scent and sight. I rarely have an animal dig a trap. Usually when critters dig or crap or piss on a trap its because you left bait or lure or piss on your gloves or hands and put some scent on the trap. But if you want to spend $ on all that junk go on ahead.
Yeap! I got bored but I made it to the end! 😀
Good idea. One thing I started to do is rather than the nail in the jaws put the earth anchor between the jaws. Makes a good handle for dying and waxing then hanging. I always rinse with well water after dying to remove excess dye just because I can smell the dye and if I can smell it...
Fifty years ago I would throw the wax in kettle with the hot dye. It stays on the surface. Pull the traps out slowly and the job is done. Never heard of red dye, bags, or other bullshit, but did very well in the Adirondacks!!
I’ve been bagging my traps for years also.
Good Job
Vid starts at 9:08
Thanks
Thanks for the video even though it was quite excruciating kind of like flossing your teeth with a rusty bike chain
I'm the same when it comes to sent, OCD...I used only part of your technique last season and it works....next season, it'll be propane as well...(subbed)
Great info. Thank you.
Thank you for your knowledge sir god bless
Hey thanks a lot for the video man im trying to get into trapping and im going off this old traping book and this video helped get some visuals of what I need to do thanks a lot
nice show Perry i learn something today like they say you never too old to learn thank you ..
Is a wood fired stove verboten?
Nothing beats a good dye and was job!
Boiling the trap will make the springs soft.
That make sense! on the zip lock bags ! I will try it ! Thanks !!
I might as well challenge you as I have others! Why do you dye traps that you intend to bury??
Dye protects the traps from the dirt, water ect...
@@goodwoodtrapping4972 Check out Johnny Thorpe, Adirondack trapper and try to reset your "monkey see, monkey do" mentality!! Don't believe all the "snake oil" salesmen associated with the trapping industry. A hundred years ago a trapper would hang his traps in a tree near a successful set for use the following year. He never dyed or waxed them either.
Can you reuse the wax every time or for the year after
Great idea
I like that!!!
i actually melt my wax on top of my bucket of water boiling,maybe 4 inches deep of floating wax..then let my trap sit on bottom, in the water, to get hot and slowly pull it up thru the wax and give it a shake.. . that stops the wax from getting too thick a layer. also i stick a nail between the trap jaws to seal those edges of steel smell too. then after they cool they go straight in my trap bag full of fall leaves and maybe a squirt of fox piss to be stored outdoors til trapping time.
gregoryallen caldwell interesting I remember an older trapper doing that when I was a boy may I ask what material u use for the storage bag?
I love the hat, what kind?
Probably be better to leave them from the boiling dye water and then to waxing instead of hosing off with chlorinated water but the bag idea is good
Well water bro....
This really could be condensed down to about 4 minutes.
I find it funny you use a garden hose and say your picky, no way I'm putting chlorine tap water on my clean trap
I'm 99.999% certain his water is from a well...
way to technical for me. A tot with a lid is more than enough to protect them from scent. Biggest thing ive learned is if you smoke around them, or if you have your lures around them they will soak that smell in and they will dig it up every time. I smoke but with the tot and lid i have no problems with them.
I do the same thing... I use a big tote and throw my traps and stakes in then cover with peat moss. Works well enough that the sets start hitting right away.
3:00 sure, Where are we going?
Cool video man!!...liked and subscribed. Check out ours at Outkast Adventures! Good luck out there!
Big waste of time and money, get the cutting greese off new traps, go put em in the groud.
It would be nice but where i trap a dirty trap will get dug out or craped on almost every time and i dont want to educate any thing, im fussy, fun trapping
Here in northern Arizona on big private ranches, 100000+ acre places where i trap, coyotes and cats see and hear few people, very wise to foreign scent and sight. I rarely have an animal dig a trap. Usually when critters dig or crap or piss on a trap its because you left bait or lure or piss on your gloves or hands and put some scent on the trap. But if you want to spend $ on all that junk go on ahead.
DURACOAT YOUR TRAPS ! ITS NOT 1890 ANYMORE !
Too much babble