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trapping antifreeze
« Thread Started on Jan 15, 2009, 9:45pm »
I was wondering what to use for antifreeze for my traps and I was told to use glycol but cant find in any stores.wondering if you know what store to find it .
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #1 on Jan 15, 2009, 10:12pm »
Many trapping supply dealers carry glycol, check the supply dealers section here on the Forum. You can mix common table salt with dirt dirt in a pinch and there are some other folks that I've heard use RV anti freeze (The stuff they put in the water line sin the winter)as it's supposed to be odorlessor nearly so. I haven't ried it myself, soi I can't say if it works or not.
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #2 on Jan 16, 2009, 8:23am »
i use the flakey antifreeze but i have not yet caught one single coyote
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #3 on Jan 16, 2009, 11:21am »
Non iodized table salt.. But deer may like it... Just my 2 cents
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #4 on Jul 21, 2009, 8:15pm »
couple come to mind being a farmer is Dow flakes which is a chloride and Nitrogen 40/0/0
farm stores have these like TSC or feed store's
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #5 on Jul 21, 2009, 8:35pm »
Go to the grocery store and buy the cheapest pound of salt you can find. Works just fine. Managed to get a 50lb bag of calcium for a good price to use this year.
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #6 on Sept 24, 2009, 8:25pm »
How do you use the glycerin? I bought some last fall and it's in a gel form. What the heck?
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #7 on Sept 25, 2009, 5:55am »
I've never tried glycerin, I use glycol & water mixed. Glycerin is generally used as a lure base
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #8 on Oct 31, 2009, 7:36pm »
Salt will eat your traps unless they have a good wax job. Even then it will get to them.

I've read the RV antifreeze diluted 50% with water will work, but I haven't tried it yet.

I've got an old abandoned barn nearby with a dirt floor which provides dry dirt year round. I shovel up a pail of dirt and take it with me for my canine sets. Once the ground freezes I bed my traps with the dry dirt which will last a few days until we get a thaw or more rain. This has worked for me in the past but you make a lot of re-sets.

Last year I used vermiculite, like what is used as a component of potting soil, to bed my traps. It doesn't absorb the water. I bed the traps in it and cover with a light dusting of dry dirt. I made a few blind sets with it on a well used path. It worked but I didn't get any canines at that set, they just didn't use the trail, I did get a few snaps from the deer going through there though. If a coyote had gone through there I think it would have worked. But after the first thaw/rain/wind whatever, the set is ruined and needs to be remade.

I'm going to try the antifreeze this year on a few of them, I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm also going to try some waxed dirt, but I've got to make some up yet. According to the old trappers I know, this is the only way to go. You mix wax flakes with dirt and heat it slowly with solar or by the wood stove, stirring occasionally. The dirt particles get a light coating of wax which keep them from freezing together. You can also buy waxed dirt, but that seems kind of counter to the trapping spirit.
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #9 on Nov 6, 2009, 1:09pm »
i grnerally use calcium chloride works really well
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #10 on Nov 10, 2009, 10:23pm »
you can buy 50 pound bags of regular table salt from pool supliers they use it to regulate ph or something the last bag i bought only cost under 10 bucks
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Re: trapping antifreeze
« Reply #11 on Nov 26, 2009, 9:27pm »
Calcium Chloride - works great - have used it for several years now. I mix it in as I sift my dirt into totes. When it gets really cold, I add some to the trap bed and then top coat the finished set, followed by a sprinkling of treated dirt... If you get a thaw then heavy freeze again, keep an eye on them, they will start to freeze and will need to be remade.. There is just nothing easy about winter trapping, but when the traps are workin', it's the best time to catch K-9's!
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