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Post by Lonny Mattison on Feb 17, 2012 7:25:36 GMT -5
Mark, you will get that. You always have nice rats.
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Zagman
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Post by Zagman on Feb 17, 2012 8:23:02 GMT -5
Lathe stakes in the ditches on Kinne near the 481 bridge. When you pull a trap, and decide to leave the stake, why would you leave it sticking up in the air vs. just laying it down?
Is this to make it look like, to other trappers, that someone is trapping there?
Makes no sense to me....but I trap coyotes, so go figure.
MZ
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Post by austinp on Feb 17, 2012 8:38:32 GMT -5
Lathe stakes in the ditches on Kinne near the 481 bridge. When you pull a trap, and decide to leave the stake, why would you leave it sticking up in the air vs. just laying it down? Is this to make it look like, to other trappers, that someone is trapping there? Makes no sense to me....but I trap coyotes, so go figure. MZ I'm not suggesting that is this specific case by any means, but traditionally that's some guys' way of saying this area has been trapped already so stay out and leave the rest for seed. In the past I've seen public ground flagged with so much tape on cattails, it looked like a drunken crew of surveyors wandered around for a week in there.
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Post by herm on Feb 17, 2012 10:05:17 GMT -5
Why do so many trappers use lathe for stakes when a stick will do?Must be a good reason for it as so many use them.I have wondered on and off about this question for sometime.
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Post by fingerlakesfur on Feb 17, 2012 10:47:23 GMT -5
wondered the same thing myself Herm...I used lathe one year, very delicate & ineffective.
Never again, they break when you sneeze
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Feb 17, 2012 10:52:58 GMT -5
I use lathe stakes zip-tied to body traps for ease of setting. Crack open the trap, shove stake in place, takes mere seconds when afield. I gave up hunting for stakes, cutting sticks on location long ago. That said, lathe stakes have gotten thinner and wispier every year. It's to the point now where they are junk. I'm going to rip my own stakes from scrap 2x4 boards scavenged from my contractor friend all summer. I had a dozen of those strips this season, and they are excellent. Attachments:
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Post by fingerlakesfur on Feb 17, 2012 11:02:13 GMT -5
yep..do the same thing, rip cheap 2x4's on a table saw, seem to last a few years
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Feb 17, 2012 11:16:17 GMT -5
a few years will be a lot nicer than a few DAYS like lathe stake do now :>)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2012 16:46:14 GMT -5
Al, the guy with the blue utility truck is the guy leaving all the orange tape around that area........I do believe people leave the stakes to tell other trappers that it has been trapped and some left for seed.......
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