This was helpful. I live in an area where a lot of dogs get dumped. Some you can eventually earn their trust enough to just loop them but some are so terrified you can't even get within 30 feet of them. We work to catch them, get them fixed, and get them forever homes. This'll be helpful for the ones that are too scared to loop.
After watching something like 15 DIY videos on how to build a trap, We found yours to be the most straightforward and well thought out of the bunch!! Kudo's and a job well done!! We are following your guidelines and appreciate the time you took to make this!
3:20 My thoughts exactly. I think you have come up with a lot better an more elegant design than anything I have seen commercially. Thanks for sharing! P.S. I like the body washer
I really love the ingenuity of this design, so simple. This looks easier to set than the average commercial trap! Really really clever! thank you so much!
I understand the free falling objects dropping at the same time idea. I just thought the extra weight would more easily overcome the friction of the hinge section of the door. Thanks! for getting back to me. It sounds like you are happy with the speed the door closes so all is good.
Well, you are an inspiration, Sir! I have something in my greenhouse eating a whole ripe tomato every day. There's no way it's coming and going. He's set up a homestead inside! So, I've rigged up a Wabbit (brand name) cage. As you might imagine, it's not meant to contain snarly critters, so I reinforced it with wire. I used mason line instead of wire to trip the treadle. It runs smooth. Then I had to come up with something to keep the door shut once triggered. When the cage is used properly, the door opens like a draw bridge. I have it upside down, which means the latch won't work. So I'm using neodymium magnets... LOTS of them! I estimate the critter would have to apply 10 lbs of force to open the door. Now, I'm hoping the weight of the critter is enough to depress the treadle. I estimate he has to weigh 2 lbs to trigger the trap. Whatever it is, it can stretch up 18" to grab tomatoes. If I catch him I'm gonna name him Scampy! LOL! Kidding. I've been calling him all kinds of names when I see he's eaten yet another ripe tomato, but Scampy isn't one of them! Thanks for sharing your genius. Wish me luck. It would be a sad day for mankind if I end up outsmarted by a rodent!
@@MarshRat Possum?! Could be, I guess. The winters are cold here, so if it is a possum, he's a newcomer to the Georgian Bay area of Lake Huron. Saw Norway rats here since last fall and I've never seen them before either. This critter can sure climb! He took half of 2 tomatoes overnight. One was 6 feet up the vine. Yah, Scampy's got to go. He's eating more tomatoes than I've been able to harvest. Doesn't seem to care for cukes or peppers, though. I guess I should be glad for that. And if he's trapped inside the greenhouse, maybe I'll be able to harvest a few tomatoes growing outside. Thanks for IDing the critter. Could be worse. Groundhogs grow to 18" wide by 24" long here, not including the tail. They eat baby birds and climb chicken wire fences. They're like the Mafia and don't back down without challenging me. I've been paying clover "insurance money" in exchange for the lives of my baby broccoli plants. I also had a rabbit murdered on my deck by raccoons, or maybe a martin. There was blood and guts everywhere! A possum doesn't sound like much of a threat compared to the usual meat-eating critters of the area. Thanks for advising. The trap is set and baited with Scampy's leftovers from last night!
This is genius!! Great job!! I have a stray cat that I’ve been trying to catch, but she’s to skittish to handle. This is the perfect way to trap her! Thank you!
Cheers from Houston......gonna try this. This gramma constantly rescuing pups and got my eye on lil female that won’t come near me. Feeding her daily on a back road where she has been dropped off. If can’t get this to work for me guess I’ll use some of my stimulus check (170.00 Amazon, free ship) since it will help me get these babies off the streets. Nice to the point video. Keep it up.
I have been needing to trap some cats that are invading my barn. This is genius my friend. I think I have that exact cage. That washer will keep the wire from hooking that edge and possibly fail the gage door, I think your intuition caught that...I think the cage is perfect brother. Now to see how many cats I can have the animal control retrieve once trapped! Thanks again for the great Cage conversion to trap idea. I will copy you. I owe you one. Maybe in a shoutout soon!
Great job mate, must give this a try myself. I have to many possums and Ferrell cat’s around at the moment. Thanks for the share. Cheers from Down Under.
It wasn't the trap itself that was so cool, it was the ingenious ideas you incorporated into it that was absolutely brilliant!! Well done my friend, well done!! ☆☆☆☆☆ That's a FIVE STAR Trap in my opinion! You should patent that idea and build them for a client base? You'd sell the shit outta' them!! No doubt! 👍Cheers from Detroit. Michigan, neighbor!!😀
I agree, 30-40$ I would be in, beats $200+ for a Large trap, while the so called medium ones at $29, I need a large crate cage (have the crate already)
I really need to build this to catch a big wild dog that’s terrorizing my neighborhood. It’s barking late at night or 3 to 2am. Animal control said they will only come out after we catch it. So I really need more info on the treadle. A couple of the neighbors have been after it with bats. Thanks!
Great Job! Well thought out. I like how you put the pan in the back. A lot of traps a door can come down and critters can still back themselves out of. Looks like you will have um fooled. Thanks for sharing. ATB Paul (you'll have to let us know how it all works out :) )
NEKCanoeist The pan is attached to the floor of the cage using loose wire ties to give it a hinge action. Thanks for the great question and for watching. ATB Larry
I was looking for a better made trap. The ones I've purchased seem to be mostly junk! But they cost a good bit!! Just happen to have an old dog cage the right size!! & most of the rest. I'm not real clear on how you set up the treadle but I'll see how it goes when I set it up!! We have chickens that are constantly under attack!! also feral cats! Great idea, Thanks
really was helpful man.. keep up the great work..i made some pvc pipe traps and so far no good.. luckily i have a sturdy pin to make into what u did to yours.. thanks for your help
Cheers from Colorado! Great idea you got here. Just what I was looking for. Gonna try to replicate it in the morning to trap a badger that has eaten all my chickens and continues to escape my foot hold trap.
I have fitted two gate locks onto an ex dog kennel, and am just about to design the treadle/wire spring mechanism as you described. The idea is to catch urban foxes here in the UK. Will report progress.
I made a small rabbit trap from a small dog cage to catch wild domestic baby rabbits many years ago, but kept catching the mother, who was so happy to get away from her babies and eat the bread in silence..ha ha ha. I didn't put that much into it. But it worked.
This is great!.... I work in rescue and we are trying to make a trap for larger dogs that will actually work..... I’m not quite understanding what holds the treadle up when you set it.... is it simply the tension from the washer on the wire?
Heya! I just had a question; how did you get the treadle to stay above the bottom so it could be stepped on to activate the trap? I see it is at an angle, just curious what is used.
Hey, amazing design! Question: Why did you position the treddle so that the raised side is towards the entrance rather than towards the back? Thanks from Jerusalem, Israel
+Naomi the Dogsitter I was thinking the treddle would be easier to trip since the animal should press it down quicker and easier. Seems to work good this way.
Good question about adding more weight but the door slams shut very fast...actually adding more weight wouldn't cause it to be quicker since it is a physics/gravity thing...IE and for example, if you dropped a 1 gram marble and 10 kilogram cannon ball at the same time, they both would hit the ground exactly at the very same instant.
Looks like you found it without spending the money for live traps. Now if I could find a way to get squirrels in town I'd have some grateful neighbors and a full freezer (I wouldn't tell the neighbors about the freezer part).
I have.rabbits that eat my flowers and my strawberries. I am going to try this. I am a metal fabricator so this idea should not be to hard. Thanks for the insights
How well does this work for rabbits? I'm trying to find an alternative to snares and body traps. Too many cats hang around for those and I have a small kennel that just might work for this.
Marsh Rat My cats are almost too nosy for their own good. I can't even walk out to my horse's pasture without them tagging along to see what I'm doing. I guess it's a good thing he's cat friendly.
Nicely done! I have a large cage similar to that and I've been wondering how to go about doing something to make it a cat trap, but thank you for laying it all out like that. I'm sure your solution will fit the unit I have and I'll be cat-free very soon. It'll be easy to just invite them in for a snack and throw in nice ride a few miles safely away from my house! Bye-bye pesky drifters!
