Boar tearing up a trap

[RLL]

Thought you might enjoy this pic. This is a 150lb boar I trapped this morning. He was doing his best to escape. The sides are 4' tall and he would stand on his hind feet and stick his head thru the top wire and try to bust it. Then he would ram the sides and try to lift the trap. It weighs 300lbs and he had no problem lifting it. He wasn't a particularly large hog, just young and strong and determined.

 

[Kentuck]

That must be something to walk up on. How was his reaction to you? Do you put them down or tie 'em up and haul them off?

 

[RLL]

Oh, he was aggressive. Tried to get to me. Kept ramming the wire. I take them out alive in a rolling getter.

 

[larrysogla]

Back in 2000 when I first visited my friends ranch in Thomson's near Houston.....he showed me a little 30 lb. piglet he had caught in his hog trap. As soon as I approached the hog trap, the little piglet would charge and just ram at full speed the wire cage wall trying to get to me and possibly bite me with his little teeth. The little piglet kept doing it until it's snout started to bleed a little. It must have hurt but the little piglet kept doing it anyway. Shows just how nasty this hogs can get when they show their temper. 'Nuff said.

 

[XDHUNTER]

Rl
Youv got a nice one, how come the second gate is still up?it looks like the last trap from where we started, that for me is the best area and set up.
Thanks for sharing and get some more.

 

[RLL]

XD -- actually it is the 2nd (middle) trap. The back gate which is a guillotine gate is down. He was in the back section. What you are seeing is the frame for the guillotine gate. You have to have that or the gate will tend to stick.

It deceives me too, so I have an orange flag on the top of the gate. If the flag is up (near the top of the gate frame), the gate hasn't been tripped. If the flag is down (at the top of the trap), then the gate was tripped. In the pic you can see the orange flag is down.

XD -- this was a fun hog. Really wild and thrashing about ... like a fish jumping out of the water. Wish we'd have had one of these the day you were here.

 

[XDHUNTER]

Thanks RLL, no worry time will come. i'll visit texas next month not 100% i will call you before i go.

i need a new glasses!

 

[hogwild757]

RLL,
That a very tall trap you have there. I build my traps so they have enough room to get in and leaving me enough acess space to a get a noose around to hog tie them. A guy wanted me to build a trap that was 10 ft long. I told him no it would give the hog to much running space to try and ram the trap causing damage and future repair work.
I built the last trap 29"wide 29" tall 5ft 6" long Easy enough to transport. Its been slow lately the last guy that ask me to build a trap flaked out so I trade it for taxidermy work.

 

[RLL]

PWA -- yeah, I agree and I appreciate you comments. They give me something to contemplate. It is 48" tall. You have to run a balance between being tall enough to enter comfortably and yet short enough to limit their damage. The last trap I had that was 40" tall (as I recall but it might have been 36") was really abused by hogs putting their shoulders into it and using their strong legs. It had 4" utility panels by they were 6 ga. I thought the solution might be to make it taller. Live ... Learn.

I might modify these traps during the summer to lower the sides to 36". If it do, I will change the tops from the 6"x8" cattle panels to 4" utility panels (4 ga) since they will be able to reach them easier.

This trap is 10' long. And you are right about giving them room to charge the wire. But it is also a dual stage trap. It has a guillotine gate 4' from the back and a swing gate at the entrance. So when it is tripped, it limits them to a 4' by 4' section and a 6' by 4' section.